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+Project Gutenberg's The Harris-Ingram Experiment, by Charles E. Bolton
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+Title: The Harris-Ingram Experiment
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+Author: Charles E. Bolton
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+                      THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT
+
+                       By CHARLES E. BOLTON, M.A.
+
+AUTHOR OF "A MODEL VILLAGE AND OTHER PAPERS," "TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND
+AMERICA," ETC.
+
+                                CLEVELAND
+
+                      THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY
+
+                                   1905
+
+
+
+
+TO MY WIFE
+SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON
+AND MY SON
+CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+This volume was ready for publication when my husband died, October 23,
+1901. In it, in connection with a love story and some foreign travel, he
+strove to show how necessary capital and labor are to each other. He had
+always been a friend to labor, and there were no more sincere mourners at
+his funeral than the persons he employed. He believed capital should be
+conciliatory and helpful, and co-operate with labor in the most friendly
+manner, without either party being arrogant or indifferent.
+
+Mr. Bolton took the deepest interest in all civic problems, and it is a
+comfort to those who loved him that his book, "A Model Village and Other
+Papers," came from the press a few days before his death. He had hoped
+after finishing a book of travel, having crossed the ocean many times and
+been in many lands, and doing some other active work in public life, to
+take a trip around the world and rest, but rest came in another way.
+
+Sarah K. Bolton
+
+Cleveland, Ohio.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+Mr. W.D. Howells, in reply to a literary society in Ashtabula County,
+Ohio, said that most people had within their personal experience one
+book.
+
+I have often quoted Howells's words to my best friend, who has written a
+score of books, and the answer as frequently comes, "Why not write a book
+yourself?" Encouraged by Howells's belief, and stimulated by the accepted
+challenge of my friend, to whom I promised a completed book in twelve
+months, I found time during a very busy year to pencil the chapters that
+follow. Most of the book was written while waiting at stations, or on the
+cars, and in hotels, using the spare moments of an eight-months' lecture
+season, and the four months at home occupied by business.
+
+I am aware that some critics decry a novel written with a purpose. Permit
+me therefore in advance to admit that this book has a double purpose: To
+test the truth of Howells's words as applied to myself; and to describe a
+journey, both at home and abroad, which may possibly be enjoyed by the
+reader, the inconveniences of travel being lessened by incidentally
+tracing a love story to a strange but perhaps satisfactory conclusion;
+the whole leading to the evolution of a successful experiment, which in
+fragments is being tried in various parts of the civilized world.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+Chapter I
+The Harrises in New York
+
+Chapter II
+Mr. Hugh Searles of London Arrives
+
+Chapter III
+A Bad Send-off
+
+Chapter IV
+Aboard the S.S. Majestic
+
+Chapter V
+Discomfitures at Sea
+
+Chapter VI
+Half Awake, Half Asleep
+
+Chapter VII
+Life at Sea a Kaleidoscope
+
+Chapter VIII
+Colonel Harris Returns to Harrisville
+
+Chapter IX
+Capital and Labor in Conference
+
+Chapter X
+Knowledge is Power
+
+Chapter XI
+In Touch with Nature
+
+Chapter XII
+The Strike at Harrisville
+
+Chapter XIII
+Anarchy and Results
+
+Chapter XIV
+Colonel Harris Follows his Family Abroad
+
+Chapter XV
+Safe Passage, and a Happy Reunion
+
+Chapter XVI
+A Search for Ideas
+
+Chapter XVII
+The Harrises Visit Paris
+
+Chapter XVIII
+In Belgium and Holland
+
+Chapter XIX
+Paris, and the Wedding
+
+Chapter XX
+Aboard the Yacht "Hallena"
+
+Chapter XXI
+Two Unanswered Letters
+
+Chapter XXII
+Colonel Harris's Big Blue Envelope
+
+Chapter XXIII
+Gold Marries Gold
+
+Chapter XXIV
+The Magic Band of Beaten Gold
+
+Chapter XXV
+Workings of the Harris-Ingram Experiment
+
+Chapter XXVI
+Unexpected Meetings
+
+Chapter XXVII
+The Crisis
+
+
+
+
+THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+THE HARRISES IN NEW YORK
+
+
+It was five o'clock in the afternoon, when a bright little messenger boy
+in blue touched the electric button of Room No. ---- in Carnegie Studio,
+New York City. At once the door flew open and a handsome young artist
+received a Western Union telegram, and quickly signed his name, "Alfonso
+H. Harris" in the boy's book.
+
+"Here, my boy, is twenty-five cents," he said, and tore open the message,
+which read as follows:--
+
+  Harrisville,--.
+
+  _Alfonso H. Harris,
+  Carnegie Studio, New York._
+
+  We reach Grand Central Depot at 7:10 o'clock tomorrow evening in our
+  new private car Alfonso. Family greetings; all well.
+
+  Reuben Harris.
+
+Alfonso put the telegram in his pocket, completed packing his steamer
+trunk, wrote a letter to his landlord, enclosing a check for the last
+quarter's rent, and ran downstairs and over to the storage company, to
+leave an order to call for two big trunks of artist's belongings, not
+needed in Europe.
+
+A hansom-cab took him to the Windsor Hotel, where he almost forgot to pay
+his barber for a shave, such was his excitement. A little dry toast, two
+soft boiled eggs, and a cup of coffee were quite sufficient, since his
+appetite, usually very good, somehow had failed him.
+
+It was now fifteen minutes to seven o'clock. In less than half an hour
+Alfonso was to meet his father, mother, and sisters, and after a few days
+in the metropolis, join them in an extended journey over the British
+Isles, and possibly through portions of Europe.
+
+Alfonso was the only son of Reuben Harris, a rich manufacturer of iron
+and steel. His father, a man naturally of very firm will, had earnestly
+longed that his only son might succeed him in business, and so increase
+and perpetuate a fortune already colossal. It was a terrible struggle for
+Harris senior to yield to his son's strong inclination to study art, but
+once the father had been won over, no doubt in part by the mother's
+strong love for her only boy, he assured Alfonso that he would be loyal
+to him, so long as his son was loyal to his profession. This had given
+the boy courage, and he had improved every opportunity while in New York
+to acquaint himself with art, and his application to study had been such
+that he was not only popular with his fellow artists, but they recognized
+that he possessed great capacity for painstaking work.
+
+Alfonso jumped into a coupé, having ordered a carriage to follow him to
+the Grand Central Station. It was ten minutes yet before the express was
+due. Nervously he puffed at his unlighted cigar, wishing he had a match;
+in fact, his nerves were never more unstrung. It was a happy surprise,
+and no doubt his youthful vanity was elated, that his father should have
+named his new palace car "Alfonso." At least it convinced him that his
+father was loyal.
+
+As the coupé stopped, he rushed into the station, just in time to see the
+famous engine No. 999 pull in. She was on time to a second, as indicated
+by the great depot clock. A ponderous thing of life; the steam and air
+valves closed, yet her heavy breathing told of tremendous reserve power.
+What a record she had made, 436-1/2 miles in 425-3/4 minutes! Truly,
+man's most useful handiwork, to be surpassed only by the practical dynamo
+on wheels! It was not strange that the multitude on the platform gazed in
+wonder.
+
+There at the rear of the train was the "Alfonso," and young Harris in
+company with his artist friend, Leo, who by appointment had also hastened
+to the station, stepped quickly back to meet the occupants of the new
+car.
+
+First to alight was Jean, valet to the Harris family. Jean was born near
+Paris and could speak French, German, and several other languages. His
+hands and arms were full to overflowing of valises, hat boxes, shawls,
+canes, etc., that told of a full purse, but which are the very things
+that make traveling a burden.
+
+By this time Alfonso had climbed the car steps and was in his mother's
+arms. Mrs. Harris was more fond, if possible, of her only son than of her
+beautiful daughters. She was a handsome woman herself, loved dress and
+was proud of the Harris achievements. Alfonso kissed his sisters, Lucille
+and Gertrude, and shook hands warmly with his father, who was busy giving
+instructions to his car conductor.
+
+Alfonso in his joy had almost forgotten his friend Leo, but apologizing,
+he introduced him, first to his mother, then to Gertrude and finally to
+his sister Lucille, and their father. All seemed glad to meet their son's
+friend, as he was to take passage in the same steamer for his home near
+Rome.
+
+Leo Colonna was connected with the famous Colonna family of Italy. From
+childhood he had had access to the best schools and galleries of his
+peninsular country. He also had studied under the best masters in Paris
+and Berlin, and was especially fond of flesh coloring and portrait
+painting. He had studied anatomy, and had taken a diploma as surgeon in
+the best medical college in Vienna, merely that he might know the human
+form. Alfonso, aware of all this, had invited Leo to join their party in
+making the tour over Ireland, England, and through the Netherlands.
+
+As Lucille left the car, Leo offered aid, taking her blue silk umbrella
+with its wounded-oak handle, the whole rolled as small as a cane. Lucille
+never appeared to better advantage. She was tall, slender, and graceful.
+Excitement had tinged her cheeks and lips, and her whole face had a
+child's smooth, pink complexion. Wavy black hair and blue eyes revealed
+the Irish blood that had come from the mother's veins. She wore a
+traveling suit of navy-blue serge. Her hat, of latest style, was made of
+black velvet, steel ornaments, and ostrich tips. What artist could resist
+admiring a woman so fair and commanding! The dark eyes of Leo had met
+those of Lucille, and he at once had surrendered. In fact, a formidable
+rival had now conquered Leo's heart.
+
+Together they led the way to the front entrance of the station, while
+Harris senior delayed a moment to exhibit the car "Alfonso" to his son.
+"I had this private car built," said the father, "that the Harris family
+might be exclusive. Napoleon once said:--'Let me be seen but three times
+at the theatre, and I shall no longer excite attention.' Our car is
+adapted for service on any standard gauge road, so that we can travel in
+privacy throughout the United States. You notice that this observation
+room is furnished in quartered English oak, and has a luxurious sofa and
+arm chairs. Let us step back. Here on the right are state and family
+rooms finished in mahogany; each room has a connecting toilet room,
+with wash stand and bath room, hot and cold water being provided, also
+mirrors, wardrobe and lockers. The parlor or dining room is eighteen feet
+long and the extension table will seat twelve persons. Here also is a
+well selected library and writing desk."
+
+"But where is the kitchen?" asked Alfonso.
+
+"Beyond," said the father. "The pantry, china closet, and kitchen are
+finished in black walnut. Blankets, linen, and tableware are of best
+quality. Here are berths for attendants and porter's room for baggage.
+Carpets, rugs, draperies, and upholstery were especially imported to
+harmonize. Nobody amounts to much in these days, Alfonso, unless he owns
+a private car or a steam yacht. Henceforth this car, named in your honor,
+may play an important part in the history of the Harris family."
+
+Mrs. Harris, Leo, and Lucille, took seats in the carriage; Gertrude and
+her mother were on the back seat, while Lucille and her artist friend
+faced Mrs. Harris and daughter.
+
+Jean sat upright with the coachman. Colonel Harris and Alfonso rejoined
+their friends and together entered the coupé. Reuben Harris once served
+on the governor's staff for seven weeks, ranking as colonel, so now all
+his friends, even his family, spoke of him as "the Colonel." It was well,
+as it pleased his vanity.
+
+The coachmen's whips left their sockets, and coupé and carriage dashed
+along 42nd Street and down Fifth Avenue. The ten minutes' drive passed as
+a dream to some in the carriage. Mrs. Harris's mind revelled in the
+intricate warfare of society. She had often been in New York, and in
+the summers was seen at the most fashionable watering places with her
+children. Her mind was burdened trying to discover the steps that lead to
+the metropolitan and international "four hundred." She was determined
+that her children should marry into well regulated families, and that the
+colonel should have a national reputation. So absorbed was she that her
+eyes saw not, neither did her ears hear what transpired in the carriage.
+Gertrude was equally quiet; her thoughts were of dear friends she had
+left in Harrisville. The occupants of the front seats had talked in low
+tones of recent society events in New York, and a little of art. Lucille
+herself had dabbled in color for a term or two in a fashionable school on
+the Back Bay in Boston.
+
+The colonel had become enthusiastic in his talk about his own recent
+business prosperity. Suddenly coupé and carriage stopped in front of the
+main entrance of the Hotel Waldorf. How fine the detail of arch and
+columns! How delicate the architect's touch of iron and glass in the
+porte-cochère!
+
+The Harris family stepped quickly into the public reception-room to the
+left of the main entrance adjoining the office, leaving Jean and the
+porter to bring the hand-baggage. The decorated ceiling framed a central
+group of brilliant incandescent lights with globes. Leo directed
+attention to the paintings on the walls, and furniture and rugs.
+
+The colonel excused himself and passed out and into the main offices. The
+sight about him was an inspiring one. The architect's wand had wrought
+grace and beauty in floor, ceiling, column, and wall. Gentlemen, old and
+young, were coming and going. Professional men, not a few, bankers and
+business men jostled each other. Before the colonel had reached the
+clerk's desk, he had apologized, twice at least, for his haste. The fact
+was that metropolitan activity delighted his heart, but it disturbed just
+a little his usual good behavior. Nervously, he wrote in the Waldorf
+register plain Reuben Harris, wife and two daughters. He wanted to prefix
+colonel. His son added his own name. Colonel Harris, at his request, was
+given the best apartments in the Waldorf.
+
+Leo excused himself for the night, Lucille saying the last words in low
+tones, and then, liveried attendants conducted the Harris family to their
+suite of rooms. It was half past eight when the Harrises sat down to
+their first meal in their private dining-room. As Mrs. Harris waited for
+her hot clam soup to cool a little, she said, "Reuben, this exclusiveness
+and elegance is quite to my liking. After our return from Europe, why
+can't we all spend our winters in New York?"
+
+"No, mother," said Gertrude, "we have our duties to the people of
+Harrisville, and father, I am sure, will never stay long away from his
+mills."
+
+But Lucille approved her mother's plan, and was seconded by her brother.
+Colonel Harris was interested in the views expressed, but with judicial
+tone, he replied, "The Harrises better wait till the right time comes.
+Great financial changes are possible in a day."
+
+The dinner, though late, was excellent. Before ten o'clock all were glad
+to retire, except the head of the family, who hoped the night would be
+short, as the next day might witness very important business
+transactions.
+
+Colonel Harris took the elevator down to the gentlemen's café, adjoining
+the beautiful Garden Court. For a moment he stood admiring the massive
+fire-place and the many artistic effects, mural and otherwise. The café
+was furnished with round tables and inviting chairs. Guests of the hotel,
+members of city clubs, and strangers, came and went, but the colonel's
+mind was in an anxious mood, so he sought a quiet corner, lighted a
+cigar, and accidently picked up the _Evening Post_. Almost the first
+thing he read was an item of shipping news:
+
+  "No word yet from the overdue steamship 'Majestic;' she is already
+  forty-eight hours late, and very likely has experienced bad weather."
+
+The "Majestic" is one of the largest and best of the famous White Star
+Line fleet. Colonel Harris expected an English gentleman to arrive by
+this boat, and he had come on to New York to meet him, as the two had
+business of great importance to talk over. "I wonder," thought the
+colonel, "if such a thing could happen, that my cherished plan of
+retiring with millions, might possibly be frustrated by ship-wreck or any
+unlooked-for event?" Whereupon he pulled from his pocket a cablegram, to
+make himself doubly sure that his was not a fool's errand, and again read
+it in audible tones:
+
+  London, May 24, 18--.
+  _Col. Reuben Harris,
+  Hotel Waldorf, New York._
+
+  Hugh Searles, our agent, sails May twenty-fifth on Majestic. Meet him
+  at Hotel Waldorf, New York.
+
+  Guerney & Barring.
+
+The signers of the cablegram were young bankers and brokers, occupying
+sumptuous quarters on Threadneedle Street, in sight of the Bank of
+England, the Exchange, and the Mansion House or official residence of the
+Lord Mayor of London. The fathers of each member of the firm had been at
+the head of great banking houses in London for many years, and after
+herculean efforts, their banks had failed. These young men had united
+families and forces, and resolved to win again a financial standing in
+the world's metropolis. Shrewdly they had opened a score of branch
+offices in different parts of London and county; besides they had added
+a brokerage business, which had drifted into an extensive specialty of
+promoting syndicates in America and the colonies. Their success in
+handling high grade manufacturing plants had been phenomenal. Already at
+this business they had netted two million pounds. Reliable and expert
+accountants were always sent by them to examine thoroughly a client's
+ledgers. Already, bonds that carried the approval of Guerney & Barring,
+found ready market on Lombard, Prince, and other financial streets near
+the Bank of England.
+
+Colonel Harris relighted his cigar and queried to himself, "What ought I
+to charge these Englishmen for a property that cost barely two millions,
+but that has brought to the Harris family, annually for ten years, an
+average of 30%, or $600,000?" At first he had fixed upon six millions as
+a fair price, and then finally upon five million dollars. While he thus
+reflected, he fell asleep. It was after eleven o'clock when the Waldorf
+attendant caught him, or he would have fallen from his chair to the
+floor. Colonel Harris gave him a piece of silver, and retired for the
+night.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+HUGH SEARLES OF LONDON ARRIVES
+
+
+The next day was Sunday, and the Harris family slept late. Jean was first
+to rise, and buying the morning papers left them at Colonel Harris's
+door.
+
+It was almost nine o'clock when the family gathered in their private
+dining-room. The night's sleep had refreshed all. The mother was very
+cheerful over her coffee, and heartily enjoyed planning for the day. She
+liked New York best of the American cities. Brown stone and marble
+fronts, fine equipage and dress, had charms for her, that almost made
+her forget a pleasant home and duties at Harrisville. She was heart and
+soul in her husband's newest scheme to close out business, and devote
+the balance of life to politics and society. Naturally therefore the
+table-talk drifted to a discussion of the possible causes of the
+steamer's delay.
+
+Lucille looked up, and said, "Father, the _Tribune_ says, 'Fair weather
+for New England and the Atlantic coast.' Cheer up! The 'Majestic' will
+bring your Englishman in, I think. This is a lovely day to be in the
+metropolis. Come father, let me sweeten your coffee. One or two lumps?"
+
+"Two, my dear, if you please. Now what will give you all the most
+pleasure to-day?"
+
+Alfonso answered, "Why not take a drive, and possibly attend some
+church?"
+
+This plan was approved. Breakfast over, the Harris family entered
+a carriage, and the coachman, with Jean by his side, drove through
+Washington Square, under the American Arch of Triumph, and out Fifth
+Avenue, the fashionable street of New York. Alfonso acted as guide. "This
+white sepulchral looking building on the left at the corner of 34th
+street is where A.T. Stewart, the Irish merchant prince, lived."
+
+Gertrude remarked, "How true in his case, the proverb 'Riches certainly
+make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle towards heaven.'"
+
+"You should quote Scripture correctly, my child," said the mother.
+"'Riches take wings.'"
+
+"No, no, mamma--I am sure that I am right. 'Riches _make_ themselves
+wings' and the proverb is as true to-day as in Solomon's time."
+
+"Well, Gertrude, we will look at the hotel Bible on our return."
+
+"Yes, mamma, if the hotel has one."
+
+Colonel Harris responded, "I think Gertrude is right. Stewart's millions
+have changed hands. Dead men have no need of dollars. No wonder Stewart's
+bones were restless."
+
+"Here at West 39th Street is the sumptuous building of the Union League
+Club. It has over 1500 members, all pledged to absolute loyalty to the
+Government of the United States, to resist every attempt against the
+integrity of the nation, and to promote reform in national, state, and
+municipal affairs. The club equipped and sent two full regiments to the
+front in the Civil War."
+
+Alfonso pointed out Jay Gould's old residence, more club houses,
+libraries, the Windsor Hotel, Dr. Hall's handsome Presbyterian Church,
+and the brown stone and marble palaces of the Vanderbilt family, two
+miles of splendid residences and magnificent churches before you reach
+Central Park at 59th Street.
+
+The walks were thronged with beautiful women and well dressed men. It was
+now 10:30 o'clock. The chimes had ceased their hallowed music. People of
+all nationalities were jostling each other in their haste to enter St.
+Patrick's Cathedral, a copy of the Gothic masterpiece in Cologne, and the
+most imposing church building in America.
+
+The Harris carriage stopped; Lucille's heart suddenly began to beat
+quickly, for she saw Leo Colonna hastening from the Cathedral steps
+towards the carriage. "Good morning, Mrs. Harris! Glad you have come to
+my church," Leo said; then taking her hand cordially, he added, "And
+you have brought the family. Well, I am pleased, for you could not have
+come to a more beautiful church or service."
+
+As Leo conducted his friends up the granite steps, all were enthusiastic
+in their praise of the Fifth Avenue façade; white marble from granite
+base to the topmost stones of the graceful twin spires.
+
+All passed under the twelve apostles, that decorate the grand portal,
+and entered the cathedral. The interior is as fine as the exterior. The
+columns are massive, the ceiling groined; the style is the decorated or
+geometric architecture, that prevailed in Europe in the thirteenth
+century. The cardinal's gothic throne is on the right. The four altars
+are of carved French walnut, Tennessee marble and bronze. Half of the
+seventy windows are memorials, given by parishes and individuals in
+various parts of America. The vicar-general was conducting services. His
+impressive manner, aided by the sweet tones of singers and organ, and the
+sun's rays changed to rainbows by the stained-glass windows, produced
+a deep religious feeling in the hearts of the several thousand persons
+present.
+
+As the party left the church, Leo said, "In 1786, the Kings of France and
+Spain contributed to the erection of the first cathedral church, St.
+Peter's, in New York." The Harrises having invited Leo to dinner, said
+good-bye to him, and in their carriage returned to the Waldorf for lunch.
+
+While the colonel waited near the reception-room, he chanced to look at
+the stained-glass window over the entrance to the Garden Court. Here was
+pictured the village of Waldorf, the birthplace of the original John
+Jacob Astor. This pretty little hamlet is part of the Duchy of Baden,
+Germany, and has been lovingly remembered in the Astor wills. Here
+formerly lived the impecunious father of John Jacob Astor and his
+brother. Both gained wealth, very likely, because the value of money was
+first learned in the early Waldorf school of poverty. It was not an ill
+north wind that imprisoned young Astor for weeks in the ice of the
+Chesapeake Bay, as there on the small ship that brought him from Germany,
+he listened to marvelous tales of fortunes to be made in furs in the
+northwest. Shrewdly he determined first to acquire expert knowledge of
+skins, and on landing he luckily found employment in a fur store in New
+York at two dollars per week. This knowledge became the foundation of the
+vast fortune of the Astor family. The colonel was told that the Waldorf
+occupies the site of the town-house of John Jacob Astor, third of the
+name, and was erected by his son, William Waldorf, ex-minister to Italy.
+
+It was two o'clock when the Harrises entered the main dining-room for
+their lunch. The colonel led the party, Alfonso conducting his sister
+Lucille, the light blue ribbon at her throat of the tint of her
+responsive eyes. Mrs. Harris came with Gertrude. The mother wore a gray
+gown, and her daughter a pretty silk. This first entrance of the family
+to the public dining-room caused a slight diversion among some of the
+guests at lunch, where not a few rightly surmised who they were.
+
+Few markets in the world rival that of New York. The coast, streams, and
+valleys of New England and the Central States, send their best food by
+swift steamers and express, that the exacting cosmopolitan appetite may
+be satisfied.
+
+Before the lunch was over and while Reuben Harris was making reference to
+the delay of his English visitor, the waiter placed a white card by his
+plate. The color in the colonel's face suddenly deepened, as he read upon
+the card the name of Mr. Hugh Searles, representing Messrs. Guerney &
+Barring, London.
+
+"What's the matter, Reuben?" anxiously inquired Mrs. Harris.
+
+"Oh, nothing," said the colonel, "only that our overdue English visitor,
+Hugh Searles, has sent in his card."
+
+"How surprising," said Lucille; "you remember, father, that I said at
+breakfast, that the weather was to be fair. Probably the 'Majestic'
+quickened her speed, and stole in unobserved to the docks."
+
+"I will send him my card;" and upon it Mr. Harris wrote in pencil, "I
+will soon join you in the reception room."
+
+The black coffee disposed of, it was agreed that all should accompany
+Colonel Harris, and give Mr. Searles a cordial welcome to America.
+
+The English agent was a good sailor, and had enjoyed immensely the ocean
+voyage. Mr. Searles, of late over-worked in England, was compelled on
+board ship to rest both mind and body. A true Englishman, Mr. Searles,
+was very practical. He comprehended fully the importance of his mission
+to America, and possessed the tact of getting on in the world. If the
+proposed deal with Reuben Harris was a success, he expected as commission
+not less than five thousand pounds. Before the "Majestic" left the
+Mersey, that his mind might be alert on arrival at New York, he had
+measured with tape line the promenade deck of the steamer, and resolved
+to make enough laps for a mile, both before and after each meal, a walk
+of six miles per day, or a total of forty-eight miles for the voyage.
+
+A sturdy Englishman, taking such vigorous and methodical exercise,
+created some comment among the passengers, but it was excused on the
+ground that Englishmen believe in much outdoor exercise. Searles came
+from a good family, who lived north of London in Lincolnshire. His
+father, the Hon. George Searles, had a competency, largely invested in
+lands, and three per cent consols. His rule of investment was, security
+unquestioned and interest not above three per cent, believing that
+neither creditors nor enterprise of any kind, in the long run, could
+afford to pay more. His ancestors were Germans, who crossed the German
+Ocean, soon after the Romans withdrew from England.
+
+A large area of Lincolnshire lies below the level of the sea, from which
+it is protected by embankments. This fenny district gradually had been
+reclaimed, and to-day the deep loam and peat-soils, not unlike the rich
+farms of Holland, are celebrated for their high condition of agriculture.
+What mortgages the Hon. George Searles held were secured upon
+Lincolnshire estates, some of England's best lands.
+
+Hugh Searles, his son, however, had known only London life since he
+graduated from Cambridge. His office was in Chancery Lane, and his
+surroundings and teachings had been of the speculative kind, hence he was
+a fit agent for his firm. Already he had acquired a sunny suburban home
+in Kent, and was ambitious to hold a seat in Parliament. As he walked the
+steamer's deck, he looked the typical Englishman, five feet ten inches in
+height, broad shoulders and full chest; his weight about two hundred
+pounds, or "fifteen stones" as Searles phrased it.
+
+His face was round and ruddy, his beard closely cut, and his hair light
+and fine, indicating quality. His step was firm, and he seemed always in
+deep study. When addressed by his fellow passengers however, he was
+courteous, always talked to the point in his replies, and was anxious to
+learn more of America, or as he expressed it, "of the Anglo-Saxon
+confederation." He was very proud of his Anglo-Saxon origin, and Empire,
+and believed in the final Anglo-Saxon ascendancy over the world.
+
+On board ship were several young Englishmen, who were on their return to
+various posts of duty. Three were buyers for cotton firms in Liverpool
+and Manchester, and they were hastening back to Norfolk, Va., Memphis,
+and New Orleans. Two of the passengers were English officers, returning
+to their commands in far away Australia. Others, like Searles, were
+crossing the Atlantic for the first time in search of fame and fortune.
+These adventurous Englishmen thought it fine sport as the "Majestic"
+sighted Fire Light Island to join the enthusiastic Americans in singing
+"America." So heartily did they sing, that the Americans in turn, using
+the same tune, cordially sang "God save the Queen."
+
+At first Hugh Searles was a little disconcerted, when the whole Harris
+family approached him in the Waldorf reception-room. Colonel Harris
+cordially extended his hand, and said, "Mr. Searles, we are all glad to
+meet you, and bid you hearty welcome to America. Please let me make you
+acquainted with my wife, Mrs. Harris, my daughters, Gertrude and Lucille,
+and my son, Alfonso."
+
+"An unexpected greeting you give me, Colonel Harris," said Hugh Searles,
+as he gave each person a quick hand-shake, thinking that to be an
+American he must grasp hands cordially.
+
+The family were much interested in the details of Mr. Searles's voyage,
+as they expected soon to be en route for Europe. Mr. Searles said, "The
+cause of the 'Majestic's' delay was a broken propeller in rough seas off
+the Banks of Newfoundland. I am glad to reach New York." He had arrived
+at the Hotel at ten o'clock and already had been to lunch.
+
+Mr. Searles gladly accepted an invitation from Colonel Harris for a
+drive, Mrs. Harris and Lucille to accompany them. Searles expressed a
+wish to see the famous Roebling suspension bridge, so the coachman drove
+first down Broadway to the post office, then past the great newspaper
+buildings, and out upon the marvelous highway or bridge suspended in the
+air between New York and Brooklyn. When midway, Mr. Searles begged to
+step out of the carriage, and putting his arms around one of the four
+enormous cables, inquired of Colonel Harris how these huge cables were
+carried over the towers.
+
+Colonel Harris explained that each cable was composed of over five
+thousand steel wires, and that a shuttle carried the wire back and forth
+till the requisite strength of cables was obtained. The expense of the
+bridge was about $15,000,000, which the two cities paid. Its great
+utility had been abundantly proved by the repeated necessity of enlarging
+the approaches.
+
+The drive to the Central Park was up Fifth Avenue, home of America's
+multi-millionaires. An unending cavalcade of superb family equipages was
+passing through the entrance at 59th Street. Colonel Harris explained
+that "Central Park had been planted with over half a million trees,
+shrubs and vines, and that which was once a waste of rock and swamp, had
+by skill of enthusiastic engineers and landscape gardeners blossomed into
+green lawns, shady groves, vine-covered arbors, with miles of roads and
+walks, inviting expanses of water, picturesque bits of architecture, and
+scenery, that rival the world's parks."
+
+The ride and comments of Mr. Searles afforded the Harris family an
+opportunity to study their guest, and on returning to the hotel, all
+agreed that Hugh Searles was thoroughly equipped to protect his English
+patrons in any deal that he might decide to make. It was planned that all
+should dine together at eight, and Leo was to join the party by
+invitation of Lucille.
+
+Evidently the Harrises were well pleased with their English visitor, but
+their pleasure was also quickened with the bright prospect of several
+millions of English money for their manufacturing interest. Then after
+their visit to Europe might follow the long looked-for residence in
+delightful New York. Already rich Americans, famous authors and artists
+gravitate as naturally to this new world metropolis, as the world's elite
+to London and Paris.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+A BAD SEND-OFF
+
+
+It was almost eight o'clock when the dinner party assembled in the
+reception-room of the Waldorf. Leo was first to arrive, and Lucille was
+there to receive him. At ten minutes of eight, solicitor Hugh Searles
+came; then entered Colonel Harris and his daughters, Alfonso following
+with his mother. Mrs. Harris wore a black satin dress with jet trimmings
+and Van Dyke lace. Lucille's dress of light blue faille silk, garnished
+with pearls and guipure lace, was very becoming. Leo so told Lucille, and
+she thanked him but hid behind her lips the thought that Leo never before
+seemed half so manly. Mr. Searles evidently admired Leo, and he talked to
+him of Italy's greatness in literature and art. He sat at Colonel
+Harris's right, opposite Mrs. Harris. Leo and Lucille occupied seats at
+the end of the table, and at their right and left sat Alfonso and
+Gertrude.
+
+Guests of the hotel and their friends chatted in low conversation at the
+many tables of the model dining-room. Electric lights shone soft in the
+ceiling, and under pretty shades at each table, which added much to the
+general effect.
+
+Long before the sweets and fruits were reached, the conversation had
+drifted from one conventional topic to another, until Mrs. Harris asked
+Hugh Searles what he thought of higher education for women.
+
+"Yes, yes, Mr. Searles," said Gertrude, "please tell us all about the
+English girl."
+
+"Does she go to college, and does she ride a bicycle!" queried Lucille.
+
+Mrs. Harris was eager to listen to the Englishman's reply for often she
+had earnestly talked the matter over in her home. Mr. Searles was very
+frank in his views, and surprisingly liberal for an Englishman, and well
+he might be, for his own mother was a power, and his sisters were strong
+mental forces in Lincolnshire. Aided by tutors and their scholarly
+mother, they had pursued at home, under difficulties, about the same
+course of studies, that Hugh, their brother, had followed in the
+university.
+
+Searles believed that absolute freedom should be given to women to do
+anything they wished to do in the world, provided they could do it as
+well as men, and that nobody had any right to assert they should not.
+
+Colonel Harris, even for a business man, was also advanced in his ideas.
+He had advocated for his daughters that they should possess healthy
+bodies and minds, and be able to observe closely and reason soundly.
+
+Lucille said that she favored an education which would best conserve and
+enlarge woman's graces, her delicate feeling and thought, and her love
+for the beautiful.
+
+Then Leo and Alfonso both declared that Lucille had expressed fully their
+own opinions.
+
+Colonel Harris added, "Come, Gertrude, tell us what you think."
+
+Her face flushed a little as she replied, for she felt all that she said,
+"Father, I like what Mr. Searles has told us. I think higher education
+for women should develop purity of heart, self-forgetfulness, and
+enlarged and enriched minds."
+
+"Well spoken, daughter," said Colonel Harris. "Now, dear, what have you
+to say?"
+
+Mrs. Harris had listened well, as she had been a slave in the interests
+of her children, especially of her daughters. She thought that the last
+twenty-five years had proved that women in physical and intellectual
+capacity were able to receive and profit by a college education. Often
+she had longed for the same training of mind that men of her acquaintance
+enjoyed. The subject was thus discussed with profit, till the Turkish
+coffee was served. Closing the discussion, Searles thought that America
+led England in offering better education to woman, but that England had
+given her more freedom in politics; the English woman voted for nearly
+all the elective officers, except members of Parliament. He believed that
+the principle of education of woman belonged to her as a part of
+humanity; that it gave to her a self-centered poise, that it made her a
+competent head of the home, where the family is trained as a unit of
+civilization.
+
+He felt that woman possessed the finest and highest qualities, and that
+it was her mission to project and incorporate these elevating qualities
+into society. He thought man had nothing to fear or lose, but much to
+gain; that to multiply woman's colleges everywhere, was to furnish the
+twentieth century, or "Woman's Century" as Victor Hugo called it, with
+a dynamic force, that would beget more blessings for humanity than all
+previous centuries.
+
+Gertrude thanked Mr. Searles for what he had said, and the party withdrew
+to the Winter Garden Café, pretty with palms, where Lucille, Leo, and
+Alfonso talked of society matters, of art and music.
+
+Gertrude read to her mother, while Hugh Searles and Colonel Harris
+stepped outside into the gentlemen's café for a smoke, as both were fond
+of a cigar. There the conversation naturally drifted upon the tariff
+question.
+
+Mr. Searles asserted that he favored free trade, and that he was sorry
+America was not as far advanced and willing as Great Britain to recognize
+the universal and fundamental principle of the brotherhood of mankind,
+and the inborn right of everybody to trade as he liked in the world's
+cheapest markets. He added that he sometimes felt that Americans were
+too selfish, too much in love with the vulgar dollar.
+
+Colonel Harris, wounded in his patriotism, now showed that he was a
+little disturbed. He thanked Searles for his deep interest in Americans,
+adding, "We are glad you have come to study Americans and America." Then
+looking the Englishman full in the face he said, "Mr. Searles, you will
+find human nature much the same wherever you travel. Nations usually
+strive to legislate, each for its own interest. You say, 'Americans work
+for the almighty dollar.' So they do, and earnestly too, but our kith and
+kin across the sea worship with equal enthusiasm the golden sovereign.
+Look at the monuments to protection in your own city."
+
+"What monuments?" asked Searles.
+
+"Monuments to protection on all your streets, built under British tariff
+laws. Every stone in costly St. Paul's Church, or cathedral, was laid by
+a duty of a shilling a ton on all coal coming into London. A shilling a
+ton profit on coal, mined in America, would create for us fabulous
+fortunes. Selfishness, Mr. Searles, and not brotherly love, drove your
+country to adopt free trade."
+
+"I do not agree with you," said Mr. Searles.
+
+"'Tis true, and I can prove it," answered Harris. By this time several
+patrons of the hotel stood about enjoying the tilt between tariff and
+free trade.
+
+"Give us the proof then," replied Searles.
+
+"To begin with," said Harris, "I must reply to your first assertion, for
+I deem your first statement a false doctrine that 'everybody has a right
+to trade in the world's cheapest markets.' Nobody has a right to trade in
+the world's cheapest markets, unless the necessary and just laws of his
+own country, or the country he dwells in, permits it. Now as to the much
+abused 'brotherhood argument' let me assert that, like England, any
+nation may adopt free trade, when it can command at least four important
+things: cheap labor, cheap capital, and cheap raw material. Now Mr.
+Searles, what is the fourth requisite?"
+
+Searles did not answer. Clearly, he was interested in Harris's novel line
+of argument for free trade.
+
+"Well," said Harris, "England is inhabited by a virile people, who
+evidently believe in God's command to 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and
+replenish the earth, and subdue it.' England, with her centuries of
+rising civilization, her charm of landscape, and her command of the
+world's affairs, offers at home magnificent attractions for her sons
+and daughters, that make them loyal and law-abiding citizens.
+
+"It is true that annually many thousands seek fame and fortune in new
+countries, but most of her citizens prefer poverty even, and, if need be,
+poverty in the gutters of her thriving cities, to a home of promise in
+distant lands. Hence, a rapidly increasing and dense population obtains
+in all the British Isles, and labor becomes abundant and cheap, and often
+a drug in the market. The repeal of the Corn Laws first became a
+necessity, then a fact, and the cheaper food made cheaper labor possible.
+Lynx-eyed capital, in the financial metropolis of the world, was quick to
+discover surplus labor.
+
+"Already English inventors had made valuable inventions in machinery for
+the manufacture of iron, cotton, woolen and other goods, which further
+cheapened labor and the product of labor.
+
+"England with cheap capital and cheap labor, now had two of the four
+things needed to enable her to go forward to larger trade with the world.
+The third requisite, cheap and abundant raw material, she also secured.
+Material, not furnished from her own mines and soils, was brought in
+plentiful supply at nominal freights, or as ballast, by her vessels,
+whose sails are spread on every sea.
+
+"For three centuries Great Britain has vigorously and profitably pursued
+Sir Walter Raleigh's wise policy: 'Whosoever commands the sea, commands
+the trade, whosoever commands the trade, commands the riches of the
+world, and consequently the world itself.'
+
+"On the ceiling of the reading-room of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange is
+painted the pregnant words:--'O Lord, how manifold are thy works, in
+wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches.' Under
+divine inspiration, therefore, English capital seeks investment
+everywhere, and with cheap capital, cheap labor, and cheap raw materials,
+she finds herself able to compete successfully with the world. It is
+possibly pardonable then that the British manufacturer and politician
+should seek earnestly the fourth requisite, viz., a large market abroad.
+Hence the necessity of free trade.
+
+"To advocate publicly that other nations should adopt free trade, that
+England might have an increased number of buyers, and consequently
+greater profit on her products, perhaps would not be judicious; so the
+principle of free trade for the world at large must be sugar-coated, to
+be acceptable. Therefore your philanthropic and alert Richard Cobden, and
+John Bright, and your skilled writers, both talked and wrote much about
+the 'brotherhood of mankind,' hoping that the markets of the world might
+willingly open wide their doors to British traders. Of course, advocates
+of free trade reason that the larger the number of buyers the larger the
+prices.
+
+"Mr. Searles, whenever America can command, as Great Britain does
+to-day, cheap capital, cheap labor, and cheap raw materials, she too
+may vociferously advocate free trade, and that other nations shall open
+wide their markets for the sale of American products.
+
+"Don't you see, Mr. Searles, that protection and free trade are equally
+selfish and not philanthropic principles?"
+
+"Mr. Harris you are right," shouted several of the by-standers.
+
+But Hugh Searles did not reply. Possibly because it was late or, it may
+be, he did not wish to further antagonize Colonel Harris with whom he
+hoped in the morning to drive a good bargain, and it may be that he hoped
+some time in America to operate mills himself and make money under a
+protective tariff.
+
+Both Searles and Harris retired for the night with an agreement to meet
+at nine o'clock in the morning and talk over business. Searles rose with
+the sun, and after eggs, bacon, and tea, he walked to the Battery and
+back, before nine, the appointed hour for his first business conference
+with Reuben Harris.
+
+A good sleep had refreshed Colonel Harris and at breakfast he appeared in
+a joking mood. While he smoked, he glanced at the _Tribune_ and again
+examined Searles's letter of introduction from Messrs. Guerney & Barring.
+At nine o'clock promptly, Mr. Searles came and Colonel Harris exhibited
+to him a brief statement of the business of the Harrisville Iron & Steel
+Co., extending over the last ten years, and showing the company's annual
+profits.
+
+"A very good business your company did, and you made large profits,
+Colonel Harris," said Searles. "And am I to understand that you have made
+in your statement a proper allowance for depreciation of values in
+buildings and machinery, also for all losses and cost of insurance, and
+that after these deductions are made the company's net profits annually
+amounted to an average of over one hundred thousand pounds, or a half
+million dollars?"
+
+"Yes," replied the colonel.
+
+And Mr. Searles remarked, "Colonel Harris, if your arguments last evening
+did not fully convert me to the decided advantage which Americans gain by
+protection, this statement of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. does. A
+year ago, some Americans in London called our attention to your
+profitable plant, hence our first letter of inquiries. Your replies
+confirmed the report and so we cabled for this initial meeting between
+us.
+
+"Messrs. Guerney & Barring have been most successful in financiering some
+of the largest business interests in the world, and thus they have
+achieved a splendid reputation. It was their wish that I should secure
+for them your most favorable terms with an option of purchase of your
+plant, the same to hold good for two months, or for a sufficient length
+of time to allow them to organize a syndicate, and float necessary
+debentures to buy the stock, or a controlling interest in your company,
+and so continue the business."
+
+"Mr. Searles, we Americans are not anxious to sell, especially to
+foreigners, our best paying concerns. We ought to keep them under our own
+control. However, of late, I have been inclined to indulge my family in a
+little foreign travel, and myself in more leisure for books, and possibly
+for politics, believing that not enough of our good citizens enter
+Congress. I might, on certain conditions, name a price for all the stock
+of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co."
+
+"Please state the price and the conditions."
+
+"Well, let me think a moment. The capital stock of the company is not now
+as large as it should be.
+
+Total Capital Stock             $2,000,000
+Par value of shares                    100
+Present Value per Share,               300
+
+"The entire property and good-will of the Company is worth at least
+$6,000,000, and my "fixed price," as the English say, is $5,000,000."
+
+Mr. Searles looked puzzled, for he had hoped to get the stock for less
+money. He hesitated, as if in deep study, but not long, for he believed
+that, if the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. for ten successive years could
+pay $500,000 or an average annual dividend of 25% on its stock of
+$2,000,000, the plant re-organized could easily be marketed at a neat
+advance, say for £1,400,000 or $7,000,000, in London, where even sound
+3% investments are eagerly sought; so Mr. Searles inquired again:
+"Colonel Harris, you omitted to state your conditions." Harris answered,
+"I must have cash enough to guarantee the sale, and short time payments
+for the balance."
+
+"Well, Colonel Harris, how would the following terms please you?
+
+One-eighth cash                 $625,000
+One-eighth 30 days               625,000
+One-fourth 60 days             1,250,000
+One-fourth 90 days             1,250,000
+One-fourth, Preferred Shares,
+    6% dividends guaranteed    1,250,000
+                               _________
+Total price named              5,000,000
+
+"Colonel Harris, before you answer, please let me outline our London
+plan. Suppose I should take for Messrs. Guerney & Barring a contract, or
+option of purchase on the property with payments as named, the purchase
+to be conditioned upon a verification of the correctness of your
+statements. Our experts can examine and report soon on your accounts for
+ten years back, and on buildings, machinery, stock on hand, land, etc."
+
+"Mr. Searles, please explain further your 'London plan' of
+reorganization."
+
+"Colonel Harris, we would modify the old firm name, so as to read--'The
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., Limited, of London, England,' and
+capitalize it at £1,400,000, or $7,000,000.
+
+Par value of shares     £20 or $100
+Number of shares             70,000
+
+"When our experts shall have verified your statements at Harrisville,
+then the option of purchase is to be signed by us and forwarded to
+London, where it will be signed by Messrs. Guerney & Barring, the first
+payment made, and the contract underwritten or guaranteed by the
+Guardian, Executor & Trust Association, Limited, of London, whose capital
+is $5,000,000. The association will also underwrite the bonds and
+preference shares. This will practically complete the purchase."
+
+"But what about the last one-fourth payment in preferred shares of
+$1,250,000?"
+
+"Pardon me, Colonel Harris, that is just what I desire to explain
+further. The new company will issue debentures or bonds, running 30
+years, at 4%, for £800,000 or $4,000,000; preference shares £400,000 or
+$2,000,000; with dividends 6% guaranteed, and a preference in
+distribution of property, if company is dissolved. Ordinary shares
+£1,200,000 or $6,000,000. And our London prospects will show that the
+ordinary shares can earn at least 5%. For the last one-fourth we wish you
+to take 12,500 preferred shares, or $1,250,000.
+
+"London holders, of course, will elect all the officers, a managing board
+of directors, with general office in London. For a time they will expect
+you to advise in the management of the business at Harrisville."
+
+After some further explanations, Harris agreed to sign a contract or
+option of purchase, drawn as specified, if after investigation, he should
+become satisfied with the responsibility of the London parties. On
+Tuesday morning, contracts in duplicates were presented for Colonel
+Harris's inspection. After twice carefully reading the contract, he gave
+his approval and wrote Mr. Searles a letter of introduction to Mr. B.C.
+Wilson, his manager at Harrisville, requesting the latter to permit Mr.
+Searles and his experts to examine all property and accounts of the
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. for ten years back.
+
+It was also arranged that on Wednesday, at 12 o'clock noon, Mr. Searles
+should see the Harrises off to Europe, then Mr. Searles and his experts
+were to go to Harrisville in Colonel Harris's private car. Later Mr.
+Searles and Colonel Harris were to meet in London, and then, if
+everything was mutually satisfactory, all parties were to affix their
+signatures to the agreement, and the cash payment was to be made at the
+London office of Guerney & Barring.
+
+Wednesday, Colonel Harris rose early as had been his habit from
+childhood. He was exacting in his family, and also as a manager of labor.
+Every morning at six o'clock all the family had to be at the breakfast
+table. Colonel Harris always asked the blessing. Its merit was its
+brevity: sometimes he only said--"Dear Lord, make us grateful and good
+to-day. Amen." Thirty minutes later, summer and winter, his horses and
+carriage stood at his door, and punctually at fifteen minutes of seven
+o'clock he would reach his great mills. His first duty was to walk
+through his works, as his skilled laborers with dinner pails entered the
+broad gates and began the day's work. Devotion like this usually brings
+success.
+
+After breakfast, Mrs. Harris and her daughters walked down Fifth Avenue
+to make a few purchases. Alfonso and Leo hurried off to get their baggage
+to the "Majestic," while Jean busied himself in seeing that a transfer
+was made to the steamer of all the trunks, valises, etc., left at the
+depot and hotel.
+
+At ten o'clock Jean called at the dock to learn if the half-dozen steamer
+chairs and as many warm blankets had arrived, and he found everything in
+readiness. It was 10:30 o'clock when the Waldorf bill was paid, and the
+good-bye given. The young people were jubilant, as the long hoped-for
+pleasure trip to Europe was about to be realized.
+
+The carriages for the steamer could not go fast enough to satisfy the
+old, or the young people. Several schoolmates, artists, business and
+society friends met them on the dock. Many fashionable people had already
+arrived to say "_Bon Voyage_" to the Harrises and to Leo. Hundreds of
+others had come to see their own friends off. It was all excitement among
+the passengers, and carriages kept coming and going.
+
+Not so with the English officers and sailors of the "Majestic." They were
+calm and ready for the homeward passage.
+
+The last mail bag had been put aboard, and the receipts to the government
+hurriedly signed. Mr. Searles had said good-bye, and last of all to
+Colonel Harris. As the colonel went up the gangway, the bell rang and the
+cries "All aboard" were given. For once, Colonel Harris felt a sense of
+great relief to thus cut loose from his business, and take his first long
+vacation, in twenty-five years from hard work.
+
+"Now, I shall have a good time, and a much needed rest," he said. But
+just as he stepped into the steamer's dining-saloon, Mr. Searles, who had
+hastily followed, touched him on the shoulder and said. "Here, Colonel
+Harris, is a telegram for you."
+
+Harris quickly tore it open. It was from Wilson, his manager, and it read
+as follows:--
+
+  Harrisville, June 9, 18--.
+  _Colonel Reuben Harris,
+  Steamer Majestic, New York_.
+
+  Our four thousand men struck this morning for higher wages. What shall
+  we do?
+
+  B.C. Wilson.
+
+Harris was almost paralyzed. His wife and daughters ran to him. The
+steamer's big whistle was sounding. All was now confusion. There was only
+a moment to decide, but Harris proved equal to the situation. He stepped
+to the purser, surrendered his passage ticket, kissed his wife and two
+daughters, saying to his son, "Alfonso, take charge of the party as I go
+back to Harrisville."
+
+Gertrude, insisting, accompanied her father, and remained ashore. On the
+dock stood Colonel Harris, Gertrude, and Mr. Searles, all three waving
+their white handkerchiefs to Mrs. Harris, Lucille, Alfonso, and Leo. What
+a bad send-off!
+
+  The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,
+    Gang aft a-gley,
+  And leave us nought but grief and pain,
+    For promised joy.
+
+The Harrises on the steamer, and the Harrises on the pier had heavy
+hearts, especially Colonel Harris and Gertrude so suddenly disappointed.
+It was soon agreed that the three should start that evening for
+Harrisville.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+ABOARD THE S.S. MAJESTIC
+
+
+Mrs. Harris was naturally a brave woman, but the telegram, and the sudden
+separation perhaps forever from her husband and Gertrude, unnerved her.
+She sank back into an easy chair on the steamer, murmuring, "Why this
+terrible disappointment? Why did I not turn back with my husband? This is
+worse than death. Mr. Harris is in great trouble. Why did I not at once
+sacrifice all and share his misfortunes? How noble in Gertrude to go
+ashore with her father. It is just like the child, for she is never happy
+except when she forgets self, and does for others."
+
+Mrs. Harris sobbed as if her loved ones had been left in the tomb.
+Lucille tenderly held her mother's hand, and spoke comforting words:
+"Cheer up, mother, all will yet be well. Father can now take Mr. Searles
+to Harrisville."
+
+"To see what, child--men misled and on a strike and the mills all closed
+down! It means much trouble, and perhaps disaster for the Harrises."
+
+"Oh, no, mother, all will soon be well. Let us go on the deck."
+
+Alfonso led his mother, and Leo took Lucille up among the passengers.
+
+They were just in time to see the white cloud of fluttering handkerchiefs
+on the pier. Leo said that he could distinguish with his field-glass
+Colonel Harris and Gertrude, and tears again came into Mrs. Harris's
+eyes.
+
+European steamers always leave on time, waiting for neither prince nor
+peasant. A carriage with foaming horses drove in upon the pier as the tug
+pulled the steamer out upon the Hudson. Its single occupant was an
+English government agent bearing a special message from the British
+embassador at Washington to Downing Street, London.
+
+"Now what's to be done?" the British agent sharply inquired.
+
+"Two pounds, sir, and we will put you and your luggage aboard," shouted
+an English sailor.
+
+"Agreed," said the agent, and to the surprise of everybody on the pier,
+two robust sailors pulled as for their lives, and each won a sovereign,
+as they put the belated agent on board the "Majestic."
+
+This race for a passage caught the eye of Mrs. Harris. At first she
+thought that the little boat might contain her husband, but as the
+English agent came up the ship's ladder, she grasped Alfonso's arm, and
+said, "Here, my son, take my hand and help me quickly to the boat; I will
+go back to Mr. Harris."
+
+"No! No!" said Alfonso, "Look, mother, the little boat is already
+returning to the dock." Later the purser brought to Mrs. Harris an
+envelope containing the steamer tickets and a purse of gold, which the
+colonel thoughtfully had sent by the English agent.
+
+Mrs. Harris re-examined the envelope, and found the colonel's personal
+card which contained on the back a few words, hastily scribbled: "Cheer
+up everybody; glad four of our party are on board. Enjoy yourselves.
+Gertrude sends love. Later we will join you in London perhaps. God bless
+you all. R.H."
+
+Sunshine soon came back to Mrs. Harris's face, and she began to notice
+the people about her, and to realize that she was actually on shipboard.
+Foreign travel had been the dream of her life; and she felt comforted to
+have Alfonso and Lucille beside her.
+
+"Mrs. Harris," said Leo, "see the stately blocks that outline Broadway,
+the Western Union Telegraph Building, the Equitable Building, the granite
+offices of the Standard Oil Company, the Post Office, and the imposing
+Produce Exchange with its projecting galley-prows. Above its long series
+of beautiful arches of terra cotta rise a tall campanile and liberty pole
+from which floats the stars and stripes."
+
+Leo's eyes kindled in brilliancy, and his voice quickened with
+patriotism, as he made reference to his adopted flag. "Lucille, behold
+our glorious flag that floats over America's greatest financial and
+commercial city. I love the stars and stripes quite as much as Italy's
+flag.
+
+"Annually over thirty thousand vessels arrive and depart from this
+harbor. New York is America's great gateway for immigrants. In a single
+year nearly a half million land at Castle Garden. Sections of New York
+are known as Germany, Italy, China, Africa, and Judea. The Hebrews alone
+in the city number upwards of one hundred thousand, and have nearly fifty
+synagogues and as many millionaires. The trees, lawns, and promenades
+along the sea-wall, form the Battery Park. The settees are crowded with
+people enjoying the magnificent marine views before them."
+
+Alfonso pointed to the Suspension or Brooklyn Bridge beneath which
+vessels were sailing on the East River. Its enormous cables looked like
+small ropes sustaining a vast traffic of cars, vehicles, and pedestrians.
+
+To the right of the steamer's track on Bedloe's Island stands Bartholdi's
+"Liberty, Enlightening the World," the largest bronze statue on the
+globe. From a small guide book of New York, Lucille read aloud that the
+Bartholdi statue and its pedestal cost one million dollars; that the
+statue was presented by the French people to the people of the United
+States. The head of Liberty is higher than the tall steeple of Trinity
+Church, which is 300 feet high, or twice that of the Colossus of Rhodes,
+one of the seven ancient wonders.
+
+"Look," said Lucille, "at the uplifted right hand holding an electric
+torch. How magnificently the statue stands facing the Narrows, the
+entrance from Europe, and how cordial the welcome to America which
+Liberty extends."
+
+"Yes," said Leo, "if you wish to see Bartholdi's noble mother, observe
+the face of the statue. Bartholdi owed much to his mother's constant
+encouragement."
+
+"How true it is," said Mrs. Harris, "that most great men have had
+splendid mothers."
+
+Many on the deck thought of loved ones at home, of their country, and
+wondered if they would return again to America. This was true of many
+aboard who were now starting on their first ocean voyage, and their
+thoughts no doubt were akin to those that filled the minds of Columbus
+and his crew when they left Palos.
+
+Craft of every kind kept clear of the giant "Majestic" as she plowed down
+the Narrows. Historic but worthless old forts are on either side, and far
+down into the lower bay the pilot guides the wonderful steamer. Sandy
+Hook lighthouse, the low shores, and purple mountains of New Jersey are
+left behind, as the "Majestic" is set on her course at full speed.
+
+The gong for the one o'clock lunch was sounded, and Alfonso, glad of the
+change, as his mother seemed unhappy, led the way below. Colonel Harris,
+when he bought the tickets, had arranged that his family should sit at
+the captain's table. As Alfonso entered the saloon, the steward conducted
+him and his friends to their seats. The captain's seat was unoccupied as
+he was busy on deck. The grand dining-room of the "Majestic" is amidships
+on the main deck. At the three long tables and sixteen short side tables,
+three hundred persons can be accommodated.
+
+The sea was smooth, so every chair was taken. The scene was an animating
+one and interesting to study. A single voyage will not suffice to reveal
+the heart histories and ambitions of three hundred cosmopolitan
+passengers. Everybody was talking at the same time; all had much to say
+about the experiences in reaching and boarding the steamer. Everybody was
+looking at everybody, and each wondered who the others might be.
+
+So many new faces which are to be studies for the voyage, arrested the
+attention of Mrs. Harris. Her appetite was not good, so she ate little,
+but closely watched the exhilarating scenes about her. Many wives had
+their husbands by their sides, and this pained her, but she resolved to
+keep brave and to make the most of her opportunities. Lucille and the
+young men were so interested in the pretty faces all about them, that
+they had little time for an English luncheon, and most of their eating
+was a make-believe.
+
+Amidship the movement of the boat is reduced to a minimum, and in
+fair weather it is difficult to realize that you are out upon the
+ocean. Each passenger at the table is furnished with a revolving chair.
+Choice flowers, the gifts of loving friends left behind, were on every
+table, and their fragrance converted the dining-saloon into a large
+conservatory. The Corinthian columns were fluted and embossed, the walls
+and ceiling were in tints of ivory and gold; the artistic panels abounded
+in groups of Tritons and nymphs; the ports were fitted with stained glass
+shutters, emblazoned with the arms of cities and states in Europe and
+America. Behind the glass were electric lights, so that the designs were
+visible both night and day.
+
+Surmounting this richly appointed saloon was a dome of artistic creation,
+its stained glass of soft tints, which sparkled in the warm sunlight and
+shed a kaleidoscope of color and design over the merry company of
+passengers. Mirrors and the gentle rolling of the steamer multiplied
+and enlarged the gorgeous colorings and perplexing designs.
+
+In the midst of this new life aboard ship, so novel and so beautiful,
+Mrs. Harris's heart would have been happy had her over-worked husband and
+Gertrude sat beside her at the table. Very little of this life is enjoyed
+without the unwelcomed flies that spoil the precious ointment.
+
+After the lunch Alfonso and his friends had time to examine a little
+further the great steamer that was to float them to the Old World. When
+his party hurriedly entered the dining-saloon, the grand staircase was
+entirely overlooked. How wide and roomy it was, and how beautifully
+carved and finished, especially the balustrade and newel posts, the whole
+being built of selected white oak, which mellows with age, and will
+assume a richer hue like the wainscoting in the famous old English abbeys
+and manor houses.
+
+Again the Harris party was on deck, final words hastily written were in
+the steamer's mail bag, and a sailor stood ready to pass it over the
+ship's side to the pilot's little boat, waiting for orders to cut loose
+from the "Majestic."
+
+The engines slacked their speed, the pilot bade the officers good-bye,
+and accompanied the mail bag to his trusted schooner. No. 66 was painted
+in black full length on the pilot's big white sail. All the passenger
+steamers which enter or leave New York must take these brave and alert
+pilots as guides in and out the ever-changing harbor channels.
+
+The gong in the engine-rooms again signaled "full speed" and the live,
+escaping steam was turned through the triple-expansion engines, and
+the "Majestic" gathered her full strength for a powerful effort, a
+record-breaking passage to Queenstown.
+
+The life on board the transatlantic ferry is decidedly English, and Mrs.
+Harris closely studied the courtesies and requirements. She soon came to
+like the ship's discipline and matter-of-fact customs. The young people,
+some newly married, and some new acquaintances like Leo and Lucille, had
+moved their steamer chairs on the deck, that they might watch the return
+of the pilot's boat.
+
+Loving letters were read, the leaves of latest magazines were cut, and
+many words were exchanged before the big "66" disappeared entirely with
+the sun that set in gold and purple over the low New England shores.
+
+Quite apart from the young people sat Mrs. Harris and Alfonso. They
+talked earnestly about the ill-timed strike of the millmen at home. "Why
+did the men strike at the very time when father wanted his mills to glow
+with activity?" queried Mrs. Harris.
+
+"Oh, mother," said Alfonso, "that is part of labor's stock in trade. Some
+labor organizations argue that the 'end justifies the means.' Our men
+were probably kept advised of father's plans, and strikes often are timed
+so as to put capital at the greatest disadvantage, and force, if
+possible, a speedy surrender to labor's demands. 'Like begets like,'
+mother, so the college professor told us when he lectured on Darwin. It
+was Darwin, I think, who emphasized this fundamental principle in nature.
+
+"See, mother, how this labor agitation works. Labor organizations
+multiply and become aggressive, and so capital organizes in self-defense.
+One day our professor told the class that he much preferred citizenship
+in a government controlled by intelligent capital, to the insecurity and
+uncertainty of ignorant labor in power. The professor inclined to think
+that the British form of government rested on a more lasting basis than
+that of republics.
+
+"Usually the more of values a person possesses, the more anxious he is
+for stable government. Labor has little capital, and so often becomes
+venturesome, and is willing to stake all on the throw of a die. But labor
+in the presence of open hungry mouths can ill afford to take such
+chances. Labor with its little or no surplus should act reasonably, and
+on the side of conservatism, or wives and little ones suffer."
+
+Mrs. Harris listened to her son's comments on capital and labor, but the
+independence of her race asserted itself and she said with emphasis,
+"Alfonso, I hope Mr. Harris will insist on his rights at Harrisville."
+
+"Very likely he will, mother, as he is that kind of a man, and the New
+England independence that is born in him is sure to assert itself."
+
+For a few moments neither mother nor son spoke. Suddenly both were
+awakened from their reveries by the call for dinner. The waters were
+still smooth, and the ocean breezes had sharpened appetites, so the grand
+staircase was crowded with a happy throng, most of whom were eager for
+their first dinner aboard ship. The Harrises were delighted to find
+Captain Morgan already at the table.
+
+Long ago Captain Morgan had learned that wealth is power. His own ship
+had cost a million or more, and England's millions enabled his government
+to control the globe. Not only was he keenly alive to the fact that
+capital and brains guided most human events, but naturally he possessed
+the instincts of a gentleman, and besides he was a true Briton. His
+ancestors for generations had followed the sea for a livelihood and fame.
+Some had served conspicuously in the navy, and others like himself had
+spent long lives in the commercial marine.
+
+In Lucille's eyes Captain Morgan was an ideal hero of the sea. He was
+over six feet in height, and robust of form, weighing not less than 250
+pounds. His face was round and bronzed by the exposure of over three
+hundred ocean passages. His closely cropped beard and hair were iron
+gray, and his mild blue eyes and shapely hands told of inbred qualities.
+That he was possessed of rare traits of character, it was easy to
+discover. Loyalty to the great trusts confided to him, was noticeable in
+his every movement. "Safety of ship, passengers, and cargo," were words
+often repeated, whether the skies above him were blue or black.
+
+Captain Morgan addressing Mrs. Harris said, "We shall miss very much your
+husband's presence aboard ship. Nowadays managers of great enterprises
+ashore, involving the use of large amounts of capital, encounter quite as
+many stormy seas as we of the Atlantic."
+
+"Yes," replied Mrs. Harris, "and the causes of financial disturbances are
+fully as difficult to divine or control."
+
+"It was fortunate, however, Mrs. Harris," said the captain, "that
+word reached the steamer in time to intercept the Colonel so that he
+could return at once and assume command of his business. Aboard our
+ship, you must all dismiss every anxiety as to matters at home or on the
+"Majestic." With your permission, Colonel Harris's family shall be mine
+for the passage. Please command my services at all times."
+
+"Thank you," said Alfonso, and the captain's cordial words, like
+sunshine, dispelled the clouds.
+
+"Captain," inquired Leo, "do you think we shall have a pleasant voyage?"
+
+"Yes, I hope so, for the sake of those aboard who are making this their
+first voyage, otherwise we may not have the pleasure of much of their
+company."
+
+"Captain Morgan, then you really promise a smooth passage?" said Lucille.
+
+"Oh no, Miss Harris, we never promise in advance good weather on the
+ocean. Smooth water for us old sailors is irksome indeed, yet I always
+consider it very fortunate for our passengers, if Old Probabilities grant
+us a day or two of fair skies as we leave and enter port. With gentle
+breezes the passengers gradually get possession of their 'sea legs' as
+sailors term it, and later brisk breezes are welcomed."
+
+"Captain, have you a panacea for seasickness?" inquired Mrs. Harris.
+
+"Oh, yes," he replied, "take as vigorous exercise on the ship as is taken
+ashore, eat wisely, observe economy of nerve-force, and be resolved to
+keep on good terms with Old Neptune. Don't fight the steamer's movements
+or eccentricities, but yield gracefully to all the boat's motions. In a
+word, forget entirely that you are aboard ship, and the victory is
+yours."
+
+"This is Wednesday, Captain, and do you really think you will land us in
+the Mersey by Monday evening?" Lucille enquired earnestly.
+
+"Monday or Tuesday if all goes well," the captain answered. Captain
+Morgan drank his coffee, excused himself, and returned to his duty on the
+bridge.
+
+"What a gallant old sea-dog the captain is," said Mrs. Harris. "We shall
+feel perfectly safe in his keeping. How cheery he is away from home."
+
+"How do you know he has a home, mother?"
+
+"Perhaps not, my dear, for he seems really married to his ship."
+
+The Harrises and Leo joined the passengers who had now left the dining
+saloon. The light winds had freshened and the skies were overcast and
+gave promise of showers, if not of a storm. After walking a few times
+around the promenade deck, most of the passengers went below, some to the
+library, some to the smoking room, and some to their staterooms, perhaps
+thinking discretion the better part of valor. The steamer's chairs were
+taken from the deck and only a few persons remained outside. Some of them
+were clad in warm ulsters. They walked the usual half-hour. Most of these
+promenaders were men of business who were required to make frequent ocean
+passages. They were as familiar with moistened decks, cloudy skies, and
+heavy seas as the land-lubbers are with stone pavements and hotel
+corridors.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+DISCOMFITURES AT SEA
+
+
+The green and red lights on the starboard and port sides and the white
+light on the foremast now burned brightly. The boatswain's shrill whistle
+furled the sails snugly to every spar, leaving the sailors little time or
+spirit for their usual song, as barometer-like they too sensed the
+approaching storm. The ship's watch forward was increased as the wind
+grew strong, and the weather ahead had become thick and hazy.
+
+The captain quickly left the table when the steward placed in his hand
+a bit of writing from the first officer, which read, "The barometer is
+falling rapidly." Captain Morgan and an officer paced the bridge with
+eyes alert. Heavy clouds of smoke from the triple stacks revealed that
+a hundred glowing furnaces were being fed with fuel, assistant engineers
+were busily inspecting, and oilers were active in lubricating the
+ponderous engines that every emergency might be promptly met.
+
+Ports were closed and every precaution taken. The anxiety of officers and
+sailors and the increased agitation of the sea was soon noticed by the
+ship's gay company. Before ten o'clock most of the passengers were glad
+of the good-night excuse for retiring. The smoking room, however, was
+crowded with devotees to the weed. Old-timers were busy with cards, or
+forming pools on the first day's run from Sandy Hook, or speculating as
+to the time of arrival at Queenstown.
+
+The atmosphere of the room was as thick as the weather outside. It is
+no wonder that a club man of New York, making his first trip to Europe,
+inquired of his Philadelphia friend, "Why do Americans smoke so
+continually?"
+
+He answered, "It is easier to tell why the English drink tea and why
+Americans drink coffee. But to answer your question, I suppose the
+mixture of races quickens the flow of blood and produces the intense
+activities we witness. Besides, the enlarged opportunities offered in
+a new and growing country present attractive prizes in the commercial,
+political, social, and religious world. To attain these the Anglo-Saxon
+blood rushes through arteries and veins like the heated blood in a
+thoroughbred horse on the last quarter. After these homestretch efforts
+Americans feel the need often of stimulants, or of a soporific, and this
+they try to find in a cigar."
+
+"Your views are wrong, I think. One would naturally infer that the use of
+tobacco shortens life. Let me relate to you an incident.
+
+"I was once in Sandusky, Ohio, and spent an evening at a lecture given by
+Trask, the great anti-tobacconist. In his discourse he had reached the
+climax of his argument, proving as he thought that tobacco shortened
+life, when a well dressed man in the audience rose and said, 'Mr. Trask,
+will you pardon me if I say a few words?'
+
+"'Oh, yes' said the lecturer, 'give us the facts only.'
+
+"'Well, Mr. Trask, there is living to-day in Castalia, southwest of here,
+a man nearly a hundred years old and he has been a constant user of
+tobacco since early childhood.'
+
+"For a moment Mr. Trask stood nonplussed. To gain time for thought
+he fell back upon the Socratic method, and began asking questions.
+'Stranger, won't you stand up again so that the audience can see you?
+Thank you! Evidently you are an intelligent citizen and reliable witness.
+Did you say you knew the man?'
+
+"'O yes, I have known him for over fifty years.'
+
+"'Did you ever know of his favoring schools or churches by gifts or
+otherwise?'
+
+"'No,' said the stranger.
+
+"'There,' said Trask to the audience, 'this man's testimony only
+strengthens what I have been attempting to prove here this evening,
+that tobacco shortens life. This Castalia centenarian is dead to all the
+demands of society and humanity, and his corpse should have been buried
+half a century ago.' So the laugh was on the voluntary witness."
+
+"Hold on, my friend, your Castalia centenarian proves just what I said at
+the outset, that the use of tobacco prolongs life, but I am half inclined
+myself to feel that the less tobacco active Americans use, the better."
+Then throwing his cigar away, he said good-night and left the smoking
+room.
+
+Others stacked their cards, smoked cigarettes, and then sought their
+staterooms, and finally the ship's bell rang out the last patron and
+announced the midnight hour; the steward was left alone. He had been
+unusually busy all the evening furnishing ale, porter, and beer, a few
+only taking wine. The steward was glad to complete his report of sales
+for the first day out, and turn off the lights and seek his berth for
+the night.
+
+The "Majestic" shot past Cape Cod and was plowing her way towards the
+banks of Newfoundland. The strong winds were westerly and fast increasing
+to a moderate gale. The north star was hidden and now failed to confirm
+the accuracy of the ship's compasses.
+
+The first and fourth officers were pacing the bridge. The latter was
+glad that the engines were working at full speed, as every stroke of
+the pistons carried him nearer his pretty cottage in the suburbs of
+Liverpool. Captain Morgan had dropped asleep on the lounge in his cozy
+room just back of the wheel. Most of the passengers and crew off duty
+slept soundly, though some were dreaming of wife and children in far away
+homes, and others of palaces, parks, and castles in foreign countries.
+
+It was difficult for Mrs. Harris to get much rest as the waves dashing
+against the ship often awakened her, and her thoughts would race with the
+Cincinnati Express which was swiftly bearing her husband and Gertrude
+back to Harrisville and perhaps to trouble and poverty. While Mrs. Harris
+knew that her husband was wealthy, she was constantly troubled with fears
+lest she and her family should sometime come to want. Her own father had
+acquired a fortune in Ireland, but changes in the British tariff laws had
+rendered him penniless, and poverty had driven her mother with seven
+other children to America.
+
+A rich uncle in Boston enabled her to get a fair education, and the early
+years of her married life had been full of earnest effort, of economy and
+heroic struggle, that her husband and family might gain a footing in the
+world. The comforts of her early childhood in Ireland had given her a
+keen relish for luxury. The pain inflicted by poverty that followed was
+severely felt, and now, the pleasures of wealth again were all the more
+enjoyed.
+
+Mrs. Harris was not a church member, but woman-like she found her lips
+saying, "God bless the colonel and my precious children." Then putting
+her hand over upon Lucille, and satisfied that she was there by her side
+and asleep, she too became drowsy and finally unconscious. Alfonso and
+Leo occupied the adjoining stateroom, but both were in dreamland;
+Alfonso in the art galleries of Holland and Leo in sunny Italy.
+
+Before morning the storm center was moving rapidly down the St. Lawrence
+Valley, and off the east coast of Maine. Long lines of white-capped waves
+were dashing after each other like swift platoons in a cavalry charge.
+The "Majestic," conscious of an enemy on her flank, sought earnestly to
+outstrip the winds of Æolus. When Captain Morgan reached the bridge, the
+sea and sky were most threatening. The first officer said, "Captain,
+I have never seen the mercury go down so rapidly. We are in for a nasty
+time of it, I fear."
+
+Early the sailors were scrubbing the ship while the spray helped to wash
+the decks, and they tightened the fastenings of the life-boats. The
+firemen too were busy dropping cinders astern. Fires in the cook's
+galley were lighted, and the steerage passengers were aroused for
+breakfast, but few responded.
+
+Mrs. Harris often tried to dress, but every time she fell back into her
+berth, saying, "Stewardess, I shall surely die. Isn't the ship going
+down?"
+
+"No, no, madam," the stewardess replied, "I will return with beef tea,
+and you will soon feel better."
+
+Lucille was helped to put on a dark wrapper; and after repeated efforts
+at a hasty toilet, she took the stewardess's arm and reached an easy
+chair in the library. Alfonso and Leo, who were both members of a yacht
+club in New York, came to the library from a short walk on the deck. It
+required much urging with Lucille before she would attempt an entrance
+into the dining-room. Several men and a few ladies were present.
+
+"Good morning, Miss Harris, how brave you are," were words spoken so
+encouragingly by Captain Morgan that Lucille's face brightened and she
+responded as best she could.
+
+"Thank you, captain, I believe I should much prefer to face a storm of
+bullets on the land than a storm at sea; you courageous sailors really
+deserve all the gold medals."
+
+Leo, who was fond of the ocean, said to Alfonso, "Why can't we all be
+sailors? What say you to this? Let us test who of our party shall lose
+the fewest meals from New York to Queenstown. You and your mother or
+Lucille and I?"
+
+"Agreed," responded Alfonso, thinking it would help to keep the ladies in
+good spirits.
+
+"But what shall count for a meal?" inquired Alfonso.
+
+"Not less than ten minutes at the table, and at dinner, soup at least."
+Lucille thought Leo's idea a capital one. It was agreed that the contest
+should commence with the next lunch, and that Alfonso and Leo should act
+as captains for the two sides.
+
+By this time Lucille had eaten a little toast and had sipped part of her
+chocolate. A tenderloin steak and sweet omelet with French fried potatoes
+were being served, when suddenly the color left her face. Another lurch
+of the steamer sent a glass of ice water up her loose sleeve, and,
+utterly discomfited, she begged to be excused and rushed from the table.
+
+"Oh dear, mother, how terribly I feel; let me lie down. Oh dear! I wish
+I were home with father and Gertrude."
+
+"If the colonel were only here to help," murmured Mrs. Harris.
+"Stewardess, where are you? Why don't you hurry when I ring? Go for the
+doctor at once." It was now blowing a gale and the steamer was rolling
+badly.
+
+It was a long half-hour before the doctor entered the stateroom of Mrs.
+Harris. Dr. Argyle was perfect in physical development and a model of
+gentlemanly qualities. His education had been received in London and
+Vienna, and he had joined the service of the "Majestic" that he might
+enlarge his experiences as practitioner and man of the world. He had
+correctly divined that here he was sure to touch intimately the restless
+and wandering aristocracy of the globe.
+
+While Dr. Argyle was ostensibly the ship's doctor, he was keenly alert
+for an opportunity that would help him on to fame and fortune. Of the
+two he preferred the latter, as he believed that humanity is just as
+lazy as it dares to be. Therefore stateroom No. ---- was entered both
+professionally and inquisitively. The doctor was half glad that the
+Harrises were ill, as he had seen the family at Captain Morgan's table
+and desired to meet them. Captain Morgan had incidentally mentioned to
+the doctor the great wealth of the Harris family, and this also had
+whetted his curiosity. Before him lay mother and daughter, helpless, both
+in utter misery and the picture of despair.
+
+"Beg pardon, ladies," said the doctor as he entered, "you sent for me
+I believe?"
+
+"Yes, yes," replied Mrs. Harris, "we thought you had forgotten us, as the
+half-hour's delay seemed a full week. My daughter, Lucille, and I are
+suffering terribly. How awful the storm! Last night, doctor, I thought
+I should die before morning, and now I greatly fear that the ship will
+go down."
+
+"Do not fear, ladies," the doctor replied, "the wind is only brisk; most
+people suffer a little on the ocean, especially on the first voyage."
+
+"What is the cause of this terrible seasickness, doctor, and what can you
+do for us?"
+
+"Frankly, Mrs. Harris, no two physicians agree as to the cause. Usually
+people suffer most from seasickness who come aboard weary from over-work
+or nervous exhaustion. Most people waste vital forces by too much talking
+or by over-exertion. Americans, especially, overcheck their deposits of
+vitality, and as bankrupts they struggle to transact daily duties. Wise
+management of nerve forces would enable them to accomplish more and enjoy
+life better."
+
+"I am a bankrupt then," said Mrs. Harris, "but how about my daughter
+Lucille?"
+
+"Your child, I fear, is the daughter of bankrupts and doubtless inherits
+their qualities."
+
+"But, doctor, can't you do something now for us?"
+
+"Oh yes, madam, but first let me feel your pulse, please."
+
+"Ninety-eight," he said to himself, but he added to Mrs. Harris, "you
+need the very rest this voyage affords and you must not worry the least
+about the storm or affairs at home. Our vessel is built of steel, and
+Captain Morgan always outrides the storms. Ladies, I want you to take
+this preparation of my own. It is a special remedy for seasickness, the
+result of the study and experience of the medical force of the White Star
+Line."
+
+The faces of mother and daughter brightened. They had faith. This was
+noticed by Dr. Argyle. Faith was the restorative principle upon which the
+young doctor depended, and without it his medicine was worthless. The
+White Star panacea prescribed was harmless, as his powders merely
+inclined the patient to sleep and recovery followed, so faith or nature
+worked the cure. Soon after the door closed behind the doctor, Lucille
+was asleep, and Mrs. Harris passed into dreamland.
+
+The winds veered into the southwest, and, reinforced, were controlled by
+a violent hurricane that had rushed up the Atlantic coast from the West
+Indies. The novice aboard was elated, for he thought that the fiercer the
+wind blew behind the vessel, the faster the steamer would be driven
+forward. How little some of us really know! The cyclone at sea is a
+rotary storm, or hurricane, of extended circuit. Black clouds drive down
+upon the sea and ship with a tiger's fierceness as if to crush all life
+in their pathway.
+
+Officers and crew, in waterproof garments, become as restless as bunched
+cattle in a prairie blizzard. All eyes now roam from prow to stern, from
+deck to top mast. The lightning's blue flame plays with the steel masts,
+and overhead thunders drown the noise of engines and propellers. Thick
+black smoke and red-hot cinders shoot forth from the three black-throated
+smoke-stacks.
+
+The huge steamer, no longer moving with the ease of the leviathan, seems
+a tiny craft and almost helpless in the chopped seas that give to the
+ship a complex motion so difficult, even for old sailors, to anticipate.
+Tidal wave follows tidal wave in rapid succession. Both trough and crest
+are whipped into whitecaps like tents afield, till sea and storm seem
+leagued to deluge the world again.
+
+Captain Morgan, lashed to the bridge, has full confidence in himself, his
+doubled watch ahead, his compasses, and the throbbing engines below.
+Dangers have now aroused the man and his courage grows apace. Moments
+supreme come to every captain at sea, the same as to captains who wage
+wars on the land.
+
+The decks are drenched, great waves pound the forward deck and life-boats
+are broken from their moorings. Battened hatches imprison below a
+regiment of souls, some suffering the torments of stomachs in open
+rebellion, others of heads swollen, while others lose entire control
+of an army of nerves that center near and drive mad the brain.
+
+To the uninitiated, words are powerless to reveal the torments of the
+imprisoned in a modern steel inquisition, rocking and pitching at the
+mercy of mighty torrents in a mid-ocean cyclone. Mephistopheles, seeking
+severest punishment for the damned, displayed tenderness in not adopting
+the super-heated and sooted pits where stokers in storms at sea are
+forced to labor and suffer.
+
+All that terrible second day and night at sea, the Harrises and others
+tossed back and forth in their unstable berths, some suffering with
+chills and others with burning heat. Some, Mrs. Harris and daughter among
+them, lay for hours more dead than alive, their wills and muscles utterly
+powerless to reach needed and much coveted blankets.
+
+The dining saloon was deserted except by a few old sea-travelers. Before
+dinner, Leo ventured above and for a moment put his head outside. The
+gale blowing a hundred miles an hour hit him with the force of a club.
+When he went below to see Alfonso, his face was pale, and his voice
+trembled as he said, "Harris, before morning we shall all sink to the
+bottom of the Atlantic with the 'Majestic' for our tomb." Half undressed,
+Leo dropped again into his berth where he spent a miserable night.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+HALF-AWAKE, HALF-ASLEEP
+
+
+Few persons find life enjoyable in a great storm at sea, for the
+discomfitures of mind and body are many. The ship's officers and crew are
+always concerned about the welfare of the passengers and the safety
+of steamer and cargo.
+
+True, Leo, with the instincts of an artist, had stood for hours on the
+deck, partially sheltered by a smoke-stack, to study wave motions and the
+ever-changing effects of the ocean. Never before had he known its
+sublimity. When the sea was wildest and the deck was wave-swept, he in
+his safe retreat made sketches of waves and their combinations which he
+hoped sometime to reproduce on canvas. At other times, conscious of storm
+dangers in mid-ocean, Leo's conscience troubled him. For a year he had
+been much in love with a pretty Italian girl, daughter of an official,
+long in the service of the Italian government at the port of New York.
+
+Rosie Ricci was fifteen years old when she first met Leo. Dressed in
+white, she entered an exhibition of water colors on W. 10th street with
+her mother one May morning, as Leo had finished hanging a delicate marine
+view sketched down the Narrows.
+
+Glances only between Leo and Rosie were exchanged, but each formed the
+resolution sometime, if possible, to know the other. Rosie's father had
+died when she was only fourteen years old, and existence for Mrs. Ricci
+and her little family had been a struggle. For the last year, a happy
+change had come in their condition. A letter had been received from a
+rich senator by Mrs. Ricci, which was couched in the tenderest language.
+The senator explained in his letter that at a musicale, given on Fifth
+Avenue, he had heard a Rosie Ricci sing a simple song that revived
+memories of an early day. This fact, coupled with Rosie's charming
+simplicity and vivacity of manner, fixed her name in his mind; later he
+was reading the _New York Tribune_, and the name Ricci arrested his
+attention.
+
+The item mentioned the death of Raphael Ricci, ex-consul, and the
+senator's object in writing was to inquire further as to the facts. Did
+he leave a competency? If not, would the family receive such assistance
+as would enable the daughter, if Rosie Ricci was her daughter, to obtain
+a further musical education?
+
+The senator's letter dropped from the mother's hands; she was overcome
+with the good news. Rosie picked it up saying, "Mother dear, what is the
+matter? What terrible news does it contain?"
+
+"Not bad news, child! possibly good news; a letter from a stranger who
+offers aid in our distress, a letter from one holding a high position.
+I wonder what it all means? Has the senator been prompted by the spirit
+of your anxious father, or is there evil in the communication?"
+
+"Tell me, mother, tell me all about it!" But before the mother could
+speak, Rosie was reading the letter aloud. She threw up her hands in
+delight and flew into her mother's arms. "How good the Lord is to us!"
+Rosie exclaimed. She had been eager for a musical education and to win
+fame on the stage.
+
+In June, by appointment, Mrs. Ricci and daughter met the Senator at the
+Fifth Avenue Hotel. It was arranged that Rosie should have the best
+musical education obtainable in Boston, and further that the senator
+should pay her expenses in Boston and New York, and that the mother's
+rent should be included in his liberality. At times, the mother
+questioned the senator's motives, but he always seemed so kind and
+fatherly that she spurned the thought as coming from the Evil One.
+
+The senator as he left, put several bills in Mrs. Ricci's hand, saying,
+"You and Rosie will find need of them for clothes for the daughter and
+for other expenses."
+
+Never was a girl happier than Rosie the morning she and her mother left
+the Grand Central Depot for New England. Rarely, if ever, did a girl work
+harder than Rosie at her studies. Her soul often had burned with ambition
+for fame and for money so that she could assist her mother. The way was
+now open and success was possible. At the sunset hour she often walked
+with a friend among the historic elms on Boston Common and in the
+beautiful flower gardens.
+
+Often young men longed for her acquaintance, but they could never get the
+consent of her pretty eyes. She was petite, her hair black, her eyes dark
+brown, her lips ruby-red, and her nose and chin finely chiselled. She had
+a cameo-like face and complexion of olive tint that told of the land of
+vines and figs in sunny Italy. Her step was elastic, her manner vivacious
+and confiding. Her dress was always tidy and stylish. Usually she carried
+a roll of music in one hand as she left the conservatory, and lovely
+flowers in the other that had been expressed either by the senator or
+Leo.
+
+On the completion of her course in the conservatory, Leo had pressed his
+suit so devotedly that Rosie consented to an engagement without her
+mother's knowledge. The ring of gold contained a single ruby, and Leo had
+had engraved on the inside of the ring, "Et teneo, et teneor." When Rosie
+saw the old Roman motto she said, "I hold, and am held. How appropriate,
+Leo! Your love for me, devotion to the beautiful, and our bright memories
+of artistic Italy shall bind us together forever.
+
+"But Leo, why do you put the ring on the third finger before marriage?"
+
+Leo answered, "Because I have read somewhere that many centuries ago the
+Egyptians believed that the third finger was especially warmed by a small
+artery that proceeded directly from the heart. The Egyptians also
+believed that the third finger is the first that a new born babe is able
+to move, and the last finger over which the dying lose control."
+
+"Nonsense," replied Rosie, "once the wedding ring, studded with precious
+stones, was worn on the forefinger; Christianity moved it to the third
+finger. Its use was originated in this way: the priest first put it on
+the thumb, saying 'In the name of the Father'; on the forefinger, adding,
+'in the name of the Son;' on the second finger, repeating, 'in the name
+of the Holy Ghost;' and on the third finger, ending with 'Amen,' and
+there it staid."
+
+Abelard and Heloise were not happier in their unselfish affection than
+Leo and Rosie in their love. Colors on Leo's canvas now sought each other
+in magic harmony. At single sittings in his studio Leo made Madonna
+faces, and glowing landscapes, that evoked words of warm praise from his
+fellow artists, who were blind to the secret of Leo's remarkable power.
+
+For a Christmas present Leo brought Rosie a picture of his own of Rosie's
+beautiful hand holding lilies of the valley; and while she thanked him in
+sweetest words, he pinned at her throat a Florentine cameo once worn by
+his mother. All these things, and more, came flashing into Leo's mind as
+he struggled on the ship's deck to keep his footing in the storm.
+
+A week before the steamer left New York Leo and Rosie had quarreled.
+Leo's invitation to accompany the Harrises had come to him from Alfonso
+only three days before the "Majestic's" departure, and such was his
+momentary ill-humor toward Rosie that he sailed from New York without
+even advising her of his new plan, or saying good-bye. Leo, alone on the
+sea, often severely rebuked himself that he could have been so unkind to
+the woman to whom he had given his heart and his mother's favorite bit of
+jewelry.
+
+A thousand times he wished he could ask Rosie's forgiveness, for it was
+in a fit of anger that Rosie had snatched the ruby ring off her hand and
+the cameo from her throat, and had thrown them into Leo's lap saying,
+"Take them, Leo, you will easily find another girl to share your family
+name and your poverty as an artist while I have need of wealth." Leo had
+turned from Rosie's home without the power to reply, he was so taken by
+surprise.
+
+Leo was never so happy as when Rosie was present in his studio to
+encourage him by word or song, but now all was changed.
+
+Sometimes Leo in his secret thoughts feared that Rosie's beauty and
+charming manner would command riches, and sometimes he dared to think
+that possibly his talent and fame might command a handsome dowry. Then
+his mind turned to Lucille. She was taller than Rosie, not so vivacious,
+but like Rosie enjoyed a happy time. He even ventured at times to say
+mentally of Lucille that "it is she or none on earth," and then as he
+recalled the ring given to Rosie, the old love would assert itself and he
+would shut his eyes, ashamed of an affection that was false hearted. It
+was fortunate for Leo that he was a good sailor, as it enabled him to do
+many thoughtful things for the Harrises, and thus show his appreciation
+of their great kindness to him.
+
+On the third day out from New York, the storm moderated somewhat and the
+passengers at breakfast visibly increased in number, but before the lunch
+hour was over the fury of the gale returned. The steamer in her course
+had crossed the center of the cyclone where the force of the storm was
+diminished for a short time only. All that afternoon and night the gale
+increased in force till it seemed as if volcanic powers under the sea
+were at work turning the ocean upside down.
+
+Pent up forces in the west were loosed, and Neptune, deity of the ocean,
+with his three-pronged trident stalked abroad. The bombardment of waves
+was terrific, and the twin propellers raced so fiercely that speed was
+reduced to a minimum.
+
+In the morning the terrible cyclone had moved to the north, smoother
+seas were reached by lunch time, and most of the tables were again
+filled. Many of those who were making a first voyage also put in their
+appearance, and they were subjected to much chaffing from the veterans
+of ocean travel. Captain Morgan and Doctor Argyle were the recipients
+of many complimentary words for their skill.
+
+At dinner Leo and Alfonso mustered full forces, and each side scored
+every point, for both Mrs. Harris and Lucille entered the dining room,
+and everybody enjoyed the menu after a three days' fast. Captain Morgan
+spoke of the storm as "the late unpleasantness," and hoped his friends
+would not desert him again. Mrs. Harris was silent, but Alfonso and
+Lucille promised loyalty for the future, and Leo said, "Captain Morgan,
+I believe I haven't missed a meal."
+
+"Bravo, Colonna!" the captain replied, "you really seem to have inherited
+the sailing qualities of your great countryman Columbus, and I sincerely
+hope that you may render the world equally valuable services."
+
+Lucille added, "I am sure he will, captain; during the gale, he rendered
+signal services to suffering humanity."
+
+"To-morrow," continued Captain Morgan, "is the 21st of June, when the day
+and night will be of equal length, the sun rising and setting promptly at
+six o'clock."
+
+"Why not," said Lucille, "set our watches by the steamer's chronometer,
+and have the steward call us at 5:30 o'clock and all test the accuracy of
+the almanac?" Mrs. Harris and several others entered heartily into the
+plan.
+
+The pure sea-air was so fresh and restful that when three bells or 5:30
+o'clock in the morning was heard, the Harris party were easily awakened
+and they hastily prepared to witness at sea the sunrise on June 21st.
+
+Leo and Alfonso were first on deck. Mrs. Harris, Lucille, and the Judge,
+an acquaintance made on the ship, soon joined them. Their watches agreed
+that it was ten minutes to six o 'clock. The decks had been washed and
+put in order, engines were running at full speed, the eastern sky was
+flushed with crimson and golden bands that shot out of the horizon, and
+fan-like in shape faded up in the zenith. With watches in hand, all eyes
+were fixed on a pathway of intensely lighted sea and sky in the east.
+Suddenly, as the sailor rung out "four bells," or 6 o'clock, Lucille
+shouted, "There! See that drop of molten gold floating on the horizon.
+Captain Morgan was right as to time. See, judge, how the gold glows with
+heat and light as the globe turns to receive the sun's blessings!"
+
+"Yes," said the judge who now for the first time since the storm became
+really enthusiastic, "another page of the record book is turned, and the
+good and bad deeds of humanity will be entered by the recording angel.
+The mighty sun, around which we revolve at fabulous speed is, in its
+relations to us mortals, the most important material fact in the
+universe. If I ever change my religion I shall become a sun-worshiper.
+The Turk in his prayers, five times a day, faces the sun."
+
+An early brisk walk on the deck sharpened appetites, and our
+sun-worshipers were among the first at breakfast. Gradually others
+entered, and again the dining room was cheerful with sunny faces. After
+breakfast the decks were astir with pretty women, children, and gentlemen
+lifting their hats. The promenade was as gay as on Fifth Avenue. Doctor
+Argyle gave his arm to Mrs. Harris, Lucille walked between Alfonso and
+Leo, and doctors of divinity and men of repute in other professions kept
+faithful step. Actors and actresses moved as gracefully as before the
+footlights. A famous actor carried on his shoulders a tiny girl who had
+bits of sky for eyes, a fair face, and fleecy hair that floated in the
+sea breeze, making a pretty picture.
+
+Business men with fragrant cigars indulged in the latest story or joke.
+By degrees the promenade disappeared as passengers selected steamer
+chairs, library, or smoking room, and congenial souls formed interesting
+and picturesque groups. At the outset of the voyage you wonder at the
+lack of fine dress, and hastily judge the modest men and women about you
+to be somewhat commonplace, but after days at sea and many acquaintances
+made, you discover your mistake and learn that your companions are
+thoroughly cosmopolitan. In fair weather the decks are playgrounds where
+children at games enliven the scene, and sailors' songs are heard.
+
+When the old clipper ship took from four to six weeks to cross the
+Atlantic, a weekly paper was printed. On some of the swift liners of
+to-day on the fourth day out a paper is issued, when perhaps the steamer
+is "rolling in the Roaring Forties." The sheet is a four-page affair,
+about six inches wide and nine inches long. It gives a description of the
+ship signed by the Captain; the daily runs of the ship follow, the
+distance still to go is stated, and the probable time it will take to
+make port; under "General Information" you learn about seasickness, what
+you have not already experienced, the necessity of exercise aboard ship,
+also much about the handling of luggage in Europe; some of the prose and
+poetry is sure to be good, and is contributed by skilled writers among
+the passengers. A column of "Queries" and a few brief stories and jokes
+brighten the sheet. The price is fifteen cents, and every copy of "The
+Ocean Breeze" is highly prized. On the whole, people at sea enjoy most
+the enforced rest, for they escape newspapers, telegrams, creditors, and
+the tax-gatherer.
+
+At 11 o'clock on the deck, every pleasant day, a large, well-dressed man,
+attended by his valet, generously opened a barrel of fresh oysters for
+the passengers. This benevolent gentleman proved to be a famous Saratoga
+gambler. In this way he made many acquaintances and friends, and each day
+he increased his winnings at cards and in bets on the vessel's run, till
+finally, not he, but the guileless passengers paid for the oysters.
+
+Gambling was the business of the man who advertised by his oysters; with
+the actor, who romped with the pretty child, gambling was a passion. So
+intense was this passion with the actor that he would attempt to match
+silver dollars or gold sovereigns with everybody he met when ashore;
+between acts on the stage he would telegraph his bet to distant cities.
+Crossing parks or walking down Broadway his palm concealed a coin, ready
+for the first possible chance. He would match his coat or his home or
+even his bank account. On ship he matched sovereigns only.
+
+Occasionally the "Majestic" passed in sight of some other ship, or
+"tramp-steamer," and by signal exchanged names and location. Rarely do
+the great passenger steamers meet on the Atlantic, as the course outward
+is quite to the north to avoid collisions. Half-awake, half-asleep, the
+days on shipboard go by as in a dream, and you gladly welcome back
+restored health. Perhaps a sweet or strong face wins your interest
+or heart, as the case may be, and life-long friendships are formed.
+Confidence thus bestowed often begets the same in others, and you are
+thankful for the ocean voyage.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+LIFE AT SEA A KALEIDOSCOPE
+
+
+In a shady retreat on the ship after lunch sat the Harrises, Leo, the
+judge, and Dr. Argyle, the latter reading a French novel. Leo had just
+finished a new novel entitled "A Broken Promise," Alfonso had read
+three hundred pages in one of Dickens's novels that tells so vividly how
+the poor of London exist.
+
+Dr. Argyle said, "Judge, what do you think of novels anyway?"
+
+The matter-of-fact judge gruffly replied, "I never read the modern novel
+because I don't care to waste my time."
+
+Whereupon Alfonso said, "Give me the novel of an idealist that has a
+purpose. Colonel Ingersol spoke the truth in a recent lecture when he
+said that a realist can be no more than an imitator or a copyist. His
+philosophy makes the wax that receives and retains an image of an artist.
+Realism degrades and impoverishes. The real sustains the same relation to
+ideal that a stone does to a statue, or that paint does to a painting."
+
+"No," replied Leo, "a novel proper should be a love story spiced with
+the beauties of nature and exciting adventures. A novel with a purpose,
+Alfonso, should advertise under another name for it is a cheat. It is
+often written with a deliberate attempt to beguile a person into reading
+a story which the writer deliberately planned to be simply the medium of
+conveying useful or useless information. Possibly a social panacea, or
+the theme may include any subject from separating gold from the ocean,
+to proving the validity of the latest theory on electricity."
+
+"Leo, you go too far," said Mrs. Harris, "the modern novel that appears
+in press and magazine, and later in book form, entering all our homes,
+should teach high morality and contain only proper scenes and passages."
+
+"But, mother," said Lucille, "you would thus debar many of the world's
+masterpieces in literature. It seems to me that the morality of character
+and scene has little to do with the artistic value of the book. The
+realist must depict life as it is. 'Art, for art's sake,' is what
+commends a novel to artistic minds."
+
+"The modern novel is too much like modern architecture," said the judge,
+"a combination of classical and subsequent styles thrown together to
+satisfy groups of individuals rather than to conform to well accepted
+rules or ideas of art. Modern novels and modern architecture are sure
+to give way to nobler thoughts that shall practically harmonize the
+useful and the beautiful."
+
+Dr. Argyle, having asked for opinions on the modern novel, obtained them.
+He was an earnest listener as he had wished more knowledge of the Harris
+family, which would enable him the better to lay plans; he hoped to win
+Lucille's favor.
+
+It was now a quarter to six o'clock and many passengers, including the
+Harris group, moved to the port side of the ship to observe if the sun,
+at the expiration of twelve hours, would again touch the water. This
+twenty-first day of the month had been one of Lowell's rare June days.
+It had been ushered in by beautiful cloud coloring.
+
+The ocean was now free from mist, the blue clouds overhead darkened the
+sea to the horizon, and it looked as if the sun would set behind clouds.
+Unexpectedly, however, the clouds near the water separated, and the sun
+again appeared in all his glory, sending a weird light out over the
+water, gilding the "Majestic," flooding the faces of the passengers with
+an unnatural light, and bringing into strong relief a sailing craft
+hovering on the starboard horizon.
+
+"Perfectly beautiful," exclaimed several ladies. "There," said the
+purser, as four bells rang out and the gong for dinner sounded, "the sun
+is kissing the waves." Before any one could answer, the gorgeous sun was
+slowly sinking into the blue waters of the Northern Atlantic. Passengers
+held their watches and in three minutes the sun had said farewell.
+
+The dinner was much enjoyed. After an evening of charming moonlight,
+midnight found all, save those on duty, asleep in the "Majestic," which
+was speeding rapidly towards the safe granite docks at Liverpool.
+
+Moonlight at sea is so bewitching, the wonder is that pleasure-seekers
+ever consent to land except when denied the companionship of the silver
+goddess of night. Whether she races with the clouds, silver tips the
+waves, or with her borrowed light floods the world with fairy-like
+beauty, it is only that her admirers may exchange sorrow for joy and
+conflict for peace.
+
+The sixth day out, the sun illumined a clear sky, and those that loved
+the sea were early on deck for exercise and fresh air. These early risers
+were well repaid, as the steamer was passing through a great school of
+porpoises that sometimes venture long distances from the British Islands.
+Alfonso ran to rap at Lucille's door and she hurried on deck to enjoy the
+sight. Hundreds of acres of the ocean were alive with porpoises or sea
+hogs as sailors often call them.
+
+Porpoises average five feet in length and are the size of a small boy
+and quite as playful. These animals are smooth, and black or gray in
+color, except the under side which is pure white. They are gregarious
+and very sociable in their habits. Porpoises race and play with each
+other and dart out of the sea, performing almost as many antics as the
+circus clown. They feed on mackerel and herring, devouring large
+quantities. Years ago the porpoise was a common and esteemed article of
+food in Great Britain and France, but now the skin and blubber only have
+a commercial value. The skins of a very large species are used for
+leather or boot-thongs.
+
+The early risers were standing on the prow of the steamer where the
+cutwater sent constantly into the air a nodding plume of white spray.
+Suddenly the watch shouted, "Whale ahead, sir!" Officers and sailors
+were astir. Just ahead, and lying in the pathway of the steamer lay a
+whale, fifty feet in length, seemingly asleep, for he was motionless. The
+officer's first thought was that he would slack speed, but presence of
+mind prompted him to order full speed, planning no doubt, if the whale
+was obstinate, to cut him in halves.
+
+Lucille and others, fearful of consequences, turned and ran, but the
+leviathan suddenly dropped down out of sight, his broad tail splashing
+salt water into the faces of the young people who were bold enough to
+await events. With a sense of relief, Leo exclaimed, "Narrow escape,
+that!"
+
+"Narrow escape for whom?" Alfonso inquired.
+
+"For both the steamer and the whale," replied Lucille.
+
+On the way to breakfast, Lucille asked an officer if similar instances
+frequently happened.
+
+"Rarely," he replied, but added, "very likely we may see other whales in
+this vicinity." Sure enough, after breakfast, children ran up and down
+the deck shouting, "Whales! Whales!" and several were seen a mile or two
+north of the ship's course, where they sported and spouted water.
+
+About four o'clock, the temperature having fallen several degrees, the
+passengers sighted to the northeast a huge iceberg in the shape of an
+arch, bearing down on the steamer's course, and had it been night,
+possibly freighted with all the horrors of a ship-wreck. As it was,
+Captain Morgan deemed it wise to lessen the speed as the ship approached
+the iceberg.
+
+"This is wonderful, Leo," said Mrs. Harris; "can you tell us where and
+when icebergs are formed?"
+
+"Oh yes, Mrs. Harris, icebergs that float down the Atlantic are born on
+the west coast of Greenland. Up there great valleys are filled with snow
+and ice from hill-top to hill-top, reaching back up the valleys, in some
+instances from thirty to forty miles. This valley-ice is called a 'Mer
+de Glace,' and has a motion down the valley, like any river, but of
+three feet more or less only per day. If time enough is allowed, vast
+quantities of this valley-ice move into the gulf or sea. When the sea
+is disturbed by a storm the ice wall or precipice is broken off, and
+enormous masses, often a hundred times larger than a big building, fall
+and float away with the report of the firing of a park of artillery, and
+these floating mountains of ice are lighted in their lonely pathways by
+the midnight sun."
+
+Before dinner, came the regular promenade which presented many contrasts.
+A pretty bride from the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky walked with her
+young husband whom she had first met at a New England seaside. She was
+glad to aid in bridging the chasm between north and south. Her traveling
+dress of blue was appropriately trimmed with gray.
+
+The gorgeously dressed gambler walked on the deck alone. Then came two
+modest nuns dressed in gray and white. Alfonso and his mother, the judge
+and Lucille, and a group of little children followed. Dr. Argyle and a
+Philadelphia heiress kept step. Everybody walked, talked, and laughed,
+and the passengers had little need of the ship's doctor now. If the
+weather is fair the decks are always enlivened as a steamer approaches
+land. The next day, by noon at latest, Ireland and Fastnet Rock would
+be sighted, if the ship's reckoning had been correct.
+
+After dinner, Dr. Argyle was walking the deck with Lucille in the
+star-light. He had told her much of his family, of his talented brother
+in the Church, and of another in the army; he had even ventured
+to speak of Lucille's grace of manner, and she feared what might follow.
+The call of Mrs. Harris relieved Lucille of an unpleasant situation.
+
+Secretly, Lucille was pleased to escape from Dr. Argyle. Something in his
+manner told her that he was not sincere; that he was a schemer, perhaps a
+fortune-seeker, and she gladly rejoined her mother.
+
+Mrs. Harris and her children often wondered how matters were progressing
+at home. Alfonso had faith in his father's ability to cope with the
+strike, but Mrs. Harris and Lucille were much worried. "Don't let us
+trouble," said Alfonso, "till we reach Queenstown, as there we shall
+surely get a cablegram from father."
+
+Just then Leo joined the family, and Lucille taking his arm, the two
+walked the deck, and later they found quiet seats in the moonlight. The
+moon's welcome rays revealed fleece-like clouds overhead and changed the
+waters astern into acres of diamonds. Gentle breezes fanned the cheeks
+of two troubled lovers who thus far had kept well their heart secrets.
+Lucille's warm and sensitive nature yearned for some confidant in whom
+she could find consolation. Mrs. Harris never quite understood her
+daughter. Lucille was noble, generous, and true in her affection. Her
+ideal of marriage was that the busy shuttle of life must be of Divine
+guidance, and often she was at a loss to understand some of the deep
+mysteries that had clouded her own life. Of this world's blessings her
+life had been full, except she could not reconcile some of her late
+experiences. Of this, of course, Leo knew nothing. He too had had a cup
+of bliss dashed suddenly to the ground. A moment of anger had destroyed
+his plans for life. The moon's soft light changed Leo's purpose never to
+speak to Lucille of his affection for Rosie Ricci, and he now frankly
+told her the whole story.
+
+At first Lucille did not wish to believe that Leo had ever been in love,
+as her own heart had turned to him in the silent hours of the night when
+the pain in her heart forbade sleep.
+
+Trembling she said, "Leo, you have given Rosie up forever then?"
+
+"Oh no, Miss Harris, it was Rosie who said to me, 'Good-bye, Leo,
+forever.' She accepted my attentions for a year. Alas! Rosie's love for
+the rich man's gold I fear was more powerful than her love for me, a poor
+artist, and so she threw back the ruby ring and my mother's cameo, and
+crushed my heart and hopes. In accepting the kind invitation of your
+brother to accompany your family on this trip, I hoped that the journey
+might heal my suffering soul."
+
+"I am delighted," said Lucille, her voice and hand still trembling a
+little, "that your own vow was not broken."
+
+Leo's olive complexion was softened in the moon's rays, his face was
+saddened by the recital of his deep affliction, and his dark eyes were
+lowered, as he looked out upon the troubled pathway of the steamer. For
+a moment Lucille earnestly gazed at Leo who seemed to her to be handsome
+and noble, but he appeared lost as in a dream. Every man is thought to be
+noble by the woman who loves him. Then she took both his hands in hers in
+pity and said, "Leo, be brave as your ancestors were brave. You will be a
+success in the world because you have remaining your intense love for
+art."
+
+"Yes, Lucille, and I think I shall marry art only."
+
+"Don't be rash, Leo, we frail human beings know little in advance as to
+heaven's plans."
+
+Few forces work truer in nature than the principle that like begets like.
+Leo confided in Lucille, and now Lucille confided in Leo; she slowly told
+in low voice the story of her own great disappointment.
+
+"I too, once had an ideal lover. Our souls were one; the day of wedding
+even had been fixed; orders for an expensive trousseau had been sent to
+Paris; the details of the marriage had been arranged, a long journey
+abroad planned, and the city for our future home was selected. These
+things had become part of my dreams, and the joy of anticipation was
+filling my cup to the brim.
+
+"One evening, in the moonlight, such as now smiles upon us, I asked
+Bernard if he would read a short note which I had just received, and tell
+me if its contents were true. Bernard removed the letter from the
+envelope, looked at the signature, and reading turned pale. The note was
+from a lady who asked if I was aware that he had offered himself to
+another.
+
+"A second time I pressed the question to know if the contents were true,
+and he answered, 'Yes', and added that it was not his fault that he did
+not marry the lady.
+
+"'Then you love her still, Bernard?'
+
+"'Yes, Lucille, but I love you also.'
+
+"In anger and disappointed love I left him. Of course all plans for the
+marriage were cancelled at once. 'First love or none,' was then written
+on my heart, where it still remains."
+
+Lucille wept while Leo sat surprised. He knew not what to say, for her
+heart-story and heart edict, "First love or none," had opened his own
+wounds afresh, and had shut the door to Lucille's heart perhaps forever.
+
+"Come, Lucille," a call of Mrs. Harris, aroused the courage of Leo, and
+he said to Lucille, who with a flushed face looked more beautiful than
+ever, "At least we should be friends." "Yes," she murmured, and Mrs.
+Harris and her daughter retired.
+
+The night before, the second officer had told Lucille that land would
+probably be seen early next day on the port-side. All the morning, Mrs.
+Harris was awaiting anxiously more news about the great strike at
+Harrisville.
+
+"Land, on the port-side, sir!" shouted the forward lookout, just as four
+bells struck the hour of ten o'clock. The officer on duty, pacing the
+bridge, raised his glass and in a moment he answered, "Ay! Ay! The
+Skelligs."
+
+"What do they mean?" inquired Mrs. Harris of a sailor passing. "The
+officer has sighted land, madam. Don't you see the specks of blue low
+down on the horizon to the northeast? That's the Skelligs, three rocky
+islets off the southwest coast of Ireland, near where I was born, and
+where my wife Katy, and the babies live. That's where my dear old mother
+also keeps watch for her Patsie."
+
+"Is your name Patsie?" Alfonso asked.
+
+"Yes, sir, Patsie Fitzgerald, and I'm proud of my name, my family, the
+Emerald Isle, and the fine steamer that's taking us safely home, and may
+God bless all you fine people, and keep my wife and babies and my dear
+old mother!"
+
+"Thank you!" said Alfonso, "here, Patsie, is a little money for the
+babies," and the sailor tipped his hat and bowed his thanks.
+
+The signal officer on Brea Head, Valentia Island, was soon exchanging
+signals with the "Majestic," and five minutes later the sighting of the
+"Majestic" was cabled to the Lloyds of Liverpool and London and back to
+New York, via Valentia Bay, and it was known that evening in Harrisville
+that the Harris family were safely nearing Queenstown.
+
+Travelers experience delightful feelings as the old world is approached
+for the first time. All that has been read or told, and half believed, is
+now felt to be true, and you are delighted that you are so soon to see
+for yourself the "Mother Islands," and Europe which have peopled the
+western world with sons and daughters.
+
+With the precision of the New York and Jersey City ferries the ocean
+steamers enter the harbors of the old and new world. On the southwestern
+coast of Ireland is Bantry Bay, memorable in history as having been twice
+entered by the French navy for the purpose of invading Ireland. In sight
+is Valentia, the British terminus of the first Atlantic cable to North
+America, also the terminus of the cables laid in 1858, 1865, and 1866,
+and of others since laid. The distance is 1635 miles from Valentia Bay
+to St. John, Newfoundland.
+
+From the deck of the steamer, Ireland seems old and worn. Her rocky capes
+and mountainous headlands reach far into the ever encroaching Atlantic
+like the bony fingers of a giant. Fastnet Rock lighthouse on the right,
+telling the mariner of half-sunken rocks, and Cape Clear on the left,
+soon drop behind.
+
+Approaching Queenstown, the green forests and fields and little white
+homes of fishermen and farmers are visible along the receding shore.
+Roach's Point, four miles from Queenstown is reached, where the mails are
+landed and received, if the weather is bad, but Captain Morgan decided
+to steam into Queenstown Harbor, one of the finest bays in the world,
+being a sheltered basin of ten square miles, and the entrance strongly
+fortified. Within the harbor are several islands occupied by barracks,
+ordnance and convict depots, and powder magazines. This deep and
+capacious harbor can float the navies of the world. In beauty it compares
+favorably with the Bay of Naples.
+
+Cove, or Queenstown, as Cove is called, since the visit of Queen Victoria
+in 1849, has a population of less than ten thousand. It is situated on
+the terraced and sheltered south side of Great Island. Here for his
+health came Rev. Charles Wolfe, author of "Not a drum was heard, not a
+funeral note."
+
+In the amphitheatre-shaped town on parallel streets rise tiers of white
+stone houses, relieved by spire and tower. On neighboring highest hills
+are old castles, forts, and a tall white lighthouse.
+
+One or more of Her Majesty's armored warships may always be seen within
+the bay. The "Majestic" dropped anchor in the quiet harbor, and the
+company's lighter came along side with passengers for Liverpool, and to
+take ashore the Queenstown passengers, and the mails which, checked out,
+numbered over 1600 sacks. The transatlantic mail is put aboard the
+express and hurried to Dublin, thence from Kingston to Holyhead, via a
+swift packet across St. George's Channel, and to its destination, thus
+saving valuable hours in its delivery throughout Europe.
+
+Several small boats appeared bringing natives who offered for sale fruit,
+Irish laces, and canes made of black bog oak, with the shamrock carved on
+the handles. Mrs. Harris was much pleased to renew her acquaintance with
+the scenes of her girlhood, having sailed from Queenstown for Boston when
+she was only ten years old.
+
+The baggage was left on the steamer to go forward to Liverpool, and
+Alfonso led the way aboard the lighter, and from the dock to the Queen's
+Hotel. Each carried a small satchel, with change of clothing, till the
+trunks should be overtaken.
+
+At the hotel Alfonso found the longed-for cablegram from his father which
+read as follows:--
+
+  Harrisville,--
+
+  _Mrs. Reuben Harris,
+  Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland._
+
+  Employees still out. Mills guarded. Will hire new men. Searles visits
+  Australia. All well. Enjoy yourselves. Love.
+
+  Reuben Harris.
+
+"It's too bad that father and Gertrude couldn't be with us," said Mrs.
+Harris.
+
+The lunch ashore of Irish chops, new vegetables, and fruit was a decided
+improvement on the food of the last few days. The Harrises after a stormy
+sea voyage were delighted again to put foot on mother earth, to enjoy the
+green terraces, ivy-clad walls, cottages, and churches, and also to see
+the shamrock, a tiny clover, which St. Patrick held up before the Irish
+people to prove the Holy Trinity. Lucille found the pretty yellow furz,
+the flower which Linnæus, the famous Swedish botanist, kissed.
+
+Alfonso suggested that they take the part rail and part river route
+of a dozen miles to Cork, the third city of Ireland. En route are seen
+beautiful villas, green park-like fields, rich woods, and a terrace
+that adorns the steep banks of the River Lee. A ruined castle at
+Monkstown is pointed out, which a thrifty woman built, paying the workman
+in goods, on which she cleared enough to pay for the castle, except an
+odd groat, hence the saying, "The castle cost only a groat."
+
+A delightful day was spent at Cork, an ancient city, which pagans and
+Danes once occupied, and which both Cromwell and Marlborough captured.
+Here Rev. Thomas Lee, by his preaching, inclined William Penn, "Father of
+Pennsylvania," to become a Quaker. Here was born Sheridan Knowles, the
+dramatist, and other famous writers.
+
+After visiting the lakes of Killarney and Dublin, the Harris family took
+a hasty trip through England.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+COLONEL HARRIS RETURNS TO HARRISVILLE
+
+
+The strong will of Reuben Harris was to meet its match, in fact its
+defeat. His plans for a well rounded life were nearing a climax when the
+telegram from his manager Wilson changed all his plans, and standing on
+the pier, as his family steamed away, he experienced the horrors of a
+terrible nightmare.
+
+Mechanically he shook his white handkerchief, saw his family carried
+far out to sea as if to another world, and he longed for some yawning
+earthquake to engulf him. He stood transfixed to the dock; the
+perspiration of excitement, now checked, was chilling him when Gertrude
+caught his arm and said, "Father, what is the matter?"
+
+Colonel Harris's strong frame trembled like a ship that had struck a
+hidden rock, and then he rallied as if from a stupor, and taking Mr.
+Searles's arm was helped to a carriage.
+
+He said, "You must pardon me, Mr. Searles, if for a moment I seemed
+unmanned. It is a terrible ordeal to be thus suddenly separated from my
+family."
+
+"Yes, Colonel Harris, I had a similar experience recently on the docks
+in Liverpool when my family bade me adieu, and I came alone to America.
+Separation for a time even from those we love is trying."
+
+The heroic in Colonel Harris soon enabled him to plan well for the
+afternoon. He telegraphed Mr. Wilson of his decision to return, and then
+said, "We will leave New York at 6 o'clock this evening for Harrisville.
+Mr. Searles, we will try to use the afternoon for your pleasure. Driver,
+please take us to the Windsor Hotel, via the Produce Exchange." The
+colonel having left the Waldorf did not wish, under the circumstances,
+again to enter his name on its register.
+
+The ride down West Street, New York, at midday, is anything but
+enjoyable, as few thoroughfares are more crowded with every kind of
+vehicle conveying merchandise from ship to warehouse, and from warehouse
+to ship and cars. However, the ride impressed Searles with the immensity
+of the trade of the metropolis. West Street leads to Battery Park, the
+Produce, and Stock Exchanges, which Colonel Harris desired Mr. Searles
+and his daughter Gertrude to see in the busy part of the day.
+
+Colonel Harris explained that here in Battery Park terminated the
+Metropolitan Elevated Railway. A railway in the air with steam-engines
+and coaches crowded with people interested Mr. Searles greatly.
+
+"In London," he said, "we are hurried about under ground, in foul air,
+and darkness often."
+
+"Here at Battery Park, Mr. Searles, November 25, 1783, Sir Guy Carleton's
+British army embarked. Our New Yorkers still celebrate the date as
+Evacuation Day. Near by at an earlier date Hendrick Christianson, agent
+of a Dutch fur trading company, built four small houses and a redoubt,
+the foundation of America's metropolis. In 1626 Peter Minuit, first
+governor of the New Netherlands, bought for twenty-six dollars all
+Manhattan Island."
+
+Mr. Searles visited the tall Washington Building which occupies the
+ground where formerly stood the headquarters of Lords Cornwallis and
+Howe. He told Gertrude that he had read that, in July, 1776, the people
+came in vast crowds to Battery Park to celebrate the Declaration of
+Independence, and that they knocked over the equestrian statue of George
+III., which was melted into bullets to be used against the British.
+
+"Yes," replied Colonel Harris, "in early days, Americans doubtless lacked
+appreciation of art, but we always gave our cousins across-sea a warm
+reception."
+
+"Colonel Harris," said Mr. Searles, "it has always puzzled me to
+understand why you should have built near Boston the Bunker Hill
+Monument."
+
+"Mr. Searles, because we Americans whipped the British."
+
+"Oh no, Colonel, that fight was a British victory."
+
+"Father," said Gertrude, "Mr. Searles is right; the British troops, under
+General Gage, drove the American forces off both Breed's Hill and Bunker
+Hill. The obelisk of Quincy granite was erected at Charlestown, I think,
+to commemorate the stout resistance which the raw provincial militia made
+against regular British soldiers, confirming the Americans in the belief
+that their liberty could be won."
+
+Mr. Searles thanked Miss Harris for her timely aid and added that a
+patriot is a rebel who succeeds, and a rebel is a patriot who fails. He
+observed also the witty sign over the entrance of a dealer in American
+flags, "Colors warranted not to run."
+
+The party drove to the Produce Exchange, one of the most impressive
+buildings in New York. It is of rich Italian Renaissance architecture.
+Beneath the projecting galley-prows in the main hall, the fierce
+bargaining of excited members reminded Mr. Searles of a pitched battle
+without cavalry or artillery.
+
+Gertrude was anxious to climb the richly decorated campanile that rises
+two hundred and twenty-five feet, which commands an unrivalled bird's-eye
+view of lower New York, the bay, Brooklyn, Long Island, and the mountains
+of New Jersey. All hoped to catch a glimpse of the "Majestic," but she
+was down the Narrows and out of sight.
+
+Mr. Searles desired to see Trinity Church, so he was driven up Broadway
+to the head of Wall Street. Its spire is graceful and two hundred and
+eighty-four feet high. The land on which it stands was granted in 1697
+by the English government. There were also other magnificent endowments.
+Trinity Parish, or Corporation, is the richest single church organization
+in the United States, enjoying revenues of over five hundred thousand
+dollars a year. In Revolutionary times the royalist clergy persisted in
+reading prayers for the king of England till their voices were drowned
+by the drum and fife of patriots marching up the center aisle.
+
+It was now past two o'clock and the Harris party was driven to the Hotel
+Windsor for lunch. Promptly at six o'clock the conductor of the fast
+Western Express shouted, "All aboard," and Colonel Harris, Gertrude, and
+Mr. Searles in their own private car, left busy New York for Harrisville.
+
+The Express creeps slowly along the steel way, under cross-streets,
+through arched tunnels, and over the Harlem River till the Hudson is
+reached, and then this world-famed river is followed 142 miles to
+Albany, the capital of the Empire State. This tide-water ride on the
+American Rhine is unsurpassed. The Express is whirled through tunnels,
+over bridges, past the magnificent summer houses of the magnates of the
+metropolis that adorn the high bluffs, past wooded hill and winding dale,
+grand mountains, and sparkling rivulets. Every object teems with historic
+memories. This ride, in June, is surpassed only when the forests are in a
+blaze of autumnal splendor.
+
+For twenty miles in sight are the battlemented cliffs of the Palisades.
+Mr. Searles was familiar with the facile pen of Washington Irving, and
+from the car caught sight of "Sunny Side" covered with nourishing vines,
+grown from slips, which Irving secured from Sir Walter Scott at
+Abbottsford.
+
+Passing Tarrytown Colonel Harris said, "Here Major Andre was captured,
+and the treachery of Benedict Arnold exposed, otherwise, we might to-day
+have been paying tribute to the crown of Great Britain."
+
+"Yes," replied Mr. Searles, "George Washington, patriot, hung Major
+Andre, the spy. You made Washington president, and we gave Andre a
+monument in Westminster Abbey."
+
+Sing Sing and Peekskill were left behind, and the Express was approaching
+the picturesque Highlands, a source of never failing delight to tourists.
+West Point, the site of the famous United States Military Academy, is on
+the left bank of the Hudson in the very bosom of the Highlands.
+
+The sun set in royal splendor behind the Catskills;
+
+  "And lo! the Catskills print the distant sky,
+  And o'er their airy tops the faint clouds driven
+  So softly blending that the cheated eye
+  Forgets or which is earth, or which is heaven."
+
+"Mr. Searles," said Colonel Harris, "before leaving America you must
+climb the Catskills. Thousands every summer, escaping from the heat and
+worry of life, visit those wind-swept 'hills of the sky.' There they find
+rest and happiness in great forests, shady nooks, lovely walks, and fine
+drives.
+
+"There are several hotels in the vicinity. From one hotel on an
+overhanging cliff you behold stretched out before you a hundred miles of
+the matchless panorama of the Hudson. The Highlands lie to the south, the
+Berkshire Hills and Green Mountains to the east, and the Adirondacks to
+the north. The latter is a paradise for disciples of Nimrod and of Izaak
+Walton, and a blessed sanitarium for Americans, most of whom under skies
+less gray than yours do their daily work with little if any reserve
+vitality."
+
+Gertrude, who had excused herself some minutes before, now returned. She
+had been visiting in an adjoining Pullman a friend of hers, whom she had
+met for a moment in the Grand Central Station before the train started.
+Calling Colonel Harris aside, she said, "Father, Mrs. Nellie Eastlake, my
+classmate at Smith College, is going with friends to the Pacific Coast;
+shall I ask her to dine with us?"
+
+"Certainly, child, invite her, and I am sure, Mr. Searles, that you
+concur in my daughter's plan to increase our party at dinner, do you
+not?"
+
+"Most assuredly, Colonel."
+
+A little later charming Mrs. Eastlake followed Gertrude into the
+"Alfonso," and soon dinner was announced. The steward, thoughtlessly, had
+forgotten in New York to purchase flowers for the table, but they were
+not missed.
+
+There are women in this world whose presence is so enjoyable that they
+rival the charm of both art and flowers. Their voices, their grace of
+manner, their interest in you and your welfare, laden the air with an
+indescribable something that exhilarates. Their presence is like the
+sunshine that warms and perfumes a conservatory; you inhale the odors of
+roses, pinks, and climbing jessamines. Such a woman was Nellie Eastlake.
+She was tall and winning. The marble heart of the Venus of Milo would
+have warmed in her presence. Shakespeare would have said of her eyes,
+"They do mislead the morn."
+
+Mrs. Eastlake was in sympathy with the Harrises in their keen
+disappointments. She possessed the tact to put Mr. Searles in the
+happiest frame of mind, so that he half forgot his mission to America.
+The Colonel also forgot, for the hour, that his family were absent, and
+that his workmen in Harrisville were on a strike.
+
+Mrs. Eastlake in her girlhood had converted all who knew her into ardent
+friends. While at school on the Hudson, she met the rich father of a
+schoolmate. Later she was invited to travel with this friend and her
+father, Mr. Eastlake, a widower, among the Thousand Islands and down the
+St. Lawrence River. She so charmed the millionaire that after graduation
+at Smith College she accepted and married him. She was now journeying to
+her palatial home on the Pacific Coast. She skilfully helped to guide the
+table-talk, avoiding unwelcome topics. The dinner over, a half-hour was
+spent with music and magazines, and the party retired for the night.
+
+Breakfast was served as the Express approached Lake Erie. It was agreed
+that Mr. Searles should accompany Mrs. Eastlake and Gertrude in the car
+"Alfonso," and spend a day or two at Niagara Falls.
+
+Colonel Harris kissed Gertrude, said good-bye to all, and taking a seat
+in a Pullman, continued alone on his journey to Harrisville. Returning
+home he hoped, if possible, to set matters right at the steel mills
+before Mr. Searles arrived.
+
+Left to himself, he now had opportunity for reflection. The time was,
+when he was as proud of his ability to do an honest day's work at the
+forge as he was to-day proud of his great wealth and growing power in the
+manufacturing world. Then he was poor, but he was conscious of forces
+hidden within which if used on the right things and at the right time and
+place he believed would make him a man of influence.
+
+He was able then with his own hands to fashion a bolt, a nail, or
+horseshoe, unsurpassed in the county. He was handy in shaping and
+tempering tools of every kind. When he ate his cold dinner, reheating his
+coffee over the forge coals, he often thought of the dormant fires within
+him, and he wondered if they would ever be fanned to a white heat. For
+years he had toiled hard to pay the rent of his forge and home and his
+monthly bills. His wife was saving and helpful in a thousand ways, but
+life was a hard struggle from sun to sun.
+
+One summer's day when work was slack, there came to his shop a tall
+Englishman to get a small job done. So well was the work performed by
+Harris that the Englishman, whose name was James Ingram, said to Harris,
+"I believe you are the mechanic I have long been looking for. In early
+life I was apprenticed in England to a famous iron-master, and when the
+Bessemer patents for converting iron into steel were issued, it was my
+good fortune to be a foreman where the first experiments were made by
+Henry Bessemer himself, and so I came to have a practical knowledge of
+Bessemer's valuable invention; but my health failed, and for six months
+I have been in your country in search of it, and now being well again,
+I plan to start if possible a Bessemer steel plant in America. Can you
+help me?"
+
+Reuben Harris was quick to see that great profits might be realized from
+Bessemer's patents and Ingram's ideas, and promptly said, "Yes, but I
+must first know more about these patents and their workings." Before a
+week had passed, he had learned much from Ingram concerning the practical
+working of the Bessemer process of converting iron into steel. Bessemer
+claimed that his steel rails would last much longer than the common iron
+rail then in use.
+
+Reuben Harris easily comprehended that the profits would be large. It was
+verbally agreed between Harris and Ingram that they would share equally
+any and all profits realized. Ingram had contributed reliable knowledge,
+Harris was to enlist capital, and both were to make use of all their
+talents, for they were both skilled mechanics.
+
+It was not an easy matter for Harris to secure capital, for capital is
+often lynx-eyed, and usually it is very conservative. It was especially
+cautious of investment in Harris's schemes, as the practical workings of
+the Bessemer process were not yet fully understood in America.
+
+The profits promised by both Harris and Ingram to capitalists were great,
+and this possibly made capital suspicious. Finally enough ready money was
+obtained to make a successful experiment, which so convinced a few rich
+men that more money was immediately advanced, and the steel plant was
+soon furnishing most satisfactory steel rails at greatly reduced cost for
+both the manufacturer and consumer.
+
+Harris's ability to manage kept pace with the rapid growth of the new
+enterprise, while Ingram's knowledge and inventive talents proved that as
+superintendent of the steel plant he was the right man in the right
+place.
+
+At first Harris found great difficulty in convincing railway managers
+that the steel rail would render enough more service to compensate for
+the additional cost. The most anybody could say in favor of the steel
+rail was largely theoretical. The Bessemer steel rail had had only a few
+months of actual service, long enough, however, to demonstrate that at
+the joints it would not batter and splinter like the iron rail. This was,
+indeed, a desideratum and many orders came in. Not only was the steel
+mill kept running day and night, but orders accumulated so rapidly that
+large additions were made to the mills.
+
+Money for all these improvements and the capital necessary to carry on
+the increasing business were matters of vital importance to the success
+of the company. To manage a business with greatest advantage quite as
+much ready cash is needed as is invested in the plant, otherwise the
+banker's discount becomes a heavy lien on the profits, and the
+stockholders grumble at small dividends.
+
+Possibly Reuben Harris overestimated the value of his service in
+financiering the business; at least he came to believe that he earned,
+and ought to have a larger interest than James Ingram. Ingram, became
+so cramped by assessments and money obligations that he was obliged to
+sell to Harris most of his interest in the steel plant. Harris's
+interests increased, till practically he was the owner of the Harrisville
+Iron & Steel Works, and much property besides. He was quoted as a
+millionaire, while James Ingram was superintendent of only a department
+of the steel works, and his income was nominal. Often he felt that great
+injustice had been done him. Several times he had talked the matter over
+with Colonel Harris, but with little satisfaction.
+
+The great wrong done to James Ingram, to whom Harris was so largely
+indebted for the initial and practical knowledge of successfully
+manufacturing steel rails was uppermost in Reuben Harris's mind as
+the express hurried him back to Harrisville.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+CAPITAL AND LABOR IN CONFERENCE
+
+
+Colonel Harris's awakened conscience was considering seriously the
+question, "How can I right this wrong done to Ingram?" when the Express
+stopped at a station thirty miles out of Harrisville, and into his car
+came the son of James Ingram, George Ingram who was now superintendent of
+the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co.'s plant. Somebody, perhaps Gertrude, had
+telegraphed from Buffalo to the superintendent to tell him on which train
+Colonel Harris expected to return.
+
+George Ingram was visibly affected as he took the proffered hand of
+Reuben Harris, and inquired about his health and the whereabouts and
+welfare of his family. Harris implored young Ingram to tell him all about
+the strike, its latest phases, and what the municipal authorities were
+doing for the protection of his property. George Ingram gave him a brief
+history of the troubles up to the time of his leaving Harrisville. He
+told how the manager aided by the company's general counsel, Mr. Webster,
+had used every possible argument with the workingmen's committee; that a
+statement even had been submitted, showing that very small or practically
+no profits had resulted from recent contracts, which were now being
+completed by the company. The effort to arrive at a satisfactory
+adjustment with the employees was thus far absolutely fruitless. Since
+daylight the four thousand men had been parading the streets with music
+and clubs, forcing employees of other establishments to quit work, and
+threatening to destroy the steel plant.
+
+The color in Colonel Harris's face came and went as he listened, showing
+a white heat of indignation. Ingram sat facing his employer, watching the
+emotions of a strong man, and not then daring to offer any suggestion,
+for he felt strongly in behalf of the employees, who always looked upon
+him as their friend.
+
+Colonel Harris was a man of powerful build, wide forehead, overhanging
+brows, broad chest and shoulders, short thick neck, and strong arms
+developed at the anvil. His superintendent from boyhood had studied him,
+but never before had he seen the lion in his employer so aroused.
+
+Arriving at Harrisville the wealthy iron-master, accompanied by his
+superintendent, stepped into his own private carriage, and immediately
+drove to the general offices of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. The
+directors of the company were in special session to devise means of
+protecting their threatened property and of crushing the strike.
+
+B.C. Wilson, the manager, rose to greet Colonel Harris, who shook hands
+with him and the directors, and then the meeting was resumed, Harris
+acting as chairman of the board. Colonel Harris soon grasped the
+situation, and he approved of all that his directors and manager had
+done.
+
+Rising to his feet, in a firm tone, he made a vigorous talk to his board:
+"Gentlemen, my views as to the best method of dealing with the important
+question before us are known to some of you. Four years ago a similar
+trouble perplexed our company, and our failure then to act decisively
+resulted in prolonging the discontent among our employees. Their purposes
+are as apparent to-day as then, viz., to rule or ruin our gigantic
+enterprise. Capital and labor should be the best of friends.
+Unfortunately, trusts and labor organizations are alike avaricious and
+selfish.
+
+"Centuries ago, in Belgium, weavers dictated terms to capital, and hurled
+rich men from balconies to death upon spears below. This unnatural
+revolution lasted for a short time only; brains and wealth again acquired
+control, and they always will control. To yield to our employees the
+privilege of fixing their own wages, and a voice in directing the affairs
+of our company is to cloud or mortgage our capital. This is a most
+unreasonable demand. Why should they expect us to share with them our
+property, title to which the United States has guaranteed?
+
+"If our state, or national government cannot or will not defend us in the
+title to our property, on which they yearly levy taxes, then we will
+place our interests beneath a flag that can and will give ample
+protection. This terrible uncertainty as to titles and values in the
+United States will yet wreck the republic."
+
+It was natural that the directors should heartily approve Colonel
+Harris's utterances, as he was the owner of five-sixths of the stock of
+the company. He then asked Mr. Webster their general counsel, to read
+to the board the position which the company proposed to take before the
+public.
+
+Mr. Webster was a tall, elderly man, who had served five years on the
+supreme bench of his state, an attorney of few words, but well versed in
+the laws of his country, especially in corporation laws. Holding a sheet
+of paper in his hands he read, "The Harrisville Iron & Steel Company
+claims the fundamental right to manage its own business in its own way,
+in accordance with and under the protection of the laws of the land."
+
+The board voted its approval of the attorney's position, and also voted
+that a petition be drawn and immediately sent to the mayor of the city
+asking protection for their property. The board then adjourned.
+
+Colonel Harris, his manager, and Mr. Webster entered a carriage, and
+drove rapidly to the mayor's office, while superintendent George Ingram
+drove back to the steel works to execute his orders, though he did not
+believe in harsh measures. Harris presented the petition to the mayor,
+who hastily examined it. Bands of music were now audible on the street,
+and a long procession of workingmen, bearing national banners, was seen
+marching towards the city hall. Citizens on the streets held their
+breath, and policemen feared the outcome.
+
+Colonel Harris rose to go, but the Mayor seized his arm and said,
+"No! you and your friends must stay here and meet a committee of your
+employees who have an appointment with me at three o'clock.
+
+"Already I have said to the same committee, who called at ten o'clock
+this morning, that I should expect them to influence your employees to
+keep the peace, to aid in protecting your property, to disperse quietly
+and remain in their homes. Colonel Harris, please be seated, you and your
+friends must remain."
+
+"Well, Mr. Mayor, since you insist, we will remain, but our company
+demands the protection of all our property, and the preservation of peace
+and lives in our midst. You are the city's executive officer. The payment
+annually by our corporation of thousands in taxes, calls for an
+equivalent, therefore we ask that you maintain the dignity of the city
+and her laws."
+
+The mayor stepped to the telephone and called Major Strong, the chief of
+police. "Send at once a captain and twenty-five policemen in patrol
+wagons to the city hall. Hold fifty more men in readiness."
+
+A great throng of people occupied the sidewalks and the windows of
+adjoining buildings. Thousands of workmen crowded the pavement from curb
+to curb. The vast crowd below, though impressive was not new to Colonel
+Harris nor did it alarm him.
+
+Four years before, his employees were out on a strike for several months.
+Then the issue was, "Will the company recognize the demands of the
+Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of America?" The reply
+of the company was, "No!" The struggle then was severe, but the strike
+failed. The present issue was, "Will the company pay an increase of
+wages?"
+
+The committee of five of the employees soon entered the mayor's office.
+They were much surprised to find that Colonel Harris had returned to the
+city; it was believed that he had actually set sail for Europe. The
+committee unfortunately was a radical one, and did not represent the
+average thoughtful and conservative type of workingmen. Evidently the
+committee had been selected for the purpose of intimidating capital, as
+their manner did not indicate a conciliatory policy.
+
+Mr. Burns, acting as spokesman, said, "Mr. Mayor, it is 3 o'clock, and we
+are back again promptly, as you requested, and you see that our committee
+is increased by several thousand workingmen on the street below who have
+come to demand bread of a soulless corporation. Mayor Duty, what do you
+advise us to do?"
+
+The Mayor was nervous as he replied, "Mr. Burns and members of the
+committee, I confess that so many thousands of honest and upturned faces
+of workingmen move my heart. If I were able it would give me pleasure
+first to ask you all to partake of a good meal, for more satisfactory
+business is usually accomplished after people are well fed. You ask my
+advice. Here, gentlemen of the committee, is Colonel Harris, your
+employer, let him speak to you."
+
+Memories of a wife and three babies at home, dependent for bread upon his
+own earnings at the forge, flashing upon the mind of Colonel Harris,
+sweetened his spirit and softened his voice, so that he spoke briefly and
+kindly to the committee, repeating, however, what his manager had told
+the committee at ten o'clock, viz., "that the present bad condition of
+the steel market would not permit the company to grant the advance of
+wages they asked."
+
+The committee, aware of the large profits of former years, sullenly
+retired, and after the company's decision had been communicated to the
+anxious thousands below, the employees of the Harrisville Iron & Steel
+Co. slowly returned to their homes. The mayor ordered his chief of
+police to dispatch immediately in patrol wagons fifty men to the steel
+works, to guard the property and keep the peace.
+
+After the committee retired, the mayor said, "Well, Colonel Harris, what
+will be the outcome?"
+
+"Mr. Mayor, we cannot foretell anything. You never know what workingmen
+in their lodges will do. There, as a rule, the 'Walking delegate' and a
+few agitators rule with despotic power. If a workman, whose large family
+forces him to take conservative views, dares in his lodge to suggest
+peaceful measures, an agitator rises at once in indignation and demands
+that traitors to the cause of labor be expelled. This throttles freedom
+of action in many labor unions, so that often what appears on the surface
+to be the unanimous action of the members of workingmen's leagues, is but
+the exercise of despotic power by a few men who have nothing to lose, and
+whose salary is paid from the slim purses of honest labor.
+
+"Usually those who talk much and loudly think little and unwisely, and
+the opposite to their advice is safest to follow. The greatest need
+to-day in most of our labor organizations is wise leadership, and this
+will result when the best element in the labor lodges asserts itself.
+
+"The despotism of ill-advised labor is to be dreaded by civilization more
+than the reign of intelligent capital. This is especially true in the
+United States, where under wise laws, wealth cannot be entailed, and
+where most large fortunes soon disappear among the heirs.
+
+"A simple pair of shears illustrates perfectly the relationship that
+capital and labor should sustain each to the other. Capital is one blade
+of the shears, and labor is the other blade; either blade without the
+other is useless, and the two blades are useless unless the rivet is in
+place. Confidence is to capital and labor what the rivet is to the two
+blades. The desideratum to-day in the business world is full and abiding
+confidence between capital and labor." Thus speaking Colonel Harris and
+his friends left the mayor and returned to their homes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+After a visit to Niagara Falls, Mr. Searles and his party went on to
+Harrisville, where Mrs. Eastlake rejoined some friends and continued her
+long journey to the Pacific Coast. Colonel Harris met his daughter and
+Mr. Hugh Searles at the station, the latter, under the circumstances,
+being the last person he cared to see. The carriage was driven at once to
+Reuben Harris's beautiful home that overlooked Harrisville and blue Lake
+Erie.
+
+After dinner Colonel Harris explained to Mr. Searles all about the
+inopportune strike; also that it was impossible to say when the steel
+plant would be started again. Mr. Searles decided next morning that after
+a short ride through Harrisville he would continue his journey through
+the States to California, and possibly to Australia, where he had another
+important interest to attend to in behalf of a London client.
+
+It was further arranged that he would return to London via Harrisville in
+about six months, if so desired by Colonel Harris, otherwise he would
+complete the journey around the world, returning to England by way of the
+Suez Canal.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
+
+
+The Ingrams lived not far from the steel mills in one of two wooden
+houses, each two stories in height, which Reuben Harris and James Ingram
+had built for their families, when they began in a modest way to
+manufacture steel. As Reuben Harris grew rich he moved his family into
+a beautiful home in the fashionable part of the city, and good society
+accepted them as their equals.
+
+The large family and small income of James Ingram forced him to continue
+his residence in the same brown house near the steel mills. The Ingram
+family kept much to their English ways and knew little or nothing of
+society. The English and Germans cling tenaciously to their old habits
+and customs which they carry across seas and over mountains. Generations
+must elapse before it will be safe to predict what the national type of
+an American citizen will be. One discovers on the British Isles the
+mixture of centuries of European blood which has developed a virility of
+body and brain that dominates the globe. "More honor to be a British
+subject to-day than to have been a Roman in Rome's palmiest days," thought
+James Ingram, who was proud of his race and his family blood.
+
+James Ingram came from a well-bred English household. His environment now
+hedged him in. In England ill-health, and now, in America, ill-treatment
+made him miss golden opportunities. Except good qualities are inbred, it
+is almost as impossible for a person in one stratum of society to be
+lifted up into another as it is for the geological strata of the earth to
+change positions.
+
+The grandmother of James Ingram had good blood in her veins; she came
+from a family that had performed valiant deeds in war and in peace. James
+Ingram's father had erred in judgment, and a large estate, partially
+inherited, had been swept away as by a flood. He died, leaving James the
+eldest son to aid in supporting his mother and several children.
+
+James Ingram was now over fifty years of age. Could he, or his children,
+retrieve their family prestige was a question he often asked himself. He
+still had energy, unconquerable determination, and faith in himself.
+These are some of the essential elements in a successful character; but
+the fates thus far had decreed adversely. His early education was not of
+the best, but by carefully devoting not less than two hours a day to good
+reading, he had not only kept pace with current history, but had also
+acquired a helpful knowledge of the sciences.
+
+When his oldest son George was born, he planned to give his children the
+best education possible. Two of his three daughters were teaching in the
+public schools; May Ingram taught music. Two of his sons worked in the
+mills, one as chemist and one as an electrician; a third son was
+conductor on a passenger train, and a fourth was studying to be a
+physician.
+
+The father and his son, George, after the day's work at the mills
+was over, spent much time over a problem which, if solved, would
+revolutionize many things. Twice they thought they were on the eve of a
+solution of the subject, but unforeseen obstacles were encountered, and
+still they struggled on.
+
+It is no wonder that the father was proud of George, now chemist of the
+vast steel works, for he was manly and respected by all the employees.
+When a boy, George worked nights, Saturdays, and during his vacations in
+the mills, and the men came to know and love his genial ways and fair
+methods, and thus he gained a good knowledge of steel-making.
+
+His father was urgent that his son should not miss a single day in his
+schooling. At length he graduated at the high school with the esteem of
+his teachers and his class. During the twelve years spent in public
+schools he had acquired a fine discipline of mind, a love of the
+sciences, and enough of Latin and Greek to aid him in determining the
+derivation and exact meaning of words. Co-education too had refined his
+nature, and enabled him to estimate correctly his own abilities, but best
+of all he had come to know at the high school the second daughter of
+Reuben Harris, Gertrude, who graduated in his own class. During the
+senior year he had frequently walked and talked with her, and came to
+know somewhat of her plans.
+
+Gertrude's parents, especially Mrs. Harris, were anxious that both their
+daughters should go to private schools, and Lucille was easily persuaded
+to attend a young ladies' seminary, where æsthetic accomplishments were
+emphasized and considered essentials and a passport into good society.
+But Gertrude decided in favor of a public school education.
+
+Lucille and Gertrude as sisters were fond of each other, but Lucille
+lived more for self, while Gertrude preferred others to self. Gertrude
+had learned early how by a smile or bow to retain an old friend or to
+win a new one. She spent very little time thinking about her own needs,
+preferring to take flowers or fruit, even when given her, to some sick or
+aged person. Nothing pleased her more than to visit the Old Ladies' Home
+with a few gifts and read the Bible or comforting stories to the inmates.
+
+Mrs. Harris when east chanced to spend a June day at Wellesley College
+near Boston. By early moonlight several hundred Wellesley girls and
+thousands of spectators had assembled on the banks of Lake Waban to enjoy
+the "Float." Gaily uniformed crews in their college flotilla formed
+a star-shaped group near the shore for their annual concert. Chinese
+lanterns, like giant fire-flies, swung in the trees and on many graceful
+boats. The silver notes of the bugle and the chant of youthful voices
+changed the college-world into a fairyland.
+
+Both mother and daughter were charmed and Lucille gladly decided to enter
+Wellesley. Hard study, however, and the daily forty-five minutes of
+domestic work then required, did not agree with her nature, and after a
+few weeks she decided upon a change, and continued her education at one
+of the private schools on the Back-Bay in Boston.
+
+Gertrude, possessing a more active mind and ambition, resolved to obtain
+an education as good as her brother Alfonso had had at Harvard. She had
+read of a prominent benefactor who believed that woman had the same right
+as man to intellectual culture and development, and who in 1861 had
+founded on the Hudson, midway between Albany and New York, an institution
+which he hoped would accomplish for women what colleges were doing for
+men.
+
+So Gertrude applied for enrollment and was admitted to Vassar College.
+Rooms were assigned her in Strong Hall. She liked Vassar's sensible way
+of hazing, a cordial reception being given to freshmen by the sophomores.
+She was glad to be under both men and women professors, for this in part
+fulfilled her idea of the education that women should receive.
+
+At Vassar were several girls from Harrisville whom Gertrude knew, but no
+boys. She wrote her mother that she would be better pleased if Vassar had
+less Greek and more boys. She could not understand why co-education at
+the high school in Harrisville, that worked perfectly, should stop at the
+threshold of Vassar, or other women's and men's colleges.
+
+The two following years on the beautiful Hudson were happy years for
+Gertrude. She conquered mathematics, stood well in Latin, and was
+enthusiastic in the study of psychology, the science of mind, which
+teaches the intimate relation of mental phenomena to the physical
+organism. German was an elective study with Gertrude, which she had
+studied at the high school, but at Vassar she learned to write and talk
+the language with accuracy and freedom, which is not usual, unless one
+lives in a German family.
+
+Gertrude was already planning to study history and some of the sciences
+in original German text-books, if occasion offered. She cared little
+for music, though she was extremely fond of poetry and now and then
+contributed verses for publication. Her essay on architecture at the
+close of the second year elicited applause from the students and praise
+in red ink across the first page of the composition.
+
+Self-government of the Vassar girls develops self-respect and
+self-control. A Vassar girl is bound on her honor to retire every night
+at ten o'clock, with three exceptions a month, to exercise in the
+gymnasium three hours a week, and to take at least one hour of outdoor
+exercise daily. Regular exercise, regular meals, nine hours of sleep, and
+plenty of mental work were rapidly preparing Gertrude to fill some noble
+position in the world.
+
+At Vassar other sources of mental rest and physical strength are,
+tennis-court tournaments, basket ball, rowing and skating on the lake,
+bicycling, or five-mile tramps, studying birds, photographing scenery, or
+gathering wild flowers. The Vassar girl is also enthusiastic over the
+"Tree and Trig Ceremonies" and amateur dramatic entertainments.
+
+Gertrude closed her second and last year at Vassar with regret. The
+farewell "fudge" party was for Gertrude, and given in her own room by a
+score of her warm personal friends. The rule for "fudge-making" is, two
+cups of sugar, milk, two rolls of butter melted with chocolate in a
+copper kettle over a gas stove. The fused compound is poured into paper
+plates and cut into tiny squares. So eager is the Vassar girl for "fudge"
+that the struggle is earnest for the first taste, and for the cleaning of
+the big spoon and kettle. The Vassar girl has a sweet tooth, and "fudge"
+parties always evolve love stories and fun in abundance.
+
+After a pleasant vacation in the Adirondacks with friends, Gertrude
+resolved to complete her education at Smith College on the lovely
+Connecticut River, which winds through western Massachusetts. To educate
+a whole family of boys and girls at the "dear old alma mater" is now an
+exploded fancy. A better plan is to educate the half dozen brothers and
+sisters at a half dozen good colleges. What faculty of educators can lay
+claim to all the best methods of evolving characters?
+
+The industry and economy of James Ingram had enabled him to send his son
+George for two years to the Polytechnic Institute at Troy. Suddenly
+financial troubles made it impossible for him longer to assist his son.
+Mrs. Harris, very likely by Gertrude's suggestion, offered to provide
+funds for the third and last year at the institute, and George was
+delighted to complete his course.
+
+By invitation, George had spent the last days of his vacation with
+Gertrude in the Adirondacks, and he had accompanied Mrs. Harris and her
+daughters back to Albany, while the mother continued the journey leaving
+Gertrude at Smith College, Northampton, and Lucille at Boston. Mrs.
+Harris was justly proud of her girls. Their figure and dress often caused
+people to stop in their conversation or reading, as mother and daughters
+entered a car or a hotel.
+
+George Ingram returned to the institute with high hopes. A few of his
+plans were revealed to Gertrude on the last night of his vacation. He
+told her some things he never dared mention before to any one. They were
+on Saranac Lake and the moon seemed to change the water to silver. Their
+birch canoe drifted along the shore and George, dropping his oars,
+reversed his seat and faced the girl he loved as he told her much of his
+plan for life. Gertrude dipped her oars lightly in the water, George
+guiding the canoe beneath the forest overhanging the pebbly shore.
+
+Thus far his education had been a struggle. Time which his mates employed
+in recreation he had used in the steel mill. Thus he gained a trade and a
+knowledge of the value of time. Early he had learned that knowledge is
+power and that intellect and wealth rule the world. He told Gertrude that
+she had kindled within him the spark of ambition, and that he proposed to
+make life a success. "Gertrude, you must be my friend in this struggle,"
+he added.
+
+"Yes, George, always your friend," she replied.
+
+He felt that Gertrude meant all she said. Long ago her sincerity had
+captured his heart. Her sympathy, her unselfishness, and her words of
+helpfulness had been the light by which he was shaping his course.
+
+Another school year went by swiftly, and both Lucille and Gertrude were
+present in June at Troy to see George Ingram graduate. It was a pity that
+his own father and mother, who had sacrificed so much for him, could not
+attend. How often his noble mother had prayed for her first-born son, and
+Gertrude had prayed too, but George did not know this.
+
+At times he was conscious of a strong force within, impelling him
+forward, whose source he could not divine, neither could he free himself
+from it. Fortunate person whose sails are filled with breezes from
+heaven, for craft of this kind go forward guided rightly, almost without
+the rudder's aid!
+
+George pursued at the institute a three years' course, leading up to the
+degree of Bachelor of Science. After the first two years he took less
+higher mathematics and more natural history, chemistry, and geology. The
+institute is within easy access of engineering works and manufacturing
+plants of great diversity, which afforded young Ingram opportunities for
+valuable investigation and observation. His graduating thesis was
+entitled, "A Design for an Electrical Steel Plant with Working Details,
+Capacity One Thousand Tons per Diem." It was much complimented,
+especially the detail drawings for the plant.
+
+His books and clothes had been packed and shipped to Harrisville.
+Reluctant good-byes were given to all the professors, class-mates, and
+many townspeople, who were fond of him. Life in Troy had been a constant
+inspiration, for he was in touch with young men from cultivated families
+which in itself is an education. George had the usual experience of the
+student world, for to him all the professors were very learned men.
+
+After George had locked the door of his old study-room to go to the
+train, he stopped in the hallway in serious thought, then turning back
+he unlocked the door and again entered the dear old rooms. He reseated
+himself at the desk, where he had so often studied far into the night.
+He took another look into the bedroom, into the little store-room, and
+pleasant memories crowded his mind, as for the last time he gazed from
+the window towards the Berkshire Hills, beyond which Gertrude was
+being educated, and then as he finally re-locked the door, he recalled
+his afternoon engagement to meet Gertrude and Lucille at 4:30 o'clock at
+the Albany station to take the Boston & Chicago Special for Harrisville.
+
+George had entered the institute with a light heart and much zest,
+because three years of progressive work were marked out for him. His
+mental journey had now ended and his heart was heavy. No road opened
+before him except the one that led back to the dingy old Harrisville
+mills. In the last three years his sky had lifted a little, but the
+intelligence gained only made him all the more conscious of the small
+world in which he and his family lived. How was he ever to earn a living
+for two, if Gertrude should possibly say "yes?"
+
+Just as he put his foot on the platform of the railway station a letter
+was placed in his hand by a fellow classmate. The envelope bore the
+printed address of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. George, thinking the
+letter was from his father, instantly tore it open and began reading. At
+first his face flushed and then it was lit with joy.
+
+"Good tidings, I hope," said Gertrude, as she with her sister approached.
+
+"Yes, Gertrude, read for yourself. A friend at court is a friend indeed."
+
+The two sisters were delighted and heartily congratulated George. "Of
+course, you will accept the position?" inquired Gertrude.
+
+"Your father, Gertrude, is very kind to me, and I believe I could fill
+satisfactorily the position of chemist now offered by the steel company.
+Later, Gertrude, we can talk this matter over." Three happy young people
+bought tickets for home and took seats in a Pullman car.
+
+After a week's rest, George Ingram assumed the duties of assistant
+chemist for the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. Two weeks' initiation by the
+old chemist, whose health was failing, sufficed to give young Ingram
+efficiency and confidence in his desirable position.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+IN TOUCH WITH NATURE
+
+
+The school vacation of the Harris young ladies came and went on wings.
+The mother was too ill to leave her home; she stood in her door-way, and
+gave her farewell, "God keep and bless you, children!" The father had
+gone to Chicago, so George Ingram saw the daughters off touching
+Gertrude's hand, with a hearty good-bye as she stood in the car door.
+
+As George returned slowly to his task at the steel mills, he resolved to
+use his evenings in post-graduate work. The more he studied iron ores and
+steel-making, the more he felt that he must conquer the whole intricate
+subject, if he would be of greatest service to his employers. The intense
+competition in the trade demanded it.
+
+The Empire State Express, the fastest train in the world, carried
+Gertrude and Lucille through New York state with speed and ease to
+delightful New England. Secretly Gertrude loved George, and she
+resolved to study chemistry and electricity and keep pace with his
+studies, and if ever asked to become his wife, to aid him in every
+possible way. She thought that she discovered in him the material for
+a noble man, a statue which she hoped to chisel. Too often marriageable
+young women and their anxious mothers demand the complete statue at the
+outset, and are not content to accept and chisel granite.
+
+At Smith College the months sped rapidly, as earnest study and bright
+expectations occupied Gertrude's time and satisfied her heart. Every week
+brought a letter and a reply was promptly sent. George wanted to write
+twice a week, but Gertrude checked him, saying that both needed their
+time, and that too frequent correspondence, like too much intimacy, often
+brings disfavor.
+
+"More details of the doings at the steel mills," wrote Gertrude. She
+cared more about the welfare of her father's employees and their families
+and George Ingram's plans than to know the latest fad in society. George
+was equally anxious to keep her informed, and to learn of her
+intellectual advancement, what books she read, and her views on the
+leading topics of the day.
+
+Her first letter began, "My Coatless Friend," a reference to the loss of
+a linen coat or duster, when the last ride at Harrisville was taken. The
+second letter began "Friend George," and the third, "My dear Friend."
+Gertrude and George never addressed each other twice alike in their
+whole correspondence. The weekly letters were always torn open by each in
+haste, and both noticed a gradual increase of warmth in these addresses.
+The fact that Gertrude was an heiress neither hindered nor helped his
+devotion. His heart was attracted by her many charms.
+
+At Smith College Gertrude occupied rooms in the Morris Cottage among the
+apple tree blossoms. Much of her spare time was spent in the scientific
+library and laboratory of Lilly Hall, or with the professor and his
+telescope in the observatory.
+
+On clear nights, aided by the telescope, Gertrude gazed into the
+immensity of space, whispering sometimes to her own soul, "How grand this
+vast world-making, this frightful velocity of the giant dynamos in their
+elliptical pathways through space!"
+
+Often unable to sleep, she continued her thoughts and wondered if space
+were not interlaced with electrical currents that move the earth, the
+sister planets, and the myriads of suns and their planets. She thought
+she saw, as never before, the necessity for an eternal existence of the
+mind, if God is to be studied and known in his infinite variety.
+
+Four years in college had developed Gertrude into a beautiful character.
+Regular work in the gymnasium, much outdoor exercise, and care as to
+ventilation in her rooms, especially at night, had kept her in perfect
+physical health. Her intimates shared her glow of vitality, for her
+presence at "Lawn, or Character Teas," at tennis-courts, or at
+basket-ball always brought sunshine and enthusiasm.
+
+The Saturday before commencement, her mother and Lucille came to enjoy
+the charming festivities of Smith College. A representation of Racine's
+"Athalie," with Mendelssohn's music, was the evening attraction at the
+Academy of Music, which the class had rented for the occasion.
+
+Groups of ushers, with white satin wands, conducted students in tasteful
+dresses, and invited guests to their seats. When the curtain rose it was
+difficult to decide which one most admired, the stage with its artistic
+setting, its young faces, sweet voices, and graceful movements, or the
+sympathetic audience of students and their friends. The stage and press
+of the future guided in part by college-bred men and women will preach,
+it is hoped, purity, truth, and the beautiful.
+
+Mrs. Harris and Lucille were very happy that Gertrude was to graduate,
+and Lucille who had just finished her education in Boston, half regretted
+that she too had not entered a woman's college. Gertrude never looked
+more beautiful than she did in the white-robed procession, as, on
+Baccalaureate Sunday, the several classes passed down the aisles of the
+church.
+
+George Ingram had hurried to Northampton to see Gertrude graduate. She
+met him at the station, and took his hand warmly in both of hers. George
+had brought from New York a box of white roses for her room, and a big
+bunch of the star-flower, the pretty English blue forget-me-not. He also
+had in his valise a tiny case of which he made no mention to anybody.
+
+Hundreds of young women in white walked across the campus and were massed
+on the college steps for their Ivy Exercise. Never before was George so
+proud of Gertrude. She and Nellie Nelson, afterwards Mrs. Eastlake, had
+been chosen by the class for their beauty and sweet ways to head the
+procession of the white-gowned graduates. The evening of Class-day is a
+fitting close of the gay festivities at Smith College.
+
+At the evening reception, George was introduced to many of Gertrude's
+class-mates, and some of her intimate friends whispered, "Mr. Ingram and
+Gertrude must be engaged! What a handsome pair they will make." George
+offered his arm to Gertrude, and they walked about the campus under the
+classical trees that glowed with hundreds of colored paper lanterns;
+everywhere a throng of pretty happy girls with their relatives and
+friends. Music by the glee clubs on the college steps, and refreshments,
+closed pleasantly Gertrude's last night of college life on the beautiful
+Connecticut.
+
+She went to bed tired, but very happy. That evening her mother and sister
+had left for New York, and in the morning she and George were to spend
+the day at Mt. Holyoke. Twice in the night, Gertrude awoke, looked at her
+watch, and longed for daylight, and then went back to dream of flowers
+and music.
+
+While she slept, warm southern breezes spread a coverlet of silver gray
+mist over the homes of energy and thrift up and down the Connecticut
+Valley. In the morning when Gertrude opened the blinds, and saw the fog
+against the window panes and over the valley, she exclaimed, "It is too
+bad, I so wanted George to drive to Mt. Holyoke to-day, and see nature at
+her best! I hoped this would be the happiest day of my life."
+
+It was a quarter to 8 o'clock when a pair of spirited black roadsters,
+hitched to a buckboard, were driven in front of the hotel for George
+Ingram. As he appeared on the porch he looked every inch a gentleman.
+He was twenty-five years old, had received a practical education, and was
+filling acceptably the important position of assistant chemist of the
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., to which, six months before, he had been
+promoted. He had fine physique, dark hair and eyes, and a military
+bearing that made him the natural commander of men. His firmness,
+tempered with great kindness of heart, always won for him the respect
+of both men and women.
+
+He handled the team with skill for he was a member of the driving club at
+home. At a college window sat Gertrude who was eagerly watching for him,
+and now she ran down the gravel walk with a sunny face, greeting her
+manly lover with such sweet voice and grace, that a college girl in
+passing whispered to her companion. "Look, Bessie, there are true and
+handsome lovers such as we read about in novels, but seldom meet."
+
+Gertrude insisted, since the fog was lifting, that George should hitch
+his horses and for five minutes go with her up on the college tower. As
+they looked out, Gertrude said, "Here, George, on the west are our half
+dozen cozy college houses; on the smooth green lawn below you see our
+tennis-courts, and an abundance of shade.
+
+"Now, George, turn to the east and see how kindly the sun has removed the
+mist and made for us a glorious day. How bright the colors in our flag
+that floats over the high school yonder! There stands the Soldiers'
+Memorial Hall, the Edwards Church with graceful spire, and across the
+green meadows, with its winding stream of silver, rise the ranges of Mt.
+Tom and Mt. Holyoke, outlined in curves against the blue sky."
+
+"Beautiful!" responded George, "and yet, Gertrude, nothing in nature is
+half so lovely as your own dear self." Without warning he kissed her rosy
+cheek, her whole face changing to crimson as she said, "George, we must
+be going."
+
+Two happy young souls drove away from Smith College out under the Gothic
+elms, where the birds were mating and building their nests. The plan for
+the day was to drive to the mountain, and follow the mother and sister on
+the evening express to New York. The hotel clerk had pointed out the best
+road to Mt. Holyoke, and following his directions they drove southeast,
+leaving behind them shady Northampton, Smith College, and delightful
+memories of Jonathan Edwards, George Bancroft, and others.
+
+A single white parasol was quite enough to protect two lovers from the
+sun's rays. Circular shadows, photographs of the sun, frolicked with each
+other in the roadway as gentle breezes swayed the overhanging boughs.
+
+Milk wagons with noisy cans were returning home, herds of black and white
+Holstein-Friesian cattle, famous for their yield of milk, were cropping
+sweet grasses in the pastures. Farmers were guiding their cultivators and
+mowing machines, while wives and daughters were shelling June peas,
+hulling strawberries, and preparing for dinner. The large white houses,
+with roomy barns in the shade of big elms, were the happy homes of
+freemen. Gertrude wanted the horses to walk more, but George was
+unwilling to take the dust of wagons returning from the market, so
+he kept the horses moving at a brisk pace.
+
+At length the Hockanum Ferry with its odd device was reached. George got
+out and led the horses into the middle of the small river craft. Then the
+boat was pushed off and a strong man and boy pulled at the wire rope. The
+ferryman's shanty, the willows, and tangled driftwood on the shore, fast
+receded, and soon the middle of the Connecticut River was reached, where
+the current is swiftest. In sight were several canoes with light sails,
+scudding before the wind. It seemed as if the tiny rope of the ferry
+would break, but the rope is of steel wire and the boat moved slowly till
+the opposite bank was reached. Gertrude held the lines, the sun shining
+full in her face, and talked to the boatman, to George, and the horses,
+but George said little as he was busy quieting the excited animals and
+studying the primitive rope-ferry.
+
+To the regular ferrage, Gertrude added a dime for Tim, the helper, who
+watered the horses. As George was about to start his team, a twelve-year
+old farm boy ran aboard the boat with a string of fine speckled trout
+strung on a willow twig. All the spring the boy's anticipations for
+"a day off" had now been fully realized. Since daylight the little fellow
+had tramped up and down the brook, his feet were bruised and sore, and
+his face and hands were bitten by mosquitos. But what of that? He had
+caught a string of fine fish and was happy. Gertrude, for a silver
+dollar, bought the trout, and the boy danced with joy.
+
+It was half past eleven before the Half-way Station up the mountain was
+reached, and the steep ascent to Prospect House on the top of Mt. Holyoke
+was made by the car on the inclined railway. The morning ride and the
+thought of a dinner of brook trout on the mountain had sharpened the
+appetites of the lovers. George and Gertrude needed but a single
+announcement of dinner from the clerk to make them hasten for seats at so
+inviting a meal. They sat near an open window, and never did they enjoy a
+dinner more. College work was now over, and on the threshold of life,
+apart from the busy world in sight below, two souls could plan and
+confide in each other. As the two walked the broad porch, a panorama
+unfolded before them of almost unsurpassed beauty.
+
+Charles Sumner who, in 1847, stood on Mt. Holyoke, said, "I have never
+seen anything so unsurpassingly lovely as this." He had traveled through
+the Highlands of Scotland, up and down the Rhine, had ascended Mont
+Blanc, and stood on the Campagna in Rome. Gertrude with her college mates
+had often climbed Mt. Holyoke, and she was very familiar with this
+masterpiece of nature in western Massachusetts. So she described the
+grand landscape to her lover who sat enchanted with the scene before him.
+
+"This alluvial basin," she said, "is twenty miles in length and fifteen
+in width, and is enclosed by the Mt. Holyoke and Mt. Tom ranges, and the
+abrupt cones of Toby and Sugar Loaf, while the Green Mountains lie to the
+north, whence the rich soils have been brought by thousands of vernal
+floods. Grove-like masses of elms mark well the townships of Northampton,
+Easthampton, Southampton and Westhampton, Hatfield, Williamsburg and
+Whately, Hadley, Amherst, Leverett and Sunderland.
+
+"In twelve miles, the Connecticut River turns four times to the east and
+three times to the west, forming the famous 'Ox-Bow.'
+
+"This beautiful river receives its life from springs in adjacent forests
+and mountains, and, forcing a passage between Mt. Holyoke and Mt.
+Nonotuck, flows far south into Long Island Sound. Its banks are fringed
+with a tanglewood of willows, shrubs, trees, and clambering vines.
+Bordering on the Connecticut River and near thrifty towns are thousands
+of acres of rich meadows and arable lands, without fence, which are
+interspersed with lofty trees and orchards and covered with exquisite
+verdure.
+
+"These countless farms seen from this mountain top resemble garden plots,
+distinguishable from each other by vegetation varying in tints from the
+dark green of the maize to the brilliant gold of barley, rye, and oats.
+Over the billowy grain, cloud shadows chase each other as if in play.
+Grazing herds are on every hillside and in all the valleys."
+
+Gertrude's words were music to George's ear. Her voice and the
+magnificent landscape charmed him. When released from the spell he said,
+"Yes, dear, you have this day hung a never-to-be-forgotten picture in my
+memory. I shall always remember the arching elms, white gables, college
+towers, and spires pointing heavenward that mark the towns in this
+historic and lovely intervale. I seem to hear far off sounds of busy
+people, thrifty mills, and successful railways. These reveal the secret
+of New England's power at home and abroad. The greatness of this people
+springs from their respect for, and practice of, the virtues so long
+taught in their schools and churches; viz., honesty, industry, economy,
+love of liberty, and belief in God. Here can be found inspirations for
+poet, painter, and sculptor."
+
+How glorious the picture as the two young lovers looked out upon the
+world of promise! It was well thus, for much too soon in life, humanity
+experiences the same old story of unsatisfied ambitions and weary
+struggles after the unattainable.
+
+Thus a happy summer afternoon was enjoyed till the sun hid his face
+behind the western hills. Clouds floated low on the horizon, revealing
+behind the gold and purple to ambitious souls the indistinct outlines
+of a gorgeous temple of fame; and birds of rich plumage among the
+mountain foliage were lulled to sleep by their own sweet songs.
+
+"Life without Gertrude," thought George, "would prove a failure." Then
+taking her white hand in his, he whispered, "I love you, dearest, with
+all my heart, and you must be my wife."
+
+"George," she replied, "in a thousand ways you have shown it. I have
+known your heart ever since we studied together at the high school. My
+own life has been ennobled by contact with yours." Her voice and hand
+trembled as she added, "Yes, George, my life and happiness I gladly
+place in your sacred keeping, and I promise purity and loyalty for
+eternity."
+
+Then George opened the little case which he had brought from New York,
+and gave Gertrude a ring containing two diamonds and a ruby, which
+surprised and delighted her. She placed it on her first finger, saying,
+"George, we will advance this crystal pledge to the third finger just
+as soon as we get the consent of father and mother."
+
+Gertrude had found on a former trip some purple crystals on the
+mountainside, and had had two unique emblems of their love made in New
+York City. George pinned upon Gertrude a gold star set with a purple
+amethyst, a tiny cross and a guard chain being attached, and she gave
+George a gold cross set with an amethyst, the guard pin being a tiny star
+and chain. Before midnight the two happy lovers had joined the mother and
+Lucille in New York, and at the close of the week all had returned to
+Harrisville.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+THE STRIKE AT HARRISVILLE
+
+
+Labor strikes are terribly disagreeable things to encounter whether in
+the daily routine of steel mills and railways, or in the kitchen before
+breakfast on blue Monday. Especially inconvenient are strikes in steel
+mills when the order books are full as were those of the Harrisville Iron
+& Steel Co. That the company had large orders could not possibly be
+concealed. Vast quantities of ore, limestone, and coke were being
+delivered daily at the mills. Never were more men on the pay-roll, and
+all the machinery of the gigantic plant was crowded to its utmost night
+and day. That business had improved was evident to everybody.
+
+In love and war all things are fair, and the same principle, or lack of
+it, seems to control most modern strikes. No doubt what young Alfonso
+Harris told his mother on the steamer was true, that the labor agitators
+were advised of Reuben Harris's plan to sell the steel plant to an
+English syndicate. Souls of corporations decrease as the distance between
+labor and capital increases, and naturally American employees oppose
+foreign control of every kind.
+
+For more than a year the employees had accepted reduced wages with the
+understanding that the old scale should be restored by the company as
+soon as times improved and the business warranted. That the employees had
+timed their strike at an opportune moment was apparent even to stubborn
+Reuben Harris. It was galling indeed to his sensitive nature and proud
+spirit that his project of selling the steel plant for millions should
+have failed.
+
+As he kissed his wife good-bye on the steamer in New York, her last
+words were, "Reuben, stand up for your rights." Her avaricious spirit
+had always dominated him.
+
+Before Reuben Harris left his city office for his home he had arranged,
+in addition to the precaution taken by the mayor, to dispatch to the
+mills and homes of his employees twenty-five special detectives in
+citizens' clothes, who were to keep him fully advised as to the doings
+of his employees about the mills and in their public and private
+meetings. He had given his men no concessions in a previous strike which
+lasted for months. He would neither recognize their unions nor their
+demand for shorter hours.
+
+It was true he had risen to be a millionaire from the humble position of
+a blacksmith, but he was always severe in his own shop. Every horse must
+be shod, and every tire set in his own way. He heated, hammered, and
+tempered steel just as he liked, and if anybody objected he replied, "Go
+elsewhere then." To have one's own way in life is often an expensive
+luxury. In his first great mill strike Colonel Harris lost most of his
+skilled labor and the profits of half a year. His own hands and those of
+James Ingram became callous in breaking in new employees.
+
+Gertrude had arrived on the evening of the third day of the strike, and
+had busied herself in unpacking her trunk. She knew her father too well
+to talk much to him about the strike. While waiting in the drawing-room
+for her father, knowing that George was too busy to come to her, she had
+written to her lover as follows:--
+
+  At Home
+
+  _My Darling George_,--
+
+  I wish you were here safe by my side. How I hate strikes, they are so
+  like a family quarrel on the front porch. Everybody looks on in pity,
+  husband and wife calling each other names, and breaking the furniture,
+  and innocent little children fleeing to the neighbors for protection.
+  Strikes are simply horrid. Can't you stop it? Labor and capital are
+  like bears in a pit with sharpened teeth tearing each other's flesh. Of
+  what use is our so-called civilization if it permits such brutal
+  scenes? George, the lion in father is again aroused. There is no
+  telling what he will do this time.
+
+  It was cruel of the employees to stop his sale to the English
+  syndicate. Something terrible is going to happen. I feel it. I dreamed
+  about it last night before I left Niagara. You must counsel moderation.
+  I am so glad mother is not here to counsel severity. In the morning I
+  shall put my hand on father's arm, and say, "Father, I have been
+  praying for God to help you."
+
+  I read in the _Evening Dispatch_ that the employees claimed an increase
+  of their pay because promised by the company when times improved; that
+  the company now flatly refused to restore the old wages; that the mayor
+  of the city had sent fifty policemen to guard the mills, and that the
+  4000 employees in an enthusiastic public meeting had resolved to
+  continue the strike.
+
+  George, you are in a very trying position. The company of course
+  depends on your loyalty, and the employees also have great confidence
+  in your fairness. What can you do? If disloyal to the Company, you lose
+  your position. What more can I do, except to pray!
+
+  Above all, my dear, be loyal to your conscience and do right. Be just.
+  Come and see me at your earliest possible moment.
+
+  Your own loving
+
+  Gertrude.
+
+Gertrude's brave letter reached George before ten o'clock the next
+morning, and greatly cheered him. He was never more occupied, but he
+snatched a moment to say in reply:
+
+  Office of The Harrisville Iron & Steel Co.
+
+  _Dearest Peacemaker_,--
+
+  Glad for your heroic letter. It sings the peace-song of the angels.
+  I shall be guarded in my words and actions. Good things, I hope, will
+  result from all this terrible commotion. I confess I see only darkness
+  ahead, save as it is pierced by the light of your love.
+
+  We have a thousand men this morning building a fence eight feet high
+  around our works. It looks like war to the knife under the present
+  policy. Of course I can't say much till my opportunity comes, if it
+  ever does.
+
+  Believe me, darling Gertrude,
+
+  Wholly yours,
+
+  George.
+
+The note was dispatched by special messenger. Its receipt and contents
+gave comfort to Gertrude.
+
+Colonel Harris left his breakfast table almost abruptly. One egg, a piece
+of toast, and a cup of coffee were all he ate. It was an earlier meal
+than usual which the Swiss cook had prepared, and by half past six
+Colonel Harris started from home to his office, Gertrude from her chamber
+window kissing her hand to him, saying, "Keep cool, father!"
+
+By seven o'clock he and his capable manager were busily using the two
+office telephones. Before nine o'clock, all the teams of several lumber
+firms were engaged in hauling fence posts, two by four scantling, and
+sufficient sixteen foot boards to construct a fence eight feet high about
+the entire premises of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co.'s plant.
+
+This early action of the company for a time confused the strike managers,
+as they could not divine whether Colonel Harris in a fit of despair
+planned to fence in and close down his mills, or, perhaps, once getting
+his plant enclosed, purposed to eject all members of labor organizations,
+and again as in a former strike, attempt to start his plant with
+non-union labor.
+
+The leader of the strike was a brawny man with full beard, unkempt hair,
+and a face far from attractive. "Captain O'Connor," as the labor lodges
+knew him, was the recognized leader of the strike. He was not an employee
+at the steel mills, but an expert manager of strikes, receiving a good
+salary, and employed by the officers of the central union. At 2:30
+o'clock a secret meeting of the officers of the several labor lodges and
+Captain O'Connor was held behind closed doors. All were silent, when
+suddenly O'Connor rose and began to denounce capital, charging it with
+the robbery of honest labor.
+
+"Behold labor," he said, "stripped to the waist, perspiring at every pore
+in the blinding heat of molten iron, shooting out hissing sparks.
+Pleasures for you laborers are banished; your wives and children are
+dressed in cheap calicoes; no linen or good food on your tables, and most
+of you are in debt."
+
+This and more Captain O'Connor said in excited language. Finally he
+shouted, "Slaves, will you tamely submit to all this indignity and not
+resent it? The managers of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. are tyrants
+of the worst sort. They are fencing you out to-day from the only field on
+which you can gain bread for your starving wives and children.
+
+"Reuben Harris cares more for his gold than for your souls. Since you
+refuse him your labor on his own terms, he purposes by aid of the high
+fence and bayonets to forbid every one of you union men from earning an
+honest living."
+
+The strike committee decided to call a public meeting of all the
+employees of the steel works on the base-ball grounds at 7 o'clock
+the next morning. All the saloons that night were crowded, and loud
+denunciation of capital was indulged in by the strike leaders. Early the
+next morning a band of music marched up and down the streets where the
+employees resided, and by 7 o'clock nearly four thousand men had
+gathered.
+
+The chief spokesman was Captain O'Connor whose words evoked great
+cheering. He said, "Friends, we meet this morning to strike for our
+freedom. How do you like being fenced out from your work? What will your
+families do for a roof when the snows come and you have no bread for your
+children? We are assembled here not for talk, but for action. I hold in
+my hand a resolution which we must pass. Let me read it: 'Resolved, that
+we, the employees of The Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., having been driven
+out of our positions by a soulless corporation which promised a return to
+former wages when the times improved, will not re-engage our services to
+the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. till the promised restoration of wages
+is granted." This resolution was unanimously carried, with hurrahs and
+beating of the drums.
+
+"Bravo men! Here is another resolution for your action," and Captain
+O'Connor read it as follows: "American citizens! In the spirit of
+brotherly love we appeal to you citizens and taxpayers of Harrisville
+for fair play. Four years ago the employees of the Harrisville Iron &
+Steel Co. bowed before the law, and we should continue to do so had we
+not discovered that the law, the judges, and the government seem to be
+for the rich alone. But we prefer liberty to slavery, and war to
+starvation. Again we lay down our tools and seek to arouse public
+sympathy in our behalf. Again we plead the righteousness of our cause,
+and may the God of the poor help us."
+
+This resolution was carried with shouts and the throwing up of hats. The
+band began playing, and the procession headed by Captain O'Connor and his
+assistants moved forward.
+
+A third of the sober-minded of the employees soon dropped out of the
+procession, while three thousand or more, many of them foreigners, were
+only too glad to escape the everyday serfdom of a steel plant. All were
+armed with clubs and stones. When O'Connor from the hill-top looked back
+upon the mob that filled the street down into the valley and far up the
+opposite hill, his courage for a moment failed him.
+
+"What shall I do with this vast army?" he said to himself. Just then
+the employees made a rush for the company's furnaces by the riverside,
+filling the yards and approaches, shouting "Bank the fires! Down with
+capital!"
+
+The big engines were stopped and the furnaces were left to cool.
+Frightened faces of women and children filled the door-ways and windows
+of the many little brown houses on the hillside. Success emboldened the
+strikers whose numbers were now greatly augmented. Again the band played
+and the strike managers shouted, "Forward!"
+
+The route taken was along an aristocratic avenue where the wealthy
+resided. Windows and doors were suddenly closed, and the terrified
+occupants forgot their riches, their diamonds, and their fine dress,
+and thought only of safety. Vulcans of the steel works, each armed with
+a club, occupied the avenue for two miles. Evidences of hunger and
+vengeance were in their faces and sadly worn garments were on their
+backs.
+
+Prominent citizens now hurried to the mayor's office, where the chief
+executive was found in conference with some of the labor leaders. The
+mayor was told that unless he acted promptly in restoring peace and
+protecting property, a citizens' committee of safety would be organized,
+that he would be placed under arrest, and the mob driven back. At once
+the mayor sent one hundred policemen in patrol wagons in pursuit of the
+rioters. The latter had already battered down the great doors of the
+screw-works, and hundreds of employees, men, women, and children, were
+driven out of the factory. The president of the company was beaten into
+insensibility. Adjacent nail works were ordered to close and all
+employees were driven into the streets. Finally, near night, the strikers
+were subdued by platoons of police and forced to return to their homes.
+
+The mayor issued his riot act, which was printed in all the evening
+papers and read as follows:
+
+  TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRISVILLE AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
+
+  In the name of the people of the State of Ohio, I, David A. Duty, Mayor
+  of the City of Harrisville, do hereby require all persons within the
+  limits of the City to refrain from unnecessary assemblies in the
+  streets, squares, or in public places of the City during its present
+  disturbed condition, and until quiet is restored, and I hereby give
+  notice that the police have been ordered, and the militia requested to
+  disperse any unlawful assemblies. I exhort all persons to assist in the
+  observance of this request.
+
+  David A. Duty.
+
+  _Mayor._
+
+The mayor telegraphed to the governor for troops. The governor responded
+promptly, and ordered the First Brigade to be in readiness, and to report
+at 5 A.M. next morning in Harrisville, with rifles, cannon, Gatling and
+Hotchkiss guns and ammunition. Orderlies went flying through the city
+with summons that must be obeyed. The signal corps flashed their green
+and red lights from the tower to distant armories. Ambulance corps
+hastened their preparation, packing saws, knives, lint, and bandages.
+
+Imperative orders from general to colonels, to majors, to captains, to
+corporals tracked the militia men to their homes, and to their places
+of amusement. By midnight every military organization in Harrisville was
+under arms. The general with his staff was at his headquarters and ready
+for action.
+
+Before sunset Colonel Harris had his steel mills enclosed by a high
+fortress-fence; many agents were dispatched to other cities to advertise
+for, and contract with, skilled labor for his mills. On his way home, he
+called again on the mayor, also at brigade headquarters, and satisfied
+himself that his property would be protected. In forty-eight hours five
+hundred new workmen had arrived, and in squads of from twenty-five to
+fifty they were coming in on every train.
+
+Colonel Harris, experienced in strikes, knew just what to do. A great
+warehouse in the board enclosure was converted into barracks and supplied
+with beds, and kitchens, and an old army quartermaster was placed in
+charge. The new men on arrival were taken under escort of the soldiers
+to the barracks, and were rapidly set to work under loyal foremen.
+
+In a single week Colonel Harris had secured over fifteen hundred new men.
+Smoke-stacks were again pouring forth huge volumes of smoke. The renewed
+and familiar hum of machinery was audible beyond the high board fence.
+This activity in the mills was to the old employees like a red flag
+flaunted before an enraged bull. Inflammatory speeches were the order
+of the hour. It was three o'clock on the eighth day of the strike, when
+three thousand of the old employees left their halls and marched directly
+to the steel mills. Hundreds of women and children joined the long
+procession.
+
+The strike leaders in advance carried the American flag, and their band
+played the "Star Spangled Banner." Most of the men, and some of the
+women, carried clubs and stones. Radicals concealed red flags and pistols
+within their coats. Detectives reported by telephone the threatening
+attitude of the strikers to Colonel Harris at his home, to Manager Thomas
+at the mills, and to the mayor who ordered more police in patrol wagons
+to proceed immediately to the steel works. Following the police rode the
+Harrisville Troop, one hundred strong. Gertrude would not let her father
+go to the steel plant, so he sat by the telephone in his own house.
+
+Captain Crager in charge of the fifty police on guard in and around the
+steel plant at once concentrated his force at the great gateway leading
+into the fenced enclosure. His men were formed in three platoons, the
+reserve platoon being stationed fifty feet in the rear. Captain Crager
+himself took position in the center of the first line. He had time only
+for a few words to his men. "The city expects each policeman to do his
+duty. No one is to use his revolver till he sees me use mine. Stand
+shoulder to shoulder, use your clubs, and defend the gateway."
+
+Probably not one of his fifty men had ever read of the 300 Spartan heroes
+at Thermopylæ, who for three days held at bay the Persian army of five
+millions. To pit fifty policemen against three thousand enraged strikers
+was too great odds. Captain Crager's orders were "to defend the
+property of the steel company." The reserve police force and troops en
+route might or might not reach him in time. The strikers purposed driving
+out of the mills all the non-union men, and taking possession. Nearer
+came the mob, determined to rule or ruin, O'Connor in the lead holding
+the Stars and Stripes. The last fifty feet of approach to the gateway,
+the mob planned to cover by a rush. On they came swinging their clubs
+and filling the air with stones.
+
+Captain Crager and his platoons used their short iron-wood clubs
+vigorously. The strikers' flag was captured. O'Connor fell bleeding.
+Right and left, heads and limbs were broken. Women screamed and strong
+men turned pale. The whole mob was soon stampeded and the rioters fled
+like animals before a prairie fire. Those strikers who looked back saw
+the approach of more patrol wagons loaded with police, heard the clatter
+of horses' hoofs, and the heavy rumbling of artillery, and they knew that
+the city's reserve forces had arrived. A battery of Gatling guns at once
+wheeled into a strategic position. The police and troop occupied points
+of advantage, and soon the victory was complete.
+
+Within thirty days over four thousand employees, mostly new men, were at
+work in the steel mills. Policemen and detectives, however, were still
+kept on duty. Colonel Harris was frequently congratulated on his second
+triumph, and orders for steel rails were again being rapidly filled.
+
+Most of the strike leaders left the city, some threatening dire revenge.
+Many of the employees, who had lost their situations, were already
+searching for work elsewhere. All who were behind in their payments of
+rents due the company, were served with notices of evictment, as the
+tenements were needed for the new employees. Wives and children were
+crying for bread. In sixty days labor had lost by the strike over two
+hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and capital even more.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It was in August. The moon had set beyond the blue lake, and the myriad
+lights of heaven were hung out, as George and Gertrude alighted from
+their carriage in front of Colonel Harris's residence. They had been to
+the Grand Opera House, where they had witnessed Shakespeare's "Midsummer
+Night's Dream," beautifully played by Julia Marlowe and her company.
+Between the acts, George and Gertrude talked much of the strike, of labor
+troubles in general, and earnestly discussed the possible remedies.
+
+Reuben Harris, who had awaited their return, hearing the carriage drive
+up, extended a cordial welcome. His hand was on the knob of the front
+door, which stood half open, when the sky above the steel mills suddenly
+became illuminated and deafening reports of explosions followed. The
+door, held by Harris, was slammed by the concussion against the wall, the
+glass in the windows rattled on the floor, the ground trembled, Harris
+seized George's arm for support, and Gertrude's face was blanched with
+fear. Fire and smoke in great volumes were now seen rising above the
+steel plant.
+
+George ran to the telephone, but before he could shout "Exchange," a call
+came for Colonel Harris from his night superintendent, who announced that
+the engines and batteries of boilers had been blown up, and that all the
+mills were on fire. The chief of police telephoned that he had sent one
+hundred more police to the mills; the chief of the fire department
+telephoned that ten steamers had been dispatched. George dropped the
+telephone, kissed Gertrude, and on the back of her Kentucky saddle horse
+flew into the darkness to direct matters at the mills as best he could.
+
+The next morning's _Dispatch_ contained two full pages, headed,
+
+  "The Deadly Dynamite!
+
+  Frightful Loss of Life,
+          and
+  Destruction of Property
+          at
+  The Harrisville Iron & Steel Plant.
+
+  "One hundred employees were killed outright, and hundreds more were
+  wounded. All the mills were either burned or wrecked. Many women and
+  children were also injured. Five hundred tenement houses were damaged,
+  and the windows of most of the buildings within a half mile of the
+  mills were badly broken."
+
+Next morning the citizens of Harrisville were wild with excitement.
+Ringing editorials appeared in all the morning and evening journals
+declaring that "Lawlessness is anarchy," and that "Law and order must
+prevail."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII
+
+TRIAL OF ANARCHY AND RESULTS
+
+
+George Ingram had scarcely disappeared in the darkness, when Colonel
+Harris fully comprehending the terrible situation at his works telephoned
+the exchange to summon at once to his mills every physician and ambulance
+in the city.
+
+The Colonel then ordered his carriage, and taking Gertrude, rapidly
+drove to the scene of the disaster. Great crowds had gathered, but the
+policemen, and the Harrisville Troop, already had established lines about
+the burning steel mills, beyond which the people were not permitted to
+pass. The police and fire departments were doing all in their power to
+save life and property.
+
+Colonel Harris drove directly towards his office at the mills, but this
+he could not reach as policemen guarded every approach. The two story
+brick office had been completely wrecked by a huge piece of one of the
+fly-wheels, that had fallen through the roof.
+
+The night watchman whose duty it was to enter the office hourly was
+killed, and his bleeding body was now being moved to a temporary morgue,
+which had been established in an adjoining old town-hall. Already over
+fifty mangled forms had been brought in and laid in rows on the floor,
+and more dead workmen were arriving every moment.
+
+The mayor and Colonel Harris were everywhere directing what to do. Scores
+of the wounded were hurried in ambulances to a large Catholic Church, an
+improvised hospital. Here were sent physicians, volunteer nurses, beds,
+and blankets. Fortunately the seats in the church, being movable, were
+quickly carried into the streets, and on beds and blankets the suffering
+men were placed, and an examination of each wounded person was being
+made. Names and addresses were taken by the reporters, and ambulances
+began to remove the severely injured to the city hospitals.
+
+Colonel Harris left Gertrude to minister to the wounded in the church,
+and sought out Wilson his manager, and George Ingram. Everybody worked
+till daylight. Many wounded and dead men, and women and children were
+brought up to the morgue and hospitals from the wrecked tenements that
+stood near the exploded mills. Several bodies of the dead workmen, and
+the wounded who could not escape from the burning works were consumed.
+When the sun rose on that dreadful scene, thousands of workmen and their
+families and tens of thousands of sympathizers witnessed in silence the
+awful work of anarchists. At daylight Colonel Harris rode with George and
+Gertrude home to breakfast.
+
+In the evening press a call for a public meeting at 8 o'clock next
+morning of the prominent citizens resulted in the forming of an emergency
+committee of one hundred earnest men and women to furnish aid to the
+afflicted and needy work-people. The most influential people of
+Harrisville were enrolled on this committee, which to be more thoroughly
+effective was subdivided. Every house occupied by the mill-people was
+visited, and every injured person was cared for.
+
+The women on the committee visited the hospitals and for a time became
+nurses ministering to every want. Money and abundance of food were also
+contributed, and such kindness on the part of the rich the work-people
+had never known before.
+
+The evening papers gave the authoritative statement that the total
+number of those killed outright by the explosions at the steel mills was
+one hundred and twenty-seven. Of this number eighty-six were workmen,
+fourteen were men who lived in the vicinity, but were not employed in the
+mills, ten were women, and seventeen were children. The total number of
+wounded was sixty-eight.
+
+A public funeral was decided upon by the committee. The Harrisville Iron
+& Steel Co. sent their check for $5000 to the committee and many others
+contributed money. The time fixed for the public services was Sunday at 2
+o'clock. Ten separate platforms for the clergy and church choirs of the
+city had been erected on the same open fields where the great strike
+meetings had so often been held. By 1 o'clock people began to assemble.
+Workmen came from all parts of the city, till over fifty thousand
+laborers with their wives were on the ground. Most wore black crepe on
+their arm.
+
+Fifteen minutes before 2 o'clock solemn band music gave notice to the
+crowd of the approach of an imposing procession. Platoons of police led
+the column who were followed in carriages by the mayor, his cabinet, and
+the city council; then another platoon of police, followed by a long line
+of hearses, the black plumes of which seemed to wave in unison with the
+solemn tread of over a thousand workmen, acting as pall-bearers, walking
+in double file on either side of their dead comrades.
+
+It was some moments before the speaking could begin. By concerted action
+all the clergy preached on the "Brotherhood of Mankind," the text used
+being, John XV.-12. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as
+I have loved you." The speakers were moved by the Holy Spirit. The
+services closed with the hymn, "Nearer my God to Thee."
+
+The funeral procession was several miles in length. Public and private
+buildings along the route to the cemetery were draped with the emblems of
+mourning. Twenty-five of the bodies were given private burial. Over one
+hundred of the victims of the dynamite disaster were buried in one common
+grave. Together they had died, and together they were buried. The mantle
+of charity covered them.
+
+Soon after the funeral, the press contained an account of a great meeting
+held by the surviving workmen of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., and of
+resolutions that were unanimously adopted:--
+
+"Resolved, That we, the surviving workmen of the Harrisville
+Iron & Steel Co., hereby desire to express our deep sympathy with the
+bereaved families of our late comrades in toil.
+
+"That further we desire to contribute from the pay-roll due us the wages
+received for two days' services, the same to be paid to the emergency
+committee, one-half the proceeds of which is to apply to the relief of
+the bereaved workmen's families, the balance to be used for the purpose
+of erecting suitable monuments over the graves of our unfortunate
+comrades.
+
+"Resolved, That we, employees of the Harrisville Iron & Steel
+Co., extend our sympathy to the company in their great financial loss.
+
+"That we hereby declare ourselves as law-abiding citizens, and that we
+neither directly, nor indirectly, were connected in any manner with the
+late dynamite explosions and fires which destroyed the plant of The
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., and we denounce those acts as dastardly
+and inimical to the best interest of labor and civilization."
+
+Following the resolutions were appended the signatures of over four
+thousand workmen. It was also voted that the resolutions, and names
+attached, should be printed in the press of the city, and that a copy
+should be delivered to the president of the steel company. This action
+freed the atmosphere of distrust, and business in Harrisville returned
+to its accustomed ways.
+
+At a meeting of the directors of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. it
+was voted "Not to rebuild our mills at present." Manager Wilson was
+instructed at once to so advise the employees, also to dispose of all the
+manufactured stock and raw material on hand, and to clean up the grounds
+of the old mill site.
+
+Colonel Harris remembered the action of Herr Krupp of Germany when a
+letter once reached him, threatening to destroy with dynamite his vast
+works at Essing. Herr Krupp immediately called a meeting of his tens of
+thousands of workmen, and read the letter to them, and then said,
+"Workmen, if this threat is executed, I shall never rebuild." This
+settled the matter.
+
+The city council of Harrisville and the county commissioners offered
+rewards for the arrest and conviction of the dynamiters. The sum was
+increased to $10,000 by the steel company, and notices of these rewards
+were mailed far and wide.
+
+By aid of an informer of the band of conspirators, Mike O'Connor and
+his confederates were arrested as they were about to embark for South
+America. In the hotly contested trial it was disclosed that O'Connor had
+directed the placing of dynamite beneath engines and boilers before the
+high board fence was constructed about the works, that electric wires to
+ignite the dynamite had been laid underground from the mills to an old
+unused barn, nearly half a mile distant, and that O'Connor was seen to
+come from the barn just after the explosion. Within two months after the
+arrest, the whole band were convicted and sentenced for life to hard
+labor in the penitentiary.
+
+It was decided that Colonel Harris and Gertrude should soon sail to
+rejoin Mrs. Harris and party in England, and notice of this decision was
+cabled next day to them at London. The colonel was busy examining
+carefully George Ingram's detailed drawings of a new, enlarged, and
+much improved plan for a huge steel plant. The improvements were to be up
+to date, and his plans involved an entirely new process of converting
+ores into steel. It was agreed that George and his father, James Ingram,
+should perfect their inventions on which both for a long time had been
+zealously at work, and that later George and the colonel should make a
+tour of observation of leading iron and steel works in Europe.
+
+Gertrude was now very happy. The selled together, concerning the proper
+relations of capital and labor, and since the explosion they studied the
+question more earnestly than ever. Their scheme involved not only
+improved works in a new location, but also a plan to harmonize, if
+possible, capital and labor, which they hoped might work great good to
+humanity. Gertrude told George Ingram that his golden opportunity had
+come, and she resolved to render him all the assistance possible.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV
+
+COLONEL HARRIS FOLLOWS HIS FAMILY ABROAD
+
+
+Gertrude's receipt for growing oranges in a northern climate was as
+follows: Let a child hold a large and a small orange in her hands, and
+give away the large orange, and the smaller will begin to grow until,
+when eaten, it will look bigger and taste sweeter than the large fruit
+given away. "Try it!" Gertrude often said.
+
+That was the principle by which Gertrude Harris was always acting. If she
+had flowers, fruit, books, pretty gifts, or money, her first thought
+always was, "How can I make somebody happy?" With such a generous soul,
+part nature's gift and part acquired by self-sacrifice, the life of
+Gertrude was as buoyant and happy as the birds in a flower garden.
+
+The decision of Gertrude's father to take her and meet his family in
+Europe was not known in Harrisville except to a few. Most of the
+colonel's friends supposed that he was busy planning some new business
+adventure, in which he might employ his surplus capital and his undoubted
+business abilities. Because of the recent calamity, and the hardships of
+the employees in connection with their strike, he thought it unwise to
+make public mention of his future projects.
+
+The more Gertrude meditated upon her father's plan, the more dissatisfied
+with herself she became. The idea of going to Europe and leaving George
+behind was unendurable. He needed rest more than she. True, he was to
+follow later, but she wanted him to cross the ocean on the same steamer,
+and she earnestly desired that the one she loved best should share all of
+her enjoyments. It was, perhaps, a test of her love that she constantly
+longed to lose herself in him, or better, possibly, to find herself in
+him.
+
+Two days before the date fixed for their sailing, as George left the
+Harris home, Gertrude was urging him to accompany her and her father,
+when he ventured to say, "Gertrude, this is what would please me
+immensely, take my sister May with you. I will gladly pay her expenses.
+And when your summer's travel is over, I want May to study music abroad."
+
+"Capital!" said Gertrude. "Both you and your sister May shall join our
+party. Please don't say another word on the subject, nor tell father,
+till we meet tomorrow evening," and she kissed him an affectionate
+good-night.
+
+The next evening before the stars shone; Gertrude sat on the piazza
+anxiously awaiting him, for she had good news for her lover. Gertrude's
+white handkerchief told him that she recognized his coming, though he was
+still two blocks away. How light and swift the steps of a lover; though
+miles intervene, they seem but a step. An evening in Gertrude's presence
+was for George but a moment. The touch of her hand, the rustle of her
+dress, and the music of her voice, all, like invisible silken cords, held
+him a willing prisoner. The love he gave and the love he received was
+like the mating of birds; like the meeting of long separated and finally
+united souls.
+
+"George, this is your birthday and the silver crescent moon is filled to
+the brim with happiness for you and May. Yesterday I had a long talk with
+father, and I asked him to let me stay at home and to take your sister
+May to Europe. What do you think he said, George? Never did my father so
+correctly read my heart. He drew me closely to him, and while I sat upon
+his knee, said: 'Daughter, I have decided that it is wise, even in the
+interests of my business, to take George with us.' He also said that I
+might invite your sister May to go, and that he would pay all the
+expenses. Oh, how I kissed him! I never loved my father so much before.
+Here, George, is a kiss for you. Aren't you glad now, that you, and your
+sister May are going with us? No excuses, for you are both going surely."
+
+"If it is settled, Gertrude, then it is settled, I suppose, but how do
+you think May and I can get ready in so short a time to go to Europe?"
+
+"Well, George, you can wear your new business suit, and in the morning, I
+will go with May and buy for her a suitable travelling dress and hat. In
+Europe we can procure more clothes as they are needed."
+
+Gertrude was now very happy. The dream of her life was to be realized.
+She wanted George near her as she traveled, so each could say to
+the other, "Isn't it beautiful?" That is half of the pleasure of
+sight-seeing. The small orange kept by Gertrude had doubled in size,
+and she never before retired with so sweet a joy in her soul. That night
+she slept, and her dreams were of smooth seas, her mother, Lucille, and
+George.
+
+It is needless to say that May Ingram was overjoyed. She had been fond of
+music from her childhood, and had given promise of rare talents. She had
+taken lessons for two years in vocal and instrumental music in the best
+conservatories in Boston, George paying most of her expenses. For six
+years May had been the soprano singer in the highest paid quartette in
+Harrisville. Though she occasionally hoped for a musical education
+abroad, yet these hopes had all flown away. Her parents could not aid
+her, and she had resolved not to accept further assistance from her
+generous brother. At first she could not believe what George told her,
+but when the reality of her good fortune dawned upon her, taking George's
+hand in both of hers, she pressed it to her lips and fell upon his
+shoulder, her eyes flooding with tears.
+
+"Well, May," said George, as he kissed her, "can you get ready by noon
+tomorrow?"
+
+"Ready by noon? Ready by daylight, George, if necessary."
+
+That night was a busy, happy time for the Ingrams. So much of ill-luck
+had come to the father, and so much of household drudging to the faithful
+mother, that work and sacrifice for the children had ploughed deep
+furrows across the faces of both Mr. and Mrs. Ingram. Opportunities for
+advancement now opening for their children, both parents found the heavy
+burdens growing lighter.
+
+Before sunrise George and May had packed two small trunks, by ten o'clock
+Gertrude and May had made necessary purchases, and the two o'clock
+express quickly bore the second contingent of the Harris family towards
+New York, which was reached the night before their steamer's date of
+sailing.
+
+For some reason, perhaps because the elements of superstition still
+lurked in the mind of Colonel Harris, he decided not to stop any more at
+the Hotel Waldorf. It had brought him ill-luck, so his party was driven
+to the tall Hotel Plazza which overlooks the Central Park.
+
+Fortunately George had inherited a talent for untiring investigation
+and the power of close observation. His reasoning faculties also were
+excellent. Besides his education, gained in a practical school at Troy,
+George, with, his father, James Ingram, had made many experiments,
+mostly after business hours; each experiment was numbered and the various
+results had been carefully noted. Before leaving Harrisville his
+investigations were all drifting towards great possible changes in the
+production of iron and steel. He was glad to take this trip to Europe,
+as it might afford him opportunity to verify or change some of his
+conclusions. He resolved to use every moment for the enlargement of his
+powers.
+
+After bidding May and Gertrude good-night, he told the colonel that he
+should now take the Elevated Railway for the steamer "Campania," as he
+wished to observe at midnight the firing of the great battery of boilers
+of the steamer; and that he would return in time for breakfast with the
+party. "Let eight o'clock then be the hour, George," and the capitalist
+and his trusted superintendent separated for the night.
+
+The elevated railway was not swift enough to carry George Ingram to Pier
+No. 40, so anxious was he to see the midnight fires started in the
+hundred furnaces of one of the two largest steamers afloat. It was
+fifteen minutes to twelve o'clock when he reached the dock, and provided
+with a letter of introduction to the chief engineer, he hurried as fast
+as possible to the officer's cabin.
+
+The young engineer's night ashore had been spent at the opera, and,
+advised of George Ingram's visit, he had promptly returned to the
+steamer. Mr. Carl Siemens, engineer, was a relative of Siemens Brothers
+& Co., Limited, the great electrical and telegraph engineers of London.
+His education had been thorough, and he was very proud of his steamer the
+"Campania," especially of the motive power, which he helped to design. He
+gave young Ingram a cordial greeting.
+
+For two hours they examined and talked of mechanism for ships and mills,
+and they even ventured to guess what the earth's motive power might be.
+It was now five minutes of midnight. The chief furnished Ingram an
+oversuit and the young engineers dropped through manholes and down
+vertical and spiral ladders into the cellar of the steamer, the bottom of
+which was thirty feet below the water level.
+
+"The 'Campania,'" said Siemens, "has a strong double bottom that
+forms a series of water-tight compartments which, filled with water,
+furnish ballast when necessary. On the second steel or false bottom
+of the steamer, fore and aft, are located the boilers, furnaces,
+and coal-bunkers. We have fourteen double-ended boilers, fitted
+longitudinally in two groups, in two water-tight compartments, and
+separated by huge coal-bunkers. Each boiler is eighteen feet in diameter
+and seventeen feet long. The thickness of the steel boilerplate is
+1-17/32 inches. Above each group of boilers rises 130 feet in height a
+funnel nineteen feet in diameter, which, if a tunnel, would easily admit
+the passage of two railway trains abreast."
+
+George saw the fires lighted, and when the furnaces required more coal,
+suddenly a whistle brought fifty stokers or firemen, the automatic
+furnace doors flew open, and a gleam of light flooded everything. Long
+lances made draft-holes in the banks of burning coal, through which the
+air was sucked with increasing roar. The round, red mouths of the hundred
+craters snapped their jaws for coal, which was fed them by brawny men
+whose faces were streaked with grimy perspiration, and their bodies
+almost overcome by heat. The hundred furnaces are kept at almost white
+heat from New York to Liverpool.
+
+"Four hours on, and four hours off, and the best quality of food are some
+of the recent improvements," said Siemens.
+
+George Ingram shook his head, and his heart ached as he witnessed the
+stokers, and resolved to do his utmost to mitigate the hardships of
+labor. "What are the duties of the stokers?" inquired George.
+
+"Our stokers," replied Siemens, "must be men of strength and skill, for
+they both feed and rake the fires. The ashes and slag must be hoisted and
+dumped into the ocean, and twice an hour, as the gauges indicate, fresh
+water is let into the boilers. Daily the boilers convert into steam over
+a hundred tons of water, which, condensed, is used over and over again."
+
+"What quantity of coal do you use?"
+
+"About three hundred tons per day, or an average of nearly two thousand
+tons per voyage. The coal carrying capacity of the "Campania," however,
+when needed as an armed cruiser, can be greatly increased."
+
+Siemens led Ingram to see the gigantic cranks, and propeller shafts. Each
+of the several cranks is twenty-six inches in diameter and weighs 110
+tons; the shafts made of toughest steel are each twenty-four inches in
+diameter, and each weighs over 150 tons. The propellers are made of steel
+and bronze, and each of the six blades of the two screws weighs eight
+tons. It was now past two o'clock and George thanked Mr. Siemens and said
+he should be pleased to examine further his department when at sea. It
+was past three o'clock when George turned off his gas at the hotel.
+
+At eight o'clock the next morning the Harrises met promptly at breakfast.
+Promptness was one of Reuben Harris's virtues, and fortunately all his
+party were agreed as to its absolute necessity, especially when several
+journey together, if the happiness of all is considered.
+
+"George's eyes look like burnt holes," whispered May to Gertrude.
+
+Overhearing his sister's remark, George added: "Yes, May, and they feel
+worse after my two hours last night in the stokehole of the 'Campania.'"
+
+"We thought after our long railway ride and the concert yesterday, that
+you would gladly welcome a little sleep," said Gertrude.
+
+"I did sleep four hours, Gertrude, but my owl-visit to the steamer was
+highly instructive, and when we get to sea, you all will be delighted to
+help me complete the study of the marine engines on the 'Campania.'"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+A SAFE PASSAGE AND A HAPPY REUNION
+
+
+Gertrude and May never knew what happiness was before. One maiden had her
+lover, and the heart of the other was pledged to music. George too was
+happy in Gertrude's happiness and joyous in his own thoughts that perhaps
+he had already entered upon his life work, the development of plans which
+would bless humanity. Colonel Harris's chief joy was that he had earned a
+rest, was soon to see the absent members of his family, and to behold the
+work of men in Europe.
+
+People crowded the gangway, the same as on a previous occasion when duty
+forced him suddenly to leave the "Majestic." It was almost two o'clock;
+visitors were no longer admitted to the steamer, except messengers with
+belated telegrams, mail, packages, and flowers for the travelers. On
+the bridge of the "Campania" stood the uniformed captain and junior
+officers. The chief officer was at the bow, the second officer aft. The
+captain, notified that all was ready, gave the command, "Let go!" and the
+cables were unfastened. The engineer started the baby-engine, which
+partially opens the great throttle-valves, the twin-screws began to
+revolve, and the "Campania," like an awakened leviathan slowly moved into
+the Hudson River. Hundreds on both the pier and steamer fluttered their
+handkerchiefs, and through a mist of tears good-byes were exchanged,
+till the increasing distance separated the dearest of friends.
+
+For twenty-four hours George Ingram was seen but little on deck. Most of
+his time he spent with Carl Siemen, the engineer. The colonel took great
+delight as the escort of two appreciative young ladies. Before the voyage
+ended every available part of the "Campania" was explored.
+
+Gertrude was surprised to find an engineer so cultivated a gentleman. He
+was surrounded in his oak-furnished office by soft couches, easy chairs,
+works of art, burnished indicators and dials. Mr. Siemen received his
+orders from the captain or officer on the bridge by telegraph.
+
+"It's mere child's play," said May, "and as easy as touching the keys of
+a great organ."
+
+Mr. Siemen now conducted his friends into the engine-room. "It is not
+easy to imagine the tremendous force of the two swiftly turning screws or
+propellers exerted against the surging waters of the Atlantic," he said.
+"Our 30,000 horse power engines, a horse power is equal to six men, equal
+180,000 strong men pulling at the oars, or twice the number of men that
+fought at Gettysburg to perpetuate the American Union."
+
+"Wonderful!" said Colonel Harris.
+
+"Steam guided by command of the officer on the bridge, with slightest
+effort, also steers our immense steamer."
+
+"Mr. Siemen, tell us please how the steamer is lighted?" said George.
+
+"We have fifty miles of insulated wire in the "Campania" for the electric
+current generated by our two dynamos, which give us 1350 sixteen-candle
+power lights, equal to a total of 22,000 candle power, absorbing 135
+horse-power. We also use large electric reflectors and search lights to
+pick up buoys on a dark night. All our machinery is in duplicate.
+
+"At night when the broad clean decks of hardwood are illuminated with
+electric lights and filled with gay promenaders, you easily imagine that
+you are strolling along Broadway."
+
+The accommodations and appointments of staterooms, of all the large
+public rooms, and especially the dining-room, are perfect. A week on the
+Atlantic, with the joyous bracing sea-air of the summer months, and
+surrounded as you are by a cosmopolitan group of people, passes as
+delightfully as a brief stay at the ocean side.
+
+The passage of the "Campania" from Sandy Hook Light to Queenstown was
+made in less than five and one-half days, 5 days, 10 hours, and 47
+minutes, or at an average speed of 21.82 knots per hour, the highest
+day's run being 548 knots. At Queenstown Colonel Harris received
+telegrams and letters from his family saying that they would meet him at
+Leamington, and that Alfonso would meet his father at Liverpool.
+
+Reuben Harris wired his wife when his party expected to arrive. It was
+ten o'clock in the morning when the S.S. "Campania" arrived in the Mersey
+off Alexandra dock, and the company's tender promptly delivered the
+passengers on the Liverpool Landing Stage.
+
+Gertrude was first to single out Alfonso, whose handkerchief waved a
+brother's welcome to the old world. Alfonso was the first to cross the
+gangway to the tender, and rushed to his friends. The greeting was
+mutually cordial. The father embraced his boy, for he loved him much and
+still cherished a secret hope that his only son might yet turn his mind
+to business. Alfonso seemed specially pleased that George and his sister
+May had come, for he had frequently met May Ingram and her singing had
+often charmed him.
+
+May was about his own age. As Alfonso helped her down the gangway to the
+deck, he thought he had never seen her look so pretty. She was about the
+size of his sister Lucille; slender, erect, and in her movements she was
+as graceful as the swaying willows. May's face was oval like that of
+her English mother. She had an abundance of brown hair, her eyes were
+brilliant, and her complexion, bronzed by the sea-breezes, had a pink
+under-coloring that increased her beauty. If Alfonso's eyes were fixed on
+her a moment longer than custom allows, perhaps he was excusable, for
+portrait painting was his hobby, and he fancied that he knew a beautiful
+face.
+
+Alfonso was all attention to his friends in clearing the baggage through
+the customs and getting checks for Leamington. After lunch, at the fine
+railway hotel, the two o'clock express from Lime Street station was
+taken, and Colonel Harris and party became loud in their praises of John
+Bull's Island, as they sped on, via Coventry with her three tall spires,
+to the fashionable Spa, where the Harris family were again to be
+reunited. It was six o'clock when Alfonso alighted on the platform.
+"Here they are, mother, I have brought them all; father, Gertrude,
+George, and May."
+
+The Leamington meeting was a happy one. The sorrow of separation is often
+compensated by the joys of reunion. Mrs. Harris embraced her husband as
+if he had returned a hero from the wars. In fact, he had emerged from a
+conflict that brought neither peace nor honor to capital or labor.
+
+Lucille too was enthusiastic. She, who was haughty, rarely responsive,
+and often proud of her father's wealth, for the time assumed another
+character and warmly welcomed her sister Gertrude and Gertrude's intended
+husband as "brother George." Leo too was glad to make new acquaintances.
+Eight joyous people attracted the attention of many at the station.
+
+Fortunately, the next day was Sunday, which gave time for rest, for
+review of the past few exciting weeks, and for the development of future
+plans of travel. Much was told of the Harris trip through Ireland and of
+the last week spent in the south of England.
+
+Lucille described to Gertrude and May Stonehenge, hanging stones,--the
+wonder of Salisbury Plain, where stand the ruins of the Druid
+temple--three circles of upright moss-grown stones with flat slabs across
+their tops, in which it is supposed the sun was worshiped with human
+sacrifices. Many burial mounds are scattered about. A broad driveway, a
+mile in extent, surrounds the temple, where possibly great processions
+came to witness the gorgeous displays. In early Britain the Druid priests
+held absolute sway over the destinies of souls. These priests were
+finally overpowered by the Romans, and some of them burned upon their own
+altars.
+
+"But, Lucille, you wrote that you planned to visit Osborne House."
+
+"Yes, dear, we did go to the Isle of Wight, and saw Osborne House, Queen
+Victoria's home by the sea, as Balmoral is her summer home among the
+mountains of Scotland. Her Majesty's palace is surrounded by terraced
+gardens, nearly five thousand acres of forests, pastures, and fertile
+meadows. Osborne House is furnished with much magnificence, mosaic
+flooring, costly marbles, statuary, paintings, books, and art souvenirs.
+
+"There the queen and Prince Albert painted, sang, and read together.
+Those were happy days indeed for the young rulers of a kingdom. Each of
+their children had a garden. The Prince of Wales worked in a carpenter's
+shop, and the royal princesses learned housework in a kitchen and dairy
+prepared for them." This was a revelation to Lucille, who had been reared
+with little or nothing to do.
+
+Lucille told Gertrude and May that she had just been reading the early
+life of the queen, who said, "If one's home is happy, then trials and
+vexations are comparatively nothing." The queen also said, "Children
+should be brought up simply and learn to put the greatest confidence
+in their parents." Lucille continued, "The queen often visited her
+people, bringing toys for the children--a promise to a child she never
+forgets--and gifts of warm clothing for the aged, to their great
+delight."
+
+At a conference of the Harris family, it was decided to go to London
+after spending Monday in a carriage drive to Warwick and Kenilworth
+castles and Stratford-on-Avon. So Monday promptly at eight o'clock
+two carriages stood waiting at the hotel. Colonel Harris took Mrs.
+Harris, May Ingram, and Alfonso with him, and George Ingram took
+Gertrude, Lucille, and Leo in the second carriage.
+
+There are few, if any, more magnificent drives in England than the one
+through the beautiful Stratford district. It is recorded that two
+Englishmen once laid a wager as to the finest walk in England.
+One named the walk from Coventry to Stratford, the other from Stratford
+to Coventry.
+
+It was a delightful day and both the colonel and George entirely forgot
+business in their enjoyment of the loveliest country they had ever seen.
+A drive of two miles, from Leamington and along the banks of the historic
+Avon, brought them to Warwick Castle which Scott calls "The fairest
+monument of ancient and chivalrous splendor uninjured by the tooth of
+time." It is said that Warwick Castle was never taken by any foe in days
+gone by.
+
+Our visitors drove over the draw-bridge through a gateway covered with
+ivy, and still guarded as of old, by an ancient portcullis. In the hall
+of the castle, pannelled with richly carved oak, are religiously guarded
+the helmet of Cromwell, the armor of the Black Prince, and many historic
+relics and art treasures. The drawing-room is finished in cedar. In
+former days guests were summoned to the great banqueting hall by a blare
+of trumpets. In the gardens is seen the celebrated white marble Warwick
+vase from Adrian's villa. Interwoven vines form the handles, and leaves
+and grapes adorn the margin of the vase. Superb views were had from the
+castle towers. In the Beauchamp chapel in the old town of Warwick repose
+the remains of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of Queen Elizabeth's
+favorites. She gave Leicester beautiful Kenilworth Castle, which is five
+miles distant.
+
+As the carriages drove over the smooth road, beneath the venerable elms
+and sycamores, artists along the way were sketching. Both Alfonso and Leo
+tipped their hats, as members of a guild that recognizes art for art's
+sake, a society that takes cognizance of neither nationality nor sect.
+
+Gertrude and George had read Scott's novel in which he tells of the
+ancient glories of Kenilworth, which dates back to the twelfth century,
+and to-day is considered the most beautiful ruin in the world. Ivy mantles
+the lofty ruined walls; the sun tinges in silver the gray old towers, and
+sends a flood of golden light through the deep windows of the once
+magnificent banqueting hall.
+
+For years Kenilworth Castle was a royal residence, and later it was
+the scene of bloody conflicts between kings and nobles. Today sheep
+peacefully graze within the ruins and about the grounds. Visitors from
+all parts of the world look in wonder upon the decay of glories that once
+dazzled all Europe. Here the earl of Leicester entertained his virgin
+queen hoping to marry her. As Elizabeth crossed the draw-bridge a song in
+her praise was sung by a Lady of the Lake on an island floating in the
+moat. Story writers have never tired of telling of the magnificence of
+these entertainments that cost the ambitious earl $20,000 per day for
+nineteen days.
+
+Returning, Warwick Arms Hotel was reached for lunch, after which the
+party drove eight miles to Stratford-on-Avon, a model town on the classic
+Avon. Here in Henley Street, in a half-timbered house recently carefully
+restored, Shakespeare was born. The walls and window panes are covered
+with the names of visitors, while inside are kept albums for the
+autographs of kings, queens, of Scott, Byron, Irving, and others. One
+of the three rooms below is an ancient kitchen, where by the big open
+chimney the poet often sat. Climbing a winding, wooden stairway,
+George and Gertrude in the lead, our Harrisville friends entered the
+old-fashioned chamber, where, it is said, on St. George's Day, April 19,
+1564, William Shakespeare was born. A bust of the poet stands on the
+table.
+
+"We know little of his mother," said Gertrude, "except that she had a
+beautiful name, Mary Arden. If it is true, as a rule, that all great men
+have had great mothers, Mary Arden must have been a very superior woman."
+
+"The reverse, Gertrude, must be equally true," said George, "that all
+great women must have had great fathers."
+
+Gertrude who had made a special study of Shakespeare and his works did
+much of the talking. She said, "All that is definitely known of the life
+of the great poet can be put on half a page. It is thought that William
+was the son of a well-to-do farmer who lost his property. William, not
+above work, assisted his father as butcher, then taught school, and later
+served as a lawyer's clerk. When he was eighteen, like most young people,
+he fell in love."
+
+Saying this, Gertrude led to the street, and the party drove to Shottery,
+a pretty village a mile away, where is Ann Hathaway's thatched cottage.
+"Here the beardless William often came," said Gertrude, "and told his
+love to the English maiden. Ann Hathaway was older than William, she was
+twenty-six, but they were married, and had three children.
+
+"When Shakespeare was twenty-five he was part owner of the Blackfriar's
+Theatre in London. There he spent his literary life, and there he was
+actor, dramatist, and manager. He became rich and returned occasionally
+to Stratford where he bought lands and built houses.
+
+"If we can trust statues and paintings and writers, William Shakespeare
+had a kingly physique, light hazel eyes and auburn hair."
+
+"What about his death?" inquired Colonel Harris.
+
+"Of his death," said Gertrude, "we know little, save that the Vicar of
+Stratford wrote that Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Johnson had a merry
+meeting, possibly drank too much, and that Shakespeare died of a fever
+then contracted, on the anniversary of his birth, when he was fifty-two
+years old."
+
+"And where was he buried?" inquired Lucille.
+
+"In the Stratford church," answered Gertrude, and the carriages were
+driven up an avenue of arching lime trees. The old church, with its tall
+and graceful spire, reflected in the waters of the Avon, is a restful
+place for the body that contains the mightiest voice in literature. Near
+by also lie buried his wife and their children. A plain slab in the floor
+covers his remains.
+
+Recently a new grave was dug near Shakespeare's and the intervening wall
+fell in. A workman ventured to hold a lighted taper in death's chamber,
+which revealed that the ashes of the immortal Shakespeare could be held
+in the palm of the hand. The Harris party drove back to Leamington to
+spend the night.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+A SEARCH FOR IDEAS
+
+
+Later on the Harrises spent considerable time in London staying at the
+Grand Hotel which occupies the site of the old Northumberland House on
+Trafalgar Square. They soon learned that the English matrons are devoted
+mothers, that they take long walks, dress their children simply, and that
+their daughters have fair complexions, are modest in manner, and are the
+pictures of health.
+
+Many of the English women find time to study national questions, to
+organize "Primrose" and "Liberal Leagues," and to vote on municipal
+affairs. Miss Helen Taylor and other cultivated women have been elected
+members of the London school board, and aided in temperance reform.
+
+While Alfonso, Leo, Lucille, and May were absent studying the artistic
+life of the metropolis, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Gertrude, and George spent
+most of the day planning for the future. Reuben Harris and his wife had
+repeatedly talked over the Harrisville affair, and their trips in London
+where so many generations had lived and passed away had given both
+clearer ideas of life.
+
+"At best," thought the colonel, "life seems short indeed." More than once
+he admitted to his wife that his early privations had made his life in
+Harrisville selfish and inconsiderate, that the questions of higher
+civilization were involved in the vigorous efforts of humanity for a
+closer brotherhood, and that if God permitted him he would lend a helping
+hand.
+
+Mrs. Harris, naturally proud, was slow to respond to the colonel's new
+ideas, but he felt that under Gertrude's generous influences his wife
+would prove a help rather than a hindrance. Mrs. Harris knew that
+Gertrude and George, who had received a broad education, were ambitious
+to do good, and besides she trusted and loved them both.
+
+It was clear to George and Gertrude that little or no hindrance would be
+offered to wise plans of usefulness. It was finally agreed that Colonel
+Harris and George should spend a week or two visiting some of the great
+industrial centers of Europe, and that Alfonso and Leo should accompany
+the ladies to Paris, and then visit the haunts of the old portrait
+painters of the Netherlands.
+
+It was also decided by George and Gertrude that they would be married in
+Paris. This made the two lovers happy; for soon the two diamonds and ruby
+would be advanced to the ring finger, as promised by Gertrude on Mt.
+Holyoke. Each felt that an inexpensive marriage in Paris would be a
+fortunate escape from possible criticisms at home. Colonel Harris had
+promised Gertrude a special gift of a thousand dollars for the
+approaching nuptials, she to do what she desired with the money. So she
+decided to use only one-fourth of the gift for herself, to send one-half
+of it to the Relief Society, and the balance to two ladies' benevolent
+societies of Harrisville.
+
+The discussion of these plans made the last night in London a happy one.
+Happiness comes when we warm the hearts near us. When selfishness leaves
+the heart, the dove of peace enters. Early next morning at the Victoria
+Station, Colonel Harris and George saw their friends off for Paris. The
+route taken was the one via the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, an
+hour's run to Dover, thence in the twin steamer "Calais-Dover," an hour
+and a half's ride across the English Channel to Calais, and from Calais
+via railway to Paris, capital of the French Republic.
+
+Then Reuben Harris and George Ingram left Victoria Station to pay their
+respects to Henry Bessemer, civil engineer, who lived at Denmark Hill
+south of London. They desired to study the conditions which make the
+British people powerful. Both were aware that England was richly stored
+with the most serviceable of all minerals, coal and iron, in convenient
+proximity; that her large flocks of sheep supplied both wool and leather;
+that Ireland had been encouraged in the cultivation of flax; that the
+convenience of intercourse between mother country and her neighbors,
+especially America, had enabled England to engage largely in the
+manufacture of the three textile staples, wool, flax, and cotton. But
+material resources are only one element in great industrial successes.
+Both labor and capital are equally essential.
+
+Englishmen have strength and skill. In delicate and artistic
+manipulation, however, the Englishman may be surpassed, but he possesses
+in a rare degree great capacity for physical application to work, also
+tremendous mental energy and perseverance. Most of the world's valuable
+and great inventions, as successfully applied to the leading industries,
+were made by the English.
+
+Though England has neither gold nor silver mines, yet for centuries she
+has commanded vast capital. Her trading enterprise, which has made the
+Englishman conspicuous round the world, existed long before the Norman
+conquest. Helpful and consistent legislation has also favored British
+industries. Besides, England enjoyed a good start in the race with
+foreigners. Surplus English capital of late has been employed in
+promoting foreign industry, and the interests of England as a rival
+may suffer.
+
+Reaching the station at Denmark Hill, the colonel and George drove at
+once to Bessemer's home. It is doubtful if England has forty acres, owned
+by a private citizen, more tastefully laid out and adorned, with forests,
+lawns, and flowers.
+
+Henry Bessemer was tall and well formed, and looked the ideal Englishman,
+as he gave cordial welcome, in his large drawing room, to Colonel Harris
+and George Ingram. Evidences of his constructive skill and exquisite
+taste were seen on every hand, notably in his billiard room,
+conservatory, and astronomical observatory. The last contained a
+reflector telescope of his own design, that rivals the world-famed
+telescope of Lord Rosse. Both were soon charmed with Bessemer's manners
+and conversation.
+
+George had read of this wonderful man who was born in 1813; between 1838
+and 1875 he had taken out 113 patents, and the drawings of his own work
+made seven thick volumes. This record of Bessemer indicates an almost
+unrivalled degree of mental activity and versatility as keen observer,
+original thinker, and clever inventor.
+
+His drawings showed patents in connection with improvements in engines,
+cars, wheels, axles, tires, brakes, and rails. Fifteen patents for
+improvements in sugar manufacture, patents for motors and hydraulic
+apparatus, for the manufacture of iron and steel, the shaping, embossing,
+shearing, and cutting of metals, for marine artillery, ordnance,
+projectiles, ammunition, armor plates, screw propellers, anchors,
+silvering glass, casting of type, patents for bronze powder, gold paint,
+oils, varnishes, asphalt pavements, waterproof fabrics, lenses, etc.
+
+Mr. Bessemer's greatest invention, announced to the British Association
+at Cheltenham, in 1856, is his method of the manufacture of iron and
+steel without fuel, which started a new era in the iron trade. His name
+will be forever associated with the rapid conversion of pig iron into
+malleable iron and steel. By this process the price of steel per ton has
+been reduced from $160 to $25, a price less than was formerly paid for
+iron. Mr. Bessemer received the Telford and Albert gold medals and honors
+from sovereigns and societies round the world.
+
+George said to Mr. Bessemer that he thought Lord Palmerston's definition,
+"dirt was matter out of place," was especially applicable to the
+undesirable elements in ores.
+
+"Very true," replied Mr. Bessemer, "and the man who can clean the dirt
+from our ores, and produce the most desirable steel, at the least cost,
+is a great benefactor of humanity."
+
+Mr. Bessemer's own story of his most important invention was very
+interesting. Practical iron men had said that it was an impossible feat
+to convert molten pig iron in a few minutes into fluid malleable iron,
+and then into available steel, and all this without additional fuel. But
+the genius and perseverance of Mr. Bessemer, aided by his practical
+knowledge of chemistry and mechanics, did it. It had long been known
+that, if a horseshoe nail were tied to a cord and the point heated to
+whiteness, the iron nail could be made to burn in common air by being
+whirled in a circle. The ring of sparks proved a combustion. Mr. Bessemer
+was the first however to show that if air was forced, not upon the
+surface, but into and amongst the particles of molten iron, the same
+sort of combustion took place.
+
+Pig iron, which is highly carbonized iron from the blast furnace, was
+laboriously converted into malleable iron by the old process of the
+puddling furnace. Bessemer conceived the process of forcing air among the
+particles of molten iron, and by a single operation, combining the use of
+air in the double purpose of increasing temperature, and removing the
+carbon. The carbon of the iron has a greater affinity for the oxygen of
+the air than for the iron. When all the carbon is removed, then exactly
+enough carbon is added by introducing molten spiegeleisen to produce
+steel of any desired temper with the utmost certainty.
+
+With the ordinary kinds of pig iron early in use, Bessemer's process
+was powerless. The old puddling process was more capable of removing
+phosphorus and sulphur. But with pig iron produced from the red hematite
+ores, practically free from phosphorus, Bessemer's process was a
+surprising success.
+
+At once exploration began to open vast fields of hematite ores in the
+counties of Cumberland and Lancashire of England, in Spain, in the Lake
+Superior regions of North America, and in other countries. Bessemer
+wisely made his royalty very low, five dollars per ton; capital rapidly
+flowed into this new industry, and Bessemer won a fortune. Mushroom towns
+and cities sprung up everywhere and fortunes were made by many.
+
+Mr. Bessemer himself vividly described his process in action: "When the
+molten pig iron is poured into mortar-like converters, supported on
+trunions like a cannon, the process is brought into full activity. The
+blast is admitted through holes in the bottom, when small powerful jets
+of air spring upward through the boiling fluid mass, and the whole
+apparatus trembles violently. Suddenly a volcano-like eruption of flames
+and red-hot cinders or sparks occurs. The roaring flames, rushing from
+the mouth of the converter, changes its violet color to orange and
+finally to pure white. The large sparks change to hissing points, which
+gradually become specks of soft, bluish light as the state of malleable
+iron is approached."
+
+This very brilliant process, which includes the introduction and mixture
+of the spiegeleisen, may occupy fifteen minutes, when the moulds are
+filled, and the steel ingots can be hammered or rolled the same as blooms
+from a puddling furnace.
+
+Mr. Bessemer explained many things, and offered many valuable
+suggestions. A remark of Mr. Bessemer to George Ingram led the latter
+to tell Bessemer a story which he heard in the smoking-room of the S.S.
+"Campania."
+
+"Two Irishmen once tried to sleep, but could not for Jersey mosquitoes
+had entered their bedroom. Earnest effort drove the mosquitoes out, and
+the light was again extinguished. Soon Mike saw a luminous insect, a big
+fire-fly approaching. Quickly he roused his companion saying, 'Pat, wake
+up! Quick! Let's be going! It's no use trying to get more sleep here,
+there comes another Jersey mosquito hunting us with a lantern.'"
+
+Mr. Bessemer was amused, and he ventured the assertion that when
+electricity could be as cheaply produced directly from coal as the light
+by the fire-fly, and successfully delivered in our great cities, the
+smoke nuisance would be effectually abated, all freight charges on coal
+would be saved, and coal operators could utilize all their slack at the
+mines.
+
+"Do you think this possible?" inquired Colonel Harris.
+
+"Oh, yes, quite possible," answered Bessemer, "our necessities beget our
+inventions and discoveries. Thorough investigation in the near future on
+this and kindred lines must be fruitful of astonishing results in the
+interests of a higher civilization." The colonel and George took their
+leave. Truly the fire-fly, like the whirling hot nail, is suggestive of
+great possibilities, thought George.
+
+That evening it was planned to visit on the morrow the extensive
+telegraphic works of Siemens Brothers & Co., Limited. George retired to
+sleep, but his mind was never more active. On warm summer evenings he had
+often held in his hand glow-worms and studied them as they emitted bright
+phosphorescent light. He had learned that this faculty was confined to
+the female which has no wings, and that the light is supposed to serve
+as a beacon to attract and guide the male. The light proceeds from the
+abdomen, and its intensity seems to vary at will. He had also read of
+a winged, luminous insect of South America, which emits very brilliant
+light from various parts of its body.
+
+When George reflected that under even the most favorable conditions there
+was realized in mechanical work of the energy stored in coal only 10%, he
+was convinced that the extravagant waste of 90% of energy was in itself
+sufficient argument against the present method as being the best
+possible. Ever since his graduation, he had believed that the greatest of
+all technical problems was the production of cheaper power. That it was
+the great desideratum in cities in the production of food, and in food
+transportation from farms to trunk lines, on railways and on the ocean.
+
+While in America he had discussed the matter of cheaper power with
+Edison, Thompson, Tesla, and others.
+
+George and his father, James Ingram, experimenting with chemical energy,
+had already discovered a galvanic element which enabled them to furnish
+electrical energy direct from coal and the oxygen of the air, but this
+important discovery was kept a secret. The chief object of George
+Ingram's visit abroad was to follow the footsteps of other great
+scientists and manufacturers to the edge or frontier of their discoveries
+and practical workings.
+
+It was two o'clock that night before George could close his eyes, but
+promptly at 6:30 o'clock next morning he was ready for his bath and
+shave, and later he and the colonel ate the usual European breakfast
+of eggs, rolls, and coffee. The eight o'clock train was taken for the
+great works of Siemens Brothers & Co., Limited, which are located at
+Woolwich, down the Thames.
+
+This firm, the pioneers of ship lighting by electricity, has already
+fitted out hundreds of vessels with electric lights. They also
+manufacture submarine and land telegraphs in vast quantities, having
+aided largely in enclosing the globe in a network of cables. All the
+Siemens brothers have shown much ability. Charles William was born at
+Lenthe, Hanover, in 1823, and has received high scientific honors. The
+world recognizes the valuable services that Dr. Siemens has rendered to
+the iron and steel trade by his important investigations and inventions.
+
+Dr. Siemens, like Mr. Bessemer, labored to make iron and steel direct
+from the ores. By the invention of his regenerative gas furnace, which
+makes the high grade and uniform steel so desirable in the construction
+of ships, boilers, and all kinds of machines, Dr. Siemens has rendered
+signal service. This visit at Siemens Brothers & Co.'s works was of great
+interest, and many valuable ideas were gained.
+
+Several days were next spent in Birmingham, and at the centers of steel
+making in northwest England. Birmingham is called the "Toy Shop of the
+World" for there almost everything is manufactured from a cambric needle
+to a cannon.
+
+Colonel Harris and George Ingram studied the workings of the English
+"Saturday half-holiday," which employees earn by working an extra
+half-hour on the five previous days. A visit was made to the Tangye Bros.
+Engine Works at Soho, near Birmingham, which absorbed the engine works of
+Boulton and Watt. It was Boulton who said to Lord Palmerston visiting
+Soho, "Sir, we have here for sale what subjects of his Majesty most
+seek, viz., Power."
+
+The Tangyes employ thousands of men, manufacturing engines and other
+products. Steam engines of all sizes, in enormous quantities are stored,
+ready at a moment's notice to be shipped broadcast. It was the invention
+of the powerful Tangye jack-screw that finally enabled the famous
+engineer Brunel to launch his "Great Eastern" steamship which he had
+built on the Thames, and which had settled on her keel.
+
+Today the Tangye Brothers are fond of saying, "We launched the 'Great
+Eastern,' and the 'Great Eastern' launched us." One of the Tangye
+Brothers took the two Americans through James Watt's old home, and into
+his famous garret, where Watt invented the parallel motion and other
+parts of the steam engine. So important were Watt's engine inventions
+that he alone should have the honor of inventing the modern engine which
+has so elevated the race.
+
+George was greatly interested in what the Tangye Brothers were doing for
+their employees. Instructive lectures by capable men were given weekly to
+their workmen, while they ate their dinners. Medical aid was furnished
+free, and in many ways practical assistance was rendered their working
+force.
+
+After a most interesting journey among the steel firms, including Bocklow
+& Vaughn of Middleborough, John Brown at Sheffield, and others, Reuben
+Harris and George crossed over into busy Belgium, and thence they
+journeyed via historic Cologne to Westphalia, Germany. Here are some of
+the most productive coal measures on the earth, which extend eastward
+from the Rhine for over thirty miles, and here one wonders at the dense
+network of railways and manufacturing establishments, unparalleled in
+Germany.
+
+At Essen are the far-famed Krupp Works, one of the greatest manufacturing
+firms on the globe. These works are the outgrowth of a small old forge,
+driven by water power, and established in 1810 by Frederick Krupp. His
+short life was a hard struggle, but he discovered the secret of making
+cast-steel, and died in 1828. Before his death, however, he revealed his
+valuable secret to his son Alfred, then only 14 years of age. After many
+years of severe application, Alfred Krupp's first great triumph came in
+1851 at the London World's Fair, where he received the highest medal. At
+the Paris Exposition of 1855, as well as at Munich the year before, he
+also won gold medals.
+
+Abundant orders now flowed in for his breech-loading, cast-steel cannons.
+In severe tests which followed, the famous Woolwich guns were driven from
+the field. The Krupp guns won great victories over the French cannon at
+Sedan, which was an artillery duel. At Gravelotte and Metz the Krupp guns
+surpassed all others in range, accuracy, and penetrating power, and Herr
+Alfred Krupp became the "Cannon King" of Europe. Americans remember well
+his gigantic steel breech-loading guns at the expositions held in
+Philadelphia, and Chicago.
+
+Alfred Krupp, however, delighted more in improving the condition of his
+army of employees. He provided for them miles of roomy, healthful homes.
+He formed a commissariat, where his employees could secure at cost price
+all the necessaries of life. He also established schools where the
+children of his employees could receive education if desired in
+technical, industrial, commercial, and mechanical pursuits, and in
+special and classical courses as well. He devised a "Sick and Pension
+Fund," for disabled workmen, which scheme Emperor William II. has made a
+law of the German Empire. He likewise created life insurance companies,
+and widow and orphan funds. The golden rule has been Alfred Krupp's
+guiding star. He was always kind and considerate, and never dictatorial.
+
+When asked to accept a title, he answered, "No, I want no title further
+than the name of Krupp." Alfred Krupp died July 14, 1887, in the 75th
+year of his age. His request was that his funeral should take place, not
+from his palatial mansion, but in the little cottage within the works,
+where he was born, which is to-day an object of great reverence to the
+25,000 workmen who earn their daily bread in the vast Krupp foundries.
+
+Alfred Krupp lived to see Essen, his native village, grow from a
+population of 4,000 to a busy city of 70,000, where annually hundreds
+of engines and steam hammers produce thousands of tons of steel castings
+and forgings. Alfred Krupp built his own monument in the vast mills and
+benevolences of Essen, a monument more useful and enduring than marble
+or bronze. His son Frederick Alfred Krupp, his successor, married the
+beautiful Baroness Margarette von Ende. Colonel Harris and George visited
+other great works in Europe, and finally started to rejoin their friends
+in Paris.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+THE HARRIS PARTY VISITS PARIS
+
+
+The distance is two hours from London to Dover. Half-way is Gad's Hill,
+famous as the residence of the late Charles Dickens. Further on is
+Canterbury, which is celebrated as the stronghold of Kentishmen and the
+first English Christian city. Its prime attraction of course is its fine
+cathedral, which in 1170 was the scene of Becket's murder.
+
+Dover on the English Channel lies in a deep valley surrounded by high
+chalk hills. On one of these, which is strongly fortified, may be seen
+evidences of Norman, Saxon, and Roman works.
+
+Every morning and evening the royal mail steamers leave Dover for Calais.
+The channel ride of twenty-one miles was made by the Harrises without the
+dreaded _mal de mer_. In the railway restaurant at Calais, Lucille
+volunteered to order for the party, but she soon learned, much to the
+amusement of her friends, that the French learned in Boston is not
+successful at first in France.
+
+The express to Paris is through Boulogne, an important sea town of
+fifty-thousand inhabitants, which combines much English comfort with
+French taste. From there hundreds of fishing boats extend their voyages
+every season to the Scotch coast and even to far-off Iceland.
+
+The scenery in the fertile valley of the Somme is beautiful. The route
+lies through Amiens, a large city of textile industries, thence across
+the Arve; the Harrises reached the station of the Northern Railway,
+in the Place Roubaix, in northern Paris as the sun faded in the west.
+
+Carriages were taken for the Grand Hotel, Boulevard des Capucines, near
+the new opera house, which is centrally located, and offers to travelers
+every comfort. The carriages enter a court, made inviting by fountains,
+flowers, and electric light.
+
+The first day or evening in Paris is bewildering. Early in the morning
+the Harrises drove along the inner and the outer boulevards that encircle
+Paris. Many miles of fine boulevards were built under Napoleon III. Most
+from the Madeleine to the July Column are flanked with massive limestone
+buildings, palatial mansions, and glittering shops, the architecture of
+which is often uniform, and balconies are frequently built with each
+story. Early every morning the asphalt and other pavements are washed.
+At midday a busy throng crowds all the main streets.
+
+Parisians favor residence in flats, and they enjoy immensely their
+outdoor methods of living. At sundown the wide walks in front of
+brilliant cafés are crowded with well dressed men and women, who seek
+rest and refreshment in sipping coffee, wine, or absynthe, scanning the
+papers for bits of social or political news, and discussing the latest
+fad or sensation of the day. The English hurry but the French rarely.
+
+Paris under electric light is indeed a fairyland. The boulevards are
+brilliant and the scenes most animating. Everybody is courteous, and
+all seen bent on a pleasurable time. Cafés, shops, and places of
+entertainment are very inviting, and you easily forget to note the
+passage of time. Midnight even overtakes you before you are aware of
+the lateness of the hour. This is true, if you chance to visit, as did
+the Harris party, some characteristic phases of Parisian life.
+
+Near the east end of the Champs-Elysées, under the gas light and beneath
+the trees, they found open-air theaters, concerts, crowded cafes, and
+pretty booths supplied with sweets and drinks. Every afternoon if the
+weather is favorable, tastefully dressed children appear in charge of
+nursemaids in white caps and aprons, and together they make picturesque
+groups in the shade of elm and lime trees.
+
+At breakfast, Leo proposed a study of Paris, as seen from the Arc de
+Triomphe de l'Etoile, so named from the star formed by a dozen avenues
+which radiate from it. The location is at the west end of the Avenue des
+Champs-Elysées. This monument is one of the finest ever built by any
+nation for its defenders. It is 160 feet in height, 145 in width, was
+begun in 1806 by Napoleon and completed thirty years afterwards by Louis
+Philippe. Figures and reliefs on the arch represent important events in
+Napoleon's campaigns. Arriving at the arch, Leo led the way up a spiral
+staircase, 261 steps to the platform above which commands fine views of
+Paris.
+
+The Champs-Elysées, a boulevard one thousand feet in width, extends east
+over a mile from the monument of the Place de la Concord. Handsome
+buildings flank the sides, and much of the open space is shaded with elm
+and lime trees. Grand statues, fountains, and flowers add their charm.
+Between three and five o'clock every pleasant afternoon this magnificent
+avenue becomes the most fashionable promenade in the world. Here you will
+behold the elite in attendance at Vanity Fair; many are riding in elegant
+equipages, many on horseback, and almost countless numbers on foot.
+
+The popular drive is out the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 320 feet in
+width, to the Bois de Boulogne, a beautiful park of 2250 acres,
+containing several lakes and fringed on the west side by the River
+Seine. In the southwest part of this park is located the Hippodrome de
+Longchamp, which is the principal race-course near Paris, where races
+attract vast crowds, especially when the French Derby or the Grand Prix
+of twenty thousand dollars is competed for early in June.
+
+The Harrises standing on the monument, looked eastward, and Leo pointed
+out the River Seine shooting beneath more than a score of beautiful stone
+and iron bridges, and making a bold curve of seven miles through Paris.
+Then the Seine flows like a ribbon of silver in a northwesterly direction
+into the English Channel. On the right bank is seen the Palais du
+Trocadero of oriental style, which was used for the International
+Exposition of 1878. On the left bank stands the Palais du Luxembourg,
+rich in modern French art, the Hotel des Invalides, where rests Napoleon,
+and the Church of St. Genevieve, or the Pantheon, where Victor Hugo is
+buried.
+
+Beyond the Place de la Concord are the Royal Gardens of the Tuileries,
+where Josephine and Eugenie walked among classic statues, vases,
+fountains and flowers; the Louvre filled with priceless art treasures,
+the beautiful Hotel de Ville or city-hall, majestic Notre Dame, and
+the graceful Column of July. Paris is truly an earthly Paradise. For
+centuries it has been the residence of French rulers, and the mecca of
+her pleasure loving citizens. Fire, famine, foreign invasion, civil war,
+and pestilence have often swept over this, the fairest of cities, yet
+from each affliction, Phoenix-like, Paris has risen brighter and
+gayer than ever.
+
+Gertrude, May, and Lucille were charmed with the fair vision before them,
+and were anxious to leave the Arch of Triumph and become a part of the
+gay city. The carriages drove back to the Place de la Concord, one of the
+finest open places in Europe. Around this place the chief cities of
+France are represented by eight large stone figures. That of Strasburg
+the French keep in mourning. In the center stands the Obelisk of Luxor,
+of reddish granite, which was brought at great expense from Egypt and
+tells of Rameses II. and his successor. Other ornaments are twenty
+rostral columns, bearing twin burners. On grand occasions this place
+and the avenue are illuminated by thirty thousand gas lights.
+
+In the Place de la Concord the guillotine did its terrible work in the
+months between January 21st, 1793, and May 3rd, 1795, when thousands of
+Royalists and Republicans perished. Two enormous fountains adorned with
+Tritons, Nereids, and Dolphins beautify the court. No wonder the
+brilliant writer Chateaubriand objected to the erection here of these
+fountains, observing that all the water in the world could not remove
+the blood stains which sullied the spot.
+
+How beautiful the vista up the broad and short Rue Royale, which conducts
+to the classic Madeleine! Alfonso was entranced with the beauty of this
+rare temple, which was begun and finally dedicated as a church, though
+Napoleon earnestly hoped to complete it as a temple of glory for his old
+soldiers. Its cost was nearly three million dollars. A colonnade of
+fifty-two huge fluted Corinthian columns and above them a rich frieze
+surround the church. The approach is by a score and more of stone steps
+and through enormous bronze doors on which the Ten Commandments are
+illustrated.
+
+Entering the Madeleine, one sees an interior richly adorned, floors of
+marble, and lofty columns supporting a three-domed roof, through which
+light enters. On either side are six confessionals of oak and gilt,
+where prince and peasant alike confess their sins. Beyond is the altar
+of spotless marble. How beautiful the group of white figures, which
+represents Madeleine forgiven, and borne above on angels' wings! This
+artistic group cost thirty thousand dollars.
+
+On Sunday morning Leo and his friends came to the Madeleine which is the
+metropolitan church of Paris. Here every Sunday exquisite music is
+rendered, and here come the elite to worship and to add liberal gifts. It
+is a broad policy that no Catholic Church on the globe, not even splendid
+St. Peter's of Rome, is considered too good for rich and poor of all
+nationalities to occupy together for the worship of the Master.
+
+All the Parisian churches are crowded on Sunday mornings, but Sunday
+afternoons are used as holidays, and all kinds of vehicles and trains are
+burdened with well dressed people in pursuit of pleasure.
+
+Traveling by omnibus and tramway in Paris is made as convenient to the
+public as possible; nobody is permitted to ride without a seat, and there
+are frequent waiting stations under cover. This is as it should be.
+Nearly a hundred lines of omnibuses and tramways in Paris intersect
+each other in every direction. Inside the fares are six cents, outside
+three cents. A single fare allows of a transfer from one line to another.
+Railways surround Paris, thus enabling the public to reach easily the
+many pretty suburbs and villages.
+
+Both Mrs. Harris and Gertrude on their return to the Grand Hotel were
+glad to find letters from the men they loved. George wrote Gertrude that
+he was amazed at the enormous capacity of the manufacturing plants which
+he and Colonel Harris were visiting; that both labor and capital were
+much cheaper than in America. His closing words were, "Learn all you can,
+darling, I shall soon come to claim you."
+
+Gertrude had read of the laundries on the Seine, so she left the hotel
+early with her mother and Alfonso to see them, while Leo, Lucille, and
+May went to study contemporaneous French masterpieces in the Luxembourg
+palace and gallery. The public wash houses on the Seine are large
+floating structures with glass roofs, steaming boilers, and rows of tubs
+foaming with suds. Hard at work, stand hundreds of strong and bare armed
+women, who scrub and wring their linen, while they sing and reply to the
+banter of passing bargee or canotier.
+
+If the sun is shining and the water is clear, the blue cotton dresses
+of the women contrast prettily with white linen and bare arms busily
+employed. Though they earn but a pittance, about five cents an hour, yet
+they are very independent; mutual assistance is their controlling creed,
+and few, if any, honor more loyally the republican principle of liberty,
+equality and fraternity. The women seemed to do all the hard work, while
+the men in snowy shirts and blue cotton trousers, with scarlet girdles
+about their waists, pushed deftly to and fro the hot flat or box irons
+over white starched linen.
+
+Each ironer has a bit of wax, which he passes over the hot iron when he
+comes to the front, the collar, or the wrist-bands, and he boasts that he
+can goffer a frill or "bring up" a pattern of lace better than a
+Chinaman.
+
+Alfonso and his party drove along the handsome Rue de Rivoli, with its
+half-mile of arcades, attractive shops, and hotels of high grade, and
+up the Rue Castiglione, which leads to the Place Vendome. Here in one
+of a hundred open places in Paris rises the Column Vendome in imitation
+of Trajan's column in Rome. The inscription records that it is to
+commemorate Napoleon's victories in 1805 over the Austrians and Russians.
+On the pedestal are reliefs which represent the uniforms and weapons
+of the conquered armies. The memorable scenes, from the breaking of camp
+at Boulogne down to the Battle of Austerlitz, are shown on a broad bronze
+band that winds spirally up to the capital, and the shaft is surmounted
+by a bronze statue of Napoleon in his imperial robes.
+
+Fortunately Alfonso's carriage overtook Leo's party, and they visited
+together the pretty arcades and gardens of the Palais Royal. In the open
+courts are trees, flowers, fountains, and statues, and on the four sides
+are inviting cafés and shops which display tempting jewelry and other
+beautiful articles. On summer evenings a military band plays here.
+Returning, the ladies stepped into the Grand Magasin du Louvre. At a
+buffet, refreshments were gratis, and everywhere were crowds, who
+evidently appreciated the great variety of materials for ladies' dresses,
+the fine cloths, latest novelties, exquisite laces, etc. The ladies
+planned to return here, and to make a visit to the famous Au Bon Marche,
+where cheap prices always prevail. Most of the afternoon was spent in the
+Louvre, a vast palace of art, and the evening at the Theatre Français,
+the ceiling of which represents France, bestowing laurels upon her three
+great children, Molière, Corneille, and Racine. The Theatre Français
+occupies the highest rank. Its plays are usually of a high class, and the
+acting is admirable. The government grants this theatre an annual subsidy
+of about fifty thousand dollars.
+
+Early next morning, the Harrises took carriages to the Halles Centrales,
+or union markets. These markets consist of ten pavilions intersected by
+streets. There are twenty-five hundred stalls which cover twenty-two
+acres, and cost fifteen million dollars. Under the markets are twelve
+hundred cellars for storage. The sales to wholesale dealers are made by
+auction early in the day, and they average about a hundred thousand
+dollars. Then the retail traffic begins. The supplies, some of which
+come from great distances along the Mediterranean, include meat, fish,
+poultry, game, oysters, vegetables, fruit, flowers, butters, cream
+cheese, etc. Great throngs of people, mostly in blue dresses and blouses,
+with baskets and bundles constantly surge past you. The whole scene is
+enjoyable. Everything they offer is fresh, and the prices usually are
+reasonable. When you make a purchase, you are made to feel that you
+have conferred a favor and are repeatedly thanked for it.
+
+The few days that followed in Paris were days of rest, or were spent
+in planning for the future. The art galleries and the shops on the
+boulevards were repeatedly visited, theaters and rides were enjoyed,
+and on Friday morning, the ladies went to the railway station to take
+leave of Alfonso and Leo, who left Paris for the study of art in the
+Netherlands. Colonel Harris and George Ingram were expected to arrive
+in Paris on Saturday evening.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+IN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND
+
+
+Reluctantly Alfonso and Leo left Lucille and May in Paris. Both were well
+educated and beautiful women. It is possible that Alfonso might have
+loved May Ingram had he been thrown more into her company, and so known
+her better in early life, but the Harrises and Ingrams rarely met each
+other in society. As for Leo, he loved Lucille, but she had erected an
+impassable barrier in her utterance on the steamer, "First love or none."
+
+Leo in a thousand ways had been kind to her, because he hoped eventually
+to win her favor, and possibly because he fully appreciated the value of
+money. Fortunes in Europe are not so easily made, but once won, the rich
+of the old world as a rule husband their resources better then they of
+the new world. On the whole Alfonso and Leo were glad to cut loose from
+society obligations and be free to absorb what generations of art
+development in the Netherlands had to offer.
+
+Leaving Paris they took the express via Rheims for Brussels. Entering
+this beautiful capital of the Belgians in the northern part of the city,
+they took a cab that drove past the Botanic Garden down the Rue Royale to
+the Hotel Bellevue which is near the Royal Palace and overlooks a park,
+embellished with sculptures, trees, flowers, and smooth lawns. One of the
+most enjoyable and profitable things for tourists to do in their travels
+is to climb at least one tower or height, as the views and correct
+information thus obtained will cling longest to the memory.
+
+Brussels is Paris in miniature. The royal palace and park may be compared
+to the Tuileries. The beautiful drive down the Boulevard de Waterloo and
+up Avenue Louise leads directly to the Bois de la Cambre, a lovely forest
+of four hundred and fifty acres, which resembles the Bois de Boulogne of
+Paris. Nearly six miles of old and new boulevards encircle Brussels,
+passing through the upper and lower portions of the city. The pleasing
+variety of some of the more handsome buildings is due to the competition
+for large premiums offered for the finest façades. The resemblance of
+Brussels to Paris is perhaps more apparent in the cafés, shops, and
+public amusements along the busy boulevards. West of the Royal Palace is
+the picture gallery owned by the state, and by judicious and repeated
+purchases, the collection of pictures is considered superior to that of
+the famous gallery in Antwerp. In this gallery the two young artists
+spent several pleasant half-days comparing the early Flemish and Dutch
+schools. Especially did they study portrait work by Rubens, Frans Hals,
+and Van der Helst. All the work by the blacksmith artist Quinten Matsys
+in color or iron proved of great interest to the young Americans.
+
+Finally Leo, who knew much of the old masters of Europe, took Alfonso to
+see the Musee Wiertz, which contains all the works of a highly gifted and
+eccentric master. In a kind of distemper Wiertz painted Napoleon in the
+Infernal Region, Vision of a Beheaded Man, A Suicide, The Last Cannon,
+Curiosity, and Contest of Good and Evil, Hunger, Madness and Crime, etc.
+As Brussels is located near the center of Belgium, the city is very
+convenient to several cities that contain many works attractive to
+painters and architects.
+
+On arrival at Antwerp Alfonso and Leo rode to one of the stately
+cathedrals, near which a military band was playing. Before the church
+stood a bronze statue of Peter Paul Rubens. The scrolls and books,
+which lie on the pedestal, with brush, palette, and hat, are allusions
+to the varied pursuits of Rubens as diplomatist, statesman, and painter.
+The two young artists hastened into the cathedral to see Rubens's famous
+pictures, The Descent from the Cross, and The Assumption. His conception
+and arrangement were admirable, his drawing carefully done, and his
+coloring harmonious and masterly.
+
+Rubens, the prince of Flemish painters, was knighted. He was handsome and
+amiable, and his celebrity as an artist procured for him the friendship
+and patronage of princes and men of distinction throughout Europe.
+
+Not far from the cathedral the young artists came to the museum, in
+front of which rises a statue to Van Dyck, pupil of Rubens. "Here,
+Alfonso," said Leo, "is encouragement for you, for Van Dyck like yourself
+was the son of a wealthy man or merchant of Antwerp. He was educated in
+Italy, where he executed several fine portraits which I saw in Genoa as
+I journeyed to Paris." Charles I. of England appointed Van Dyck
+court-painter and knighted him. Van Dyck's ambition was to excel in
+historical works, but the demand upon him for portraits never left him
+much leisure for other subjects. How often "man proposes, but God
+disposes."
+
+Alfonso and Leo reached Dort or Dordrecht, which in the middle ages was
+the most powerful and wealthy commercial city in Holland. Huge rafts
+float down from the German forests, and at Dordrecht the logs are sawed
+by the many windmills. The Dutch province of Zealand is formed by nine
+large islands on the coast of the North Sea, and it has for its heraldic
+emblem a swimming lion with a motto _Luctor et Emergo_.
+
+Most of the province, which is created by the alluvial deposits of the
+Scheldt, is below the sea-level, and is protected against the
+encroachments of the sea by vast embankments of an aggregate length of
+300 miles. Willows are planted along the dykes, the annual repairs of
+which cost $425,000. An old proverb says, "God made the land, we Dutch
+made the sea."
+
+This fertile soil produces abundant crops of wheat and other grain. Near
+Dort is a vast reed-forest, covering more than 100 islands, which is also
+called, "Verdronken land," drowned land. This area of forty square miles,
+once a smiling agricultural tract, was totally inundated on the 18th of
+November, 1421. Seventy-two thriving market towns and villages were
+destroyed, and 100,000 persons perished. Leo made a sketch of the tower
+of Huis Merwede, the solitary and only relic of this desolate scene.
+
+The two artists visited Rotterdam, the second commercial city in Holland,
+which is fourteen miles from the North Sea and on the right bank of the
+Maas. An attractive quay a mile in length is the arriving and starting
+point for over 100 steamboats that connect Rotterdam with Dutch towns,
+the Rhine, England, France, Russia, and the Mediterranean.
+
+Alfonso and Leo studied the collection of portraits at Boyman's Museum,
+and sketched in the River Park the happy people who were grouped under
+trees, by the fish ponds, and along the grassy expanses. Alfonso bought a
+photograph of the illustrious Erasmus. It is about ten miles to Delft,
+once celebrated for its pottery and porcelain, a city to-day of 25,000
+inhabitants. Here on the 10th of July, 1584, William of Orange, Founder
+of Dutch independence, was shot by an assassin to secure the price set on
+William's head by Farnese.
+
+Our two artists visited a church in Delft to see the marble monument to
+the memory of the Prince of Orange, which was inscribed "Prince William,
+the Father of the Fatherland." Not far is Delft Haven which Americans
+love to visit, and where the pious John Robinson blessed a brave little
+band as it set sail to plant in a new world the tree of Liberty.
+
+At length the artists reached The Hague, which for centuries has been the
+favorite residence of the Dutch princes, and to-day is occupied by the
+court, nobles, and diplomatists. No town in Holland possesses so many
+broad and handsome streets, lofty and substantial blocks, and spacious
+squares as The Hague.
+
+Alfonso and Leo hastened to Scheveningen, three miles west of The Hague,
+on the breezy and sandy shores of the North Sea, a clean fishing village
+of neat brick houses sheltered from the sea by a lofty sand dune. Here
+bathing wagons are drawn by a strong horse into the ocean, where the
+bather can take his cool plunge. Scheveningen possesses a hundred fishing
+boats. The fishermen have an independent spirit and wear quaint dress. A
+public crier announces the arrival of their cargoes, which are sold at
+auction on the beach, often affording picturesque and amusing scenes,
+sketches of which were made. The luminous appearance of the sea caused by
+innumerable mollusca affords great pleasure to visitors, twenty thousand
+of whom every year frequent this fashionable sea-bathing resort.
+
+The second evening after the artists' arrival at Scheveningen, as they
+sauntered along on the brick-paved terrace in sight of white sails and
+setting sun, Alfonso was agreeably surprised to meet in company with her
+mother, Christine de Ruyter, a young artist, whose acquaintance he had
+made in the Louvre at Paris.
+
+Christine's father, prominent for a long time in the vessel trade, had
+recently died, leaving a fortune to his wife and two daughters, one of
+whom, Fredrika was already married. They were descended from the famous
+Admiral de Ruyter, who in 1673 defeated the united fleets of France and
+England off the coast of Scheveningen, which fact added much of interest
+to their annual visit to this resort. While Leo talked with the mother,
+Alfonso listened to Christine, as she told much about the historic family
+with which she was connected, and in return she learned somewhat of young
+Harris's family and their visit to Europe.
+
+Christine, who was about Alfonso's age, had fair complexion, light hair,
+and soft blue eyes. Her beauty added refinement that education and wide
+travel usually furnish.
+
+It was seen in Alfonso's face and in his marked deference that Christine
+filled his ideal of a beautiful woman. Christine and her mother and the
+young artists were registered at the Hotel de Orange, so of necessity
+they were thrown into each other's company. They drove to The Hague,
+compared the statues of William of Orange with each other; rode along
+the elegant streets, south through the Zoological and Botanical Gardens,
+through the park, and to the drill grounds. A half-day was spent in
+visiting the "House in the Woods," a Royal Villa, one and one-half
+miles northeast of The Hague. This palace is beautifully decorated,
+particularly the Orange Salon, which was painted by artists of the school
+of Rubens.
+
+Alfonso and Leo enjoyed their visits to the celebrated picture gallery,
+which contains among many Dutch paintings the famous pictures by Paul
+Potter and Rembrandt. Paul Potter's Bull is deservedly popular. This
+picture was once carried off to Paris, and there ranked high in the
+Louvre, and later the Dutch offered 60,000 florins to Napoleon for its
+restoration.
+
+Christine, who was well conversant with art matters, knew the location
+and artistic value of each painting and guided the young Americans to
+works by Van Dyck, Rubens, the Tenniers, Holbein, and others. She was
+proud of a terra-cotta head of her ancestor, Admiral de Ruyter. The party
+soon reached Rembrandt's celebrated "School of Anatomy," originally
+painted for the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons. Tulp is in black coat with
+lace collar and broad-brimmed soft hat, dissecting a sinew of the arm of
+the corpse before him. He is explaining, with gesture of his left hand,
+his theory to a group of Amsterdam surgeons. No painter ever before
+succeeded in so riveting the attention of spectators in the presence of
+death. The listeners appear altogether unconscious of the pallid corpse
+that lies before them on the dissecting table.
+
+Invited by Christine's mother, the young artists accompanied the De
+Ruyters to Amsterdam, the commercial capital of Holland, with 300,000
+inhabitants. They live on ninety islands formed by intersecting canals,
+which are crossed by three hundred bridges. The buildings rest on
+foundations of piles, or trees, which fact gave rise to Erasmus's jest,
+that he knew a city where the people dwelt on tops of trees, like rooks.
+
+Alfonso took Leo into the suburbs to see diamond polishing. The machinery
+is run by steam, and the work is done largely by Portuguese Jews. These
+precious stones are cut or sawed through by means of wires covered with
+diamond dust, and the gems are polished by holding them against rapidly
+revolving iron disks moistened with a mixture of diamond dust and oil.
+
+Christine's people lived in a red brick mansion, the gable of which
+contained a portrait in relief of Admiral de Ruyter, and fronted a shaded
+street on a canal. Here the American artists were handsomely entertained.
+They were driven to the picture galleries and the palace or town-hall in
+the Dam Square, where Louis Napoleon and Hortense once resided. From the
+tower which terminates in a gilded ship the artists obtained fine views
+of Northern Holland. Christine pointed out the Exchange and other objects
+of interest in the city, which abounds in narrow streets and broad
+canals, the latter lined with fine shade trees. Many of the tall,
+narrow houses have red tile roofs, quaint fork-chimneys, and they stand
+with gables to the canals. The docks show a forest of masts.
+
+The environs of the city are covered with gardens; trees adorn the roads,
+while poplars and willows cross or divide the fields, which are studded
+with windmills and distant spires, and everywhere are seen fertile corps,
+black and white cattle, and little boats creeping slowly along the
+canals.
+
+A Hollander's wealth is often estimated by his windmills. If asked, "How
+rich?" The reply comes, "Oh, he is worth ten or twelve windmills."
+Holland seems alive with immense windmills. They grind corn, they saw
+wood, they pulverize rocks, and they are yoked to the inconstant winds
+and forced to contend with the water, the great enemy of the Dutch. They
+constantly pump water from the marshes into canals, and so prevent the
+inundation of the inhabitants. The Hollander furnishes good illustration
+of the practical value of Emerson's words, "Borrow the strength of the
+elements. Hitch your wagon to a star, and see the chores done by the gods
+themselves."
+
+To the west are seen the church spires of Haarlem, and its long canal,
+which like a silver thread ties it to Amsterdam. To the east the towers
+of Utrecht are visible, and to the north glitter in the morning sun the
+red roofs of Zaandam and Alkmaar.
+
+Far away stretched the waters of the Zuider Zee, which Holland plans to
+reclaim by an enbankment from the extreme cape of North Holland, to the
+Friesland coast, so as to shut out the ocean, and thereby acquire 750,000
+square miles of new land; a whole province. At present 3,000 persons
+and 15,000 vessels are employed in the Zuider Zee fisheries, the revenues
+of which average $850,000 a year. It is proposed to furnish equivalents
+to satisfy these fishermen. It is estimated that this wonderful
+engineering feat will extend over 33 years and cost $131,250,000.
+
+Christine now conducted her artist friends out of the Palace and over to
+the Rijks Museum to see Rembrandt's largest and best work, his "Night
+Watch." It is on the right as you enter, covering the side of the room.
+It represents a company of arquebusiers, energetically emerging from
+their Guild House on the Singel. The light and shade of the Night Watch
+is so treated as to form a most effective dramatic scene, which, since
+its creation, in 1642, has been enthusiastically admired by all art
+connoisseurs.
+
+Rembrandt was the son of a miller, and his studio was in his father's
+wind-mill, where light came in at a single narrow window. By close
+observation he became master of light and shade, and excelled in vigor
+and realism. At $50 a year he taught pupils who flocked to him from all
+parts of Europe, but, like too many possessed of fine genius, he died in
+poverty. Later, London paid $25,000 for a single one of his six hundred
+and forty paintings. The Dutch painters put on canvas the everyday
+home-life and manners of their people, while the Flemish represented more
+the religious life of the lower Netherlands.
+
+These journeys in Belgium gave Alfonso and Leo enlarged ideas as to the
+possibilities of portrait painting. In Alma Tadema, of Dutch descent, and
+Millais they saw modern examples of wonderful success, which made clear
+to them that the high art of portrait painting once acquired, both fame
+and fortune are sure to follow.
+
+Christine de Ruyter had taken lessons of the best masters in Holland,
+Italy, and France. Few, if any women artists of her age, equalled or
+excelled her. Her conversations on art in the Netherlands charmed her
+two artist friends. She said, "The works of art of the fifteenth and
+seventeenth centuries in the Netherlands seemed to grow out of the very
+soil of the low countries. Our old artists revelled in the varied
+costumes and manifold types that thronged the cities of the Hanseatic
+League. The artist's imagination was fascinated by the wealth of color he
+saw on sturdy laborers, on weather-beaten mariners, burly citizens, and
+sagacious traders.
+
+"Rubens delighted often in a concentrated light, and was master of
+artistic material along the whole range. He painted well portraits,
+landscapes, battles of heroes, gallant love-making of the noble, and the
+coarse pleasures of the vulgar. Nearly a thousand pictures bear the name
+of Rubens.
+
+"The artistic labor of Frans Hals of Haarlem extended over half a
+century. He possessed the utmost vivacity of conception, purity of color,
+and breadth of execution, as shown in his latest works, and so well did
+he handle his brush that drawing seems almost lost in a maze of color
+tone. The throng of genre painters, who have secured for Dutch art its
+greatest triumph, are well nigh innumerable."
+
+Christine was very fond of flower-pieces, and had painted lovely
+marguerites on Gertrude's white dress, in Alfonso's full length picture
+of his sister, which he was soon to carry to Paris as his wedding
+present.
+
+Leo and Alfonso much wished to extend their journey north to Copenhagen
+and Stockholm, the "Venice of the North," but letters urging a speedy
+return to the marriage of George and Gertrude in Paris, forced the two
+artists to shorten their journey, say good-bye to their kind friends of
+Amsterdam, and hasten back to Paris, taking portraits of their own skill
+as wedding gifts.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+PARIS AND THE WEDDING
+
+
+Friday morning, Alfonso and Leo were missed at the table, and during the
+day as guides. Early every day while in Paris, Alfonso had bouquets of
+fresh flowers sent to the rooms of his mother, sisters, and May Ingram.
+After his departure the flowers did not come, so Gertrude and May before
+breakfast walked down the boulevard to the flower show, near the
+Madeleine, where twice a week are gathered many flower carts in charge of
+courteous peasant women. The flowers of Paris are usually cheap. A franc,
+eighteen cents, buys a bunch of pansies, or roses in bud or full bloom,
+or marguerites. The latter are similar to the English ox-eyed daisy, a
+favorite flower with the French, also with Gertrude, who often pinned a
+bunch on May Ingram. In mid-winter Parisian gardeners delight in forcing
+thousands of white lilac blossoms, which are sold in European capitals
+for holiday gifts.
+
+Gertrude and May hurried back to the hotel as happy as the birds in the
+trees of the boulevard. When Gertrude reached her mother, a telegram was
+given her from George which read:
+
+  City of Brussels.
+
+  _Gertrude_,--
+
+  We expect to arrive in Paris Saturday evening 6 o'clock. Alfonso and
+  Leo here. All well. Grand trip. Love to all.
+
+  George.
+
+Mrs. Harris and her young ladies planned to give most of the day to the
+purchase of Gertrude's trousseau and other needed articles. May Ingram
+thought it was "just lovely" to be with Gertrude in Paris, and help her
+select the wedding outfit. Earlier than usual on Friday morning the
+Harrises left the hotel. All four women were somewhat excited, as Mrs.
+Harris and Gertrude led the way, Lucille and May following, to M. Worth's
+establishment, located at Rue de la Paix 7.
+
+Lucille said, "It is strange indeed that, in view of the French ridicule
+made of the English on account of their lack of taste in dress, the best
+dressmakers in Paris should be Englishmen."
+
+Chief among all the Parisian dressmakers is Charles Frederick Worth, who
+was born in 1825, at Bourne, Lincolnshire. He came to Paris in 1858, and
+opened business with fifty employees combining the selling of fine dress
+material and the making of it. Worth now employs twelve hundred persons,
+and turns out annually over six thousand dresses and nearly four thousand
+cloaks; his sons ably assist him.
+
+Rare fabrics and designs in silk and other choice material are woven, and
+artistic ornaments are made especially for M. Worth. Paris, as the center
+of fashion, is greatly indebted to him, who gained in his line world-wide
+fame, and for nearly half a century he has been universally recognized by
+his competitors and the fair sex as master of his art. Kingdoms, empires,
+republics, and cabinets in swift succession followed each other, but the
+establishment of M. Worth maintained its proud position against all
+changes and rivals. He was helped to the highest pedestal of dictator
+of fashions by Mme. de Pourtales and Princess Pauline Metternich, both
+of whom possessed a keen sense of the fitness of texture, color, and
+cut, and with delicate hands could tone and modify till perfection was
+reached. The former introduced M. Worth to Empress Eugenie, for whom,
+and for the ladies of whose court, he designed state, dinner, and fancy
+costumes.
+
+That M. Worth possessed rare artistic taste aside from dressmaking is
+evidenced in the beauty of his rural home at Suresnes on the Seine, seven
+and a half miles from Paris. It is a superb work of harmony and is like
+a charming mosaic, every piece fitting into every other piece. He was
+his own architect, designer, upholsterer, and gardener. His villa lies
+beneath Mt. Valerien, one of the finest sites near Paris, and the outlook
+on the Seine, the Bois de Boulogne, and Paris, is a dream of beauty.
+
+Hurriedly passing down the Rue de la Paix, the stately Column Vendome in
+the vista, the Harris party entered M. Worth's establishment, to which
+women, from actress to empress, make pilgrimages from the end of the
+world.
+
+What a medley of people were already assembled! English duchesses,
+Russian princesses, Austrians, Spanish and Levantine aristocracy; wives
+and daughters of American railroad kings, of oil magnates, and of coal
+barons; brunette beauties from India, Japan, South America, and even
+fair Australians, all unconsciously assuming an air of ecstasy as they
+revelled in the fabric and fashion of dress; and stalking among them,
+that presiding genius, M. Worth, who in his mitre-shaped cap of black
+velvet, and half mantle or robe, strikingly resembled the great painter
+Hogarth.
+
+Mrs. Harris sent forward her letter of introduction from her husband's
+New York banker, and soon she and her friends were ushered into the
+presence of M. Worth himself. He seemed very gracious, asking about
+several good friends of his in America, and added, "Americans are my best
+clients, though we dispatch dresses to all parts of the world."
+
+Gertrude inquired as to the origin of fashion. M. Worth answered
+cautiously, "When new fabrics or designs of material are invented, some
+require a severe style, and some are adapted for draperies, puffings,
+etc., and then the stage has great influence over fashion."
+
+May Ingram said, "Mr. Worth, how do you arrange designs?" He answered,
+"All my models are first made in black and white muslin, and then copied
+in the material and coloring which I select. In a studio our models are
+photographed for future reference."
+
+Saying this, he excused himself to welcome new arrivals, first having
+placed the Harrises in charge of a competent assistant. M. Worth's many
+rooms were plainly furnished with counters for measuring materials. The
+floors were covered with a gray and black carpet, in imitation of a
+tiger's skin, with a scarlet border. Several young women dressed in the
+latest style of morning, visiting, dinner, and reception toilets, passed
+up and down before clients to enable them to judge of effects. Mrs.
+Harris explained that one daughter desired, at an early date, a wedding
+dress and that the other members of her party wanted gowns.
+
+Friday and Saturday were occupied at Worth's in selecting dresses, and
+elsewhere in search of gloves and other essentials. A delightful hour was
+spent among the many makers of artificial flowers. Skilled fingers make
+from wire and silk stems and stamens and dies, shape leaves and petals
+which are darkened by a camel's hair pencil, or lightened by a drop of
+water. Capable botanists and chemists are employed, and nature herself is
+rivaled in delicate construction and fragrance even.
+
+In their round of shopping, the Harrises saw an ideal robe being made for
+an American belle. It was composed entirely of flowers, a skirt of roses
+of different tints, with a waist of lovely rose buds, and over all a veil
+with crystal drops in imitation of the morning dew. "A gem of a dress for
+some fairy," thought Lucille.
+
+Promptly at six o'clock Gertrude and Lucille drove to the railway
+station, and welcomed back George and Colonel Harris, and after dinner
+all went to the opera. Between the acts Gertrude and George told much
+of their late experiences. George said that Colonel Harris had become
+greatly interested in their scheme to build in America an ideal plant and
+town, and that he was anxious to return home as he felt that one's work
+must be done early, as life was short at best.
+
+Gertrude explained to George all that had been done in preparing for the
+wedding, and said that she would be ready soon, that her mother and
+Lucille approved of their wedding trip of two weeks in Switzerland, and
+then Gertrude added, "I shall be ready, George, when you are, to return
+to America and to aid you all I can."
+
+Colonel Harris suggested a ride to Versailles, and Monday morning at nine
+o'clock Gaze's coach and four drove to the Grand Hotel, and six outside
+seats which had been reserved for the Harris party were filled. The
+coachman drove down the Avenue de l'Opera and into the Place du
+Carrousel, stopping a moment that all might admire the artistic pavilions
+of the Louvre, and the statue to the memory of Leon Gambetta, "Father of
+the Republic." Thence they rode out of the Court of the Tuileries, across
+the Place de la Concord, and down the charming Champs Elysées. On the
+left stands the Palais de l'Industrie, where the salon or annual
+exhibition of modern paintings and sculptures occurs in May and June. On
+the right is the Palais de l'Elysée, the official residence of the French
+president.
+
+George recalled that in these gardens of Paris, in 1814, Emperors
+Alexander and Francis, King Frederick III., and others sang a _Te Deum_,
+in thanksgiving for their great victory over Napoleon I.; that here
+the English, Prussian, and Russian troops bivouacked, and that in the
+spring of 1871, Emperor William and his brilliant staff led the German
+troops beneath the Arc de Triomphe, while the German bands played "Die
+Wacht am Rhine."
+
+The coach passed through the Bois de Boulogne, in sight of lovely lakes,
+quaint old windmills, and across famous Longchamps, where after the
+Franco-German War under a bright sky, in the presence of the French
+president, his cabinet, the senate and chamber of deputies, in full
+dress, and a million of enthusiastic citizens, Grevy and Gambetta
+presented several hundred silk banners to the French army. Thence the
+drive was along the left bank of the river till the ruins of St. Cloud
+were reached, where Napoleon III. Unwittingly signed his abdication when
+he declared war against Prussia.
+
+Climbing the hills through fine old forests after fourteen miles of
+travel southwest of Paris, the coach reached Versailles. Here that
+magnificent monarch, Louis XIV. lavished hundreds of millions on
+palaces, parks, fountains, and statues, and here the Harrises studied the
+brilliant pictorial history of France. In the Grand Gallery, which
+commands beautiful views of garden and water, are effective paintings
+in the ceiling, which represent the splendid achievements of Louis XIV.
+In this same Hall of Glass, beneath Le Brun's color history of the defeat
+of the Germans by the French, occurred in 1871 a bit of fine poetic
+justice, when King William of Prussia, with the consent of the German
+States, was saluted as Emperor of reunited Germany. After visiting the
+Grand Trianon the home of Madame de Maintenon, the coach returned via
+Sevres, famous for its wonderful porcelain, and reached Paris at sunset.
+The day was one long to be remembered.
+
+The Paris mornings were spent either in visits to the Louvre or in
+driving. George and Gertrude walked much in Paris. Monday morning all
+resolved to enjoy on foot the Boulevards from the Grand Hotel to the
+Place de la Republique. It was a field-day for the women, for every shop
+had its strong temptation, and the world seemed on dress-parade.
+Boulevard des Italiens in Paris is the most frequented and fashionable.
+Here are located handsome hotels and cafés, and many of the choicest and
+most expensive shops. Several of these were visited, and many presents
+were sent back to the hotel for friends at home.
+
+At noon the Harrises took a simple lunch at one of the popular Duval
+restaurants. While the ladies continued their purchases, Colonel Harris
+and George visited the Bourse, or exchange, a noble building. Business at
+this stock exchange opens at twelve o'clock and closes at three o'clock.
+The loud vociferations of brokers, the quick gestures of excited
+speculators, and the babel of tongues produced a deafening noise, like
+that heard at the stock exchange in New York.
+
+By appointment the ladies called at the exchange, and a coach took the
+party to the Place de la Republique, where stands a superb statue of the
+Republic, surrounded with seated figures of Liberty, Fraternity, and
+Equality. Colonel Harris had often noticed these remarkable words cut
+into many of the public buildings of Paris, and he remarked that the
+lesson taught by them was as injurious as that taught in the Declaration
+of Independence, which declares, that "all men are created equal."
+
+Along the broadest parts of some boulevards and in public parks many
+chairs are placed for hire. On all the boulevards are numerous pillars,
+and small glass stalls, called kiosques, where newspapers are sold. The
+pillars and kiosques are covered with attractive advertisements. In these
+kiosques are sold, usually by women and children, many of the 750 papers
+and periodicals of Paris. Fifty of these papers are political. The
+_Gazette_ is two hundred and sixty-four years old, established in 1631.
+_Le Temps_, "The Times," an evening paper, is English-like, and widely
+known. _Le Journal des Debats_, "The Journal of Debate," appears in
+correct and elegant language, and it usually discusses questions of
+foreign as well as of home politics. Papers called _Petite_, or "Little,"
+have an immense circulation. Over a half million copies of _Le Petite
+Journal_ are sold daily. Frenchmen at home or abroad are not happy
+without their _Figaro_, which is read for its news of amusements, spicy
+gossip, and the odor of the boulevards. The sensitive and powerful press
+of Paris has often provoked political changes and revolutions.
+
+To study better the important revolution for liberty which occurred on
+the ever memorable 14th of July, 1789, the Harrises drove along the
+boulevard till they approached the Bastille, formerly the site of a
+castle, or stronghold, used for a long time as a state prison for the
+confinement of persons who fell victims to the caprice of the government.
+
+The graceful bronze July Column is 154 feet in height, and it
+commemorates the destruction of the Bastille, symbol of despotism. A
+strong desire for independence raised the cry "Down with the Bastille,"
+and the advancing tide of revolution overcame the moats, the walls, the
+guns, and the garrison, and freedom was victorious. On the column the
+names of the fallen "July Heroes" are emblazoned in gilded letters. In
+large vaults beneath are buried the heroes of 1789, with the victims of
+the later revolution of 1848. The capital of the column is crowned with
+an artistic Genius of Liberty standing on a globe, and holding in one
+hand the broken chains of slavery, and in the other the torch of
+enlightenment.
+
+All the boulevards were crowded with artisans in blue blouses, hurrying
+to their homes, as the Harrises drove along the quays to Notre Dame. They
+were in time to witness the sun burnish with his golden rays the graceful
+spire, the majestic tower, and elegant façade, and to enjoy the harmony
+of its grand organ within. To know Notre Dame, founded seven centuries
+ago, is to learn well the history of Paris, and to study the monuments of
+Paris alone, is to acquire the history of France.
+
+Every day some of the Harris party visited the vast Louvre, the most
+important public building of Paris, both architecturally and on account
+of its wonderful art treasures which are the most extensive and valuable
+in the world. Thus two weeks went swiftly by in sight-seeing, and in
+preparation for the marriage.
+
+The private parlors, banquet hall, and several rooms for guests of the
+Grand Hotel had been secured for Gertrude's wedding, which was to take
+place on George's birthday. Though superstition for ages had placed
+birthdays under a ban, yet Gertrude herself preferred this day, and all
+concurred. Beautiful presents had already arrived from America, and
+letters from schoolmates and friends, several of whom, however, had sent
+their presents to Harrisville. Nearly a thousand invitations in all,
+mostly to friends in America, had been mailed, including a hundred to
+friends traveling on the British Isles, and on the continent. May Ingram
+had met in London Claude Searles, son of Hugh Searles, and a graduate of
+Oxford University. She had an invitation mailed to Claude, and he
+promised to come.
+
+Alfonso and Leo arrived from Holland the night before, and each brought
+paintings of their own skill as presents. Alfonso had done an exquisite
+full-length portrait of Gertrude in white, the dress, the same that she
+wore at Smith College graduation. All wondered about Leo's gift. Gertrude
+herself cut the strings, and pushed back the paper, while her sister
+Lucille looked first at her own beautiful likeness and then at Leo. Her
+face grew crimson, as she said, "Leo, this is just what I most wanted for
+Gertrude. Thank you! Thank you!" and she came near kissing the handsome
+artist.
+
+The mother had bought a plentiful supply of those things which daughters
+most need. The father's gift was the promised check for $1000, and a
+mysterious long blue envelope sealed, with the name "Mrs. Gertrude
+Ingram" written on the outside. Underneath her name were the tantalizing
+words, "To be opened when she reaches New York."
+
+"Oh, I so wonder what is inside," said Gertrude.
+
+May Ingram's gift was unique; a mahogany box, inlaid with the rare
+edelweiss, encasing a Swiss phonograph, that was adjusted to play "Elsa's
+Dream Song" from Lohengrin on Gertrude's marriage anniversary, till her
+golden wedding should occur.
+
+Next morning after the sun had gilded the domes and spires of Paris, the
+Harrises sat at breakfast in a private room, fragrant with fresh cut
+flowers. Gertrude wore at her throat her lover's gift, and she never
+looked prettier or happier. All the morning till 11 o'clock everybody was
+busy, when the ushers and friends began to arrive. Soon came the American
+ambassador, his wife and children. At 11:45 a bishop of New York City,
+Claude Searles of London, and intimate friends of the Harrises and George
+Ingram followed, till the private parlors were full.
+
+The orchestra of twenty pieces of Grand Opera House, stationed in the
+reception hall, played the "Largo" of Handel. In the third parlor from
+the ceiling were suspended ropes or garlands of smilax and bride's roses,
+which formed a dainty canopy. White satin ribbons festooned on two rows
+of potted marguerites made a bridal pathway direct from the foot of the
+stairway to the dais beneath the canopy.
+
+On the low platform stood the bishop and the manly bridegroom expectant,
+when a voice at the foot of the stairway, accompanied by three
+instruments, sang the Elsa's Dream Song. The wedding party came
+downstairs as the orchestra played Wagner's Wedding March. The bride was
+dressed in duchess satin of soft ivory tone, the bodice high and long
+sleeves, with trimming of jewelled point lace. The bridesmaids wore pale
+yellow cloth, with reveres and cuffs of daffodil yellow satin and white
+Venetian point. Mrs. Harris wore a gown of heliotrope brocaded silk,
+trimmed with rich lace and a bodice of velvet.
+
+The wedding party took their places and Mme. Melba accompanied by piano,
+harp, and violin sang Gounod's "Ave Maria."
+
+The bishop addressed a few earnest words to the couple before him, spoke
+of responsibilities and obligations, and then the formal questions of
+marriage, in distinct voice, were put to George and Gertrude.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. George Ingram received hearty congratulations. The guests
+retired to the banquet hall where breakfast was served. One table with
+marguerites was reserved for bride and bridegroom, ushers, and
+bridesmaids. Before the breakfast was ended the bride and bridegroom had
+escaped, but soon returned, the bride in a traveling gown of blue cloth.
+Volleys of rice followed the bridal pair, and more rice pelted the
+windows of the coach as it drove to the express train which was to convey
+the happy pair to Fontainebleau for a day, and thence into Switzerland.
+In the evening Colonel Harris entertained a large party of friends at the
+new opera house. The Harrises next morning left for southern France.
+
+Before the marriage day George and Gertrude had carefully provided in
+Paris for the welfare of May Ingram whom both loved. And well they might,
+for May had a noble nature, and her music teachers in Boston, who had
+exerted their best efforts in her behalf, believed that she possessed
+rare talents, which, if properly developed, would some day make her
+conspicuous in the American galaxy of primadonnas.
+
+They had secured for May sunny rooms at a pension in the Boulevard
+Haussmann, where a motherly French woman resided with her two daughters.
+In beautiful Paris, May Ingram was to live and study, hoping to realize
+the dreams of her childhood, a first rank in grand opera.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+ABOARD THE YACHT "HALLENA"
+
+
+Before leaving Paris Colonel Harris was solicitous that his son Alfonso
+should accompany him to Rome, and Leo urged the artistic advantage of a
+trip to Italy, but Alfonso had attractions in Holland of which the father
+knew not. Leo, of course, had his suspicion, but did not wish to betray
+his friend, and so Alfonso returned to the Netherlands ostensibly to
+study art.
+
+Before leaving New York it was frequently stated by Leo that when he
+reached Rome he hoped to be able to even up favors with Alfonso by a
+series of visits among his relatives, the famous Colonna family. While
+Leo regretted seriously to lose this opportunity, he was quick to see
+that the change of plans would leave him much in Lucille's company, the
+thing that gave him most pleasure. Lucille before leaving Harrisville had
+a severe attack of the grip, and Mrs. Harris hoped the journey abroad
+would prove beneficial to her health.
+
+The ocean voyage had brought the roses back to her cheeks, but the
+railway trips, the over-work of sight-seeing, and especially the
+excitement of the Paris wedding, had renewed frequent complaints of heart
+difficulty, and at night Lucille was restless and failed to secure
+satisfactory sleep. Of course the mother was anxious, and was glad when
+the express arrived at Nice, on the Mediterranean. Fortunately this was
+not the fashionable season, so quiet quarters were secured overlooking
+the terraced promenade, the small harbor open to the southeast, and the
+smooth sea beyond. Here Mrs. Harris hoped that her daughter would
+speedily recover her health.
+
+Nice is charmingly situated in a small plain near the French frontier at
+the foot of the triple-ridged mountains, which shelter the city on the
+north and east against northern winds, while the river Paglion bounds
+Nice on the west. Far beyond stretch the snow-clad peaks of the Maritime
+Alps.
+
+In the cold season thousands of foreigners, especially the English, visit
+this winter paradise. On the high background are Roman ruins and an old
+castle enclosed by bastioned walls; leading to two squares, one of which
+is surrounded with porticoes, are streets embellished with theater,
+public library, baths, and handsome homes that are frescoed externally.
+In Nice the patriot Garibaldi first saw the light, and just above the
+town on a sunny hillside lies buried the illustrious Gambetta.
+
+Lucille was soon able to sit on the portico and watch the vessels in the
+harbor come and go, also parties of excursionists in pleasure boats, and
+well dressed people in the shade of the great palms on the adjacent
+promenade. Thus hours went pleasantly by while Leo often played
+delightfully on his guitar.
+
+Few if any places in the world are like the Riviera where in winter
+months royalty and aristocracy gather. Here come the gay world of fashion
+and the delicate in health to beg of death a respite of a few more days.
+The physician in attendance upon Lucille advised much outdoor air, and
+frequent coach rides along the shore were taken to Cannes, to Monaco, and
+Mentone.
+
+In the seaport town of Cannes, a bright gem set in groves of olives and
+oranges, Napoleon landed from Elba on the first of March, 1815. The
+tri-color of France was again thrown to the breeze, and en route to Paris
+Napoleon received on every hand the renewed allegiance of officers and
+garrisons. The French were wild with excitement, but Europe was filled
+with amazement. Again France was conquered without the shedding of blood,
+a victory unparalleled in history.
+
+Lucille particularly enjoyed the ride of eight miles east along the
+peaceful Mediterranean, also the visit to Monaco, capital of the
+principality of its own name, with an area of about 34,000 acres. Monaco
+is beautifully situated on a promontory in the sea, and has an attractive
+palace and cultivated terraces. The ruling prince resides here six months
+and at Paris the other six months.
+
+Monte Carlo is a veritable bit of paradise so far as nature and art can
+work wonders. Around this famous gambling resort grow aloes, orange
+trees, and tufted palms. Within the handsome casino weak humanity of all
+nationalities is allured by glittering promises of wealth. No wonder
+a dozen or more suicides occur every month.
+
+It was three o'clock on the sixth day of the stay at Nice, when Colonel
+Harris sitting on the porch of the hotel and using a marine glass,
+discovered to the southwest a tiny craft rapidly approaching Nice. For
+three days he had been anxiously watching and waiting for the arrival of
+the "Hallena," built at Harrisville for the son of his special friend Mr.
+Harry Hall.
+
+Before leaving Paris, Harry Hall Jr. had invited the colonel's family to
+coast along the Mediterranean in his new yacht. It was arranged that the
+"Hallena" should touch at Nice and take aboard the colonel's family.
+Young Mr. Hall was to rejoin his yacht at Gibraltar, and doubtless he was
+now aboard.
+
+The colonel grew nervous as he observed the approach of the little boat.
+It had been agreed between Harris and Hall that the yacht would fly the
+Union Jack at the bow, the national banner at the flag-staff, and a
+streamer bearing the yacht's name at the mast-head.
+
+As the colonel again wiped the dust from his glasses, Lucille said,
+"Father, please let me try the glass, perhaps my eyes are better." While
+Lucille eagerly looked toward the yacht, Leo watched every motion, as the
+mention of young Hall's name in connection with his great wealth had
+awakened jealousy in his heart.
+
+Suddenly Lucille shouted, "There she is! I can see the stars and stripes;
+how welcome is the dear old flag, we see it abroad so rarely!"
+
+"Hasten, Leo," said the colonel, "and ask the hotel proprietor to raise
+the stars and stripes over his hotel."
+
+Colonel Harris had promised Mr. Hall to do this, and so advise him where
+the Harris family were stopping. No sooner was the red, white, and blue
+given to the breeze above the hotel, than a puff of white smoke was seen
+on the yacht, and then came the report of a gun in response to Harris's
+flag signal. Bills were paid at once, and the Harrises took carriage down
+to the landing. As the "Hallena" glided in between the piers, she was as
+graceful as a swan, or as Leo expressed it, "as pretty as a pirate."
+
+Harris himself when at home saw the yacht launched, and he was as proud
+of her behavior then as were the officers of the Harrisville Ship
+Building Company.
+
+The yacht had now approached so near that Colonel Harris and Harry Hall
+saluted each other, and in five minutes the Harris and Hall parties were
+exchanging cordial greetings on the deck of the "Hallena." "Captain
+Hall," as Harry was known at sea, was very cordial to all. Colonel Harris
+was glad again to meet some of his old Harrisville business friends.
+
+Luke Henley and wife were of the Hall party. He was stout, resolute, and
+ambitious; his wife womanly and well dressed. Henley early learned that
+money was power. Combining what he fell heir to with his wife's fortune,
+and what he had made by bold ventures in the steel, ore, and coal trade,
+he was enabled to live in a fine villa, overlooking the water, and to
+carry on an immense business on the inland lakes.
+
+His business, however, was used as a cover to his real designs in life.
+Influential in the local politics of Harrisville he had experienced the
+keen pleasure of wielding the silver sceptre of power, and he longed not
+only to be the "power behind the throne," but to sit on the throne itself
+and guide the Ship of State.
+
+Major Williams also was one of the "Hallena" party. He was young,
+slender, and had a cheerful smile for everybody. He had climbed to the
+presidency of the Harrisville Bank which had thousands of depositors, and
+which wielded a gigantic financial power.
+
+It was decided not to start for Genoa till the next morning. Dinner was
+soon announced and Captain Hall offered his arm to Lucille, whom he
+placed at his right hand, and Mrs. Harris at his left. The dinner hour
+and part of the evening were spent in pleasant reminiscences of what
+each had seen since leaving Harrisville. The marriage of George Ingram
+and Gertrude was also a suggestive topic, and many agreeable things were
+spoken. Captain Hall was present at the Paris wedding, and it was the
+stately beauty of Lucille more than all else that prompted him to invite
+the Harrises to take the Mediterranean cruise.
+
+Some of the mothers of fine daughters in Harrisville had exhausted their
+wits in trying to entrap Harry Hall, who was impartially attentive to
+all, but was never known to pay marked attention to any young lady. That
+Captain Hall should overlook the other women on the yacht, and place
+Lucille at his right hand was so marked that Major Williams after dinner,
+lighting his cigar, said, "Henley, why wouldn't Harry and Lucille make a
+good match?" "Lucille is a beautiful girl," was all Henley said, and as
+the lights of Nice disappeared, the "Hallena" party retired for the
+night.
+
+An early breakfast was ordered as everybody wished to be early on deck to
+witness the yacht's departure for Genoa. As the "Hallena" responded to
+her helm, the United States consul at Nice hoisted and lowered the flag
+thrice, as a _bon voyage_ to the American yacht, and the consul queried
+whether the American statesman was yet born who was wise enough to
+introduce and maintain such a national policy as would multiply his
+country's commerce and flag on the sea. Patriotic Americans stopping at
+Monaco also responded with flag and gun, as the "Hallena" steamed swiftly
+away.
+
+The sun had reached the zenith, when Captain Hall sighted Genoa, and he
+called Lucille to stand with him on the bridge. "Superb Genoa! Worthy
+birthplace of our Columbus," said Lucille.
+
+"Yes," said Harry, "Genoa is older than Borne; she was the rival of
+Venice, and the mother of colonies."
+
+As the "Hallena" approached this strongly fortified city of northern
+Italy, the capacious harbor was a forest of masts, and a crazy-quilt of
+foreign flags, but not one ship was flying the stars and stripes, a fact
+which saddened the hearts of the tourists. The "Hallena" steamed past the
+lighthouse and moles that protect the harbor, and all the guests of
+Captain Hall stood on the forward deck admiring the city with its
+palaces, churches, white blocks, and picturesque villas that occupy land
+which gradually rises and recedes from the bay.
+
+On landing, the officials were very courteous, and gave Captain Hall and
+his party no trouble when it was learned that that "Hallena" brought
+travelers only. The Genoese are very proud of their city and its past
+history, and they are courteous to Americans, especially so since the
+Columbian World's Fair.
+
+The tourists found the streets in the older part of Genoa narrow, seldom
+more than ten feet wide, with lofty buildings on either side. But in the
+new portions, especially on the wide Strada Nuova and the Strada Balbi,
+the palaces and edifices present fine architecture.
+
+Nearly a day was spent in driving about Genoa with its flower-crowned
+terraces. It was after five o'clock when the party stood before the noble
+statue of Columbus recently dedicated in a prominent square filled with
+palms and flowering shrubs, and near the principal railway station. Here
+the statue welcomes the coming and speeds the parting guest. Its design
+is admirable. Surmounting a short shaft is Columbus leaning upon an
+anchor, and pointing with his right hand to the figure of America; below
+him are discerned encircling the shaft ornaments symbolic of Columbus's
+little fleet, while other statues represent science, religion, courage,
+and geography; between them are scenes in bass-relief of his adventurous
+career.
+
+Dinner was taken aboard the yacht as it steamed away from Genoa. The
+flowers that Harry had bought for Lucille's stateroom she thoughtfully
+placed on the table, and with the porcelain they added artistic effect.
+The day's experiences were reviewed, and, as the appetizing courses
+were served, the conversation drifted back to the World's Columbian Fair
+which all had attended. Many of the wonders of the "White City" were
+recounted, and Henley in his off-hand manner repeated a compliment
+which was paid by a cultivated Parisian who visited the Fair. The
+Frenchman said that at the last Paris Exposition, he saw immense and
+unsightly structures, such as one might expect to find in far-off
+Chicago, but that at the Columbian World's Fair, he beheld buildings
+such as his own artistic Paris and France should have furnished; that the
+Columbian Fair was an artistic triumph that had never been paralleled
+except in the days of imperial Rome by her grand temples, palaces,
+arches, bridges, and statues.
+
+"The Parisian is right, and he pays America a most deserved compliment.
+Never was so elegant a panorama enrolled as at Chicago," responded
+Colonel Harris.
+
+"You are correct, Colonel," said Captain Hall, "the triumph of our
+Exposition was largely due to the masterly supervision which evoked
+uniformity of design and harmonious groupings by employing only those
+of our architects, sculptors, painters, and landscape gardeners, who
+possessed the highest skill."
+
+Leo ventured to add that the "White City" seemed to him dream-like and
+that under the magical influence of Columbus, as patron-saint, all
+nationality, creed, and sex, were harmoniously blended in ideal beauty
+and grandeur.
+
+Lucille, who had just sipped the last of her chocolate, also bore
+testimony, and Harry watched her admiringly as she said, "At times,
+especially in the evening, when thousands of incandescent lights outlined
+the Court of Honor with its golden Goddess of the Republic and the
+façades, turrets, and domes, it seemed to some of us as if we had stepped
+out upon a neighboring planet, where civilization and art had been
+purified, or that the veil was lifted and we were gazing upon the
+glories of the New Jerusalem."
+
+The ladies now sought the deck of the "Hallena," and were soon followed
+by the gentlemen, who smoked their fragrant Havanas, enjoying every
+moment's vacation from business anxieties at home. The yacht, like a
+slender greyhound, in charge of the first officer was swiftly running
+towards the Isle of Elba, en route to Naples. The stars never shone more
+brilliantly in the Italian sky, and land breezes were mingling their rich
+odors with the salt sea air.
+
+The spell of Columbus's great discovery stirred the soul of Harry Hall.
+Holding his half-smoked cigar, he repeated the familiar couplet,
+
+  "Man's inhumanity to man
+   Makes countless thousands mourn."
+
+"Strange that four centuries go by before even Genoa erects his monument,
+which we have admired to-day; though monuments to the memory of Columbus
+have been erected in many cities, yet, how tardy the world was to
+appreciate the value of Columbus's discovery, a third of the land of the
+globe. How pitiful the last days of Columbus, who, old and ill, returning
+in 1504 from his fourth voyage to the new world, found his patroness
+Isabella dying, and Ferdinand heartless. With no money to pay his bills,
+Columbus died May 20th, 1505, in poor quarters at Valladolid, his last
+words being, 'Into thy hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit.' It is now
+natural perhaps that many cities should claim his birth and his bones."
+
+"Yes," said Lucille, "how encouraging some of the world's kind epitaphs
+would be if they were only spoken before death came. Two hemispheres now
+eagerly study the inspiring story of Columbus's faith, courage,
+perseverance, and success."
+
+Henley said, "Captain Hall, you are young yet, but by the time you reach
+my age you will have little use for the sentiment young people so often
+indulge in. When New York tries her hand with expositions she will
+doubtless deal with facts. The truth is, Columbus was human like the
+rest of us, and followed in the wake of others for his own personal
+aggrandizement. He was not the first man to discover America. The
+Norsemen antedated him by five centuries."
+
+"What if the Norsemen did first discover America?" said Colonel Harris.
+"The discoveries of the vikings were not utilized by civilization. It is
+held by the courts that a patent is valid only in the name of the
+inventor who first gives the invention a useful introduction. Columbus's
+discovery was fortunately made at a time when civilization was able with
+men and money to follow up and appropriate its advantages."
+
+"The true discoverer of America," said Henley, "I believe to be Jean
+Cousin, a sea captain of Dieppe, France, who crossed the Atlantic and
+sailed into the Amazon River in 1488, four years before Columbus reached
+San Salvador. Then Spain, Portugal, the States of the Church, Ferdinand,
+Isabella, and Columbus attempted to rob Cousin of his bold adventure. In
+brief these are the facts: Jean Cousin was an able and scientific
+navigator. In 1487 his skill so contributed in securing a naval victory
+for the French over the English that the reward for his personal valor
+was the gift of an armed ship from the merchants of Dieppe, who expected
+him to go forth in search of new discoveries.[A]
+
+[Footnote A: _The True Discovery of America._ Captain R.N. Gambier.
+_Fortnightly Review_, January 1, 1894.]
+
+"In January, 1488, Cousin sailed west out into the Atlantic, and south,
+for two months with Vincent Pinzon a practical sailor, second in command.
+He sailed up the Amazon River, secured strange birds, feathers, spices,
+and unknown woods, and returned to the coast of Africa for a cargo of
+ivory, oil, skins, and gold dust. Pinzon quarreled with the natives,
+fired upon them, and seized some of their goods, so that they fled and
+would not come back to him. He thus lost a valuable return cargo. At
+Dieppe the merchants were enraged; Pinzon was tried by court martial for
+imperilling the trade of Africa, and banished from French soil. He
+thirsted for revenge and went back to Palos to tell his brothers Alonzo
+and Martin, shipowners, of the mighty Amazon; often they speculated as to
+the vast lands which the Amazon drained.
+
+"Columbus, discouraged, ridiculed, and begging his way, started out to
+meet at Huelva his brother-in-law and secure promised help, so that he
+could visit France. Suddenly he changed his route, stopped at the little
+convent La Rabida, met Juan Perez, who knew Queen Isabella, and Fernandez
+the priest, the latter a close friend of the three Pinzon brothers.
+Columbus got what he wanted at court, returned to Palos, and with the
+Pinzon brothers sailed west, with Vincent Pinzon, Cousin's shipmate, as
+pilot. The conclusion that Jean Cousin, and not Columbus first discovered
+America, seems irresistible. Pope Alexander VI., by Papal bull, had
+already divided all the new discoveries made, between Catholic Spain and
+Portugal. Dieppe and France were in the Pope's black books. What chance
+of recognition had Cousin against Columbus, the protégé of this Pope?"
+
+"You seem to win your case," said Major Williams, "what romance in
+history will be left us? William Tell is now a myth, and Washington's
+little hatchet story is no more."
+
+Lucille quieted Leo with a smile, cigars were thrown overboard, the light
+on the Isle of Elba was visible, and all retired for the night, while the
+alert yacht, like a whirring night-hawk, flew on towards Naples.
+
+On the yacht "Hallena" early to bed and early to rise was an unwritten
+law. By six o'clock next morning, breakfast had been served, and the
+tourists were on deck with glasses, each anxious to discover objects of
+interest. During the night busy Leghorn on the coast, and Pisa, and
+Florence up the Arno, were left behind. Leo was proud of sunny and
+artistic Italy and he much desired that Lucille should see at Pisa the
+famous white marble leaning tower, with its beautiful spiral colonnades;
+its noble cathedral and baptistry, the latter famous for its wonderful
+echo, and the celebrated cemetery made of earth brought from the Holy
+Land. At Florence she should see the stupendous Duomo, with the
+Brunelleschi dome that excited the emulation of Michael Angelo; the
+bronze gates of Ghiberti, "worthy to be the gates of paradise," and the
+choice collections of art in the Pitti Palace and the Uffizi Gallery
+connected by Porte Vecchio. But Leo contented himself with the thought
+that when the yacht episode was over, and Harry Hall had passed out of
+sight, he could then take Lucille over Italy to enjoy a thousand-and-one
+works of art, including masterpieces by such artists as Michael Angelo,
+Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Guido, and others.
+
+Lucille had studied art in Boston, and she was fond of Leo because he
+passionately loved art and could assist her. She began to comprehend what
+Aristotle meant when he defined art as "the reason of the thing, without
+the matter," or Emerson, "the conscious utterance of thought, by speech,
+or action, to any end."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+TWO UNANSWERED LETTERS
+
+
+During the night the yacht "Hallena" had steamed down through the Channel
+Piombino, and the Tuscan Archipelago, studded with islands, and had
+passed Rome, the Eternal City.
+
+"Naples cannot be far off," thought Leo, for to the southeast is seen the
+smoking torch of Mt. Vesuvius, southwest is the island of Ischia with its
+extinct volcano, and beyond is Cape Miseno. The "Hallena" cautiously felt
+her way among the luxuriant islands that guard the broad and beautiful
+Bay of Naples and the Siren City. Her passengers had ample opportunity
+to study the attractions of this justly celebrated locality.
+
+Vesuvius, reflected in the smooth waters of the bay, lifts high her peak,
+the ascending smoke coloring the white clouds above. At her feet lies
+ancient Hurculaneum, submerged on the 24th of August, A.D. 79, by a flood
+of molten lava.
+
+Nearer the bay and only five miles from the volcano, is ancient Pompeii,
+which was overwhelmed by the same eruption of Vesuvius. Pompeii was
+buried, not with lava, but with tufa, ashes and scoriæ, and since 1755
+has thus been the more easily and extensively uncovered. This ancient
+Roman city was enclosed by walls and entered by several gates. Its
+numerous streets were paved with lava. The traveler of to-day beholds
+uncovered the one story and terraced houses, shops, mansions, the market
+place, temples, theatres, and baths. In some of the houses were found
+furniture, statues, paintings, books, medals, urns, jewels, utensils,
+manuscripts, etc., all less injured than one would suppose.
+
+Today more modern towns are located about the curved shore of this
+unrivaled bay. The sparkling waters, the winding shore, the bold cliffs,
+the threatening lava cone, the buried cities, all combine under the
+bluest skies to make the Bay of Naples a Mecca for worshipers of the
+beautiful.
+
+On the deck of the "Hallena" stood the group of American tourists,
+enchanted with the picturesque environment of historic Naples. The city
+is built along the shore and up the sides of adjacent mountains. A mole,
+with lighthouse, projects into the bay and forms a small harbor.
+
+The sun had climbed towards the zenith, and shone full upon this fair
+city, as the yacht entered the harbor. Many of the buildings are white,
+five or six stories in height, with flat roofs covered with plants and
+shrubbery. If the weather is favorable the inmates resort at sunset to
+their roof-gardens to enjoy lovely views and the cool breezes from the
+bay.
+
+The Spiaggia, a popular thoroughfare, is adorned with statues, and
+extends along the shore to the Tomb of Virgil, and the mole. It is
+crowded every evening with Neapolitans in equipages, some elegant, and
+some grotesque.
+
+Two or three days were spent in studying the palaces and art galleries of
+Naples. Of special interest is the national Museo Borbonico, which is
+remarkable for its collection of antiquities. In the palmy days of Borne,
+Naples was a luxurious retreat for emperors and wealthy citizens of the
+great empire. Naples was the scene of a most disgraceful outrage in May,
+1848, when it was plundered by the Lazzaroni, or Begging Community, and
+fifteen hundred lives were lost.
+
+When the sight-seeing in Naples was completed Captain Hall offered to
+take the Harrises in his yacht back to Rome, but his offer was declined.
+Good-byes were cordially exchanged and the "Hallena" steamed south to
+Palermo, en route to Athens and other Levantine cities, while the
+Harrises took the express for Rome.
+
+Leo was glad to see the "Hallena" steam away, and to be with Lucille
+aboard a train moving towards Rome. When the station in the eastern part
+of the city was reached, a carriage conveyed the Harrises along the Corso
+which at the hour of their driving was enlivened by many vehicles and
+foot-passengers.
+
+Leo told Lucille of the popular festivals at Rome, especially of the
+Carnival that extends over several days, which consists of daily
+processions in the Corso, accompanied by the throwing of bouquets and
+comfits; the whole concluding with a horse race from the Piazza del
+Popolo to Piazza di Venezia, upwards of a mile. On the last, or the
+Moccoli evening, tapers are lighted immediately after sunset. Balconies
+most suitable for observing these animated scenes are expensive, but
+always in great demand, especially by tourists.
+
+Colonel Harris took his family and Leo to an excellent hotel on the
+Piazza de Popolo. The weather being uncomfortably warm, it was decided
+to spend only a few days in the city, and go as soon as possible to the
+country. Leo was very familiar with Rome, ancient and modern, and he
+felt that weeks were absolutely necessary to study and comprehend the
+grandeur of a city that for so many centuries had been mistress of the
+world. He agreed with Niebuhr, "As the streams lose themselves in the
+mightier ocean, so the history of the people once distributed along the
+Mediterranean shores is absorbed in that of the mighty mistress of the
+world."
+
+Leo back again in Rome was in an ecstasy of joy. Here Greece had laid at
+the feet of Rome her conqueror, the accumulated art treasures of ages.
+Here Leo could have keenest delight, where he moved among the noblest
+examples of antique sculpture, which filled the galleries and chambers of
+the Vatican and Capitol. Most of the night he lay awake, planning how he
+could in so short a time exhibit to his American friends Rome and her
+wealth of art. At breakfast he said, "A whole day is needed to inspect
+the Forum Romanum, a day each, for the Capitoline Hill, the Appian Way,
+and many other historic localities in this seven-hilled city."
+
+Leo, acting as guide, took his party to the Pincian Hill near the
+northern wall, a fashionable resort with fine boulevards and frequent
+band music. From the summit, he pointed out the yellow Tiber, which winds
+for seventeen miles to the sea. The larger part of modern Rome lies on
+the left bank of the Tiber, and covers three historic hills. Towering
+above the tops of the buildings are the domes and spires of nearly four
+hundred churches of which the dome of St. Peter's is the most imposing.
+In sight beyond are the Capitol, the ruins of the Colosseum, and ancient
+tombs along the Appian Way. To the west on the Palatine Hill are the
+ruins of the palace of the Cæsars, and outside the walls, on the broad
+Campagna, are the remains of several aqueducts converging on the city,
+some of which, restored, are in use to-day.
+
+The day's ride included a visit to Agrippa's Pantheon, now denuded of its
+bronze roofing and marble exterior. A circular opening in the huge dome
+admits both light and rain. Leo standing with Lucille by the tomb of
+Raphael in one of the recesses, for a moment was silent. Then he said,
+"Lucille, it is impossible to fully appreciate the many and beautiful
+works of this 'prince of painters.' He was born on Good Friday, 1483, and
+lived exactly thirty-seven years. He was of slight build, sallow, and had
+brown eyes. Over nine hundred prints of his works are known. Besides his
+works in fresco at the Vatican, for a time he had charge of the
+construction of St. Peter's, and he also painted masterpieces now at
+Bologna, Dresden, Madrid, Hampton Court, and executed numerous
+commissions for Leo X.; and Madonnas, holy families, portraits, etc.,
+for others. Raphael stands unrivaled, chiefly in his power to portray
+lofty sentiments which persons of all nationalities can feel, but few
+can describe. He also excelled in invention, composition, simplicity
+and grandeur. For moral force in allegory and history, and for fidelity
+in portrait, Raphael was unsurpassed. His last and most celebrated oil
+picture, the transfiguration, unfinished, stood at his head as his body
+lay in state."
+
+Colonel Harris was interested in the restored Triumphal Arch of Titus
+erected to commemorate the defeat of the Jews A.D. 70, also in the
+beautiful Arch to Severus. At the end of the Rostra, or Orators' Tribune
+was the Umbilicus Urbis Romae, or ideal center of Rome and the Roman
+Empire. True it was that all roads led to Rome. Leo and Lucille visited
+by moonlight the ruins of the great Colosseum, and the lights and shadows
+in the huge old stone and brick amphitheater, made it look all the more
+imposing and picturesque.
+
+On the morning of the second day Leo Colonna guided his friends down the
+Via di Ripetta, stopping at the Mausoleum of Augustus, which in the
+middle ages was used by the Colonnas as a fortress. Then continuing down
+the left bank of the Tiber, the Ponte S. Angelo was reached. This ancient
+bridge of five arches leads directly to the Castello S. Angelo, the
+citadel of Rome, which originally was a tomb erected by Hadrian for
+himself and successor. The tomb is 240 feet in diameter, and must have
+been very beautiful, as it was once encrusted with marble. Statues stood
+around the margin of the top, and above all a colossal statue of Hadrian
+himself. Later the Goths, veritable iconoclasts, converted this tomb of
+the emperors into a fortress, hurling the marble statues down on the
+besiegers. For centuries this castle-tomb was used as a stronghold by
+the party in power to maintain their sway over the people. In 1822 Pius
+IX. refortified the castle. In it was seen the gloomy dungeon where
+Beatrice Cenci and others were incarcerated.
+
+The Harrises drove down the Borgo Nuovo to the church of St. Peter. Its
+approach is through a magnificent piazza ornamented on the right and left
+by two semicircular porticoes of 284 columns, which are surmounted by an
+entablature, and 192 statues, each eleven feet in height. It is claimed
+that the origin of the Cathedral of St. Peter is due to the impulse
+given by Pope Julius II. who decided to erect a grand monument for
+himself in his life-time, and the new edifice was needed to shield it.
+St. Peter's was begun in 1506 and dedicated in 1626.
+
+Bramante's wonderful plans were accepted, and both Michael Angelo and
+Raphael aided in its construction. From a Greek cross rises a gigantic
+dome, which is one of the boldest and most wonderful efforts of
+architecture. Lucille recalled Byron's description,
+
+  "The vast and wondrous dome,
+   To which Diana's marvel was a cell."
+
+Entering this mighty cathedral, Colonel Harris was bewildered with its
+grand and harmonious interior. The height from the pavement to the cross
+rivals the height of the Washington monument. The nave is 607 feet in
+length, and the transept is 445 feet. St. Paul's at London covers only
+two acres, St. Peter's five acres. The cost of the former was $3,750,000,
+the cost of the latter from $60,000,000 to $80,000,000.
+
+The Harrises visited St. John Lateran, the mother-church of the Eternal
+City, where Popes were crowned, and where on Ascension Day, from one of
+its balconies, the Pope's benediction to the people is pronounced.
+
+They also visited the restored St. Paul's Church outside the walls. Its
+interior is of vast dimensions. It was built of valuable materials, and
+the whole is very imposing. Especially was Lucille impressed with the
+long series of portrait medallions of all the Popes from St. Peter to Leo
+X. worked in mosaic above the polished columns.
+
+Many monuments in St. Peter's were erected to the memory of several of
+the famous Popes. The Vatican, the largest palace in Europe, is where the
+Popes came to reside after their return from Avignon, France, in 1377,
+for here they felt much security in the vicinity of the Castle S. Angelo,
+with which it communicated by a covered gallery. For a time the Popes
+vied with each other in enlarging and embellishing the Vatican, which
+covers an immense space, and is a collection of separate buildings; the
+length is 1150 feet, and the breath 767 feet. The Vatican is said to
+contain 20 courts, and 11,000 halls, chapels, salons, and private
+apartments, most of which are occupied by collections and show-rooms,
+while only a small part is set apart for the papal court.
+
+The Harrises visited the most celebrated portions of the Vatican; the
+Scala Regia, covered with frescoes of events in Papal history, the
+Sistine Chapel, adorned with fine frescoes by Michael Angelo, including
+the Last Judgment. Here the Cardinals meet to elect the Pope, and here
+many of the most gorgeous ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church are
+performed.
+
+Equally enthusiastic were Leo and Lucille over Raphael's superb frescoes
+in the Loggie, and in the chambers adjoining. The few pictures in the
+gallery are scarcely surpassed. The museum contains some of the noblest
+treasures of art, including the Laocoon, and Apollo Belvidere. The
+library is very valuable. The superb palace of the Quirinal has beautiful
+gardens.
+
+Besides the several elegant public palaces in Rome, there are in and near
+the city over sixty private palaces or villas; the finest of which is the
+Barberini Palace. Several of the villas are located above terraces amid
+orange and citron groves, and they are ornamented with statues and
+fountains. Leo with pride took his friends to see the Colonna Palace,
+which contained many old portraits of his family.
+
+After dinner a drive was taken outside the Porta del Popolo to the
+magnificent Villa Borghese and the Pincian Hill. It was planned to visit
+on the morrow the gallery Borghese, next to the Vatican, the most
+important in Rome. It was dark as Leo returned with his party to the
+hotel. The landlord handed him a gentleman's card which read,
+
+  Mr. Ferdinand Francisco Colonna.
+  Piazza Colonna, Rome.
+
+The landlord said that this gentleman was waiting for Leo in the
+reception-room. Leo at once recognized the card as that of his cousin,
+who was an attorney in Rome, and he hurried to meet his relative. They
+grasped hands warmly, and soon were in earnest conversation.
+
+Ferdinand, taking a large official envelope from his pocket, opened it
+and began reading what he called a very important paper. It was a copy
+of the will of their rich uncle, who had just died, while inspecting
+his possession in Sicily. Leo Colonna bore the name of this uncle, his
+father's oldest brother, who was fond of art, and who was never married.
+He had always been attached to Leo, his nephew, and in his will Leo was
+made his sole heir. Great was Leo's surprise to learn that he was now not
+only the owner of a fine palace southeast of Rome, but of large
+possessions in Rome, Sicily, and South America.
+
+Leo leaned back in his chair, his eyes closed, his face changed color
+and the muscles of his hands and face twitched as if he were in pain.
+Suddenly he recovered possession of himself and said, "Ferdinand, you
+almost paralyze me by the news you bring. Am I dreaming, or not?"
+
+"No, no, Leo. This is a copy of the will of our uncle. The original will
+is in my safe. By this same will I am to have 100,000 lira for assisting
+you. I am now at your service."
+
+"Ferdinand, you bring sad and glorious news. What is your advice?"
+
+"That we file the original will at once in the proper court, and that you
+proceed with me immediately to Marino to take possession there of your
+palace and property."
+
+"Agreed, Ferdinand. We will leave Rome for Marino at noon tomorrow.
+Meet me here, as I may have friends to join us."
+
+Leo hastened at once to tell the good news to the Harrises, who were
+nearly as much elated as himself, and it was agreed that all would join
+Leo in his proposed trip. It was late that night when Leo and Lucille
+separated in the parlor below. Each had dreamed of castles in Spain, but
+now it looked as if Leo and possibly Lucille, might actually possess
+castles in Italy.
+
+That night Leo told Lucille much about the princely Colonna family of
+Italy, which originated in the 11th century. Pope Martin V., several
+others who took part in the contest between the Guelphs and the
+Ghibellines, and many others of the Colonna family had attained to
+historical and literary distinction.
+
+Lucille was interested in the story of the great naval battle of Lepanto
+in which Marc Antonio Colonna aided Don Juan of Austria to gain a
+world-renowned victory for Christianity against the Turks, the first
+effective triumph of the cross over the crescent. Leo recited the story
+of the life of the illustrious Vittoria Colonna, pictures of a bust of
+whom Lucille had seen that day in Rome.
+
+Vittoria, and the son of the Marquis of Pescara, when children four years
+old, were affianced, and in their seventeenth year they were married. The
+young bride bravely sent her husband to the wars with a pavilion, an
+embroidered standard, and palm leaves, expressing the hope that he
+would return with honors, for she was proud of the Colonna name.
+
+Vittoria full of genius and grace, idealized her young showy cavalier,
+who was gallant and chivalrous. Her brave knight Pescara, among other
+victories, won the battle of Pavia, and finally died of his wounds in
+Milan before she could reach his side. Vittoria Colonna buried her love
+in Pescara's grave at Naples. Her widowhood was a period of sorrow, song,
+friendship, and saintly life. She was tall, stately, and dignified; of
+gracious manners, and united much charm with her culture and virtue. She
+is considered the fairest and noblest lady of the Italian Renaissance.
+
+Vittoria Colonna was on intimate terms with the great men and women of
+her day, and in close sympathy with the Italian reformers. Michael Angelo
+was warmly her friend. His strong verses full of feeling to Vittoria were
+replied to in gentle, graceful strains. She died as the sun sank in the
+Mediterranean on the afternoon of February 25, 1547, Michael Angelo
+regretting as he saw her, lying on her death-bed, that he had not kissed
+her forehead and face as he had kissed her hand.
+
+As Lucille retired that night she felt the force of Vittoria's noble
+life, and longed to emulate one so related to her friend Leo. She felt
+her own heart drawing nearer to Leo's, and in the silent hours of the
+night, she sometimes wondered if she should ever bear the honored name of
+Colonna.
+
+Next day at 12 o'clock promptly, Leo's cousin came, and the Harrises and
+Leo took the Rome and Naples line for Marino, located sixteen miles
+southeast of Rome, where Vittoria Colonna had lived, and where Leo
+expected to find and take possession of his own palace and property.
+
+The Roman tombs of the Via Appia on the right were soon left behind.
+A dozen miles out and Frascate a summer resort was conspicuous with
+its many lovely villas. Later the party left the train and enjoyed a
+beautiful drive of three miles to Marino, a small town famous for its
+wine, and located on the Alban Mountains. In the middle ages, the Orsini
+defended themselves here in a stronghold against their enemies the
+Colonna, but the latter under Martin V. captured Marino, which with the
+surrounding country has remained a fief of the Colonna family to the
+present day.
+
+Ferdinand had already attended to much of the detail at Marino, so that
+Leo, as owner of the vast Colonna estate, was loyally received by the
+villagers, the tenants, and the old servants. Leo made his friends, the
+Harrises, most welcome at his unexpected and palatial home. The Harrises
+were delighted at what they saw. Leo and Lucille took several drives
+together over the large estate. Once they drove along the shady roads,
+commanding extensive views, through the beautiful park of Colonna, and
+down a well wooded valley to the clear waters of the Alban Lake. Often
+Leo wished that Alfonso had accompanied him.
+
+For some time before leaving Rome, Lucille had complained of a dull
+headache and chills at night. In France Mrs. Harris was fearful that the
+summer trip to Italy was not wise, but Leo and her family thought the
+yacht voyage to Naples would be charming. On the morning of the third
+day at Marino, Lucille was unable to leave her bed. Leo hastily called a
+physician who found her pulse very low. She experienced great thirst and
+nausea, and the heat of her body was much increased. When the doctor
+learned that Colonel Harris's daughter had slept in Rome with the window
+open, he at once declared to the family that Lucille had Roman fever,
+that dreaded malaria which is engendered in summer months near the
+marshes of Italy. Leo summoned to Marino the ablest physicians of Rome,
+who were in constant attendance, and heroic treatment was adopted.
+
+Both Mr. and Mrs. Harris were half crazed with the fear of losing
+their beautiful daughter, and Leo himself was nearly frantic. Lucille
+grew rapidly worse. Her strength and courage failed her, she became
+unconscious, and as the tall white lily in the midday sun loses its
+beauty and life, so Lucille passed from earth, her agonizing mother
+holding the dead daughter's slender white hands.
+
+Leo fell insensible and was removed from the death-chamber by his
+servants. Womanly courage returned to the mother after a few moments of
+intense grief, and aided by others the necessary preparations were made
+for the removal of Lucille to America.
+
+Captain Harry Hall with his yacht en route to Athens had called at
+Brindisi to get a reply from a most important letter of his mailed to
+Lucille at Palermo. As he stepped ashore a telegram was handed him
+announcing the sudden death of the woman he loved. He was so shocked that
+his friends were alarmed. After a short conference Harry wired Colonel
+Harris the use of his yacht to carry back to America the remains of
+beautiful Lucille.
+
+While Colonel Harris was writing an acceptance of Captain Hall's
+services, a second telegram came announcing the death, by drowning, of
+his only son Alfonso in the Zuider Zee at Amsterdam. How true that
+misfortunes never come singly!
+
+Beneath the pillow on which Lucille died, were found two unanswered
+letters, proposals of marriage, one from Leo and one from Captain Hall.
+The broken hearted mother took charge of these letters, and before the
+metallic coffin was sealed, the unanswered letters were placed in
+Lucille's white hand, over the heart that could not now decide.
+
+Later the casket was put on board the yacht "Hallena" at Rome, and
+Captain Hall with his flag at half-mast steamed towards America with the
+woman, who could never on earth accept the tribute of his heart. Leo, now
+Marquis Colonna, true chevalier that he was, insisted that he be
+permitted to accompany Colonel Harris to Amsterdam in search of his son
+Alfonso.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+COLONEL HARRIS'S BIG BLUE ENVELOPE
+
+
+The honeymoon of George and Gertrude included not only the two delightful
+weeks in Switzerland, but also the ten or twelve days on a slow steamer
+returning to New York. The weather at sea was all that could be desired.
+The longer a smooth sea-voyage, the better lovers are pleased. Return
+ocean passages usually furnish the much needed rest after a so-called
+vacation abroad. Overworked Americans need, not so much an entire
+cessation of activities, as a change of occupation, which usually, brings
+the desired results.
+
+George and Gertrude made but few acquaintances on the steamer. The
+thought that each possessed the other was enjoyment that satisfied, and
+both were happy. Each lived as in dreamland, and scarcely observed even
+the daily runs made by the steamer. The death by accident of a sailor,
+and his strange burial at sea, served only for a brief time to arrest a
+happiness made complete by each other's voice and presence. The two weeks
+on the ocean came and went as softly as flowers unfold and disappear.
+Thus far, married life had been ideal.
+
+It was after eleven o'clock, and anxious passengers were pacing the
+decks, hoping to sight native land before retiring. Suddenly the officer
+on the bridge discerned the dim Fire Island Light, bearing north by west,
+twenty miles distant. Ten minutes later, five points on the port bow, a
+pilot boat was sighted. Her mast-head light was visible, also the torch,
+which soaked in turpentine, burnt brightly at intervals.
+
+The steamer signals, "We want a pilot," by burning a blue light on the
+bridge, and bears down on the pilot schooner. The moon reveals enormous
+figures, with a heavy dot beneath, on the mainsail of the schooner. Over
+the rail goes the yawl, followed by the oarsman and pilot, whose turn
+it is to go ashore. The pilot carries a lantern, which in the egg-shaped
+yawl dances on the white wave crests up and down like a fire-fly. The
+yawl is soon under the steamer's lee, and a line from the big ship pulls
+the little boat to the ladder, and the pilot nimbly climbs to the
+steamer's bridge, bringing the latest papers. The schooner drifts under
+the steamer's stern, takes in the yawl, and again sails to the eastward
+in search of another liner.
+
+The entrance to the port of New York is patrolled night and day by a
+pilot-fleet of thirty boats, which cost from $10,000 to $20,000 each.
+They are staunch and seaworthy, the fastest schooners afloat. Often,
+knocked down by heavy seas, for a moment they tremble, like a frightened
+bird, then shaking the water off their decks, they rise, heave to,
+perhaps under double reefed foresail, and with everything made snug,
+outride the storm, and are at their work again. Pilots earn good pay, and
+this they deserve, as they often risk their lives in behalf of others.
+
+Sandy Hook Light was now in sight, and long before the sun began his
+journey across the heavens, the steamer lay at anchor at quarantine,
+waiting for a certificate from the health officer. As the steamer proudly
+sped through "The Narrows," a jubilant crowd of passengers on the
+promenade deck sang,
+
+  "My country 'tis of thee
+   Sweet Land of Liberty,
+   Of thee I sing;
+   Land where my fathers died;
+   Land of the pilgrim's pride;
+   From ev'ry mountain side
+   Let freedom ring."
+
+The hymn was sung to the tune of "God Save the Queen," and several
+enthusiastic Englishmen joined with their kith and kin.
+
+On Bedloe's Island Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty waved her torch, outward
+bound steamers exchanged salutes, the Brooklyn Bridge and all the ferries
+were thronged with people hurrying to the labor marts of the metropolis,
+as the steamer with George and Gertrude aboard moved up the harbor and
+was safely docked on the North River.
+
+In the lead down the gangway Gertrude hastened George to secure a
+carriage for their hotel, so anxious was she to reach rooms on American
+soil, where she might honorably break the seal of her father's mysterious
+big blue envelope. It had rarely been out of her mind since the day of
+her wedding in Paris.
+
+After breakfast, served in true American style, the Ingrams glanced at
+the big morning papers crowded with American news, and wondered why
+European papers printed so little about the States. Then they retired to
+their rooms to break the seal of the blue envelope.
+
+George was all attention as his young wife with the flush of health and
+excitement in her cheeks tore apart the envelope, and stepping to the
+window for better light, she began to read Reuben Harris's letter.
+
+  Paris--
+
+  _Dear George and Gertrude_,--
+
+  The accumulation of my fortune, now largely invested in prime
+  securities, has been a surprise and often a burden to me, and with it
+  came, as I now clearly see, great responsibilities.
+
+  Money is power, and most people zealously seek it. Many fail to get it,
+  and often those who do succeed, fail to keep it. Wealth unsought comes
+  only to a few, while others, with perhaps hereditary financial
+  instincts, pursue with certainty of success the golden fleece.
+
+  My early experiences with poverty, and now with wealth, and my late
+  extensive observations have impressed upon me, as never before, the
+  common brotherhood of mankind. The great problem of our age is the
+  proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may
+  still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relations. What
+  shall be the laws of accumulation and distribution? To decide this
+  wisely the discretion of our present and future legislators will be
+  heavily burdened.
+
+  The condition of many races is better to-day on the foundations on
+  which society is built, than on the old ones tried and abandoned. What
+  were yesterday's luxuries are to-day's necessities. The poor enjoy
+  to-day what yesterday even the rich could not afford. Mankind always
+  has exhibited great irregularities. In every race some are born with an
+  energy and ability to produce wealth, others not. Invention and
+  discovery have replaced scarcity and dearness with abundance and
+  cheapness. The law of competition seems to cheapen comforts and
+  luxuries.
+
+  Both labor and capital are organizing, concentrating, competing. The
+  idealist may dream of what is attainable in the future, but our duty is
+  plainly with what is practicable now. My prayer is for wisdom and
+  ability to administer wisely our wealth, during my life-time. I am
+  therefore resolved to act as follows:--
+
+  1st. To retain for my family only what will provide modestly for them
+  all. I do not wish to leave much property for my relatives to use
+  prodigally, or to quarrel over.
+
+  2nd. I plan not to wait till I die and then leave behind for public
+  purposes money which I cannot take with me. I shall consider myself as
+  an agent, or trustee, in charge of certain surplus funds to be expended
+  in behalf of my poorer brethren.
+
+  On our return to America, Mrs. Harris and I will make our wills in
+  accordance with the above. It is our desire that, when you reach home,
+  you both enter at once upon the development of your plans, of a
+  cooperative manufacturing corporation, in accordance with the views
+  which you have so frequently mentioned. In the execution of these
+  plans, you may use, if necessary, five millions. With best wishes for
+  your happiness.
+
+  Your father,
+
+  Reuben Harris.
+
+The writing of this letter gave Colonel Harris more pleasure than any act
+of his life; in fact it was for him the beginning of a new life; a life
+for others.
+
+The reading of the letter also gave George and Gertrude much happiness,
+for it furnished them abundant means for the execution of their
+beneficent plans, which had been thoroughly considered by the Harris
+family. This important letter was returned to the blue envelope and given
+to Gertrude for safe keeping, and it was agreed to leave for Harrisville
+next day at 1 o'clock on the Chicago Special.
+
+Among the personals in the Harrisville Sunday paper appeared the
+following:
+
+  Arrived from Europe Saturday morning, Mr. and Mrs. George Ingram. It is
+  needless to say that their many friends will give them cordial welcome.
+  Colonel and Mrs. Reuben Harris, their son and daughter, Alfonso and
+  Lucille, will remain in Europe for several weeks.
+
+This notice, though brief, was of much interest to rich and poor in
+Harrisville. Society, of course, was interested in the marriage of
+Gertrude, business men in the return of so skilled a manufacturer as
+George Ingram, and many workmen, still unemployed, hoped that their old
+superintendent whom they loved would find or make positions for them.
+
+The continued absence of Colonel Harris the financier aided George Ingram
+in certain important negotiations which he proceeded quietly to make,
+viz., the purchase in the suburbs of Harrisville, in fifty parcels, of
+4,000 acres of contiguous land, that had both a river and a lake front.
+While these purchases were being made, agents were dispatched into
+several Ohio counties, and more than 20,000 acres of well tested coal
+lands were secured. When it was learned that all these lands were bought
+in the name of George Ingram, and paid for in cash, the wisacres of the
+city began to say, "I told you so; these monopolists having visited
+England have adopted foreign ideas, and now they have returned to buy and
+hold our valuable lands." George Ingram was reticent, as most successful
+business men are, for he gave attention to business. "Talkers are no
+great doers," wrote Shakespeare.
+
+The offices of the old Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. had been rented to
+other parties, so a suite of rooms near by was occupied by George Ingram
+and his five assistants. It had leaked out, however, that Ingram had
+given orders for twenty millions of brick and a large quantity of
+structural iron and copper tubes, all to be delivered within four months.
+The order for copper tubes puzzled even the wisest in Harrisville. Later,
+when a thousand laborers were set at work on the river front of
+his purchase, building extensive foundations, it dawned upon the
+expectant that a gigantic plant for some purpose was to be erected near
+Harrisville. Newspaper reporters found it difficult to reach George
+Ingram, even with a card, which would be returned with the reply "Busy
+to-day. Please excuse me."
+
+In the meantime Harrisville agreed to create a more available harbor, and
+to establish dock lines, not less than 500 feet apart, and in three years
+to dredge the river to a depth of 25 feet for five miles back from the
+lake.
+
+George Ingram in his own mind had settled three vital points; that
+Harrisville was one of the most favorable producing and distributing
+centers in America; that he would so design and build a manufacturing
+plant as to minimize the cost of production; that he would attempt to
+harmonize capital and labor. Important provisions of the Company's
+charter were:
+
+  ARTICLE III
+
+  The capital stock of this Corporation shall be Five Million Dollars
+  ($5,000,000) to be divided into Five Hundred Thousand Shares at Ten
+  Dollars each, fully paid, and non-assessable.
+
+  ARTICLE VI
+
+  The private property of stockholders shall be exempt from any and all
+  debts of this Corporation.
+
+Two thousand of the four thousand acres purchased were set apart for
+manufacturing purposes. Most of the land sloped gradually, and the
+surface-water naturally drained into the river. George Ingram's plans for
+an enormous steel-plant had been most carefully worked out in detail.
+Night and day the construction went forward. In eight months the plant
+was in full operation. He had obtained the latest important labor-saving
+devices and improved facilities in use throughout America and Europe. The
+whole was supplemented by the inventions already perfected by his father
+and himself.
+
+The Harris-Ingram Steel Co. was provided with every modern device that
+could in any manner contribute economy and rapidity from the time the
+ores left the ship, till the finished product was loaded for market. All
+ores and limestone were delivered on a tableland of the same height, and
+adjacent to a series of several enormous blast-furnaces. The melted iron
+from the blast-furnaces was tapped into ladles mounted on iron cars, and
+provided with mechanism for tipping the ladles. The molten iron of the
+cars was next transferred to improved converters in an adjoining
+building, constructed entirely of iron. Nearby were the spiegel cupolas.
+The greatest possible accuracy was thus attainable in delivering definite
+quantities of molten iron into the converter for a given blow, also of
+spiegeleisen. This was easily accomplished by standing the ladle cars
+upon scales.
+
+The metal was cast into ingot moulds, standing upon cars, and then
+transferred to the mould stripper; afterwards the ingots were weighed
+and sent to the soaking-pit furnaces. After a "wash heat" the ingots,
+or blooms, entered the rolls, and were drawn and sized in shape to fill
+orders from every part of the world.
+
+The marvel at the Harris-Ingram Steel Co.'s mills was that electricity,
+developed in vast quantities at the coal mines and conveyed on patented
+copper tubes, furnished all the power, heat, and light used in the entire
+plant. Electricity hoisted and melted all the ores; it worked Sturtevant
+fans and blowing engines, which supplied necessary air for cupolas and
+converters. Electricity furnished all the power requisite to handle
+innumerable cranes and cars. As easily as a magnet picks up tacks,
+electricity also handled ingots or finished steel. Five thousand tons of
+finished steel per day were made and the labor and fuel account had been
+reduced over one-half.
+
+While the huge steel plant at Harrisville was being constructed, a large
+force of men were building a conduit to protect copper tubes, from the
+steel plant to the coal fields. At the mines hundreds of miners were set
+at work, several shafts were sunk, and tunnels, levels, and winzes were
+developed.
+
+George Ingram believed that all the force in the world available for
+man's use was derived from the sun; so he heroically resolved to hitch
+his wagon, if not to a star, to the mighty sun. With this purpose in
+view, he had bought the 20,000 acres of coal land. Half of this area was
+located in Jefferson, Harrison, and Belmont counties on the Ohio River,
+and thus title was secured to vast quantities of fossil power in the
+upper coal measures, which ignites quickly and burns with a hot fire. The
+other 10,000 acres were valuable because nearer to Harrisville. This coal
+came from lower measures or seams.
+
+George Ingram had made a thorough study of coal, or fossil fuel, its
+formation and value. The coal of the carboniferous age is derived almost
+entirely from the family of plants called _Lycopods_, or club mosses, and
+the ferns, which back in high antiquity attained gigantic size. The
+microscope has clearly developed this vegetable origin of coal. The great
+Appalachian and other coal fields are without doubt, the long continued
+and vigorous forest growths, and subsequent fossilization of the same in
+the marginal swamps of ancient gulfs or seas.
+
+The agency of transfer for solar energy is the vegetable kingdom. The
+vegetable cell has the surprising property through the sun's agency of
+being able to live and multiply itself on air alone. The carbon of
+carbonic acid, a constituent of the atmosphere, is so liberated and
+appropriated, as to become fixed in the forming tissues of plants. Thus
+the plant is a storer of light and heat, a reservoir of force. It
+mediates between the sun's energy and the animal life of the world. Thus
+coal seams are the accumulations of the sun's energy for thousands of
+centuries, requiring the patient growth and slow decay of hundreds of
+immense forests. One secret of the unprecedented late growth of cities is
+discovered in the steam engine, or the coal which feeds it.
+
+A pound of good coal, used in a good engine, stands for the work of six
+horses for an hour; a ton of coal for the work of thirteen hundred horses
+for a day of ten hours; ten thousand tons of coal, used in a day by
+single lines of railways, stand for the work of thirteen million horses,
+working ten hours a day. In 1894 the English mines produced 188,277,525
+tons of coal. In Great Britain alone, coal does the work of more than a
+hundred millions of men, and adds proportionately to the fabulously
+increasing wealth of those fortunate islands.
+
+The Ingrams had solved two important problems, and on their practicable
+application depended the success of the great Harris-Ingram experiment.
+The more important of the two was the unlocking of the sun's stored
+energy, electricity, at the coal mines. The second was a device for
+conveying this energy from the mines to the steel plant, and it had been
+patented to protect it.
+
+Since electricity possibly travels on the surface of wires or metals, the
+Ingrams patented a valuable device of small corrugated copper tubes,
+strengthened in the center by steel wires, and thus the carrying capacity
+of electricity was greatly increased, and the amount of costly copper
+much decreased. These corrugated tubes enclosed in cheap glass, and
+surrounded with oil, were laid in properly prepared conduits of vitrified
+fire-clay sewer pipes. Without the intervention of the steam engine, by
+a surprisingly simple process, electrical force was liberated chemically
+at the mines and transferred for multiple uses at the steel plant.
+Expensive coal-freights were thus saved. All the slack coal was utilized,
+and instead of the waste of nine-tenths of the stored energy of the coal,
+only one tenth was now lost. To husband properly the fruits of so great a
+discovery, it was decided not to patent this latter invention, which if
+disclosed would give too great publicity to the details.
+
+The electrical works at the mines were constructed of safe-steel walls
+and roof, and so built that the operations of generating electricity
+directly from coal were conducted in secret in several separate
+apartments, so that no single operator without the knowledge of all the
+initiated employees would be able to successfully work the inventions.
+The dozen initiated employees had made life long contracts with the
+company in consideration of liberal and satisfactory rewards. The
+Harris-Ingram Steel Co. thus equipped began operations.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+"GOLD MARRIES GOLD"
+
+
+Alfonso Harris was content to leave his friends to continue their
+journey, as they were willing that he should return to the Netherlands,
+or to Amsterdam, where lived the beautiful woman who had won his heart.
+
+Christine de Ruyter cordially welcomed Alfonso back to study art as he
+expressed it to her on the first evening after his arrival. Alfonso was
+much in Christine's society, at art exhibits, in carriage drives, and on
+pleasure boat excursions down the bay. Weeks went by before he could
+summon courage enough to ask Christine's hand in marriage.
+
+In the game of hearts Alfonso thought himself an able combatant. He had
+studied Christine in action and in repose, in society, and when alone
+under his protection at Scheveningen, and at home, and he prided himself
+that he knew at least one woman thoroughly. She loved art, flowers,
+music, and fine dress, and was very ambitious. The latter trait was
+doubtless inbred from her distinguished naval relatives.
+
+Christine had many acquaintances among the best families of Holland. Her
+beauty, coupled with the fact that she was an heiress, made her the
+object of much attention from artists and members of clubs, but possibly
+her love, or affection for art, might have sprung from the desire to gain
+more knowledge of how to make herself attractive in dress, manner, and
+conversation. Christine was not offensively vain, but she was
+passionately fond of admiration. Alfonso had never dreamed that Christine
+was not genuine at heart. She appeared to him to make much of her
+American acquaintance, introducing him to her many friends, young ladies
+as well as young gentlemen, and always seemed to prefer his company to
+others.
+
+She manifested even tenderness for him, expressed her strong liking for
+America, and Alfonso believed that Christine was truly fond of him. No
+arguments or persuasions could have convinced him otherwise. The contrary
+wishes of his own family, the eloquence of a Webster, winds from the
+poles, all combined, could not have cooled his ardor. Alfonso had firmly
+resolved to wed Christine, come what would.
+
+He had often dreamed of her smiles, her pretty blue eyes, and her fleecy
+hair floating in the breezes of the Zuider Zee. He had also dreamed of a
+brilliant wedding in Holland, of a large reception at Harrisville, and
+had even heard the plaudits of his fellow artists in New York, as they
+lauded his master piece "Admiral De Ruyter's Great Naval Victory."
+
+Fortified with these proofs of Christine's devotion, he sought the
+company of his blond sweetheart on a balcony that overlooked the moon-lit
+harbor of Amsterdam.
+
+Here Alfonso offered his hand and heart--to a coquette--who rejected him.
+He was astonished, almost stunned. Recovering from his dazed condition,
+she again chilled his heart by the utterance, "You have not learned in
+this practical world of ours that gold marries gold; that society plays
+for equivalents. You once admitted to me that your father wanted you at
+the head of his large business, and disapproved of your choice of a
+profession. As an artist you seek fame. How can you divide it with me? In
+asking my hand you seek to divide my gold, thus securing both fame and
+gold. Alfonso we have enjoyed each other's company as friends."
+
+"Yes, Christine, though you have been cruel we can separate as friends.
+Sometime I may be able to match gold with gold. Till then, adieu."
+
+Saying this Alfonso left the De Ruyter mansion all the more resolved,
+however, to win Christine. For a moment her deceptive heart rebuked her
+as she watched Alfonso's departure. In the papers of the following
+evening an announcement frightened Christine. The head lines read: "Mr.
+Alfonso Harris, a young American artist, drowned this morning in the
+harbor."
+
+Later the police brought to the De Ruyter home detailed news. Christine
+gave instructions to use every possible effort to recover Alfonso's body,
+and at once sent her servant with a telegram for Colonel Reuben Harris,
+Grand Hotel, Paris, the only address she knew.
+
+The next day, with her mother, she accompanied the police to Alfonso's
+room, where she gathered up several of her love letters. A new suit of
+clothes hung in the closet, a package of returned laundry lay on the
+table, also pen, ink and paper. Evidently Alfonso expected to return soon
+to the hotel. His clothes, watch, and money had been found in the boat
+that drifted ashore.
+
+Christine concluded that Alfonso had gone for a boat-ride and swim, as
+was his custom; very likely this time to free his mind, if possible, from
+recent trouble, and was seized with cramp and drowned before aid could
+reach him. Vigorous search in the harbor and along the shore instituted
+by the police department and the American consul failed to locate his
+body or to furnish further facts to Christine as to the cause of the
+accident.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Alfonso Harris meant all he said to Christine in his last words,
+"Sometime I may be able to match gold with gold." He might be blind in
+love matters, but his mind after a storm always righted itself. That
+night when Alfonso reached his hotel, he planned to leave the impression
+on Christine's mind that he was dead. To make the deception complete,
+his trunk and all effects in his room were left as found by Christine.
+Even his watch, pocket book and clothes were left behind in the little
+pleasure boat, while he donned an extra suit. A Norwegian captain, who
+was about leaving Amsterdam with a cargo for Canada, agreed for fifty
+dollars to pick up Alfonso down the harbor and to land him in Quebec.
+
+Fine family, beauty, and gold were powerful incentives to effort to an
+ambitious young man like Alfonso, and he was resolved, incognito, to
+explore the Great West in search of riches, and once found, he would lay
+all at Christine's feet, and again claim her hand.
+
+Jans Jansen, the Norwegian captain, was a jolly good ship-master, and the
+fair weather voyage across the Atlantic proved enjoyable. Alfonso always
+took his meals with the captain. Jans Jansen's wife and children lived in
+Christiania, and his constant talk was that he hoped some day to get rich
+and quit the sea. Alfonso made a warm friend of Captain Jansen, who
+pledged secrecy as to his escape from Amsterdam.
+
+The captain was robust and his big flowing red beard, blue eyes, and
+bravery made him a worthy successor of the ancient vikings of the
+Norseland. Jans Jansen enjoyed his pipe, and with his good stories whiled
+away many an hour for Alfonso, so that when the ship, under full sail,
+entered the Strait of Belle Isle and sailed across the Gulf towards the
+River St. Lawrence, both the captain and young Harris regretted that
+their sea-voyage was so soon to close.
+
+The entrance of the St. Lawrence River is so broad that the navies of the
+world abreast might enter the river undiscovered from either bank. Two
+hundred miles up the river, Trinity House, an association of over three
+hundred pilots, put aboard a pilot, and at noon next day Captain Jansen
+docked his vessel at Quebec.
+
+This old French city is located on a high promontory on the left bank
+of the St. Lawrence. Its citadel, one of the strongest fortresses in
+America, commands a varied and picturesque beauty. Alfonso walked up to
+the obelisk, which stands in one of the squares of the Upper Town, in
+joint memory of the brave generals Wolfe and Montgomery.
+
+Next morning he was off on the Canadian Pacific Railway for Duluth, the
+zenith city. Thence the journey west was through. Dakota in sight of
+occasional tepees, where the brave Sioux patiently waits his call to join
+the buffalo in the happy hunting grounds. Alfonso did not agree with the
+popular sentiment, "The best Indian is a dead Indian," for the Sioux
+seemed to him to belong to a noble race of red men.
+
+Alfonso's enthusiasm for mining was greatly quickened by a fellow
+traveler, who was the owner of a large block of stock in the famous
+Homestake Mining Co. of Lead City, Black Hills, So. Dakota. This company
+possesses one of the largest gold mines and mills in the world. The ore
+bodies show a working face from two to four hundred feet in width, and
+sink to a seemingly inexhaustible depth. The Homestake has produced over
+$25,000,000 in bullion, and has divided over six millions in dividends to
+stockholders.
+
+Three days' journey brought young Harris to Montana, an inland empire
+state, which lies on both sides of the Rocky Mountains. The Pacific
+Express was laden with a motley crowd of men and women in search of fame
+and fortune. Alfonso soon caught their enthusiasm, and visions of castles
+with gilded domes floated in his imagination.
+
+It was 1:35 P.M. when No. 1, the Pacific Express, pulled into thrifty
+Helena, capital of Montana, a commercial metropolis metamorphosed from
+a rude mining camp of twenty-five years ago.
+
+The electric cars carried Alfonso to the Hotel Helena on Grand St.,
+which he thought quite as good as any in his own city. Here he was
+fortunate in meeting Mr. Davidson, a gentleman of large experience
+as owner, organizer, and locator of some of the best gold and silver
+properties in Montana and adjoining states. Irrigating canals and
+water-rights were a special branch of Mr. Davidson's business. He never
+failed to make the round of the leading hotels after the arrival of the
+Overland. In this way he met Alfonso Harris. Davidson knew when to tell a
+good story, and when to be serious. He took Alfonso to the Club, located
+in elegant quarters, and the secretary gave him a complimentary visitor's
+card. Davidson quickly discerned that Harris needed a week's rest, and so
+took him on the motor line two miles out to the Hotel Broadwater and
+Natatorium. No wonder the citizens of Helena take pride in their fine
+health resort, the Helena Hot Springs.
+
+Mr. Davidson introduced Alfonso to Colonel Broadwater, who extended the
+hospitalities of his hotel on which he had expended a fortune. The
+verandas were long and wide, the park was dotted with fountains, and the
+interior of the hotel was luxurious in all its furnishings. The mammoth
+plunge bath was the largest in the world under a single cover. Curative
+mineral waters, steaming hot, flowed in abundantly from the grotto. In
+the natatorium fun-loving men and women slid down the toboggan planks, or
+jumped from the spring boards, while spectators in the gallery enjoyed
+the aquatic sports. Elegantly appointed bathrooms in the hotel offered at
+one's pleasure the double spray plunge, vapor, and needle baths.
+
+Alfonso was not prepared to find in the mountains elegance surpassing
+what he had seen abroad. Here he luxuriated for a week, and recovered his
+health, which had been somewhat impaired by the unfortunate experiences
+in Amsterdam, and the long journey from Holland.
+
+Davidson visited Harris every day. At first he only sought to entertain
+and awaken enthusiasm. He recited the familiar story of the Last Chance
+Gulch, how in 1864, four half-starved and disheartened miners, on their
+homeward journey from a prospecting tour among the gulches of the
+Blackfoot country in search of the precious dust, had settled down to
+work their last chance to make a stake, and had found gold in abundance.
+
+Davidson said, "Here, where to-day runs the main street of Helena, was the
+'Last Chance Gulch,' and the output of its placers was not less than
+fifteen millions. From 300 feet square, where now stands the Montana
+Central Railway depot, two miners took out over $330,000." Davidson told
+of the great successes at the "Jay Gould," and "Big Ox Mine," and, that
+in five years the output of the Drum Lummon Mine was six millions.
+
+All this pleased young Harris, and whetted his appetite for mining
+investments. Finally, as a result of several trips to examine prospects
+and mines, Alfonso bought two prospects one hundred miles west of Helena
+at a place called Granite.
+
+At Drummond west of Helena, a line branches south of the Northern Pacific
+to Rumsey. From Rumsey, Alfonso rode four miles to Granite, which was
+located high up among huge granite boulders. Here, for a year he isolated
+himself and labored hard for silver that was to be exchanged into gold
+and laid at the feet of Christine. His mines had been named "Hidden
+Treasure" and "Monte Christo." Possibly these mystical names influenced
+Alfonso to make the purchase, and no doubt they often renewed his
+courage.
+
+The United States patents for his two lode mining claims finally came,
+and were examined by legal experts, who pronounced them perfect. In the
+purchase of the properties and in the development work, Alfonso and his
+two associates expended $50,000. On the showing, which the development
+made, together with the Annual Report of the adjacent Granite Mountain
+Mining Company, young Harris hoped to form a syndicate and profitably
+work his mines.
+
+The facts in the report which Alfonso emphasized, were that the Granite
+Mining Co. had paid dividends as follows:
+
+Twelve dividends ending
+July 31st, 1889                 $1,900,000
+
+Total of fifty-five dividends,
+an aggregate of,                $6,700,000
+
+In eight years these mines
+had produced and sold
+of pure silver                  10,989,858 ozs.
+
+Of pure gold                         6,521 ozs.
+
+Realizing a gross sum          $10,988,800
+Total gross expenditures       $ 4,092,512
+
+Alfonso felt free to use the facts of the Granite Reports, as his
+property was supposed to be a continuation of the same lode or metallic
+vein. His syndicate was finally organized, and with the money thus made
+available, all possible work was done for the next twelve months, on
+shaft, levels, cross-cuts, drifts, winzes, and raises. For two long years
+he pursued underground promising indications of wealth, which like the
+will-with-the-wisp evaded him, until every prospect of silver and gold in
+the "Hidden Treasure," and "Monte Christo" disappeared, and the mines
+were abandoned.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+THE MAGIC BAND OF BEATEN GOLD
+
+
+The demonetization of silver by the government in 1873, and its great
+production, had reduced the value of the white metal one-half, so young
+Harris resolved to seek for gold, and began a search, which proved to be
+a most romantic success.
+
+At first he hesitated to leave Montana, as its quartz veins and sluice
+boxes in twenty-five years had poured out $400,000,000, and its mineral
+resources were yet almost wholly unknown. The area of this single
+mountainous state could not be blanketed by the six New England States,
+and New York, or covered by England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
+combined.
+
+Finally Alfonso determined to follow the great mineral belt in a
+southwesterly direction even to the Sierra Nevada Range if need be. At
+Livingston he went south by railway through a gateway of the mountains,
+and up the fertile Paradise Valley, following the cool green waters of
+the Yellowstone alive with trout and equally gamesome graylings.
+
+At Cinnabar Alfonso joined a merry party of tourists, who mounted a
+Concord coach, and the four grays were urged to a brisk pace over a
+smooth government road towards the great National Park. How exhilarating
+this six miles' ride, and how imposing the scenery, as the coach enters
+this Geologist's Paradise!
+
+The Yellowstone or National Park contains 2,288,000 acres, and is fifty
+times the size of France's greatest park at Fontainebleau. Its altitude
+is a half mile higher than the summit of Mt. Washington, and the whole
+park is encircled by snow-clad peaks and majestic domes from three to
+five thousand feet high. This reservation by Congress in 1872, of 3575
+square miles of public domain in perpetuity for the pleasure of the
+people, was a most creditable act.
+
+Alfonso found that the park abounded in wild gorges, grand canyons,
+dancing cascades, majestic falls and mountains, picturesque lakes,
+curious hot springs, and awe-inspiring geysers. He and his party pushed
+through the Golden Gate, marveled at the wonders of the Norris and
+Firehole Basins, stood entranced before the mighty Canyon then bathed in
+the transparent Yellowstone Lake, and by nine o'clock were lulled to
+sleep in the shade of fragrant pines.
+
+After breakfast next morning, while Alfonso and the hotel guests sat on
+the porch, a retired army captain, who had served in the Seventh U.S.
+Cavalry, said he wished a party could be organized to visit General
+Custer's monument east of the National Park on the Little Big Horn River.
+There the Government had marked the historic battleground, where on the
+morning of the 24th of June, 1876, two hundred of the famous Seventh
+Cavalry and their brave leader, were overwhelmed and slaughtered by 2,500
+Indians under the famous chief, Sitting Bull. Custer was tall and
+slender, with blue eyes and long light hair. He had fought at Bull Run
+and Gettysburg, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was
+promoted to brigadier general when he was twenty-three years old, and
+became major general when he was twenty-five. Eleven horses were shot
+under him. Once he saved the flag by tearing it from its staff and
+concealing it in his bosom. What Napoleon said of Ney is also true of
+Custer, "He was the bravest of the brave."
+
+The recital of Custer's deeds nerved Alfonso to renewed efforts to win
+Christine's hand. He declined with thanks to join the captain's excursion
+party, and early next day rode south into the upper basin of the Park,
+which contains over 400 springs and geysers; many of the springs in their
+peculiar shapes, translucent waters, and variety and richness of color,
+are of exquisite beauty. Alfonso visited emerald and sapphire springs,
+where it is said nymphs, elfs, and fairies came to bathe, and don their
+dainty dress of flowers and jewelled dew drops.
+
+Many bronzed tourists had assembled, and their faces showed amazement as
+they watched giant geysers in action. Suddenly the solid earth is
+tremulous with rumbling vibrations, like those that herald earthquakes.
+Frightful gurgling sounds are audible in the geyser's throat. Sputtering
+steam is visible above the cone, the water below boils like a cauldron,
+and scalding hot, the eruption becomes terribly violent, belching forth
+clouds of smoke-like steam, and hurling rocks into the air as though
+a mortar of some feudal stronghold had been discharged. The stupendous
+column of hot water is veiled in spray as it mounts towards heaven.
+Boiling water is flowing in brooks to the Firehole River, which is soon
+swollen to a foaming torrent washing away the bridges below. The valley
+is filled with dense vapors, and the air is laden with sulphurous fumes,
+while the hoarse rumblings and subterranean tremors chill the heart.
+Beneath your feet are positive evidences of eternal fires, and all about
+you the might of God. Alfonso was glad to leave this region of the
+supernatural.
+
+He hastened across the Snake River, which winds through Idaho, and pushed
+on towards the Teton Range, one of many that form the Rocky Mts. In sight
+are snow-touched sentinel peaks kissed by earliest and latest sun. The
+Rocky Mts. or Great Continental Divide is a continuation of the famous
+Andes of South America, and jointly they form the longest and most
+uniform chain of mountains on the globe. Amid the gorges of this system
+of mountains, over 3000 miles in length, America's largest rivers have
+their birth, and find their outlet into the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific
+Oceans.
+
+These mountains are vast vaults that will hold in trust for centuries to
+come untold supplies of precious metal for the American nations. This
+general fact did not concern Alfonso. He was ambitious to unlock for his
+own use only a single box of the huge vault. He was familiar with the
+wonderful story of Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien, Kings of the
+Comstock Lode, and owners of the Big Bonanza, who paid their 600 miners
+five dollars per day in gold, for eight hours' labor a third of a mile
+below the earth's surface. The Comstock Lode yielded over $5,000,000 per
+month, or a total output of silver and gold of over $250,000,000.
+
+For six long weary months Alfonso and his companion searched for gold
+down the Green River and along the river bottom of the Grand Canyon of
+the Colorado, till they reached the Needles on the A. & P. Railway.
+Thence they rode west to Kern River. This stream they followed on
+horseback into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, all the time searching for
+precious metals, especially gold. The mountains were crossed over to
+Owen's Lake, and a river traced north. Alfonso was prospecting in new
+fields, but his search thus far was fruitless. His companion sickened and
+died, but Alfonso bravely climbed among the mountains hoping to cross the
+crest and reach the cabins of friendly government officials on duty in
+the park of the big trees in Mariposa County.
+
+It was late in the fall, grasses and leaves had browned, Alfonso's horse
+had grown thin, and being too weak and lame to go forward, finally died.
+His provisions had given out; his own strength and courage had failed; he
+needed water for his parched tongue and lips, but none was at hand; fever
+quickened his pulse. Sitting alone in the shadow of a giant boulder that
+afforded partial protection from the gathering storm, his mind reverted
+to his home at Harrisville where abundance could be had, to his family
+that thought him dead, and to Christine across the sea, whom he had
+vowed to win with gold. All seemed lost. Alfonso's head reeled, he fell
+back upon the ground, and the early snows seemed to form for him a
+shroud.
+
+Good fortune guided this way a party of Yosemite Indians, who were
+returning from an extended hunt for deer and elk. They had also slain a
+few bears and a couple of mountain lions. The dead horse first arrested
+their attention, and then the exhausted miner was found asleep covered
+with snow. The Indians wrapped the sick man at once in a grizzly bear
+skin, fastened him to a pony, and carried him to their camp near the big
+trees. It was morning before Alfonso was conscious of his surroundings.
+Standing by him was a shy Indian maiden with a dish of hot soup. His bed,
+he discovered was in a burned-out cavity of one of the big trees. Near by
+were several tepees, the tops of which emitted smoke. Straight,
+black-haired Indians in bright blankets moved slowly from tent to tent.
+
+Alfonso scarcely conscious had strange dreams. Sometimes he thought he
+was in the Hodoo Region, or Goblin Land, the abode of evil spirits, where
+he saw every kind of fantastic beast, bird, and reptile, and no end of
+spectral shapes in the winding passages of a weird labyrinth on a far-off
+island. Then his dreams were of rare beauty. Green foliage was changed to
+pure white, the trees became laden with sparkling crystals, roadways and
+streams were laid in shining silver, and geyser-craters enlarged in
+strange forms resembled huge white thrones in gorgeous judgment halls.
+Such fleeting beauty suggested to Alfonso's feverish brain the
+supernatural, the abode perhaps of spirit beings. For days the medicine
+man and Mariposa, daughter of the Indian chief, watched and cared for
+Alfonso, whose life hovered over the grave.
+
+Mariposa, Spanish for butterfly, was a fit name for the pretty Indian
+maiden. She paid great deference not only to her tall father, Red Cloud,
+but to the pale faces whenever in their presence. For four years
+Mariposa, unusually bright, attended the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.;
+when she returned to her wild home in the forest she was able to speak
+and read the language of the pale face, and beside she loved history and
+poetry.
+
+One day, Alfonso's health having slowly improved, Mariposa put in his
+hands a small pine cone, the size of a hen's egg, and said, "Three years
+go by from the budding to the ripening of the seed of the sequoias, or
+big trees."
+
+Alfonso did not know, till Mariposa told him that the big trees were
+called sequoia in honor of a Cherokee chief, Sequoyah, who invented
+letters for his people. She also told Alfonso that there were at least
+ten groves of big trees on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada range;
+that some of the trees were thirty feet in diameter, and 325 feet in
+height; that sixteen Yosemite braves on their ponies had taken refuge
+from a terrible storm in the hollow of a single sequoia. Alfonso prized
+highly a cane, fashioned by the Indian maiden from a fallen Big Tree. The
+wood had a pale red tint, and was beautifully marked and polished.
+
+Part of the Indian hunting party went forward with the game, while
+Mariposa, Red Cloud, and three Yosemite braves with their ponies, waited
+for the handsome pale face to recover partially. Then they rode with
+Alfonso among the Big Trees, past Wawona, toiling up long valleys,
+stopping now and then to cook simple food. The Indians followed a
+familiar trail up dark gulches, along steep grades, through heavy timber,
+skirting edges of cliffs and precipitous mountains, the ruggedness
+constantly increasing, till suddenly Mariposa conducted Alfonso to a high
+point where his soul was filled with enthusiasm. Mariposa, pointing to
+the gorge or canyon of extraordinary depth, which was floored with forest
+trees and adorned with waterfalls, said, "Here in the Yosemite (grizzly)
+Valley is the home of my people. Here we wish to take you until you are
+well. Will you go?"
+
+Alfonso, still weak and pale, but trusting the Indian girl, replied
+"Yes." The young artist-miner had never seen such stupendous masonry; the
+granite walls that surrounded the valley were a succession of peaks and
+domes, from three thousand to four thousand feet high, all eloquent in
+thought and design. Alfonso began sketching, but Mariposa motioned him
+to put his paper aside, and the six Indian ponies with their burdens
+carefully picked their way into the paradise below.
+
+Red Cloud, Mariposa, Alfonso, and the braves were received with
+expressions of joy unusual for the stolid red men, and Alfonso was given
+a tent to himself near the chief's big tepee, close by a broad clear
+stream, and in the shadow of large old oaks. Here for several days
+Alfonso tarried, grew stronger, and often walked with pretty Mariposa.
+She taught him a novel method of trapping trout which thronged the river.
+She had him sketch the reflection in Mirror Lake of cathedral spires and
+domes, of overhanging granite rocks, and tall peaks of wildest grandeur.
+
+He also sketched several waterfalls fed by melting snow. Mariposa's
+favorite falls at the entrance to the valley made a single leap of
+hundreds of feet, and when the white spray was caught by the breezes and
+the sun, the lace-like mist, sparkling like diamonds, swayed gracefully
+in the winds like a royal bridal veil. "The highest of a series of
+cascades," Mariposa said, "was called 'The Yosemite Falls.'"
+
+Here eagles soar above the Cap of Liberty and other granite peaks.
+Robins, larks, and humming birds swarm in the warm valley, and abundance
+of grass grows in the meadows for the Indian ponies.
+
+As Alfonso's strength increased, he walked more frequently with Mariposa
+along the banks of the river, by the thickets of young spruce, cedar, and
+manzanita with its oddly contorted red stems. At times, each vied with
+the other in bringing back echoes from the lofty granite walls of the
+valley.
+
+One sunset, as Alfonso and Mariposa sat by the river bank, Alfonso
+holding the light redwood cane, the gift of the maiden, he took the
+shapely hand of Mariposa in his own and said, "Mariposa, I owe my life to
+you, and if I am ever rich I will come back and reward you."
+
+"I shall miss you," said the maiden shyly, "I want no money; I am happy
+because you are well again."
+
+"Mariposa, I have long searched for gold," said Alfonso, "but finally
+I lost courage, became sick, and you know the rest. You have a ring of
+beaten gold on your finger, did it come from near here?"
+
+"My father gave it to me," was all that Mariposa would say about the ring
+as they separated for the night.
+
+It was past midnight when Alfonso felt someone pulling at his shoulder.
+There in the moonlight stood Mariposa beckoning him to come. Quickly
+dressing, Alfonso left his tent without speaking as the maiden put her
+fingers to her lips, and quietly following Mariposa they walked by the
+silver stream into a wild gorge. Graceful pines afforded cover for
+Mariposa and Alfonso, as swift of foot, they scaled high cliffs, till the
+Indian girl held aloft her hand, and above in a cleft of white quartz the
+yellow gold shone brightly in the moon's rays.
+
+When the time came for Alfonso to leave the Yosemite Valley, one of
+nature's masterpieces, tears filled the eyes of lovely Mariposa. He
+earnestly thanked Red Cloud and his daughter, and, saying good-bye,
+mounted his pony, a gift from Mariposa, when the girl ran to him and
+whispered, "Here, Alfonso, is the ring; bring it back to me when you are
+rich, but you will forget Mariposa."
+
+"No! no!" replied Alfonso, "I will bring back the ring, and you shall
+give it to the one who makes you his bride." Then the Indian girl turned
+her face toward the Bridal Veil Falls, and Alfonso rode sadly out of the
+valley.
+
+After several years, still wearing the magic band of beaten gold, having
+developed the Mariposa Gold Mines into property worth millions, Alfonso
+left the far west to seek beautiful Christine.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+WORKINGS OF THE HARRIS-INGRAM PLAN
+
+
+A telegram received at Liverpool by Reuben Harris from Marquis Leo
+Colonna, who at the Colonel's request went on to Amsterdam, verified the
+facts as to Alfonso's death by drowning. Colonel and Mrs. Harris's
+journey back to America under leaden and unsympathetic skies was sad
+indeed.
+
+George and Gertrude met them on the pier at New York. The next day at
+noon, in deep mourning, they received the remains of Lucille from the
+yacht "Hallena."
+
+Ten days with Lucille on the pitiless ocean, and unable to exchange
+with her a word of love, had sunk deeply the iron of affliction into
+the soul of Harry Hall. He often wished that he had never been born. He
+dreaded every new sunset, as the darkness that gathered about his
+catafalque-yacht whispered to him of cruel fates, of rest in the deep
+sea, and of angels' songs. Like the silent vigils of certain watchful
+plants, Captain Hall carefully observed his compasses, studied the
+weather, and often wished that he too might cross over and rejoin
+Lucille.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Ten days went by before Colonel Harris visited the offices of the
+Harris-Ingram Steel Co. Then followed several meetings of the directors,
+at which it was finally decided to issue the following circular:
+
+  Official Notice, No. 27.
+  Offices of The Harris-Ingram Steel Co.,
+  400 to 410 Brough Building,
+  Harrisville, O.--
+
+  _To Whom, it may Concern_,--
+
+  For the purpose of better promoting the harmonious workings of capital
+  and labor, The Harris-Ingram Steel Co., Limited, has been organized,
+  and its scope of co-operation has been planned on the following
+  basis.
+
+  Capital Stock of the Harris-Ingram Steel Company  $5,000,000
+  Total number of shares                               500,000
+  Par value each share                                     $10
+
+  The liability of each stockholder is limited to the amount of stock
+  held. Half of the entire stock of the corporation shall be owned by
+  so-called "capital," and half by the employees of the company, or
+  so-called "labor." The stock issued shall represent the actual cash
+  expended upon the plant, and employed as a working capital. It is the
+  wish of the management that each employee in the steel company shall
+  own at least ten shares of the stock, and more, if he so desires.
+
+  All the stock bought is to be paid for in cash. A loan at 4% interest,
+  equal to the par value of the stock, can be made by employees, when
+  necessary, to purchase a limited amount of the stock. Ten per cent of
+  the wages of all such employees will be retained as needed, which, with
+  dividends actually earned by the stock, will be applied on the amounts
+  due for the purchase of stock and real estate for a home. The new model
+  town will be known as Harris-Ingram.
+
+  Two thousand acres of land near the mills will be properly allotted and
+  improved by the company for homes for the employees, and practical
+  architects have been secured. It is further the wish of the steel
+  company that each employee shall own a good home. The size of each lot
+  is 50 ft. x 200 ft. and the price per lot is $50 which is in proportion
+  to the original cost and improvement of the allotment, so that the
+  employees in advance will thus secure all the profits that result from
+  any increased value of the lots. This is only just.
+
+  A Stock and Building Bureau will be established, and money, at 4%, will
+  be furnished the employees to build comfortable homes. This bureau
+  created and officered by the employees will attend to the purchase and
+  sale of stock, lots, the construction of homes, and the payment for the
+  same. When for any reason, an employee desires to sever his connection
+  with the steel company, his stock in the company and his home, if sold,
+  must first be offered at a fair price to the Stock and Building Bureau.
+
+  By this scheme capital and labor will have equal interests in the
+  Harris-Ingram Steel Co., also an equal voice in the management of the
+  steel company's welfare. Should capital and labor disagree, then the
+  matter in dispute, with all the facts, and before any strike on the
+  part of labor shall occur, shall at once be submitted to arbitration,
+  and the decision of the arbitrators shall be final.
+
+  Signed by
+  George Ingram,
+  _President of The Harris-Ingram Steel Co_.
+
+In eight months George Ingram had spent of the five millions at his
+disposal three million dollars on the steel plant. A working capital of
+$500,000 was deposited in four banks, and the balance of one and a half
+millions was invested in call loans, and so held ready to loan in small
+amounts at 4%, to aid employees in securing their quota of stock, a lot
+and house.
+
+In twelve months, the $2,500,000 stock of the company, allotted to
+labor, had been subscribed for by the employees, over a thousand pretty
+cottages, costing from $1,000 to $2,500 each, were built or in process of
+construction, and nearly three thousand lots had been bought by the
+workmen.
+
+A Co-operative Supply Bureau was organized and managed in the interests
+of the workmen, to furnish food, clothing, and all the necessary comforts
+of life at about cost prices. The profits of the bureau, if any, were to
+be divided annually among purchasers, in proportion to purchases made.
+
+Women in Harris-Ingram voted on several matters the same as the men.
+Saloons, all forms of gambling, and corruption in politics were
+tabooed. Sewerage was scientifically treated by the use of chemicals
+and machinery. Storm water only was sent to the lake. The valuable
+portions of the sewerage were utilized on adjacent vegetable farms. At
+Harris-Ingram electrical energy supplied water free for streets, lawns,
+and gardens, and filtered water was delivered free for family purposes.
+All the public buildings and homes were heated and lighted by
+electricity.
+
+A Transportation Bureau was organized to manage the electric railways in
+the interests of the people, and the fare was reduced to two cents.
+Everybody rode, and the receipts were astonishingly large and quite
+sufficient to meet expenses and leave a profit, which went into the town
+treasury. Thus the people received large benefits from the electric
+railway, conduits for wires, gas privileges, and other franchises.
+
+Electricity also propelled the pleasure launches and fishing boats. The
+smoke nuisance was a vexatious trouble of the past. Life for the laborer
+and his family ceased to be a burden. Eight hours were given to
+conscientious labor, eight hours to physical, mental, and moral
+improvements, and eight hours to rest.
+
+By the Harris beneficences all the employees became personally interested
+in the profitable workings of the steel plant. The profits of the
+business also were greatly increased by the valuable inventions of
+the Ingrams.
+
+The money advanced to the employees was rapidly returned through the
+company's treasurer to Colonel Harris, and by him, and later by his
+heirs, was again invested in other lines of practical benevolence.
+The act which gave Colonel Harris most comfort was his righting the great
+wrong done James Ingram, his early joint-partner, and father of George,
+his son-in-law. Colonel Harris held $2,500,000 of the steel company's
+stock. He disposed of this stock as follows:--
+
+To George and Gertrude, each $250,000 or   $500,000
+To James Ingram, early partner            1,000,000
+Retaining for himself only                1,000,000
+                                         ----------
+Total                                    $2,500,000
+
+
+Since his return Reuben Harris had aged rapidly, his hair having
+whitened, caused probably by the loss of his only son and lovely
+daughter. His joy on account of the success of the Co-operative Steel
+Mills could not banish his intense grief. He had performed his life work,
+and the cares and burdens of the new enterprise he had placed upon George
+Ingram in whom he had full confidence. He had seen much in his travels
+abroad; and now he had learned a most valuable lesson, taught by the
+Savior himself, that it is more blessed to give than to receive.
+
+At the close of a long summer day, as the golden sun dropped into blue
+Lake Erie, the life of Reuben Harris passed from sight. It was a strange
+coincidence that the papers Monday morning should contain parallel
+obituary notices of both Reuben Harris and James Ingram. Together
+they had labored earnestly for humanity, each in his own way, and now
+reconciled, together they entered,--
+
+  "The undiscovered country from whose bourne
+    No traveller returns."
+
+The four thousand employees, in a body, attended the double funeral. Each
+man had been the recipient of tangible assistance from both Harris and
+Ingram, and each laborer felt that he had lost a personal friend. It was
+a touching scene as the four regiments of employees, each wearing
+evidence of mourning on his arm, filed past the two open caskets. Each
+employee left a rose on the caskets till both were hidden from sight. The
+thousands of roses were more eloquent than marble or bronze. During the
+week, the employees each contributed the wages of two days for bronze
+statues of their late employers.
+
+George and Gertrude felt keenly the loss of their fathers. They also
+become conscious of increased responsibilities, but each had courage, and
+good cheer was imparted if either faltered or stood beneath gray skies.
+Their home life was delightful. Each possessed the art of controlling
+trifles; thus troubles were minimized and joys were magnified.
+
+Later twins, a boy and girl, entered their home, and the mother said, "If
+you call our son George Ingram, Jr., I shall call our daughter Gertrude
+Ingram, Jr.," and so there lived under the same roof George I. and George
+II., Gertrude I. And Gertrude II.
+
+Gertrude proved a model wife and mother. The mystery of woman's love and
+purity is no longer a secret when we watch the mother in touch with
+innocent children. Gertrude gave home duties prominence over all others,
+with the blessed result that George found more attractions in his own
+home than in clubs or in the homes of his friends.
+
+To do daily some little favor for his wife, as in lover days, gave him
+much pleasure. Every night George came home with a new book, rare
+flowers, or fruit, the first of the season, or some novel plaything for
+his "Two G's" as he often called the little twins. Gertrude occasionally
+rebuked her husband for spending the money foolishly, as she said, but
+then remembrance of his family when down town gratified her. Wives miss
+and long for appreciation more than for better dress or money. If, on
+return to tea, the bread is good, the thoughtful husband speaks of it. If
+the table-cloth is white or if the arrangement of the meal is artistic,
+he speaks of it. A single word of honest approval makes the wife happy.
+
+Sometimes Gertrude wondered why the marriage ceremony so often untied
+lovers' knots, and why after marriage love and esteem did not increase.
+She never forgot the advice of an old lady, too poor to make her a
+wedding present, who told her that if she wished to be happy in marriage
+she must always keep two bears in her home, bear and forbear.
+
+George and his wife were human, and not unlike other people. Now and then
+George would say to his intimate friends. "The Ingrams like most New
+Englanders did not come over in the Mayflower as the passenger list was
+full, neither do the Ingrams belong to that very large number of families
+who feel the necessity of saying, 'We have never had an unkind word
+in our home.' Gertrude and I both have strong wills, and we often differ
+in opinions, but as often we agree to disagree. In this manner we avoid
+sunken rocks that might wreck our ship."
+
+One day, Irene, George's youngest sister, asked Gertrude for a painting
+of herself and of George. "Too expensive, Irene," replied Gertrude,
+"couldn't think of it for a moment."
+
+"No, Gertrude, I want only a tiny picture of your thumb and George's."
+
+"What in the world do you want of our thumbs?"
+
+"Because, Gertrude, George tells me privately that he has you completely
+under his thumb, and you always act as if you thought you had George
+under your thumb."
+
+Gertrude and George were strong and helpful, both educated, unselfish
+and ambitious; why should they not succeed? Gertrude had learned that
+good and great people are also sometimes selfish. When a little girl,
+she was present with her father who was invited to take dinner with a
+distinguished divine. The good doctor of divinity did the carving, and
+adroitly managed to keep for his own plate the tenderest piece of steak.
+Colonel Harris observed the fact, and enjoying a joke, casually observed,
+"Doctor, how well you carve!" The good man saw his breach of hospitality
+and blushed, remarking, "Colonel, you must forgive me for I believe I was
+born with a delicate stomach."
+
+Business cares were locked up in the office desk down town, and Gertrude
+forgot home annoyances as soon as George was seen coming up the lawn, and
+she and the twins ran to meet "papa." He always brought home the latest
+literary and scientific magazines and journals, while the reviews of
+America and London kept the family up-to-date on the latest books and
+leading topics. George's vacations were sometimes taken with his own
+employees, all of whom in the heated months, had two weeks off, some
+camping along the shores of the lake, others taking boat excursions to
+neighboring groves, or enjoying the outdoor band concerts which were
+furnished every other evening on the public park.
+
+What concerned his employees, concerned him. When any of his workmen
+were injured or sick, the company at once sent a surgeon or physician.
+Rightly, he thought it more important that an employee should be kept
+in good working order than even his best piece of machinery.
+
+George Ingram was once heard to say that eleven letters covered a large
+part of his religion, and that he wished he could write across the blue
+dome in letters of gold the word "Helpfulness." To assist an unfortunate
+individual permanently to help himself, is preaching a gospel that
+betters the world.
+
+The community of Harris-Ingram had little or no poverty. Everybody had
+money in the savings bank, or accumulations going into pretty homes, and
+mill stock, and all respected law and order, hence few if any policemen
+were ever seen on the streets. Everybody was well dressed, courteous, and
+daily growing more intelligent. Taxes were light, and general
+improvements were economically and promptly made.
+
+Both George and Gertrude believed that the tendency of the age was
+towards more practical education for the people. London publishes
+millions of penny books, penny histories and biographies, penny
+arithmetics, astronomies and dictionaries, and penny books to teach good
+behavior, honor, and patriotism. In London and elsewhere, the people were
+organizing workmen's clubs, colleges, and institute unions, for mutual
+improvement, and glimpses were already caught of Morris's "Earthly
+Paradise that is to be."
+
+  "Then a man shall work and bethink him, and rejoice in the deeds of his
+     hand,
+   Nor yet come home in the even too faint and weary to stand.
+   Men in that time a-coming shall work and have no fear
+   For to-morrow's lack of earning and the hungry-wolf a-near.
+   Oh, strange, new, wonderful justice! But for whom shall we gather the
+     gain?
+   For ourselves and for each of our fellows, and no hand shall labor in
+     vain."
+
+Free night schools over the country, for the child of eight to the man of
+eighty, will go a long way in solving the troublesome socialistic
+problem.
+
+George was familiar with the generous gifts and deeds of the Pratts of
+Baltimore, and of Brooklyn, of Carnegie, of Lorillard & Co., of Warner
+Brothers of Connecticut, and of the Messrs. Tangye of Birmingham,
+England. The latter firm provides for its thousands of workmen a library,
+evening classes, and twice a week, while the employees are at dinner in a
+great hall, a twenty minutes crisp talk by capable persons on some live
+topic.
+
+George Ingram organized an Educational Bureau for the improvement of his
+employees and others by evening schools and public entertainments. As
+requisite for the success of such a bureau as he planned, he published
+the conditions as follows:--
+
+  1. Several study rooms and good teachers.
+
+  2. A large and cheerful hall, church or opera house for lectures, that
+  the prices may be low, the audience must be large.
+
+  3. A capable committee or manager, enthusiasm, good temper, fertility
+  of resource and sympathy with the people. Common sense coupled with
+  determined perseverance works wonders.
+
+  4. Variety and quality in the entertainment, with no wearying pauses
+  between the parts. The movement must be swift and sure.
+
+  5. Punctuality and business-like thoroughness in the management. Begin
+  and end on the minute. Give exactly what you promise; or, if that be
+  impossible, what will be recognized as a full equivalent. Ideas, not
+  words, old or new on every helpful subject in the universe, spoken or
+  illustrated. Music that rests or inspires, and is understood.
+
+  6. Sell 5,000 season tickets at $1.00 in advance to secure a guarantee
+  fund; this is sound business, as success is then assured, and it will
+  not depend upon the weather.
+
+  7. Have prominent citizens preside at each entertainment, but pledge
+  them to crisp introduction. High grade entertainments wisely managed,
+  prove themselves of benign influence, and an agency more potent than
+  many laws in the preservation of peace and the reform of public morals.
+
+When Colonel Harris's will was probated, two-thirds of the balance of
+his fortune was left in trust with Mrs. Harris, George, and Gertrude,
+to be used for the public welfare, as they deemed wisest. The trustees
+used $100,000 to build for the Workmen's Club a large and attractive
+Central Hall, that had steep double galleries, and five thousand opera
+chairs.
+
+Several necessary committees were organized and George Ingram's gospel of
+Helpfulness found another practical expression. The Educational Bureau
+was not a gratuity in any of its departments, as small fees were charged
+in all the evening classes, which were crowded with old and young. For
+twenty consecutive Saturday evenings in the winter season, a four-fold
+intellectual treat was furnished at $1.00 for tickets for the entire
+course.
+
+By 7:30 o'clock in the evening the Central Hall was packed to the walls,
+no reserved seats were sold, and the rule was observed "First come, first
+served," which brought promptly the audience. Season ticket-holders had
+the exclusive right to the hall till 7:25 o'clock, when a limited number
+of single admission tickets were sold. A large force of polite ushers
+assisted in seating the people, and in keeping order. At 7:30 all the
+entrance doors were closed, so that late comers never disturbed the
+audience.
+
+The musical prelude, or orchestra concert of thirty minutes closed at
+7:30 with a grand chorus by the audience standing; following this,
+precisely at 7:30 was the half-hour lecture-prelude on some scientific
+or practical subject. Among the topics treated were "Wrongs of
+Workingmen, and How to Right Them," "The Terminal Glacier," "Sewerage and
+Ventilation," "The Pyramids," "Wonders of the House we Live in,"
+"Architecture Illustrated," etc.
+
+From 8:00 to 8:15 followed the popular Singing School, in which five
+thousand persons heartily joined, aided by an enthusiastic precentor, and
+orchestra, in singing national hymns and other music. During the singing
+school everybody stood, and with windows lowered, fresh air and music
+swept through the hall and the hearts of the audience.
+
+From 8:15 to 9:30 was given the principal attraction of the evening, a
+popular lecture, dramatic reading, debate on some burning question, or a
+professional concert. The entertainments always closed promptly at 9:30,
+as many electric cars were in waiting. During the season, free lectures
+on "The Art of Cooking," "How to Dress," "The Care of Children,"
+"Housekeeping in General," "The Culture of Flowers," etc., etc., were
+given at 3 P.M. in the great hall to the wives and friends of all the
+ticket holders.
+
+The circulation of useful literature was another important feature of the
+Educational Bureau work. At each entertainment five thousand little books
+of forty pages each, a wagon-load, were given to the owners of course
+tickets, as they entered the hall. These pamphlets included "A Short
+History of France," or "History of the United States," "Story of the
+Steam Engine," "A Brief History of Science," an "Essay on Early Man,"
+"Great Artists," "Secrets of Success," etc. Each little book contained
+the evening's programme, the words and music of at least two national
+hymns, and "Owl Talks," a single page of crisp thoughts, to whet one's
+wits. At the close of each season the twenty pamphlets, continuously
+paged, were bound for fifty cents in two volumes with covers of red
+cloth. Thus the people got much for little, and they were benefited and
+pleased with their bargain. Encores and the discourtesy of stamping the
+feet and leaving the hall before the performance was concluded were
+abolished. Palms and fragrant flowers were always on the platform.
+Everybody listened attentively to the kindly words of teacher, orator,
+or poet; new impulses were received, and all rejoiced in the supply and
+satisfaction of their deepest and best wants. Feelings of a common
+brotherhood made hearts happier and lives better.
+
+Workmen went home sober with their week's earnings in their pockets, as
+there were no saloons in the town, a bright book to read, and a home of
+their own for shelter and rest. Thus also an improved citizenship was
+obtained and the nation was made stronger.
+
+George Ingram thought that all our cities should have large, cheerful
+halls, people's forums, where clear and simple truths on important
+questions should be taught. He believed that it would prove an antidote
+to various forms of anarchy and communism, which under the aegis of
+liberty are being advocated in our cities.
+
+The trustees of the Harris estate set aside $250,000, to be known as "The
+Reuben Harris Fund," to assist in providing regular courses of free
+public lectures upon the most important branches of natural and moral
+science, also free instruction to mechanics and artisans in drawing, and
+in practical designing, in patterns for prints, silks, paper hangings,
+carpets, furniture, etc. Free courses of lectures were given to advanced
+students in art, also lectures in physics, geology, botany, physiology,
+and the like for teachers, and the public.
+
+Gertrude felt that the perpetuity and usefulness of such a fund or
+monument dedicated to her father would outrival the pyramids. She greatly
+encouraged among the wives of the workmen the growth of kindergartens for
+children, and the cultivation of flowers, in and out of their homes,
+offering valuable prizes at annual flower shows. Harrisville voted to
+annex the village of Harris-Ingram, hoping that the gospel of helpfulness
+that had worked such wonders might leaven their whole city.
+
+George Ingram was now forty years of age. His great ability and practical
+good sense had arrested the attention and admiration of not only his own
+employees, but of the citizens of Harrisville, who demanded that he
+should be chosen mayor of the city.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+UNEXPECTED MEETINGS
+
+
+Christine De Ruyter had long contemplated a visit to the new world.
+She was familiar with the history of the Dutch West India Company, a
+political movement organized under cover of finding a passage to Cathay,
+to destroy the results of Spanish conquest in America.
+
+No doubt, love of discovery and of trade also stimulated the Dutch in
+making explorations. In the vessel "Half Moon" they sailed up the Hudson,
+and after building several forts, they finally established themselves in
+New Netherlands. Peter Minuit for a trifle bought from the Indians the
+whole of Manhattan Island. In locating on Manhattan Island, the Dutch
+secretly believed that they had secured the oyster while the English
+settlements further north and south were the two shells only. The
+development of almost three centuries and the supremacy of New York
+to-day, as the new world metropolis, verifies the sound sense of the
+Dutch.
+
+Christine was alive to the important part which her countrymen had early
+played across the Atlantic. Her mother had died, and Christine still
+unmarried, controlled both her time and a goodly inheritance. She
+resolved to visit her sister Fredrika, whose husband was agent in New
+York of a famous German line of vessels.
+
+En route from Holland to New York she spent two weeks with friends in
+London, and on Regent Street replenished her wardrobe, enjoyed Irving
+and Terry in their latest play, attended an exciting Cambridge-Oxford
+boat-race on the Thames, and with a great crowd went wild with delight
+at the English races at Epsom Downs.
+
+Saturday at 9:40 A.M. at the Waterloo Station several friends saw
+Christine off for America on the special train, the Eagle Express, of the
+South Western Railway, which makes the journey of 79 miles to Southampton
+in one hour and forty minutes.
+
+At Southampton the passengers were transferred on the new express dock,
+direct from the train to the steamers, which are berthed alongside. By
+this route passengers escape exposure to weather on tenders and landing
+stage, and avoid all delays at ports of call, and waiting for the tides
+to cross the bar.
+
+Promptly at 12 o'clock, hawsers and gangways vanishing, the great steamer
+moved down the bay, the fertile Isle of Wight in sight. Officers made
+note of the time as the Needles were passed, as the runs of the steamers
+are taken between the Needles and Sandy Hook. It was a bright breezy
+afternoon and after lunch the passengers lounged on the decks, or in
+the smoke room; some inspected their rooms, some read the latest French
+or English novel, and others in groups gossiped, or walked the decks to
+sharpen appetite.
+
+The second steward, of necessity a born diplomat, had succeeded in
+convincing most who were at lunch that he had given them favored seats,
+if not all at the Captain's table, then at the table of the first
+officer, a handsome man, or at the table with the witty doctor.
+
+Christine did not appear at lunch, as she was busy in her stateroom. She
+had given careful instructions that one of her trunks should be sent at
+once to her room. An hour before dinner there appeared on the promenade
+deck a beautiful young woman dressed in black, who attracted attention
+and no little comment. She wore a dress of Henrietta cloth, and cape
+trimmed with black crepe and grosgrained ribbons in bows with long ends.
+Her tiny hat with narrow band of white crepe was of the Marie Stuart
+style; her gloves were undressed kid, her handkerchief had black border,
+and her silk parasol was draped in black.
+
+Hers was the same pretty face and blue eyes that had won Alfonso's heart.
+She supposed him dead; her dress of mourning was not for him, but for her
+mother, whom she idolized. At first Christine hesitated about wearing
+black on the journey, but she soon learned that it increased her charms,
+and that it gave protection from annoyance. Many supposed she was a young
+widow. So thought a handsome naval officer whom she had met in London.
+When Christine returned to her room, she found that a messenger boy had
+brought her his card, with compliments, and a request that she occupy a
+seat at his table for the voyage. With a black jacket on her arm,
+Christine was conducted to her seat at dinner by the chief steward. She
+wore a plain black skirt and waist of black and white, with black belt
+and jet buckle.
+
+An up-to-date liner is a sumptuous hotel afloat. The safety, speed, and
+comfort of the modern steamer does not destroy but rather enhances the
+romance of ocean voyage. The handsome young officer and pretty Christine,
+as they promenaded the decks, added effect to the passing show. Her
+mourning costume gradually yielded to outing suits of violet tints with
+white collar and cuffs, and a simple black sailor's cap with white cord
+for band.
+
+Artist that Christine was, and lover of the ocean, she and the officer
+watched the sea change from a transient green to a light blue and back
+again, then to a deep blue when the sun was hidden in a cloud, then, when
+the fogs were encountered, to a cold grey.
+
+Christine took great interest in the easy navigation of the steamer; she
+watched the officers take observations, and verify the ship's run.
+Frequently she was seen with the young officer on the bridge, he pointing
+out the lighthouse on the dangerous Scilly Islands, the last sight of old
+England off Land's End, she enjoying the long swell and white crested
+billows, as the shelter of the British coast was left behind.
+
+A charming first night aboard ship it was, the moon full, the sky
+picturesque, the sea dark, except where the steamer and her screws
+churned it white; at the bow, showers and spray of phosphorus, and
+at the stern, rippling eddies and a long path of phosphorus and white
+foam.
+
+Christine wished she could transfer to canvas the swift steamer, as she
+felt it in her soul, powerful as a giant and graceful as a woman; at the
+mast-head an electric star, red and green lights on either side, long rows
+of tremulous bulbs of light from numerous portholes; the officers on the
+bridge with night glass in hand, walking to and fro, dark figures of
+sailors at the bow and in the crow's nest, all eyes and ears. "All's
+well" lulls to sleep the after-dinner loungers in chairs along the deck,
+while brave men and fair women keep step to entrancing music.
+
+With a week of favorable weather, and unprecedented speed the record out
+was won; officers, sailors, passengers, all were jubilant. On Pier 14,
+North River, Fredrika and her husband met Christine, and drove to their
+fine home overlooking the Central Park.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Alfonso Harris had come on to New York to spend a week of pleasure;
+already he had secured his ticket for Amsterdam via Antwerp by the Red
+Star Line. He was prepared to keep his promise to Christine. "To match
+gold with gold!"
+
+In his rounds among the artists he happened to step into the Art
+Student's League, and there learned that his old artist-chum, Leo, was
+in New York, and stopping at the Plaza Hotel. At once he took cab, and,
+surely enough, there on the hotel register was the name Leo Colonna,
+Rome. Alfonso sent up his card, and the waiter soon returned with the
+reply, "The marquis will see Mr. Harris at once in his rooms." It is
+needless to say that the marquis was both shocked and delighted to see
+alive a friend whom he supposed long ago dead.
+
+After dinner Alfonso and Leo drove to their old club, and as ever talked
+and confided in each other. Alfonso told the marquis the romantic story
+of his life, of his pecuniary success, and that he should sail in a few
+days to wed Christine, if possible.
+
+The marquis hesitated in his reply, as if in doubt whether to proceed or
+not. Observing this, Alfonso said, "Speak freely, tell me what you were
+thinking about."
+
+"Nothing, Alfonso, only a report I heard at the club last night."
+
+"What report, marquis?"
+
+"A report or story concerning a beautiful widow, who had just arrived
+from Amsterdam. From the minute description given--she had fair face,
+blue eyes, fleecy hair and loved art--I suspected that the woman in black
+might be Christine De Ruyter."
+
+"You surprise me, Leo, but what was the report?"
+
+"Alfonso, pardon me, I have said too much already."
+
+"No, go on and tell me all."
+
+"Alfonso, since the report is concerning a woman's character, my lips
+should be sealed, and would be, except you my friend are the most
+interested party. The club story is that a handsome young officer, who
+left his newly wedded wife in Bristol, England, was so much enamored of
+the charming widow aboard ship that suspicions were aroused, and in fact
+confirmed, by an additional report that valuable diamonds had been sent
+by the same officer from Tiffany's to the lady, who is stopping somewhere
+on Central Park. There, Alfonso, I have given you the story and the whole
+may be true or false."
+
+It was now Alfonso's turn to be shocked; he could not believe what the
+marquis had told him. Next day he visited the office of the American
+Line, found that Christine De Ruyter was a passenger on the last steamer,
+and the purser gave him her New York address. Then the marquis
+volunteered to call, in Alfonso's interests, upon Miss De Ruyter who
+seemed glad to see him, and was amazed with the story which he had to
+tell, not only of himself, and his good fortune, but that of Alfonso.
+That the latter was alive and wealthy was news almost too good to
+believe.
+
+The marquis reported to Alfonso that Christine was overjoyed to have a
+bygone mystery so fortunately cleared up, and that she sent him an urgent
+invitation to call at once.
+
+Christine congratulated herself over her good luck at the very threshold
+of the new world. "Strange romance, indeed, it would be," she mused to
+herself, "if, after having refused the poor artist, he having gained
+riches should prove loyal, and lay his heart and fortune at my feet!
+Would I reject him? No, indeed! He has gold now." Thus musing to herself
+before the mirror, she gave final touches to her toilet, and stepped down
+into her sister's sumptuous parlor to wait for a lover, restored from the
+depths of the sea.
+
+Promptly at 9 o'clock Alfonso was ushered into Fredrika's parlor. For a
+second, Christine stood fixed and pale, for Alfonso it really was, and
+she had believed him dead; then extending her hand she gave him greeting.
+For a full hour Alfonso and Christine talked, each telling much of what
+had transpired in the intervening years. Alfonso said he was quite as
+much surprised to find that she was still unmarried, as she seemed
+surprised that he was still alive.
+
+"Alfonso, I have waited long for you," Christine replied.
+
+"Ah, yes, Christine, but have you been true all these years?"
+
+As Alfonso spoke these words, he sat with Christine's hand in his own,
+looking inquiringly into her blue eyes for her answer. Her face flushed
+and she was speechless.
+
+Alfonso, dropping her hand, said in a kindly voice, "For years I have
+kept pure and sought to be worthy of you, and fortune has smiled upon me;
+I could now match gold with gold, but when I demand purity for purity
+your silence and your blushes condemn you, and I must bid you a final
+farewell."
+
+Christine could not answer, and as Alfonso left the house, she fell
+weeping upon the sofa, where her sister Fredrika found her, long past
+midnight. The terrible sorrow of that evening remained forever a mystery
+to Fredrika.
+
+It was 10 o'clock next morning when the marquis called upon Alfonso
+Harris at the Hotel Holland. He found him busy answering important
+letters from the coast. The marquis was not long in detecting that
+Alfonso lacked his usual buoyancy of spirits, and so rightly concluded
+that the meeting with Christine the night before had resulted
+unfavorably.
+
+Alfonso explained all that transpired, and the two artists, who had
+flattered themselves that they knew women well, admitted to each other
+their keen disappointment in Christine's character. Both lighted cigars,
+and for a moment or two unconsciously smoked vigorously, as if still in
+doubt as to their unsatisfactory conclusions.
+
+Soon Alfonso said, "Leo, how about your own former love, Rosie Ricci? To
+meet Rosie again was possibly the motive that prompted you to leave your
+estate in Italy."
+
+"Yes, Alfonso, I loved Rosie, as I once frankly stated to your sister on
+the ocean, but in a moment of peevishness she returned the engagement
+tokens, and the lovers' quarrel resulted in separation. But after the
+death of Lucille I found the smouldering fires of the old love for Rosie
+again easily fanned into a flame, so I crossed the sea in search of my
+dear country-woman."
+
+"And did you find her!"
+
+"Yes, Alfonso, that is, all that was left of the vivacious, happy
+songster, as we once knew her. Her new world surroundings proved
+disastrous."
+
+"How so?"
+
+"Look, here is a picture in water color, that tells the story." Saying
+this the Marquis slowly removed a white paper from a small sketch which
+he had made the week before. It was a picture in the morgue on the East
+River, with its half hundred corpses, waiting recognition or burial in
+the Potter's Field. Upon a cold marble slab lay the body of a young girl,
+her shapely hands across her breast. Alfonso recognized Rosie's sweet
+face and golden tresses that artists had raved over.
+
+The marquis in sad tones added a few words of explanation. "The senator
+who educated Rosie proved a villain. When she acted as Juliet at the
+Capitol, fashionable society gave hearty approval of her rare abilities.
+Rosie's genius, like a shooting star, flashed across the sky and then
+shot into oblivion."
+
+A few days afterwards, Alfonso on the pier with his white handkerchief
+waved adieu to Leo who had resolved to wed art in sunny Italy. Sad
+memories decided Alfonso to leave New York at once. For a short time he
+was inclined to give up a new purpose, and return to his own family at
+Harrisville, but the law of equity controlled his heart, he journeyed
+back to the Pacific Coast, and again approached the Yosemite Valley.
+
+Seated again on Inspiration Point, he gazed long and earnestly into the
+gorge below. He could discern neither smoke nor moving forms. All had
+changed; not the peaks, or domes, or wonderful waterfalls; all these
+remained the same. But where were Red Cloud and kind-hearted Mariposa?
+Alfonso's own race now occupied the valley for pleasure and for gain.
+
+Mariposa might not be of his own race, but she had a noble heart.
+Education had put her in touch with civilization, and she was as pure
+as the snow of the Sierras. He wondered if she ever thought of him. He
+remembered that, when he rode away, her face was turned toward the Bridal
+Veil Falls. Did she thus intend to say, "I love you?"
+
+At midnight, as the moon rose above the forest, the tall pines whispered
+of Mariposa, of wild flowers she was wont to gather, of journeys made to
+highest peaks, of weeks of watching and waiting, and of the burial of Red
+Cloud at the foot of an ancient sequoia; then the language of the breezes
+among the pines became indistinct, and Alfonso, half-asleep, half-awake,
+saw approaching a white figure. Two dark eyes full of tears, gazed into
+his face, at first with a startled look, and then with a gleam of joy and
+trust.
+
+Alfonso exclaimed, "Mariposa!" He sought to clasp her in his arms, but
+the graceful figure vanished, and the pines seemed to whisper, "Alfonso,
+I go to join the braves in the happy hunting grounds beyond the setting
+sun. You will wed the fairest of your people. Adieu."
+
+When Alfonso awoke, the ring of beaten gold was gone, where, he knew not.
+The tourist-coach was rumbling down the mountain road, and he joined it.
+After an inspection of his mines, he sadly left the Sierras for San
+Francisco.
+
+The prophetic words of Mariposa, whispered among the pines, proved true.
+Alfonso again met Gertrude's best friend, beautiful Mrs. Eastlake, now a
+young widow, and later he married her, making their home on Knob Hill,
+the most fashionable quarter of the city by the Golden Gate.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+THE CRISIS
+
+
+What is of more value to civilization, or what commands a greater premium
+in the world than successful leadership? Successful leaders are few, and
+the masses follow. Honor, fame, power, and wealth are some of the rewards
+of great leadership. The confidences bestowed and the responsibilities
+assumed are often very great. A betrayal of important trusts, or a
+failure to discharge responsibilities, usually brings swift and terrible
+punishment, poverty, prison, disgrace, and dishonor to descendants.
+
+George Ingram had proved himself a successful leader, and those who knew
+him best, by study of his methods and his works, saw his capacity for
+leadership. Hence the popular demand for him to stand as candidate for
+mayor of Harrisville. His practical intelligence, and his acuteness in
+observation of character, had served him well in organizing, developing,
+and controlling the greatest model steel-plant of his generation, which
+for quality, quantity, and minimum cost of products had attracted the
+attention of manufacturers and scientists. Politicians soon discovered in
+George Ingram natural prudence and tact in behavior. The strong religious
+element of the city conceded that he possessed, as a certain doctor of
+divinity said, "a nice sense of what is right, just and true, with a
+course of life corresponding thereto."
+
+The alert women of the city were in hearty approval of conferring the
+honor of Mayor upon George Ingram. They knew that the completeness of his
+character resulted in no small degree from the influence of his gifted
+wife. The practical business men of the city saw that the proposed
+candidate for mayor had good common sense. So all party spirit was laid
+aside, as it should be in local politics, and George Ingram was nominated
+and elected unanimously as the mayor of Harrisville. His cabinet,
+composed of the heads of several departments, was filled with able men,
+who with zest took up their portfolios not with the thought of personal
+gain but with the lofty purpose of securing the utmost good to every
+citizen.
+
+Fortunately the city had adopted the just principle of paying its
+servants liberally for all services rendered. By the so-called "Federal
+Plan" the number of members of the Cabinet, of the Board of Control, of
+the Council, and of the School Board, has been so reduced that at their
+meetings speeches and angry discussions were tabooed; each associate
+member was respected, if not on his own account, then on behalf of his
+constituency, and all business was discussed and consummated with
+the same courtesy and efficiency, as at a well regulated board of bank
+directors.
+
+Never before were streets so well paved, cleaned and sprinkled; never
+were city improvements so promptly made without increase of debt, and
+never did public schools prosper better. Men of experience on all lines
+were drafted on special committees and commissions, and vigorous work
+toward practical ends went forward on river, harbor, and other
+improvements.
+
+Electricity, supplied by the city, furnished power, heat, and light. High
+pressure water relegated the steam fire-engine to the Historical Society,
+and low pressure water, at minimum cost, was supplied to the people in
+such abundance that during the summer season, before sunrise, all paved
+streets were cleansed by running water and brush brooms. All sewerage and
+garbage were promptly removed, and used to enrich the suburban
+market-gardens.
+
+Every country road leading into the city had its electric railway with
+combination passenger and freight cars, and farm products for the people
+were delivered in better condition, earlier at the markets, and at much
+reduced prices. The advantages enjoyed by rich and poor in Harrisville
+were soon noised abroad, and the influx of new comers constantly
+increased the growth of the city. Mayor Ingram had been given a
+re-election. Prosperity in his own business had brought great returns,
+and the mayor's chief concern was, what to do with his accumulations.
+
+One day the County Commissioners, the City Government, the Chamber of
+Commerce, and the Board of Education were equally surprised to receive
+from George Ingram the announcement that he would build for the people at
+his own expense a court house, a city hall, a public library, and public
+baths. He had often wondered how it was possible that other millionaires
+could overlook and miss such opportunities to distribute surplus funds
+among the people. Gertrude early observed the city's needs, and had
+pointed out the opportunity to George, urging that part of her father's
+money should be united with their own increasing wealth to supply funds
+for the execution of their plans.
+
+The four committees appointed by city and county acted speedily in the
+consideration of details. It was decided to construct a group of
+buildings on the park. The architecture adopted for all four structures
+was Romanesque in style; granite was used for wall work, and darker stone
+for ornamentation. The plans accepted exhibited less massiveness than the
+original Romanesque, and showed a tendency towards the lightness and
+delicacy of finish which modern culture demands.
+
+The new court house located on the park enabled the architect to connect
+it by an historical "Bridge of Sighs" with the prison and old court house
+across the street. The city hall was properly made the most prominent of
+the group of buildings. Its first floor and basement were combined in a
+great assembly hall, capable of seating 10,000 people with an abundance
+of light, fresh air, and eight broad entrances for exit. As the belfry or
+tower was a leading feature of most mediaeval town-halls, so the artistic
+feature of the Harrisville city hall was its lofty tower, containing
+chimes, above which was to be placed an appropriate bronze statue. The
+library and the baths were built on the park.
+
+The Romanesque style of all the buildings gave fine opportunity to
+introduce elaborate carvings about the entrance arches, and across the
+façades to chisel quaint faces above the windows, and grotesque heads out
+of corbels at the eaves.
+
+The group of public buildings was finally completed and dedicated with
+much formality. The city government unanimously adopted resolutions as
+follows:--
+
+"Resolved,--That the City of Harrisville accepts, with profound
+gratitude, from Mayor George Ingram, the munificent gift of buildings for
+a City Hall and Public Library as stated in his letters of ----; That
+the City accepts the three noble gifts upon the conditions in said
+letter, which it will faithfully and gladly observe, as a sacred trust in
+accordance with his desire.
+
+"Resolved,--That in gratefully accepting these gifts, the City
+tenders to Mayor George Ingram its heartfelt thanks, and desires to
+express its deep sense of obligation for the elegant buildings, for years
+of wise counsel and unselfish service, and for the free use of valuable
+patents. The City recognizes the Christian faith, generosity, and public
+spirit that have prompted him to supply the long felt wants by these
+gifts of great and permanent usefulness."
+
+Similar resolutions were adopted by the county commissioners.
+
+Nearly three millions were thus disposed of by the mayor and his wife.
+Close attention to business, and the severe labors in behalf of the city,
+undermined the health of George Ingram, and his physical and mental
+strength failed him at the wrong time, for his ship was now approaching
+a cyclone on the financial sea.
+
+Tariff matters had been drifting from bad to worse, politicians were
+seeking to secure advantages for their constituents by changes in the
+tariff schedule, speculation was running wild in the stock exchanges of
+the country, cautious business men and bankers in the larger cities
+discovered an ominous black cloud rising out of the horizon. Bank rates
+of interest increased, more frequent renewals were made, deposits
+dwindled, country bankers weakened, and financiers in the metropolis
+were calling loans made to the interior. With the financial cyclone at
+its height, the demands were so great upon The Harris-Ingram Steel Co.
+that creditors threatened to close the steel plant.
+
+The cry for help went up from the Harris-Ingram mills, but their trusted
+leader was powerless. George Ingram lay insensible at death's door, the
+victim of pneumonia. For a week, the directors of the steel company
+struggled night and day with their difficulties. Gertrude could neither
+leave the bedside of her dying husband, nor would she give her consent to
+have the Harris-Ingram Experiment wrecked. She had already pledged as
+collateral for the creditors of the steel company all their stock and
+personal property, and had telephoned the directors to keep the company
+afloat another day, if in their power.
+
+The ablest physicians of the city were standing at George Ingram's
+bedside in despair, as all hope of his recovery had vanished. Gertrude
+stepped aside into her library, and was in the very agony of prayer for
+help, when in rushed her brother Alfonso, whom the family believed dead.
+He had come from California with his wife, and stopping at the company's
+office, had learned of the terrible trouble of his family.
+
+Lifting up his broken-hearted sister, who for a moment thought that
+she had met her brother on the threshold of the other world, he kissed
+Gertrude and said, "Be brave, go back to your husband, and trust your
+brother to look after the steel company's matters."
+
+Alfonso learned that one million dollars were needed at once to tide over
+the company's affairs; he drew two checks, for five hundred thousand
+dollars each, upon his banks in San Francisco and requested the creditors
+to wire to the coast. Before two o'clock replies came that Alfonso
+Harris's cheeks were good, and the only son of Reuben Harris had saved
+the "Harris-Ingram Experiment." Mariposa's band of beaten gold had worked
+its magic.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A public funeral was given George Ingram. He was a man the city could ill
+afford to lose, and every citizen felt he had lost a personal friend. All
+business was suspended, and the mills were shut down. For two days the
+body of the dead mayor lay in state in the city hall he had built and
+given to the people. The long line of citizens that filed past the coffin
+continued through the night till dawn, and even then, great throngs stood
+in the rain with flowers for his casket.
+
+As a token of their high regard the people voted to change the name of
+the city of Harrisville to Harris-Ingram, the suburb which was annexed,
+and to place a bronze statue of George Ingram on the tower above the city
+hall, which now became his fitting monument. Labor and capital united in
+electing for the head of the great Harris-Ingram Steel Company, Alfonso,
+the millionaire and artist-son of Reuben Harris.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<h1>THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT</h1>
+
+<h2>By CHARLES E. BOLTON, M.A.</h2>
+
+<h3>AUTHOR OF "A MODEL VILLAGE AND OTHER PAPERS," "TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND
+AMERICA," ETC.</h3>
+
+<h4>CLEVELAND<br />
+THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY</h4>
+
+<h3>1905</h3>
+
+
+
+
+<h4>TO MY WIFE<br />
+SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON<br />
+AND MY SON<br />
+CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON</h4>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION</h2>
+
+
+<p>This volume was ready for publication when my husband died, October 23,
+1901. In it, in connection with a love story and some foreign travel, he
+strove to show how necessary capital and labor are to each other. He had
+always been a friend to labor, and there were no more sincere mourners at
+his funeral than the persons he employed. He believed capital should be
+conciliatory and helpful, and co-operate with labor in the most friendly
+manner, without either party being arrogant or indifferent.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Bolton took the deepest interest in all civic problems, and it is a
+comfort to those who loved him that his book, "A Model Village and Other
+Papers," came from the press a few days before his death. He had hoped
+after finishing a book of travel, having crossed the ocean many times and
+been in many lands, and doing some other active work in public life, to
+take a trip around the world and rest, but rest came in another way.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sarah K. Bolton</span></p>
+
+<p>Cleveland, Ohio.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE</h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. W.D. Howells, in reply to a literary society in Ashtabula County,
+Ohio, said that most people had within their personal experience one
+book.</p>
+
+<p>I have often quoted Howells's words to my best friend, who has written a
+score of books, and the answer as frequently comes, "Why not write a book
+yourself?" Encouraged by Howells's belief, and stimulated by the accepted
+challenge of my friend, to whom I promised a completed book in twelve
+months, I found time during a very busy year to pencil the chapters that
+follow. Most of the book was written while waiting at stations, or on the
+cars, and in hotels, using the spare moments of an eight-months' lecture
+season, and the four months at home occupied by business.</p>
+
+<p>I am aware that some critics decry a novel written with a purpose. Permit
+me therefore in advance to admit that this book has a double purpose: To
+test the truth of Howells's words as applied to myself; and to describe a
+journey, both at home and abroad, which may possibly be enjoyed by the
+reader, the inconveniences of travel being lessened by incidentally
+tracing a love story to a strange but perhaps satisfactory conclusion;
+the whole leading to the evolution of a successful experiment, which in
+fragments is being tried in various parts of the civilized world.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<!-- Autogenerated TOC. Modify or delete as required. -->
+<p>
+<a href="#CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I--The Harrises in New York</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II--Mr. Hugh Searles of London Arrives</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III--A Bad Send-off</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_IV">CHAPTER IV--Aboard the S.S. Majestic</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_V">CHAPTER V--Discomfitures at Sea</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_VI">CHAPTER VI--Half Awake, Half Asleep</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_VII">CHAPTER VII--Life at Sea a Kaleidoscope</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">CHAPTER VIII--Colonel Harris Returns to Harrisville</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_IX">CHAPTER IX--Capital and Labor in Conference</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_X">CHAPTER X--Knowledge is Power</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XI">CHAPTER XI--In Touch with Nature</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XII">CHAPTER XII--The Strike at Harrisville</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XIII">CHAPTER XIII--Anarchy and Results</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XIV">CHAPTER XIV--Colonel Harris Follows his Family Abroad</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XV">CHAPTER XV--Safe Passage, and a Happy Reunion</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XVI">CHAPTER XVI--A Search for Ideas</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XVII">CHAPTER XVII--The Harrises Visit Paris</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XVIII">CHAPTER XVIII--In Belgium and Holland</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XIX">CHAPTER XIX--Paris, and the Wedding</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XX">CHAPTER XX--Aboard the Yacht "Hallena"</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XXI">CHAPTER XXI--Two Unanswered Letters</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XXII">CHAPTER XXII--Colonel Harris's Big Blue Envelope</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XXIII">CHAPTER XXIII--Gold Marries Gold</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XXIV">CHAPTER XXIV--The Magic Band of Beaten Gold</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XXV">CHAPTER XXV--Workings of the Harris-Ingram Experiment</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XXVI">CHAPTER XXVI--Unexpected Meetings</a><br />
+<a href="#CHAPTER_XXVII">CHAPTER XXVII--The Crisis</a><br />
+</p>
+<!-- End Autogenerated TOC. -->
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_HARRIS-INGRAM_EXPERIMENT" id="THE_HARRIS-INGRAM_EXPERIMENT"></a>THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I</h2>
+
+<h3>THE HARRISES IN NEW YORK</h3>
+
+
+<p>It was five o'clock in the afternoon, when a bright little messenger boy
+in blue touched the electric button of Room No. &mdash;&mdash; in Carnegie Studio,
+New York City. At once the door flew open and a handsome young artist
+received a Western Union telegram, and quickly signed his name, "Alfonso
+H. Harris" in the boy's book.</p>
+
+<p>"Here, my boy, is twenty-five cents," he said, and tore open the message,
+which read as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Harrisville</span>,&mdash;.</p>
+
+<p><i>Alfonso H. Harris,<br />
+Carnegie Studio, New York.</i></p>
+
+<p>We reach Grand Central Depot at 7:10 o'clock tomorrow evening in our new
+private car Alfonso. Family greetings; all well.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Reuben Harris.</span></p></div>
+
+<p>Alfonso put the telegram in his pocket, completed packing his steamer
+trunk, wrote a letter to his landlord, enclosing a check for the last
+quarter's rent, and ran downstairs and over to the storage company, to
+leave an order to call for two big trunks of artist's belongings, not
+needed in Europe.</p>
+
+<p>A hansom-cab took him to the Windsor Hotel, where he almost forgot to pay
+his barber for a shave, such was his excitement. A little dry toast, two
+soft boiled eggs, and a cup of coffee were quite sufficient, since his
+appetite, usually very good, somehow had failed him.</p>
+
+<p>It was now fifteen minutes to seven o'clock. In less than half an hour
+Alfonso was to meet his father, mother, and sisters, and after a few days
+in the metropolis, join them in an extended journey over the British
+Isles, and possibly through portions of Europe.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso was the only son of Reuben Harris, a rich manufacturer of iron
+and steel. His father, a man naturally of very firm will, had earnestly
+longed that his only son might succeed him in business, and so increase
+and perpetuate a fortune already colossal. It was a terrible struggle for
+Harris senior to yield to his son's strong inclination to study art, but
+once the father had been won over, no doubt in part by the mother's
+strong love for her only boy, he assured Alfonso that he would be loyal
+to him, so long as his son was loyal to his profession. This had given
+the boy courage, and he had improved every opportunity while in New York
+to acquaint himself with art, and his application to study had been such
+that he was not only popular with his fellow artists, but they recognized
+that he possessed great capacity for painstaking work.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso jumped into a coup&eacute;, having ordered a carriage to follow him to
+the Grand Central Station. It was ten minutes yet before the express was
+due. Nervously he puffed at his unlighted cigar, wishing he had a match;
+in fact, his nerves were never more unstrung. It was a happy surprise,
+and no doubt his youthful vanity was elated, that his father should have
+named his new palace car "Alfonso." At least it convinced him that his
+father was loyal.</p>
+
+<p>As the coup&eacute; stopped, he rushed into the station, just in time to see the
+famous engine No. 999 pull in. She was on time to a second, as indicated
+by the great depot clock. A ponderous thing of life; the steam and air
+valves closed, yet her heavy breathing told of tremendous reserve power.
+What a record she had made, 436-1/2 miles in 425-3/4 minutes! Truly,
+man's most useful handiwork, to be surpassed only by the practical dynamo
+on wheels! It was not strange that the multitude on the platform gazed in
+wonder.</p>
+
+<p>There at the rear of the train was the "Alfonso," and young Harris in
+company with his artist friend, Leo, who by appointment had also hastened
+to the station, stepped quickly back to meet the occupants of the new
+car.</p>
+
+<p>First to alight was Jean, valet to the Harris family. Jean was born near
+Paris and could speak French, German, and several other languages. His
+hands and arms were full to overflowing of valises, hat boxes, shawls,
+canes, etc., that told of a full purse, but which are the very things
+that make traveling a burden.</p>
+
+<p>By this time Alfonso had climbed the car steps and was in his mother's
+arms. Mrs. Harris was more fond, if possible, of her only son than of her
+beautiful daughters. She was a handsome woman herself, loved dress and
+was proud of the Harris achievements. Alfonso kissed his sisters, Lucille
+and Gertrude, and shook hands warmly with his father, who was busy giving
+instructions to his car conductor.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso in his joy had almost forgotten his friend Leo, but apologizing,
+he introduced him, first to his mother, then to Gertrude and finally to
+his sister Lucille, and their father. All seemed glad to meet their son's
+friend, as he was to take passage in the same steamer for his home near
+Rome.</p>
+
+<p>Leo Colonna was connected with the famous Colonna family of Italy. From
+childhood he had had access to the best schools and galleries of his
+peninsular country. He also had studied under the best masters in Paris
+and Berlin, and was especially fond of flesh coloring and portrait
+painting. He had studied anatomy, and had taken a diploma as surgeon in
+the best medical college in Vienna, merely that he might know the human
+form. Alfonso, aware of all this, had invited Leo to join their party in
+making the tour over Ireland, England, and through the Netherlands.</p>
+
+<p>As Lucille left the car, Leo offered aid, taking her blue silk umbrella
+with its wounded-oak handle, the whole rolled as small as a cane. Lucille
+never appeared to better advantage. She was tall, slender, and graceful.
+Excitement had tinged her cheeks and lips, and her whole face had a
+child's smooth, pink complexion. Wavy black hair and blue eyes revealed
+the Irish blood that had come from the mother's veins. She wore a
+traveling suit of navy-blue serge. Her hat, of latest style, was made of
+black velvet, steel ornaments, and ostrich tips. What artist could resist
+admiring a woman so fair and commanding! The dark eyes of Leo had met
+those of Lucille, and he at once had surrendered. In fact, a formidable
+rival had now conquered Leo's heart.</p>
+
+<p>Together they led the way to the front entrance of the station, while
+Harris senior delayed a moment to exhibit the car "Alfonso" to his son.
+"I had this private car built," said the father, "that the Harris family
+might be exclusive. Napoleon once said:&mdash;'Let me be seen but three times
+at the theatre, and I shall no longer excite attention.' Our car is
+adapted for service on any standard gauge road, so that we can travel in
+privacy throughout the United States. You notice that this observation
+room is furnished in quartered English oak, and has a luxurious sofa and
+arm chairs. Let us step back. Here on the right are state and family
+rooms finished in mahogany; each room has a connecting toilet room,
+with wash stand and bath room, hot and cold water being provided, also
+mirrors, wardrobe and lockers. The parlor or dining room is eighteen feet
+long and the extension table will seat twelve persons. Here also is a
+well selected library and writing desk."</p>
+
+<p>"But where is the kitchen?" asked Alfonso.</p>
+
+<p>"Beyond," said the father. "The pantry, china closet, and kitchen are
+finished in black walnut. Blankets, linen, and tableware are of best
+quality. Here are berths for attendants and porter's room for baggage.
+Carpets, rugs, draperies, and upholstery were especially imported to
+harmonize. Nobody amounts to much in these days, Alfonso, unless he owns
+a private car or a steam yacht. Henceforth this car, named in your honor,
+may play an important part in the history of the Harris family."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris, Leo, and Lucille, took seats in the carriage; Gertrude and
+her mother were on the back seat, while Lucille and her artist friend
+faced Mrs. Harris and daughter.</p>
+
+<p>Jean sat upright with the coachman. Colonel Harris and Alfonso rejoined
+their friends and together entered the coup&eacute;. Reuben Harris once served
+on the governor's staff for seven weeks, ranking as colonel, so now all
+his friends, even his family, spoke of him as "the Colonel." It was well,
+as it pleased his vanity.</p>
+
+<p>The coachmen's whips left their sockets, and coup&eacute; and carriage dashed
+along 42nd Street and down Fifth Avenue. The ten minutes' drive passed as
+a dream to some in the carriage. Mrs. Harris's mind revelled in the
+intricate warfare of society. She had often been in New York, and in
+the summers was seen at the most fashionable watering places with her
+children. Her mind was burdened trying to discover the steps that lead to
+the metropolitan and international "four hundred." She was determined
+that her children should marry into well regulated families, and that the
+colonel should have a national reputation. So absorbed was she that her
+eyes saw not, neither did her ears hear what transpired in the carriage.
+Gertrude was equally quiet; her thoughts were of dear friends she had
+left in Harrisville. The occupants of the front seats had talked in low
+tones of recent society events in New York, and a little of art. Lucille
+herself had dabbled in color for a term or two in a fashionable school on
+the Back Bay in Boston.</p>
+
+<p>The colonel had become enthusiastic in his talk about his own recent
+business prosperity. Suddenly coup&eacute; and carriage stopped in front of the
+main entrance of the Hotel Waldorf. How fine the detail of arch and
+columns! How delicate the architect's touch of iron and glass in the
+porte-coch&egrave;re!</p>
+
+<p>The Harris family stepped quickly into the public reception-room to the
+left of the main entrance adjoining the office, leaving Jean and the
+porter to bring the hand-baggage. The decorated ceiling framed a central
+group of brilliant incandescent lights with globes. Leo directed
+attention to the paintings on the walls, and furniture and rugs.</p>
+
+<p>The colonel excused himself and passed out and into the main offices. The
+sight about him was an inspiring one. The architect's wand had wrought
+grace and beauty in floor, ceiling, column, and wall. Gentlemen, old and
+young, were coming and going. Professional men, not a few, bankers and
+business men jostled each other. Before the colonel had reached the
+clerk's desk, he had apologized, twice at least, for his haste. The fact
+was that metropolitan activity delighted his heart, but it disturbed just
+a little his usual good behavior. Nervously, he wrote in the Waldorf
+register plain Reuben Harris, wife and two daughters. He wanted to prefix
+colonel. His son added his own name. Colonel Harris, at his request, was
+given the best apartments in the Waldorf.</p>
+
+<p>Leo excused himself for the night, Lucille saying the last words in low
+tones, and then, liveried attendants conducted the Harris family to their
+suite of rooms. It was half past eight when the Harrises sat down to
+their first meal in their private dining-room. As Mrs. Harris waited for
+her hot clam soup to cool a little, she said, "Reuben, this exclusiveness
+and elegance is quite to my liking. After our return from Europe, why
+can't we all spend our winters in New York?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, mother," said Gertrude, "we have our duties to the people of
+Harrisville, and father, I am sure, will never stay long away from his
+mills."</p>
+
+<p>But Lucille approved her mother's plan, and was seconded by her brother.
+Colonel Harris was interested in the views expressed, but with judicial
+tone, he replied, "The Harrises better wait till the right time comes.
+Great financial changes are possible in a day."</p>
+
+<p>The dinner, though late, was excellent. Before ten o'clock all were glad
+to retire, except the head of the family, who hoped the night would be
+short, as the next day might witness very important business
+transactions.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris took the elevator down to the gentlemen's caf&eacute;, adjoining
+the beautiful Garden Court. For a moment he stood admiring the massive
+fire-place and the many artistic effects, mural and otherwise. The caf&eacute;
+was furnished with round tables and inviting chairs. Guests of the hotel,
+members of city clubs, and strangers, came and went, but the colonel's
+mind was in an anxious mood, so he sought a quiet corner, lighted a
+cigar, and accidently picked up the <i>Evening Post</i>. Almost the first
+thing he read was an item of shipping news:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"No word yet from the overdue steamship 'Majestic;' she is already
+forty-eight hours late, and very likely has experienced bad weather."</p></div>
+
+<p>The "Majestic" is one of the largest and best of the famous White Star
+Line fleet. Colonel Harris expected an English gentleman to arrive by
+this boat, and he had come on to New York to meet him, as the two had
+business of great importance to talk over. "I wonder," thought the
+colonel, "if such a thing could happen, that my cherished plan of
+retiring with millions, might possibly be frustrated by ship-wreck or any
+unlooked-for event?" Whereupon he pulled from his pocket a cablegram, to
+make himself doubly sure that his was not a fool's errand, and again read
+it in audible tones:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">London, May 24, 18&mdash;.</span><br />
+<i>Col. Reuben Harris,<br />
+Hotel Waldorf, New York.</i></p>
+
+<p>Hugh Searles, our agent, sails May twenty-fifth on Majestic. Meet him at
+Hotel Waldorf, New York.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Guerney &amp; Barring.</span></p></div>
+
+<p>The signers of the cablegram were young bankers and brokers, occupying
+sumptuous quarters on Threadneedle Street, in sight of the Bank of
+England, the Exchange, and the Mansion House or official residence of the
+Lord Mayor of London. The fathers of each member of the firm had been at
+the head of great banking houses in London for many years, and after
+herculean efforts, their banks had failed. These young men had united
+families and forces, and resolved to win again a financial standing in
+the world's metropolis. Shrewdly they had opened a score of branch
+offices in different parts of London and county; besides they had added
+a brokerage business, which had drifted into an extensive specialty of
+promoting syndicates in America and the colonies. Their success in
+handling high grade manufacturing plants had been phenomenal. Already at
+this business they had netted two million pounds. Reliable and expert
+accountants were always sent by them to examine thoroughly a client's
+ledgers. Already, bonds that carried the approval of Guerney &amp; Barring,
+found ready market on Lombard, Prince, and other financial streets near
+the Bank of England.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris relighted his cigar and queried to himself, "What ought I
+to charge these Englishmen for a property that cost barely two millions,
+but that has brought to the Harris family, annually for ten years, an
+average of 30%, or $600,000?" At first he had fixed upon six millions as
+a fair price, and then finally upon five million dollars. While he thus
+reflected, he fell asleep. It was after eleven o'clock when the Waldorf
+attendant caught him, or he would have fallen from his chair to the
+floor. Colonel Harris gave him a piece of silver, and retired for the
+night.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II</h2>
+
+<h3>HUGH SEARLES OF LONDON ARRIVES</h3>
+
+
+<p>The next day was Sunday, and the Harris family slept late. Jean was first
+to rise, and buying the morning papers left them at Colonel Harris's
+door.</p>
+
+<p>It was almost nine o'clock when the family gathered in their private
+dining-room. The night's sleep had refreshed all. The mother was very
+cheerful over her coffee, and heartily enjoyed planning for the day. She
+liked New York best of the American cities. Brown stone and marble
+fronts, fine equipage and dress, had charms for her, that almost made
+her forget a pleasant home and duties at Harrisville. She was heart and
+soul in her husband's newest scheme to close out business, and devote
+the balance of life to politics and society. Naturally therefore the
+table-talk drifted to a discussion of the possible causes of the
+steamer's delay.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille looked up, and said, "Father, the <i>Tribune</i> says, 'Fair weather
+for New England and the Atlantic coast.' Cheer up! The 'Majestic' will
+bring your Englishman in, I think. This is a lovely day to be in the
+metropolis. Come father, let me sweeten your coffee. One or two lumps?"</p>
+
+<p>"Two, my dear, if you please. Now what will give you all the most
+pleasure to-day?"</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso answered, "Why not take a drive, and possibly attend some
+church?"</p>
+
+<p>This plan was approved. Breakfast over, the Harris family entered
+a carriage, and the coachman, with Jean by his side, drove through
+Washington Square, under the American Arch of Triumph, and out Fifth
+Avenue, the fashionable street of New York. Alfonso acted as guide. "This
+white sepulchral looking building on the left at the corner of 34th
+street is where A.T. Stewart, the Irish merchant prince, lived."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude remarked, "How true in his case, the proverb 'Riches certainly
+make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle towards heaven.'"</p>
+
+<p>"You should quote Scripture correctly, my child," said the mother.
+"'Riches take wings.'"</p>
+
+<p>"No, no, mamma&mdash;I am sure that I am right. 'Riches <i>make</i> themselves
+wings' and the proverb is as true to-day as in Solomon's time."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, Gertrude, we will look at the hotel Bible on our return."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, mamma, if the hotel has one."</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris responded, "I think Gertrude is right. Stewart's millions
+have changed hands. Dead men have no need of dollars. No wonder Stewart's
+bones were restless."</p>
+
+<p>"Here at West 39th Street is the sumptuous building of the Union League
+Club. It has over 1500 members, all pledged to absolute loyalty to the
+Government of the United States, to resist every attempt against the
+integrity of the nation, and to promote reform in national, state, and
+municipal affairs. The club equipped and sent two full regiments to the
+front in the Civil War."</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso pointed out Jay Gould's old residence, more club houses,
+libraries, the Windsor Hotel, Dr. Hall's handsome Presbyterian Church,
+and the brown stone and marble palaces of the Vanderbilt family, two
+miles of splendid residences and magnificent churches before you reach
+Central Park at 59th Street.</p>
+
+<p>The walks were thronged with beautiful women and well dressed men. It was
+now 10:30 o'clock. The chimes had ceased their hallowed music. People of
+all nationalities were jostling each other in their haste to enter St.
+Patrick's Cathedral, a copy of the Gothic masterpiece in Cologne, and the
+most imposing church building in America.</p>
+
+<p>The Harris carriage stopped; Lucille's heart suddenly began to beat
+quickly, for she saw Leo Colonna hastening from the Cathedral steps
+towards the carriage. "Good morning, Mrs. Harris! Glad you have come to
+my church," Leo said; then taking her hand cordially, he added, "And
+you have brought the family. Well, I am pleased, for you could not have
+come to a more beautiful church or service."</p>
+
+<p>As Leo conducted his friends up the granite steps, all were enthusiastic
+in their praise of the Fifth Avenue fa&ccedil;ade; white marble from granite
+base to the topmost stones of the graceful twin spires.</p>
+
+<p>All passed under the twelve apostles, that decorate the grand portal,
+and entered the cathedral. The interior is as fine as the exterior. The
+columns are massive, the ceiling groined; the style is the decorated or
+geometric architecture, that prevailed in Europe in the thirteenth
+century. The cardinal's gothic throne is on the right. The four altars
+are of carved French walnut, Tennessee marble and bronze. Half of the
+seventy windows are memorials, given by parishes and individuals in
+various parts of America. The vicar-general was conducting services. His
+impressive manner, aided by the sweet tones of singers and organ, and the
+sun's rays changed to rainbows by the stained-glass windows, produced
+a deep religious feeling in the hearts of the several thousand persons
+present.</p>
+
+<p>As the party left the church, Leo said, "In 1786, the Kings of France and
+Spain contributed to the erection of the first cathedral church, St.
+Peter's, in New York." The Harrises having invited Leo to dinner, said
+good-bye to him, and in their carriage returned to the Waldorf for lunch.</p>
+
+<p>While the colonel waited near the reception-room, he chanced to look at
+the stained-glass window over the entrance to the Garden Court. Here was
+pictured the village of Waldorf, the birthplace of the original John
+Jacob Astor. This pretty little hamlet is part of the Duchy of Baden,
+Germany, and has been lovingly remembered in the Astor wills. Here
+formerly lived the impecunious father of John Jacob Astor and his
+brother. Both gained wealth, very likely, because the value of money was
+first learned in the early Waldorf school of poverty. It was not an ill
+north wind that imprisoned young Astor for weeks in the ice of the
+Chesapeake Bay, as there on the small ship that brought him from Germany,
+he listened to marvelous tales of fortunes to be made in furs in the
+northwest. Shrewdly he determined first to acquire expert knowledge of
+skins, and on landing he luckily found employment in a fur store in New
+York at two dollars per week. This knowledge became the foundation of the
+vast fortune of the Astor family. The colonel was told that the Waldorf
+occupies the site of the town-house of John Jacob Astor, third of the
+name, and was erected by his son, William Waldorf, ex-minister to Italy.</p>
+
+<p>It was two o'clock when the Harrises entered the main dining-room for
+their lunch. The colonel led the party, Alfonso conducting his sister
+Lucille, the light blue ribbon at her throat of the tint of her
+responsive eyes. Mrs. Harris came with Gertrude. The mother wore a gray
+gown, and her daughter a pretty silk. This first entrance of the family
+to the public dining-room caused a slight diversion among some of the
+guests at lunch, where not a few rightly surmised who they were.</p>
+
+<p>Few markets in the world rival that of New York. The coast, streams, and
+valleys of New England and the Central States, send their best food by
+swift steamers and express, that the exacting cosmopolitan appetite may
+be satisfied.</p>
+
+<p>Before the lunch was over and while Reuben Harris was making reference to
+the delay of his English visitor, the waiter placed a white card by his
+plate. The color in the colonel's face suddenly deepened, as he read upon
+the card the name of Mr. Hugh Searles, representing Messrs. Guerney &amp;
+Barring, London.</p>
+
+<p>"What's the matter, Reuben?" anxiously inquired Mrs. Harris.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, nothing," said the colonel, "only that our overdue English visitor,
+Hugh Searles, has sent in his card."</p>
+
+<p>"How surprising," said Lucille; "you remember, father, that I said at
+breakfast, that the weather was to be fair. Probably the 'Majestic'
+quickened her speed, and stole in unobserved to the docks."</p>
+
+<p>"I will send him my card;" and upon it Mr. Harris wrote in pencil, "I
+will soon join you in the reception room."</p>
+
+<p>The black coffee disposed of, it was agreed that all should accompany
+Colonel Harris, and give Mr. Searles a cordial welcome to America.</p>
+
+<p>The English agent was a good sailor, and had enjoyed immensely the ocean
+voyage. Mr. Searles, of late over-worked in England, was compelled on
+board ship to rest both mind and body. A true Englishman, Mr. Searles,
+was very practical. He comprehended fully the importance of his mission
+to America, and possessed the tact of getting on in the world. If the
+proposed deal with Reuben Harris was a success, he expected as commission
+not less than five thousand pounds. Before the "Majestic" left the
+Mersey, that his mind might be alert on arrival at New York, he had
+measured with tape line the promenade deck of the steamer, and resolved
+to make enough laps for a mile, both before and after each meal, a walk
+of six miles per day, or a total of forty-eight miles for the voyage.</p>
+
+<p>A sturdy Englishman, taking such vigorous and methodical exercise,
+created some comment among the passengers, but it was excused on the
+ground that Englishmen believe in much outdoor exercise. Searles came
+from a good family, who lived north of London in Lincolnshire. His
+father, the Hon. George Searles, had a competency, largely invested in
+lands, and three per cent consols. His rule of investment was, security
+unquestioned and interest not above three per cent, believing that
+neither creditors nor enterprise of any kind, in the long run, could
+afford to pay more. His ancestors were Germans, who crossed the German
+Ocean, soon after the Romans withdrew from England.</p>
+
+<p>A large area of Lincolnshire lies below the level of the sea, from which
+it is protected by embankments. This fenny district gradually had been
+reclaimed, and to-day the deep loam and peat-soils, not unlike the rich
+farms of Holland, are celebrated for their high condition of agriculture.
+What mortgages the Hon. George Searles held were secured upon
+Lincolnshire estates, some of England's best lands.</p>
+
+<p>Hugh Searles, his son, however, had known only London life since he
+graduated from Cambridge. His office was in Chancery Lane, and his
+surroundings and teachings had been of the speculative kind, hence he was
+a fit agent for his firm. Already he had acquired a sunny suburban home
+in Kent, and was ambitious to hold a seat in Parliament. As he walked the
+steamer's deck, he looked the typical Englishman, five feet ten inches in
+height, broad shoulders and full chest; his weight about two hundred
+pounds, or "fifteen stones" as Searles phrased it.</p>
+
+<p>His face was round and ruddy, his beard closely cut, and his hair light
+and fine, indicating quality. His step was firm, and he seemed always in
+deep study. When addressed by his fellow passengers however, he was
+courteous, always talked to the point in his replies, and was anxious to
+learn more of America, or as he expressed it, "of the Anglo-Saxon
+confederation." He was very proud of his Anglo-Saxon origin, and Empire,
+and believed in the final Anglo-Saxon ascendancy over the world.</p>
+
+<p>On board ship were several young Englishmen, who were on their return to
+various posts of duty. Three were buyers for cotton firms in Liverpool
+and Manchester, and they were hastening back to Norfolk, Va., Memphis,
+and New Orleans. Two of the passengers were English officers, returning
+to their commands in far away Australia. Others, like Searles, were
+crossing the Atlantic for the first time in search of fame and fortune.
+These adventurous Englishmen thought it fine sport as the "Majestic"
+sighted Fire Light Island to join the enthusiastic Americans in singing
+"America." So heartily did they sing, that the Americans in turn, using
+the same tune, cordially sang "God save the Queen."</p>
+
+<p>At first Hugh Searles was a little disconcerted, when the whole Harris
+family approached him in the Waldorf reception-room. Colonel Harris
+cordially extended his hand, and said, "Mr. Searles, we are all glad to
+meet you, and bid you hearty welcome to America. Please let me make you
+acquainted with my wife, Mrs. Harris, my daughters, Gertrude and Lucille,
+and my son, Alfonso."</p>
+
+<p>"An unexpected greeting you give me, Colonel Harris," said Hugh Searles,
+as he gave each person a quick hand-shake, thinking that to be an
+American he must grasp hands cordially.</p>
+
+<p>The family were much interested in the details of Mr. Searles's voyage,
+as they expected soon to be en route for Europe. Mr. Searles said, "The
+cause of the 'Majestic's' delay was a broken propeller in rough seas off
+the Banks of Newfoundland. I am glad to reach New York." He had arrived
+at the Hotel at ten o'clock and already had been to lunch.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Searles gladly accepted an invitation from Colonel Harris for a
+drive, Mrs. Harris and Lucille to accompany them. Searles expressed a
+wish to see the famous Roebling suspension bridge, so the coachman drove
+first down Broadway to the post office, then past the great newspaper
+buildings, and out upon the marvelous highway or bridge suspended in the
+air between New York and Brooklyn. When midway, Mr. Searles begged to
+step out of the carriage, and putting his arms around one of the four
+enormous cables, inquired of Colonel Harris how these huge cables were
+carried over the towers.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris explained that each cable was composed of over five
+thousand steel wires, and that a shuttle carried the wire back and forth
+till the requisite strength of cables was obtained. The expense of the
+bridge was about $15,000,000, which the two cities paid. Its great
+utility had been abundantly proved by the repeated necessity of enlarging
+the approaches.</p>
+
+<p>The drive to the Central Park was up Fifth Avenue, home of America's
+multi-millionaires. An unending cavalcade of superb family equipages was
+passing through the entrance at 59th Street. Colonel Harris explained
+that "Central Park had been planted with over half a million trees,
+shrubs and vines, and that which was once a waste of rock and swamp, had
+by skill of enthusiastic engineers and landscape gardeners blossomed into
+green lawns, shady groves, vine-covered arbors, with miles of roads and
+walks, inviting expanses of water, picturesque bits of architecture, and
+scenery, that rival the world's parks."</p>
+
+<p>The ride and comments of Mr. Searles afforded the Harris family an
+opportunity to study their guest, and on returning to the hotel, all
+agreed that Hugh Searles was thoroughly equipped to protect his English
+patrons in any deal that he might decide to make. It was planned that all
+should dine together at eight, and Leo was to join the party by
+invitation of Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>Evidently the Harrises were well pleased with their English visitor, but
+their pleasure was also quickened with the bright prospect of several
+millions of English money for their manufacturing interest. Then after
+their visit to Europe might follow the long looked-for residence in
+delightful New York. Already rich Americans, famous authors and artists
+gravitate as naturally to this new world metropolis, as the world's elite
+to London and Paris.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III</h2>
+
+<h3>A BAD SEND-OFF</h3>
+
+
+<p>It was almost eight o'clock when the dinner party assembled in the
+reception-room of the Waldorf. Leo was first to arrive, and Lucille was
+there to receive him. At ten minutes of eight, solicitor Hugh Searles
+came; then entered Colonel Harris and his daughters, Alfonso following
+with his mother. Mrs. Harris wore a black satin dress with jet trimmings
+and Van Dyke lace. Lucille's dress of light blue faille silk, garnished
+with pearls and guipure lace, was very becoming. Leo so told Lucille, and
+she thanked him but hid behind her lips the thought that Leo never before
+seemed half so manly. Mr. Searles evidently admired Leo, and he talked to
+him of Italy's greatness in literature and art. He sat at Colonel
+Harris's right, opposite Mrs. Harris. Leo and Lucille occupied seats at
+the end of the table, and at their right and left sat Alfonso and
+Gertrude.</p>
+
+<p>Guests of the hotel and their friends chatted in low conversation at the
+many tables of the model dining-room. Electric lights shone soft in the
+ceiling, and under pretty shades at each table, which added much to the
+general effect.</p>
+
+<p>Long before the sweets and fruits were reached, the conversation had
+drifted from one conventional topic to another, until Mrs. Harris asked
+Hugh Searles what he thought of higher education for women.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, yes, Mr. Searles," said Gertrude, "please tell us all about the
+English girl."</p>
+
+<p>"Does she go to college, and does she ride a bicycle!" queried Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris was eager to listen to the Englishman's reply for often she
+had earnestly talked the matter over in her home. Mr. Searles was very
+frank in his views, and surprisingly liberal for an Englishman, and well
+he might be, for his own mother was a power, and his sisters were strong
+mental forces in Lincolnshire. Aided by tutors and their scholarly
+mother, they had pursued at home, under difficulties, about the same
+course of studies, that Hugh, their brother, had followed in the
+university.</p>
+
+<p>Searles believed that absolute freedom should be given to women to do
+anything they wished to do in the world, provided they could do it as
+well as men, and that nobody had any right to assert they should not.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris, even for a business man, was also advanced in his ideas.
+He had advocated for his daughters that they should possess healthy
+bodies and minds, and be able to observe closely and reason soundly.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille said that she favored an education which would best conserve and
+enlarge woman's graces, her delicate feeling and thought, and her love
+for the beautiful.</p>
+
+<p>Then Leo and Alfonso both declared that Lucille had expressed fully their
+own opinions.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris added, "Come, Gertrude, tell us what you think."</p>
+
+<p>Her face flushed a little as she replied, for she felt all that she said,
+"Father, I like what Mr. Searles has told us. I think higher education
+for women should develop purity of heart, self-forgetfulness, and
+enlarged and enriched minds."</p>
+
+<p>"Well spoken, daughter," said Colonel Harris. "Now, dear, what have you
+to say?"</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris had listened well, as she had been a slave in the interests
+of her children, especially of her daughters. She thought that the last
+twenty-five years had proved that women in physical and intellectual
+capacity were able to receive and profit by a college education. Often
+she had longed for the same training of mind that men of her acquaintance
+enjoyed. The subject was thus discussed with profit, till the Turkish
+coffee was served. Closing the discussion, Searles thought that America
+led England in offering better education to woman, but that England had
+given her more freedom in politics; the English woman voted for nearly
+all the elective officers, except members of Parliament. He believed that
+the principle of education of woman belonged to her as a part of
+humanity; that it gave to her a self-centered poise, that it made her a
+competent head of the home, where the family is trained as a unit of
+civilization.</p>
+
+<p>He felt that woman possessed the finest and highest qualities, and that
+it was her mission to project and incorporate these elevating qualities
+into society. He thought man had nothing to fear or lose, but much to
+gain; that to multiply woman's colleges everywhere, was to furnish the
+twentieth century, or "Woman's Century" as Victor Hugo called it, with
+a dynamic force, that would beget more blessings for humanity than all
+previous centuries.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude thanked Mr. Searles for what he had said, and the party withdrew
+to the Winter Garden Caf&eacute;, pretty with palms, where Lucille, Leo, and
+Alfonso talked of society matters, of art and music.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude read to her mother, while Hugh Searles and Colonel Harris
+stepped outside into the gentlemen's caf&eacute; for a smoke, as both were fond
+of a cigar. There the conversation naturally drifted upon the tariff
+question.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Searles asserted that he favored free trade, and that he was sorry
+America was not as far advanced and willing as Great Britain to recognize
+the universal and fundamental principle of the brotherhood of mankind,
+and the inborn right of everybody to trade as he liked in the world's
+cheapest markets. He added that he sometimes felt that Americans were
+too selfish, too much in love with the vulgar dollar.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris, wounded in his patriotism, now showed that he was a
+little disturbed. He thanked Searles for his deep interest in Americans,
+adding, "We are glad you have come to study Americans and America." Then
+looking the Englishman full in the face he said, "Mr. Searles, you will
+find human nature much the same wherever you travel. Nations usually
+strive to legislate, each for its own interest. You say, 'Americans work
+for the almighty dollar.' So they do, and earnestly too, but our kith and
+kin across the sea worship with equal enthusiasm the golden sovereign.
+Look at the monuments to protection in your own city."</p>
+
+<p>"What monuments?" asked Searles.</p>
+
+<p>"Monuments to protection on all your streets, built under British tariff
+laws. Every stone in costly St. Paul's Church, or cathedral, was laid by
+a duty of a shilling a ton on all coal coming into London. A shilling a
+ton profit on coal, mined in America, would create for us fabulous
+fortunes. Selfishness, Mr. Searles, and not brotherly love, drove your
+country to adopt free trade."</p>
+
+<p>"I do not agree with you," said Mr. Searles.</p>
+
+<p>"'Tis true, and I can prove it," answered Harris. By this time several
+patrons of the hotel stood about enjoying the tilt between tariff and
+free trade.</p>
+
+<p>"Give us the proof then," replied Searles.</p>
+
+<p>"To begin with," said Harris, "I must reply to your first assertion, for
+I deem your first statement a false doctrine that 'everybody has a right
+to trade in the world's cheapest markets.' Nobody has a right to trade in
+the world's cheapest markets, unless the necessary and just laws of his
+own country, or the country he dwells in, permits it. Now as to the much
+abused 'brotherhood argument' let me assert that, like England, any
+nation may adopt free trade, when it can command at least four important
+things: cheap labor, cheap capital, and cheap raw material. Now Mr.
+Searles, what is the fourth requisite?"</p>
+
+<p>Searles did not answer. Clearly, he was interested in Harris's novel line
+of argument for free trade.</p>
+
+<p>"Well," said Harris, "England is inhabited by a virile people, who
+evidently believe in God's command to 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and
+replenish the earth, and subdue it.' England, with her centuries of
+rising civilization, her charm of landscape, and her command of the
+world's affairs, offers at home magnificent attractions for her sons
+and daughters, that make them loyal and law-abiding citizens.</p>
+
+<p>"It is true that annually many thousands seek fame and fortune in new
+countries, but most of her citizens prefer poverty even, and, if need be,
+poverty in the gutters of her thriving cities, to a home of promise in
+distant lands. Hence, a rapidly increasing and dense population obtains
+in all the British Isles, and labor becomes abundant and cheap, and often
+a drug in the market. The repeal of the Corn Laws first became a
+necessity, then a fact, and the cheaper food made cheaper labor possible.
+Lynx-eyed capital, in the financial metropolis of the world, was quick to
+discover surplus labor.</p>
+
+<p>"Already English inventors had made valuable inventions in machinery for
+the manufacture of iron, cotton, woolen and other goods, which further
+cheapened labor and the product of labor.</p>
+
+<p>"England with cheap capital and cheap labor, now had two of the four
+things needed to enable her to go forward to larger trade with the world.
+The third requisite, cheap and abundant raw material, she also secured.
+Material, not furnished from her own mines and soils, was brought in
+plentiful supply at nominal freights, or as ballast, by her vessels,
+whose sails are spread on every sea.</p>
+
+<p>"For three centuries Great Britain has vigorously and profitably pursued
+Sir Walter Raleigh's wise policy: 'Whosoever commands the sea, commands
+the trade, whosoever commands the trade, commands the riches of the
+world, and consequently the world itself.'</p>
+
+<p>"On the ceiling of the reading-room of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange is
+painted the pregnant words:&mdash;'O Lord, how manifold are thy works, in
+wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches.' Under
+divine inspiration, therefore, English capital seeks investment
+everywhere, and with cheap capital, cheap labor, and cheap raw materials,
+she finds herself able to compete successfully with the world. It is
+possibly pardonable then that the British manufacturer and politician
+should seek earnestly the fourth requisite, viz., a large market abroad.
+Hence the necessity of free trade.</p>
+
+<p>"To advocate publicly that other nations should adopt free trade, that
+England might have an increased number of buyers, and consequently
+greater profit on her products, perhaps would not be judicious; so the
+principle of free trade for the world at large must be sugar-coated, to
+be acceptable. Therefore your philanthropic and alert Richard Cobden, and
+John Bright, and your skilled writers, both talked and wrote much about
+the 'brotherhood of mankind,' hoping that the markets of the world might
+willingly open wide their doors to British traders. Of course, advocates
+of free trade reason that the larger the number of buyers the larger the
+prices.</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Searles, whenever America can command, as Great Britain does
+to-day, cheap capital, cheap labor, and cheap raw materials, she too
+may vociferously advocate free trade, and that other nations shall open
+wide their markets for the sale of American products.</p>
+
+<p>"Don't you see, Mr. Searles, that protection and free trade are equally
+selfish and not philanthropic principles?"</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Harris you are right," shouted several of the by-standers.</p>
+
+<p>But Hugh Searles did not reply. Possibly because it was late or, it may
+be, he did not wish to further antagonize Colonel Harris with whom he
+hoped in the morning to drive a good bargain, and it may be that he hoped
+some time in America to operate mills himself and make money under a
+protective tariff.</p>
+
+<p>Both Searles and Harris retired for the night with an agreement to meet
+at nine o'clock in the morning and talk over business. Searles rose with
+the sun, and after eggs, bacon, and tea, he walked to the Battery and
+back, before nine, the appointed hour for his first business conference
+with Reuben Harris.</p>
+
+<p>A good sleep had refreshed Colonel Harris and at breakfast he appeared in
+a joking mood. While he smoked, he glanced at the <i>Tribune</i> and again
+examined Searles's letter of introduction from Messrs. Guerney &amp; Barring.
+At nine o'clock promptly, Mr. Searles came and Colonel Harris exhibited
+to him a brief statement of the business of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel
+Co., extending over the last ten years, and showing the company's annual
+profits.</p>
+
+<p>"A very good business your company did, and you made large profits,
+Colonel Harris," said Searles. "And am I to understand that you have made
+in your statement a proper allowance for depreciation of values in
+buildings and machinery, also for all losses and cost of insurance, and
+that after these deductions are made the company's net profits annually
+amounted to an average of over one hundred thousand pounds, or a half
+million dollars?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," replied the colonel.</p>
+
+<p>And Mr. Searles remarked, "Colonel Harris, if your arguments last evening
+did not fully convert me to the decided advantage which Americans gain by
+protection, this statement of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. does. A
+year ago, some Americans in London called our attention to your
+profitable plant, hence our first letter of inquiries. Your replies
+confirmed the report and so we cabled for this initial meeting between
+us.</p>
+
+<p>"Messrs. Guerney &amp; Barring have been most successful in financiering some
+of the largest business interests in the world, and thus they have
+achieved a splendid reputation. It was their wish that I should secure
+for them your most favorable terms with an option of purchase of your
+plant, the same to hold good for two months, or for a sufficient length
+of time to allow them to organize a syndicate, and float necessary
+debentures to buy the stock, or a controlling interest in your company,
+and so continue the business."</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Searles, we Americans are not anxious to sell, especially to
+foreigners, our best paying concerns. We ought to keep them under our own
+control. However, of late, I have been inclined to indulge my family in a
+little foreign travel, and myself in more leisure for books, and possibly
+for politics, believing that not enough of our good citizens enter
+Congress. I might, on certain conditions, name a price for all the stock
+of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co."</p>
+
+<p>"Please state the price and the conditions."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, let me think a moment. The capital stock of the company is not now
+as large as it should be.</p>
+
+<pre>
+Total Capital Stock             $2,000,000
+Par value of shares                    100
+Present Value per Share,               300
+</pre>
+
+<p>"The entire property and good-will of the Company is worth at least
+$6,000,000, and my "fixed price," as the English say, is $5,000,000."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Searles looked puzzled, for he had hoped to get the stock for less
+money. He hesitated, as if in deep study, but not long, for he believed
+that, if the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. for ten successive years could
+pay $500,000 or an average annual dividend of 25% on its stock of
+$2,000,000, the plant re-organized could easily be marketed at a neat
+advance, say for &pound;1,400,000 or $7,000,000, in London, where even sound
+3% investments are eagerly sought; so Mr. Searles inquired again:
+"Colonel Harris, you omitted to state your conditions." Harris answered,
+"I must have cash enough to guarantee the sale, and short time payments
+for the balance."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, Colonel Harris, how would the following terms please you?</p>
+
+<pre>
+One-eighth cash                 $625,000
+One-eighth 30 days               625,000
+One-fourth 60 days             1,250,000
+One-fourth 90 days             1,250,000
+One-fourth, Preferred Shares,
+  6% dividends guaranteed      1,250,000
+                               _________
+Total price named              5,000,000</pre>
+
+<p>"Colonel Harris, before you answer, please let me outline our London
+plan. Suppose I should take for Messrs. Guerney &amp; Barring a contract, or
+option of purchase on the property with payments as named, the purchase
+to be conditioned upon a verification of the correctness of your
+statements. Our experts can examine and report soon on your accounts for
+ten years back, and on buildings, machinery, stock on hand, land, etc."</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Searles, please explain further your 'London plan' of
+reorganization."</p>
+
+<p>"Colonel Harris, we would modify the old firm name, so as to read&mdash;'The
+Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co., Limited, of London, England,' and
+capitalize it at &pound;1,400,000, or $7,000,000.</p>
+
+<pre>
+Par value of shares     &pound;20 or $100
+Number of shares             70,000</pre>
+
+<p>"When our experts shall have verified your statements at Harrisville,
+then the option of purchase is to be signed by us and forwarded to
+London, where it will be signed by Messrs. Guerney &amp; Barring, the first
+payment made, and the contract underwritten or guaranteed by the
+Guardian, Executor &amp; Trust Association, Limited, of London, whose capital
+is $5,000,000. The association will also underwrite the bonds and
+preference shares. This will practically complete the purchase."</p>
+
+<p>"But what about the last one-fourth payment in preferred shares of
+$1,250,000?"</p>
+
+<p>"Pardon me, Colonel Harris, that is just what I desire to explain
+further. The new company will issue debentures or bonds, running 30
+years, at 4%, for &pound;800,000 or $4,000,000; preference shares &pound;400,000 or
+$2,000,000; with dividends 6% guaranteed, and a preference in
+distribution of property, if company is dissolved. Ordinary shares
+&pound;1,200,000 or $6,000,000. And our London prospects will show that the
+ordinary shares can earn at least 5%. For the last one-fourth we wish you
+to take 12,500 preferred shares, or $1,250,000.</p>
+
+<p>"London holders, of course, will elect all the officers, a managing board
+of directors, with general office in London. For a time they will expect
+you to advise in the management of the business at Harrisville."</p>
+
+<p>After some further explanations, Harris agreed to sign a contract or
+option of purchase, drawn as specified, if after investigation, he should
+become satisfied with the responsibility of the London parties. On
+Tuesday morning, contracts in duplicates were presented for Colonel
+Harris's inspection. After twice carefully reading the contract, he gave
+his approval and wrote Mr. Searles a letter of introduction to Mr. B.C.
+Wilson, his manager at Harrisville, requesting the latter to permit Mr.
+Searles and his experts to examine all property and accounts of the
+Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. for ten years back.</p>
+
+<p>It was also arranged that on Wednesday, at 12 o'clock noon, Mr. Searles
+should see the Harrises off to Europe, then Mr. Searles and his experts
+were to go to Harrisville in Colonel Harris's private car. Later Mr.
+Searles and Colonel Harris were to meet in London, and then, if
+everything was mutually satisfactory, all parties were to affix their
+signatures to the agreement, and the cash payment was to be made at the
+London office of Guerney &amp; Barring.</p>
+
+<p>Wednesday, Colonel Harris rose early as had been his habit from
+childhood. He was exacting in his family, and also as a manager of labor.
+Every morning at six o'clock all the family had to be at the breakfast
+table. Colonel Harris always asked the blessing. Its merit was its
+brevity: sometimes he only said&mdash;"Dear Lord, make us grateful and good
+to-day. Amen." Thirty minutes later, summer and winter, his horses and
+carriage stood at his door, and punctually at fifteen minutes of seven
+o'clock he would reach his great mills. His first duty was to walk
+through his works, as his skilled laborers with dinner pails entered the
+broad gates and began the day's work. Devotion like this usually brings
+success.</p>
+
+<p>After breakfast, Mrs. Harris and her daughters walked down Fifth Avenue
+to make a few purchases. Alfonso and Leo hurried off to get their baggage
+to the "Majestic," while Jean busied himself in seeing that a transfer
+was made to the steamer of all the trunks, valises, etc., left at the
+depot and hotel.</p>
+
+<p>At ten o'clock Jean called at the dock to learn if the half-dozen steamer
+chairs and as many warm blankets had arrived, and he found everything in
+readiness. It was 10:30 o'clock when the Waldorf bill was paid, and the
+good-bye given. The young people were jubilant, as the long hoped-for
+pleasure trip to Europe was about to be realized.</p>
+
+<p>The carriages for the steamer could not go fast enough to satisfy the
+old, or the young people. Several schoolmates, artists, business and
+society friends met them on the dock. Many fashionable people had already
+arrived to say "<i>Bon Voyage</i>" to the Harrises and to Leo. Hundreds of
+others had come to see their own friends off. It was all excitement among
+the passengers, and carriages kept coming and going.</p>
+
+<p>Not so with the English officers and sailors of the "Majestic." They were
+calm and ready for the homeward passage.</p>
+
+<p>The last mail bag had been put aboard, and the receipts to the government
+hurriedly signed. Mr. Searles had said good-bye, and last of all to
+Colonel Harris. As the colonel went up the gangway, the bell rang and the
+cries "All aboard" were given. For once, Colonel Harris felt a sense of
+great relief to thus cut loose from his business, and take his first long
+vacation, in twenty-five years from hard work.</p>
+
+<p>"Now, I shall have a good time, and a much needed rest," he said. But
+just as he stepped into the steamer's dining-saloon, Mr. Searles, who had
+hastily followed, touched him on the shoulder and said. "Here, Colonel
+Harris, is a telegram for you."</p>
+
+<p>Harris quickly tore it open. It was from Wilson, his manager, and it read
+as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Harrisville</span>, June 9, 18&mdash;.<br />
+<i>Colonel Reuben Harris,<br />
+Steamer Majestic, New York</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Our four thousand men struck this morning for higher wages. What shall we
+do?</p>
+
+<p>B.C. <span class="smcap">Wilson</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>Harris was almost paralyzed. His wife and daughters ran to him. The
+steamer's big whistle was sounding. All was now confusion. There was only
+a moment to decide, but Harris proved equal to the situation. He stepped
+to the purser, surrendered his passage ticket, kissed his wife and two
+daughters, saying to his son, "Alfonso, take charge of the party as I go
+back to Harrisville."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude, insisting, accompanied her father, and remained ashore. On the
+dock stood Colonel Harris, Gertrude, and Mr. Searles, all three waving
+their white handkerchiefs to Mrs. Harris, Lucille, Alfonso, and Leo. What
+a bad send-off!</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gang aft a-gley,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And leave us nought but grief and pain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For promised joy.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The Harrises on the steamer, and the Harrises on the pier had heavy
+hearts, especially Colonel Harris and Gertrude so suddenly disappointed.
+It was soon agreed that the three should start that evening for
+Harrisville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2>
+
+<h3>ABOARD THE S.S. MAJESTIC</h3>
+
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris was naturally a brave woman, but the telegram, and the sudden
+separation perhaps forever from her husband and Gertrude, unnerved her.
+She sank back into an easy chair on the steamer, murmuring, "Why this
+terrible disappointment? Why did I not turn back with my husband? This is
+worse than death. Mr. Harris is in great trouble. Why did I not at once
+sacrifice all and share his misfortunes? How noble in Gertrude to go
+ashore with her father. It is just like the child, for she is never happy
+except when she forgets self, and does for others."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris sobbed as if her loved ones had been left in the tomb.
+Lucille tenderly held her mother's hand, and spoke comforting words:
+"Cheer up, mother, all will yet be well. Father can now take Mr. Searles
+to Harrisville."</p>
+
+<p>"To see what, child&mdash;men misled and on a strike and the mills all closed
+down! It means much trouble, and perhaps disaster for the Harrises."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, no, mother, all will soon be well. Let us go on the deck."</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso led his mother, and Leo took Lucille up among the passengers.</p>
+
+<p>They were just in time to see the white cloud of fluttering handkerchiefs
+on the pier. Leo said that he could distinguish with his field-glass
+Colonel Harris and Gertrude, and tears again came into Mrs. Harris's
+eyes.</p>
+
+<p>European steamers always leave on time, waiting for neither prince nor
+peasant. A carriage with foaming horses drove in upon the pier as the tug
+pulled the steamer out upon the Hudson. Its single occupant was an
+English government agent bearing a special message from the British
+embassador at Washington to Downing Street, London.</p>
+
+<p>"Now what's to be done?" the British agent sharply inquired.</p>
+
+<p>"Two pounds, sir, and we will put you and your luggage aboard," shouted
+an English sailor.</p>
+
+<p>"Agreed," said the agent, and to the surprise of everybody on the pier,
+two robust sailors pulled as for their lives, and each won a sovereign,
+as they put the belated agent on board the "Majestic."</p>
+
+<p>This race for a passage caught the eye of Mrs. Harris. At first she
+thought that the little boat might contain her husband, but as the
+English agent came up the ship's ladder, she grasped Alfonso's arm, and
+said, "Here, my son, take my hand and help me quickly to the boat; I will
+go back to Mr. Harris."</p>
+
+<p>"No! No!" said Alfonso, "Look, mother, the little boat is already
+returning to the dock." Later the purser brought to Mrs. Harris an
+envelope containing the steamer tickets and a purse of gold, which the
+colonel thoughtfully had sent by the English agent.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris re-examined the envelope, and found the colonel's personal
+card which contained on the back a few words, hastily scribbled: "Cheer
+up everybody; glad four of our party are on board. Enjoy yourselves.
+Gertrude sends love. Later we will join you in London perhaps. God bless
+you all. R.H."</p>
+
+<p>Sunshine soon came back to Mrs. Harris's face, and she began to notice
+the people about her, and to realize that she was actually on shipboard.
+Foreign travel had been the dream of her life; and she felt comforted to
+have Alfonso and Lucille beside her.</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Harris," said Leo, "see the stately blocks that outline Broadway,
+the Western Union Telegraph Building, the Equitable Building, the granite
+offices of the Standard Oil Company, the Post Office, and the imposing
+Produce Exchange with its projecting galley-prows. Above its long series
+of beautiful arches of terra cotta rise a tall campanile and liberty pole
+from which floats the stars and stripes."</p>
+
+<p>Leo's eyes kindled in brilliancy, and his voice quickened with
+patriotism, as he made reference to his adopted flag. "Lucille, behold
+our glorious flag that floats over America's greatest financial and
+commercial city. I love the stars and stripes quite as much as Italy's
+flag.</p>
+
+<p>"Annually over thirty thousand vessels arrive and depart from this
+harbor. New York is America's great gateway for immigrants. In a single
+year nearly a half million land at Castle Garden. Sections of New York
+are known as Germany, Italy, China, Africa, and Judea. The Hebrews alone
+in the city number upwards of one hundred thousand, and have nearly fifty
+synagogues and as many millionaires. The trees, lawns, and promenades
+along the sea-wall, form the Battery Park. The settees are crowded with
+people enjoying the magnificent marine views before them."</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso pointed to the Suspension or Brooklyn Bridge beneath which
+vessels were sailing on the East River. Its enormous cables looked like
+small ropes sustaining a vast traffic of cars, vehicles, and pedestrians.</p>
+
+<p>To the right of the steamer's track on Bedloe's Island stands Bartholdi's
+"Liberty, Enlightening the World," the largest bronze statue on the
+globe. From a small guide book of New York, Lucille read aloud that the
+Bartholdi statue and its pedestal cost one million dollars; that the
+statue was presented by the French people to the people of the United
+States. The head of Liberty is higher than the tall steeple of Trinity
+Church, which is 300 feet high, or twice that of the Colossus of Rhodes,
+one of the seven ancient wonders.</p>
+
+<p>"Look," said Lucille, "at the uplifted right hand holding an electric
+torch. How magnificently the statue stands facing the Narrows, the
+entrance from Europe, and how cordial the welcome to America which
+Liberty extends."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said Leo, "if you wish to see Bartholdi's noble mother, observe
+the face of the statue. Bartholdi owed much to his mother's constant
+encouragement."</p>
+
+<p>"How true it is," said Mrs. Harris, "that most great men have had
+splendid mothers."</p>
+
+<p>Many on the deck thought of loved ones at home, of their country, and
+wondered if they would return again to America. This was true of many
+aboard who were now starting on their first ocean voyage, and their
+thoughts no doubt were akin to those that filled the minds of Columbus
+and his crew when they left Palos.</p>
+
+<p>Craft of every kind kept clear of the giant "Majestic" as she plowed down
+the Narrows. Historic but worthless old forts are on either side, and far
+down into the lower bay the pilot guides the wonderful steamer. Sandy
+Hook lighthouse, the low shores, and purple mountains of New Jersey are
+left behind, as the "Majestic" is set on her course at full speed.</p>
+
+<p>The gong for the one o'clock lunch was sounded, and Alfonso, glad of the
+change, as his mother seemed unhappy, led the way below. Colonel Harris,
+when he bought the tickets, had arranged that his family should sit at
+the captain's table. As Alfonso entered the saloon, the steward conducted
+him and his friends to their seats. The captain's seat was unoccupied as
+he was busy on deck. The grand dining-room of the "Majestic" is amidships
+on the main deck. At the three long tables and sixteen short side tables,
+three hundred persons can be accommodated.</p>
+
+<p>The sea was smooth, so every chair was taken. The scene was an animating
+one and interesting to study. A single voyage will not suffice to reveal
+the heart histories and ambitions of three hundred cosmopolitan
+passengers. Everybody was talking at the same time; all had much to say
+about the experiences in reaching and boarding the steamer. Everybody was
+looking at everybody, and each wondered who the others might be.</p>
+
+<p>So many new faces which are to be studies for the voyage, arrested the
+attention of Mrs. Harris. Her appetite was not good, so she ate little,
+but closely watched the exhilarating scenes about her. Many wives had
+their husbands by their sides, and this pained her, but she resolved to
+keep brave and to make the most of her opportunities. Lucille and the
+young men were so interested in the pretty faces all about them, that
+they had little time for an English luncheon, and most of their eating
+was a make-believe.</p>
+
+<p>Amidship the movement of the boat is reduced to a minimum, and in
+fair weather it is difficult to realize that you are out upon the
+ocean. Each passenger at the table is furnished with a revolving chair.
+Choice flowers, the gifts of loving friends left behind, were on every
+table, and their fragrance converted the dining-saloon into a large
+conservatory. The Corinthian columns were fluted and embossed, the walls
+and ceiling were in tints of ivory and gold; the artistic panels abounded
+in groups of Tritons and nymphs; the ports were fitted with stained glass
+shutters, emblazoned with the arms of cities and states in Europe and
+America. Behind the glass were electric lights, so that the designs were
+visible both night and day.</p>
+
+<p>Surmounting this richly appointed saloon was a dome of artistic creation,
+its stained glass of soft tints, which sparkled in the warm sunlight and
+shed a kaleidoscope of color and design over the merry company of
+passengers. Mirrors and the gentle rolling of the steamer multiplied
+and enlarged the gorgeous colorings and perplexing designs.</p>
+
+<p>In the midst of this new life aboard ship, so novel and so beautiful,
+Mrs. Harris's heart would have been happy had her over-worked husband and
+Gertrude sat beside her at the table. Very little of this life is enjoyed
+without the unwelcomed flies that spoil the precious ointment.</p>
+
+<p>After the lunch Alfonso and his friends had time to examine a little
+further the great steamer that was to float them to the Old World. When
+his party hurriedly entered the dining-saloon, the grand staircase was
+entirely overlooked. How wide and roomy it was, and how beautifully
+carved and finished, especially the balustrade and newel posts, the whole
+being built of selected white oak, which mellows with age, and will
+assume a richer hue like the wainscoting in the famous old English abbeys
+and manor houses.</p>
+
+<p>Again the Harris party was on deck, final words hastily written were in
+the steamer's mail bag, and a sailor stood ready to pass it over the
+ship's side to the pilot's little boat, waiting for orders to cut loose
+from the "Majestic."</p>
+
+<p>The engines slacked their speed, the pilot bade the officers good-bye,
+and accompanied the mail bag to his trusted schooner. No. 66 was painted
+in black full length on the pilot's big white sail. All the passenger
+steamers which enter or leave New York must take these brave and alert
+pilots as guides in and out the ever-changing harbor channels.</p>
+
+<p>The gong in the engine-rooms again signaled "full speed" and the live,
+escaping steam was turned through the triple-expansion engines, and
+the "Majestic" gathered her full strength for a powerful effort, a
+record-breaking passage to Queenstown.</p>
+
+<p>The life on board the transatlantic ferry is decidedly English, and Mrs.
+Harris closely studied the courtesies and requirements. She soon came to
+like the ship's discipline and matter-of-fact customs. The young people,
+some newly married, and some new acquaintances like Leo and Lucille, had
+moved their steamer chairs on the deck, that they might watch the return
+of the pilot's boat.</p>
+
+<p>Loving letters were read, the leaves of latest magazines were cut, and
+many words were exchanged before the big "66" disappeared entirely with
+the sun that set in gold and purple over the low New England shores.</p>
+
+<p>Quite apart from the young people sat Mrs. Harris and Alfonso. They
+talked earnestly about the ill-timed strike of the millmen at home. "Why
+did the men strike at the very time when father wanted his mills to glow
+with activity?" queried Mrs. Harris.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, mother," said Alfonso, "that is part of labor's stock in trade. Some
+labor organizations argue that the 'end justifies the means.' Our men
+were probably kept advised of father's plans, and strikes often are timed
+so as to put capital at the greatest disadvantage, and force, if
+possible, a speedy surrender to labor's demands. 'Like begets like,'
+mother, so the college professor told us when he lectured on Darwin. It
+was Darwin, I think, who emphasized this fundamental principle in nature.</p>
+
+<p>"See, mother, how this labor agitation works. Labor organizations
+multiply and become aggressive, and so capital organizes in self-defense.
+One day our professor told the class that he much preferred citizenship
+in a government controlled by intelligent capital, to the insecurity and
+uncertainty of ignorant labor in power. The professor inclined to think
+that the British form of government rested on a more lasting basis than
+that of republics.</p>
+
+<p>"Usually the more of values a person possesses, the more anxious he is
+for stable government. Labor has little capital, and so often becomes
+venturesome, and is willing to stake all on the throw of a die. But labor
+in the presence of open hungry mouths can ill afford to take such
+chances. Labor with its little or no surplus should act reasonably, and
+on the side of conservatism, or wives and little ones suffer."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris listened to her son's comments on capital and labor, but the
+independence of her race asserted itself and she said with emphasis,
+"Alfonso, I hope Mr. Harris will insist on his rights at Harrisville."</p>
+
+<p>"Very likely he will, mother, as he is that kind of a man, and the New
+England independence that is born in him is sure to assert itself."</p>
+
+<p>For a few moments neither mother nor son spoke. Suddenly both were
+awakened from their reveries by the call for dinner. The waters were
+still smooth, and the ocean breezes had sharpened appetites, so the grand
+staircase was crowded with a happy throng, most of whom were eager for
+their first dinner aboard ship. The Harrises were delighted to find
+Captain Morgan already at the table.</p>
+
+<p>Long ago Captain Morgan had learned that wealth is power. His own ship
+had cost a million or more, and England's millions enabled his government
+to control the globe. Not only was he keenly alive to the fact that
+capital and brains guided most human events, but naturally he possessed
+the instincts of a gentleman, and besides he was a true Briton. His
+ancestors for generations had followed the sea for a livelihood and fame.
+Some had served conspicuously in the navy, and others like himself had
+spent long lives in the commercial marine.</p>
+
+<p>In Lucille's eyes Captain Morgan was an ideal hero of the sea. He was
+over six feet in height, and robust of form, weighing not less than 250
+pounds. His face was round and bronzed by the exposure of over three
+hundred ocean passages. His closely cropped beard and hair were iron
+gray, and his mild blue eyes and shapely hands told of inbred qualities.
+That he was possessed of rare traits of character, it was easy to
+discover. Loyalty to the great trusts confided to him, was noticeable in
+his every movement. "Safety of ship, passengers, and cargo," were words
+often repeated, whether the skies above him were blue or black.</p>
+
+<p>Captain Morgan addressing Mrs. Harris said, "We shall miss very much your
+husband's presence aboard ship. Nowadays managers of great enterprises
+ashore, involving the use of large amounts of capital, encounter quite as
+many stormy seas as we of the Atlantic."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," replied Mrs. Harris, "and the causes of financial disturbances are
+fully as difficult to divine or control."</p>
+
+<p>"It was fortunate, however, Mrs. Harris," said the captain, "that
+word reached the steamer in time to intercept the Colonel so that he
+could return at once and assume command of his business. Aboard our
+ship, you must all dismiss every anxiety as to matters at home or on the
+"Majestic." With your permission, Colonel Harris's family shall be mine
+for the passage. Please command my services at all times."</p>
+
+<p>"Thank you," said Alfonso, and the captain's cordial words, like
+sunshine, dispelled the clouds.</p>
+
+<p>"Captain," inquired Leo, "do you think we shall have a pleasant voyage?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I hope so, for the sake of those aboard who are making this their
+first voyage, otherwise we may not have the pleasure of much of their
+company."</p>
+
+<p>"Captain Morgan, then you really promise a smooth passage?" said Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh no, Miss Harris, we never promise in advance good weather on the
+ocean. Smooth water for us old sailors is irksome indeed, yet I always
+consider it very fortunate for our passengers, if Old Probabilities grant
+us a day or two of fair skies as we leave and enter port. With gentle
+breezes the passengers gradually get possession of their 'sea legs' as
+sailors term it, and later brisk breezes are welcomed."</p>
+
+<p>"Captain, have you a panacea for seasickness?" inquired Mrs. Harris.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, yes," he replied, "take as vigorous exercise on the ship as is taken
+ashore, eat wisely, observe economy of nerve-force, and be resolved to
+keep on good terms with Old Neptune. Don't fight the steamer's movements
+or eccentricities, but yield gracefully to all the boat's motions. In a
+word, forget entirely that you are aboard ship, and the victory is
+yours."</p>
+
+<p>"This is Wednesday, Captain, and do you really think you will land us in
+the Mersey by Monday evening?" Lucille enquired earnestly.</p>
+
+<p>"Monday or Tuesday if all goes well," the captain answered. Captain
+Morgan drank his coffee, excused himself, and returned to his duty on the
+bridge.</p>
+
+<p>"What a gallant old sea-dog the captain is," said Mrs. Harris. "We shall
+feel perfectly safe in his keeping. How cheery he is away from home."</p>
+
+<p>"How do you know he has a home, mother?"</p>
+
+<p>"Perhaps not, my dear, for he seems really married to his ship."</p>
+
+<p>The Harrises and Leo joined the passengers who had now left the dining
+saloon. The light winds had freshened and the skies were overcast and
+gave promise of showers, if not of a storm. After walking a few times
+around the promenade deck, most of the passengers went below, some to the
+library, some to the smoking room, and some to their staterooms, perhaps
+thinking discretion the better part of valor. The steamer's chairs were
+taken from the deck and only a few persons remained outside. Some of them
+were clad in warm ulsters. They walked the usual half-hour. Most of these
+promenaders were men of business who were required to make frequent ocean
+passages. They were as familiar with moistened decks, cloudy skies, and
+heavy seas as the land-lubbers are with stone pavements and hotel
+corridors.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V</h2>
+
+<h3>DISCOMFITURES AT SEA</h3>
+
+
+<p>The green and red lights on the starboard and port sides and the white
+light on the foremast now burned brightly. The boatswain's shrill whistle
+furled the sails snugly to every spar, leaving the sailors little time or
+spirit for their usual song, as barometer-like they too sensed the
+approaching storm. The ship's watch forward was increased as the wind
+grew strong, and the weather ahead had become thick and hazy.</p>
+
+<p>The captain quickly left the table when the steward placed in his hand
+a bit of writing from the first officer, which read, "The barometer is
+falling rapidly." Captain Morgan and an officer paced the bridge with
+eyes alert. Heavy clouds of smoke from the triple stacks revealed that
+a hundred glowing furnaces were being fed with fuel, assistant engineers
+were busily inspecting, and oilers were active in lubricating the
+ponderous engines that every emergency might be promptly met.</p>
+
+<p>Ports were closed and every precaution taken. The anxiety of officers and
+sailors and the increased agitation of the sea was soon noticed by the
+ship's gay company. Before ten o'clock most of the passengers were glad
+of the good-night excuse for retiring. The smoking room, however, was
+crowded with devotees to the weed. Old-timers were busy with cards, or
+forming pools on the first day's run from Sandy Hook, or speculating as
+to the time of arrival at Queenstown.</p>
+
+<p>The atmosphere of the room was as thick as the weather outside. It is
+no wonder that a club man of New York, making his first trip to Europe,
+inquired of his Philadelphia friend, "Why do Americans smoke so
+continually?"</p>
+
+<p>He answered, "It is easier to tell why the English drink tea and why
+Americans drink coffee. But to answer your question, I suppose the
+mixture of races quickens the flow of blood and produces the intense
+activities we witness. Besides, the enlarged opportunities offered in
+a new and growing country present attractive prizes in the commercial,
+political, social, and religious world. To attain these the Anglo-Saxon
+blood rushes through arteries and veins like the heated blood in a
+thoroughbred horse on the last quarter. After these homestretch efforts
+Americans feel the need often of stimulants, or of a soporific, and this
+they try to find in a cigar."</p>
+
+<p>"Your views are wrong, I think. One would naturally infer that the use of
+tobacco shortens life. Let me relate to you an incident.</p>
+
+<p>"I was once in Sandusky, Ohio, and spent an evening at a lecture given by
+Trask, the great anti-tobacconist. In his discourse he had reached the
+climax of his argument, proving as he thought that tobacco shortened
+life, when a well dressed man in the audience rose and said, 'Mr. Trask,
+will you pardon me if I say a few words?'</p>
+
+<p>"'Oh, yes' said the lecturer, 'give us the facts only.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Well, Mr. Trask, there is living to-day in Castalia, southwest of here,
+a man nearly a hundred years old and he has been a constant user of
+tobacco since early childhood.'</p>
+
+<p>"For a moment Mr. Trask stood nonplussed. To gain time for thought
+he fell back upon the Socratic method, and began asking questions.
+'Stranger, won't you stand up again so that the audience can see you?
+Thank you! Evidently you are an intelligent citizen and reliable witness.
+Did you say you knew the man?'</p>
+
+<p>"'O yes, I have known him for over fifty years.'</p>
+
+<p>"'Did you ever know of his favoring schools or churches by gifts or
+otherwise?'</p>
+
+<p>"'No,' said the stranger.</p>
+
+<p>"'There,' said Trask to the audience, 'this man's testimony only
+strengthens what I have been attempting to prove here this evening,
+that tobacco shortens life. This Castalia centenarian is dead to all the
+demands of society and humanity, and his corpse should have been buried
+half a century ago.' So the laugh was on the voluntary witness."</p>
+
+<p>"Hold on, my friend, your Castalia centenarian proves just what I said at
+the outset, that the use of tobacco prolongs life, but I am half inclined
+myself to feel that the less tobacco active Americans use, the better."
+Then throwing his cigar away, he said good-night and left the smoking
+room.</p>
+
+<p>Others stacked their cards, smoked cigarettes, and then sought their
+staterooms, and finally the ship's bell rang out the last patron and
+announced the midnight hour; the steward was left alone. He had been
+unusually busy all the evening furnishing ale, porter, and beer, a few
+only taking wine. The steward was glad to complete his report of sales
+for the first day out, and turn off the lights and seek his berth for
+the night.</p>
+
+<p>The "Majestic" shot past Cape Cod and was plowing her way towards the
+banks of Newfoundland. The strong winds were westerly and fast increasing
+to a moderate gale. The north star was hidden and now failed to confirm
+the accuracy of the ship's compasses.</p>
+
+<p>The first and fourth officers were pacing the bridge. The latter was
+glad that the engines were working at full speed, as every stroke of
+the pistons carried him nearer his pretty cottage in the suburbs of
+Liverpool. Captain Morgan had dropped asleep on the lounge in his cozy
+room just back of the wheel. Most of the passengers and crew off duty
+slept soundly, though some were dreaming of wife and children in far away
+homes, and others of palaces, parks, and castles in foreign countries.</p>
+
+<p>It was difficult for Mrs. Harris to get much rest as the waves dashing
+against the ship often awakened her, and her thoughts would race with the
+Cincinnati Express which was swiftly bearing her husband and Gertrude
+back to Harrisville and perhaps to trouble and poverty. While Mrs. Harris
+knew that her husband was wealthy, she was constantly troubled with fears
+lest she and her family should sometime come to want. Her own father had
+acquired a fortune in Ireland, but changes in the British tariff laws had
+rendered him penniless, and poverty had driven her mother with seven
+other children to America.</p>
+
+<p>A rich uncle in Boston enabled her to get a fair education, and the early
+years of her married life had been full of earnest effort, of economy and
+heroic struggle, that her husband and family might gain a footing in the
+world. The comforts of her early childhood in Ireland had given her a
+keen relish for luxury. The pain inflicted by poverty that followed was
+severely felt, and now, the pleasures of wealth again were all the more
+enjoyed.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris was not a church member, but woman-like she found her lips
+saying, "God bless the colonel and my precious children." Then putting
+her hand over upon Lucille, and satisfied that she was there by her side
+and asleep, she too became drowsy and finally unconscious. Alfonso and
+Leo occupied the adjoining stateroom, but both were in dreamland;
+Alfonso in the art galleries of Holland and Leo in sunny Italy.</p>
+
+<p>Before morning the storm center was moving rapidly down the St. Lawrence
+Valley, and off the east coast of Maine. Long lines of white-capped waves
+were dashing after each other like swift platoons in a cavalry charge.
+The "Majestic," conscious of an enemy on her flank, sought earnestly to
+outstrip the winds of &AElig;olus. When Captain Morgan reached the bridge, the
+sea and sky were most threatening. The first officer said, "Captain,
+I have never seen the mercury go down so rapidly. We are in for a nasty
+time of it, I fear."</p>
+
+<p>Early the sailors were scrubbing the ship while the spray helped to wash
+the decks, and they tightened the fastenings of the life-boats. The
+firemen too were busy dropping cinders astern. Fires in the cook's
+galley were lighted, and the steerage passengers were aroused for
+breakfast, but few responded.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris often tried to dress, but every time she fell back into her
+berth, saying, "Stewardess, I shall surely die. Isn't the ship going
+down?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, no, madam," the stewardess replied, "I will return with beef tea,
+and you will soon feel better."</p>
+
+<p>Lucille was helped to put on a dark wrapper; and after repeated efforts
+at a hasty toilet, she took the stewardess's arm and reached an easy
+chair in the library. Alfonso and Leo, who were both members of a yacht
+club in New York, came to the library from a short walk on the deck. It
+required much urging with Lucille before she would attempt an entrance
+into the dining-room. Several men and a few ladies were present.</p>
+
+<p>"Good morning, Miss Harris, how brave you are," were words spoken so
+encouragingly by Captain Morgan that Lucille's face brightened and she
+responded as best she could.</p>
+
+<p>"Thank you, captain, I believe I should much prefer to face a storm of
+bullets on the land than a storm at sea; you courageous sailors really
+deserve all the gold medals."</p>
+
+<p>Leo, who was fond of the ocean, said to Alfonso, "Why can't we all be
+sailors? What say you to this? Let us test who of our party shall lose
+the fewest meals from New York to Queenstown. You and your mother or
+Lucille and I?"</p>
+
+<p>"Agreed," responded Alfonso, thinking it would help to keep the ladies in
+good spirits.</p>
+
+<p>"But what shall count for a meal?" inquired Alfonso.</p>
+
+<p>"Not less than ten minutes at the table, and at dinner, soup at least."
+Lucille thought Leo's idea a capital one. It was agreed that the contest
+should commence with the next lunch, and that Alfonso and Leo should act
+as captains for the two sides.</p>
+
+<p>By this time Lucille had eaten a little toast and had sipped part of her
+chocolate. A tenderloin steak and sweet omelet with French fried potatoes
+were being served, when suddenly the color left her face. Another lurch
+of the steamer sent a glass of ice water up her loose sleeve, and,
+utterly discomfited, she begged to be excused and rushed from the table.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh dear, mother, how terribly I feel; let me lie down. Oh dear! I wish
+I were home with father and Gertrude."</p>
+
+<p>"If the colonel were only here to help," murmured Mrs. Harris.
+"Stewardess, where are you? Why don't you hurry when I ring? Go for the
+doctor at once." It was now blowing a gale and the steamer was rolling
+badly.</p>
+
+<p>It was a long half-hour before the doctor entered the stateroom of Mrs.
+Harris. Dr. Argyle was perfect in physical development and a model of
+gentlemanly qualities. His education had been received in London and
+Vienna, and he had joined the service of the "Majestic" that he might
+enlarge his experiences as practitioner and man of the world. He had
+correctly divined that here he was sure to touch intimately the restless
+and wandering aristocracy of the globe.</p>
+
+<p>While Dr. Argyle was ostensibly the ship's doctor, he was keenly alert
+for an opportunity that would help him on to fame and fortune. Of the
+two he preferred the latter, as he believed that humanity is just as
+lazy as it dares to be. Therefore stateroom No. &mdash;&mdash; was entered both
+professionally and inquisitively. The doctor was half glad that the
+Harrises were ill, as he had seen the family at Captain Morgan's table
+and desired to meet them. Captain Morgan had incidentally mentioned to
+the doctor the great wealth of the Harris family, and this also had
+whetted his curiosity. Before him lay mother and daughter, helpless, both
+in utter misery and the picture of despair.</p>
+
+<p>"Beg pardon, ladies," said the doctor as he entered, "you sent for me
+I believe?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, yes," replied Mrs. Harris, "we thought you had forgotten us, as the
+half-hour's delay seemed a full week. My daughter, Lucille, and I are
+suffering terribly. How awful the storm! Last night, doctor, I thought
+I should die before morning, and now I greatly fear that the ship will
+go down."</p>
+
+<p>"Do not fear, ladies," the doctor replied, "the wind is only brisk; most
+people suffer a little on the ocean, especially on the first voyage."</p>
+
+<p>"What is the cause of this terrible seasickness, doctor, and what can you
+do for us?"</p>
+
+<p>"Frankly, Mrs. Harris, no two physicians agree as to the cause. Usually
+people suffer most from seasickness who come aboard weary from over-work
+or nervous exhaustion. Most people waste vital forces by too much talking
+or by over-exertion. Americans, especially, overcheck their deposits of
+vitality, and as bankrupts they struggle to transact daily duties. Wise
+management of nerve forces would enable them to accomplish more and enjoy
+life better."</p>
+
+<p>"I am a bankrupt then," said Mrs. Harris, "but how about my daughter
+Lucille?"</p>
+
+<p>"Your child, I fear, is the daughter of bankrupts and doubtless inherits
+their qualities."</p>
+
+<p>"But, doctor, can't you do something now for us?"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh yes, madam, but first let me feel your pulse, please."</p>
+
+<p>"Ninety-eight," he said to himself, but he added to Mrs. Harris, "you
+need the very rest this voyage affords and you must not worry the least
+about the storm or affairs at home. Our vessel is built of steel, and
+Captain Morgan always outrides the storms. Ladies, I want you to take
+this preparation of my own. It is a special remedy for seasickness, the
+result of the study and experience of the medical force of the White Star
+Line."</p>
+
+<p>The faces of mother and daughter brightened. They had faith. This was
+noticed by Dr. Argyle. Faith was the restorative principle upon which the
+young doctor depended, and without it his medicine was worthless. The
+White Star panacea prescribed was harmless, as his powders merely
+inclined the patient to sleep and recovery followed, so faith or nature
+worked the cure. Soon after the door closed behind the doctor, Lucille
+was asleep, and Mrs. Harris passed into dreamland.</p>
+
+<p>The winds veered into the southwest, and, reinforced, were controlled by
+a violent hurricane that had rushed up the Atlantic coast from the West
+Indies. The novice aboard was elated, for he thought that the fiercer the
+wind blew behind the vessel, the faster the steamer would be driven
+forward. How little some of us really know! The cyclone at sea is a
+rotary storm, or hurricane, of extended circuit. Black clouds drive down
+upon the sea and ship with a tiger's fierceness as if to crush all life
+in their pathway.</p>
+
+<p>Officers and crew, in waterproof garments, become as restless as bunched
+cattle in a prairie blizzard. All eyes now roam from prow to stern, from
+deck to top mast. The lightning's blue flame plays with the steel masts,
+and overhead thunders drown the noise of engines and propellers. Thick
+black smoke and red-hot cinders shoot forth from the three black-throated
+smoke-stacks.</p>
+
+<p>The huge steamer, no longer moving with the ease of the leviathan, seems
+a tiny craft and almost helpless in the chopped seas that give to the
+ship a complex motion so difficult, even for old sailors, to anticipate.
+Tidal wave follows tidal wave in rapid succession. Both trough and crest
+are whipped into whitecaps like tents afield, till sea and storm seem
+leagued to deluge the world again.</p>
+
+<p>Captain Morgan, lashed to the bridge, has full confidence in himself, his
+doubled watch ahead, his compasses, and the throbbing engines below.
+Dangers have now aroused the man and his courage grows apace. Moments
+supreme come to every captain at sea, the same as to captains who wage
+wars on the land.</p>
+
+<p>The decks are drenched, great waves pound the forward deck and life-boats
+are broken from their moorings. Battened hatches imprison below a
+regiment of souls, some suffering the torments of stomachs in open
+rebellion, others of heads swollen, while others lose entire control
+of an army of nerves that center near and drive mad the brain.</p>
+
+<p>To the uninitiated, words are powerless to reveal the torments of the
+imprisoned in a modern steel inquisition, rocking and pitching at the
+mercy of mighty torrents in a mid-ocean cyclone. Mephistopheles, seeking
+severest punishment for the damned, displayed tenderness in not adopting
+the super-heated and sooted pits where stokers in storms at sea are
+forced to labor and suffer.</p>
+
+<p>All that terrible second day and night at sea, the Harrises and others
+tossed back and forth in their unstable berths, some suffering with
+chills and others with burning heat. Some, Mrs. Harris and daughter among
+them, lay for hours more dead than alive, their wills and muscles utterly
+powerless to reach needed and much coveted blankets.</p>
+
+<p>The dining saloon was deserted except by a few old sea-travelers. Before
+dinner, Leo ventured above and for a moment put his head outside. The
+gale blowing a hundred miles an hour hit him with the force of a club.
+When he went below to see Alfonso, his face was pale, and his voice
+trembled as he said, "Harris, before morning we shall all sink to the
+bottom of the Atlantic with the 'Majestic' for our tomb." Half undressed,
+Leo dropped again into his berth where he spent a miserable night.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2>
+
+<h3>HALF-AWAKE, HALF-ASLEEP</h3>
+
+
+<p>Few persons find life enjoyable in a great storm at sea, for the
+discomfitures of mind and body are many. The ship's officers and crew are
+always concerned about the welfare of the passengers and the safety
+of steamer and cargo.</p>
+
+<p>True, Leo, with the instincts of an artist, had stood for hours on the
+deck, partially sheltered by a smoke-stack, to study wave motions and the
+ever-changing effects of the ocean. Never before had he known its
+sublimity. When the sea was wildest and the deck was wave-swept, he in
+his safe retreat made sketches of waves and their combinations which he
+hoped sometime to reproduce on canvas. At other times, conscious of storm
+dangers in mid-ocean, Leo's conscience troubled him. For a year he had
+been much in love with a pretty Italian girl, daughter of an official,
+long in the service of the Italian government at the port of New York.</p>
+
+<p>Rosie Ricci was fifteen years old when she first met Leo. Dressed in
+white, she entered an exhibition of water colors on W. 10th street with
+her mother one May morning, as Leo had finished hanging a delicate marine
+view sketched down the Narrows.</p>
+
+<p>Glances only between Leo and Rosie were exchanged, but each formed the
+resolution sometime, if possible, to know the other. Rosie's father had
+died when she was only fourteen years old, and existence for Mrs. Ricci
+and her little family had been a struggle. For the last year, a happy
+change had come in their condition. A letter had been received from a
+rich senator by Mrs. Ricci, which was couched in the tenderest language.
+The senator explained in his letter that at a musicale, given on Fifth
+Avenue, he had heard a Rosie Ricci sing a simple song that revived
+memories of an early day. This fact, coupled with Rosie's charming
+simplicity and vivacity of manner, fixed her name in his mind; later he
+was reading the <i>New York Tribune</i>, and the name Ricci arrested his
+attention.</p>
+
+<p>The item mentioned the death of Raphael Ricci, ex-consul, and the
+senator's object in writing was to inquire further as to the facts. Did
+he leave a competency? If not, would the family receive such assistance
+as would enable the daughter, if Rosie Ricci was her daughter, to obtain
+a further musical education?</p>
+
+<p>The senator's letter dropped from the mother's hands; she was overcome
+with the good news. Rosie picked it up saying, "Mother dear, what is the
+matter? What terrible news does it contain?"</p>
+
+<p>"Not bad news, child! possibly good news; a letter from a stranger who
+offers aid in our distress, a letter from one holding a high position.
+I wonder what it all means? Has the senator been prompted by the spirit
+of your anxious father, or is there evil in the communication?"</p>
+
+<p>"Tell me, mother, tell me all about it!" But before the mother could
+speak, Rosie was reading the letter aloud. She threw up her hands in
+delight and flew into her mother's arms. "How good the Lord is to us!"
+Rosie exclaimed. She had been eager for a musical education and to win
+fame on the stage.</p>
+
+<p>In June, by appointment, Mrs. Ricci and daughter met the Senator at the
+Fifth Avenue Hotel. It was arranged that Rosie should have the best
+musical education obtainable in Boston, and further that the senator
+should pay her expenses in Boston and New York, and that the mother's
+rent should be included in his liberality. At times, the mother
+questioned the senator's motives, but he always seemed so kind and
+fatherly that she spurned the thought as coming from the Evil One.</p>
+
+<p>The senator as he left, put several bills in Mrs. Ricci's hand, saying,
+"You and Rosie will find need of them for clothes for the daughter and
+for other expenses."</p>
+
+<p>Never was a girl happier than Rosie the morning she and her mother left
+the Grand Central Depot for New England. Rarely, if ever, did a girl work
+harder than Rosie at her studies. Her soul often had burned with ambition
+for fame and for money so that she could assist her mother. The way was
+now open and success was possible. At the sunset hour she often walked
+with a friend among the historic elms on Boston Common and in the
+beautiful flower gardens.</p>
+
+<p>Often young men longed for her acquaintance, but they could never get the
+consent of her pretty eyes. She was petite, her hair black, her eyes dark
+brown, her lips ruby-red, and her nose and chin finely chiselled. She had
+a cameo-like face and complexion of olive tint that told of the land of
+vines and figs in sunny Italy. Her step was elastic, her manner vivacious
+and confiding. Her dress was always tidy and stylish. Usually she carried
+a roll of music in one hand as she left the conservatory, and lovely
+flowers in the other that had been expressed either by the senator or
+Leo.</p>
+
+<p>On the completion of her course in the conservatory, Leo had pressed his
+suit so devotedly that Rosie consented to an engagement without her
+mother's knowledge. The ring of gold contained a single ruby, and Leo had
+had engraved on the inside of the ring, "Et teneo, et teneor." When Rosie
+saw the old Roman motto she said, "I hold, and am held. How appropriate,
+Leo! Your love for me, devotion to the beautiful, and our bright memories
+of artistic Italy shall bind us together forever.</p>
+
+<p>"But Leo, why do you put the ring on the third finger before marriage?"</p>
+
+<p>Leo answered, "Because I have read somewhere that many centuries ago the
+Egyptians believed that the third finger was especially warmed by a small
+artery that proceeded directly from the heart. The Egyptians also
+believed that the third finger is the first that a new born babe is able
+to move, and the last finger over which the dying lose control."</p>
+
+<p>"Nonsense," replied Rosie, "once the wedding ring, studded with precious
+stones, was worn on the forefinger; Christianity moved it to the third
+finger. Its use was originated in this way: the priest first put it on
+the thumb, saying 'In the name of the Father'; on the forefinger, adding,
+'in the name of the Son;' on the second finger, repeating, 'in the name
+of the Holy Ghost;' and on the third finger, ending with 'Amen,' and
+there it staid."</p>
+
+<p>Abelard and Heloise were not happier in their unselfish affection than
+Leo and Rosie in their love. Colors on Leo's canvas now sought each other
+in magic harmony. At single sittings in his studio Leo made Madonna
+faces, and glowing landscapes, that evoked words of warm praise from his
+fellow artists, who were blind to the secret of Leo's remarkable power.</p>
+
+<p>For a Christmas present Leo brought Rosie a picture of his own of Rosie's
+beautiful hand holding lilies of the valley; and while she thanked him in
+sweetest words, he pinned at her throat a Florentine cameo once worn by
+his mother. All these things, and more, came flashing into Leo's mind as
+he struggled on the ship's deck to keep his footing in the storm.</p>
+
+<p>A week before the steamer left New York Leo and Rosie had quarreled.
+Leo's invitation to accompany the Harrises had come to him from Alfonso
+only three days before the "Majestic's" departure, and such was his
+momentary ill-humor toward Rosie that he sailed from New York without
+even advising her of his new plan, or saying good-bye. Leo, alone on the
+sea, often severely rebuked himself that he could have been so unkind to
+the woman to whom he had given his heart and his mother's favorite bit of
+jewelry.</p>
+
+<p>A thousand times he wished he could ask Rosie's forgiveness, for it was
+in a fit of anger that Rosie had snatched the ruby ring off her hand and
+the cameo from her throat, and had thrown them into Leo's lap saying,
+"Take them, Leo, you will easily find another girl to share your family
+name and your poverty as an artist while I have need of wealth." Leo had
+turned from Rosie's home without the power to reply, he was so taken by
+surprise.</p>
+
+<p>Leo was never so happy as when Rosie was present in his studio to
+encourage him by word or song, but now all was changed.</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes Leo in his secret thoughts feared that Rosie's beauty and
+charming manner would command riches, and sometimes he dared to think
+that possibly his talent and fame might command a handsome dowry. Then
+his mind turned to Lucille. She was taller than Rosie, not so vivacious,
+but like Rosie enjoyed a happy time. He even ventured at times to say
+mentally of Lucille that "it is she or none on earth," and then as he
+recalled the ring given to Rosie, the old love would assert itself and he
+would shut his eyes, ashamed of an affection that was false hearted. It
+was fortunate for Leo that he was a good sailor, as it enabled him to do
+many thoughtful things for the Harrises, and thus show his appreciation
+of their great kindness to him.</p>
+
+<p>On the third day out from New York, the storm moderated somewhat and the
+passengers at breakfast visibly increased in number, but before the lunch
+hour was over the fury of the gale returned. The steamer in her course
+had crossed the center of the cyclone where the force of the storm was
+diminished for a short time only. All that afternoon and night the gale
+increased in force till it seemed as if volcanic powers under the sea
+were at work turning the ocean upside down.</p>
+
+<p>Pent up forces in the west were loosed, and Neptune, deity of the ocean,
+with his three-pronged trident stalked abroad. The bombardment of waves
+was terrific, and the twin propellers raced so fiercely that speed was
+reduced to a minimum.</p>
+
+<p>In the morning the terrible cyclone had moved to the north, smoother
+seas were reached by lunch time, and most of the tables were again
+filled. Many of those who were making a first voyage also put in their
+appearance, and they were subjected to much chaffing from the veterans
+of ocean travel. Captain Morgan and Doctor Argyle were the recipients
+of many complimentary words for their skill.</p>
+
+<p>At dinner Leo and Alfonso mustered full forces, and each side scored
+every point, for both Mrs. Harris and Lucille entered the dining room,
+and everybody enjoyed the menu after a three days' fast. Captain Morgan
+spoke of the storm as "the late unpleasantness," and hoped his friends
+would not desert him again. Mrs. Harris was silent, but Alfonso and
+Lucille promised loyalty for the future, and Leo said, "Captain Morgan,
+I believe I haven't missed a meal."</p>
+
+<p>"Bravo, Colonna!" the captain replied, "you really seem to have inherited
+the sailing qualities of your great countryman Columbus, and I sincerely
+hope that you may render the world equally valuable services."</p>
+
+<p>Lucille added, "I am sure he will, captain; during the gale, he rendered
+signal services to suffering humanity."</p>
+
+<p>"To-morrow," continued Captain Morgan, "is the 21st of June, when the day
+and night will be of equal length, the sun rising and setting promptly at
+six o'clock."</p>
+
+<p>"Why not," said Lucille, "set our watches by the steamer's chronometer,
+and have the steward call us at 5:30 o'clock and all test the accuracy of
+the almanac?" Mrs. Harris and several others entered heartily into the
+plan.</p>
+
+<p>The pure sea-air was so fresh and restful that when three bells or 5:30
+o'clock in the morning was heard, the Harris party were easily awakened
+and they hastily prepared to witness at sea the sunrise on June 21st.</p>
+
+<p>Leo and Alfonso were first on deck. Mrs. Harris, Lucille, and the Judge,
+an acquaintance made on the ship, soon joined them. Their watches agreed
+that it was ten minutes to six o 'clock. The decks had been washed and
+put in order, engines were running at full speed, the eastern sky was
+flushed with crimson and golden bands that shot out of the horizon, and
+fan-like in shape faded up in the zenith. With watches in hand, all eyes
+were fixed on a pathway of intensely lighted sea and sky in the east.
+Suddenly, as the sailor rung out "four bells," or 6 o'clock, Lucille
+shouted, "There! See that drop of molten gold floating on the horizon.
+Captain Morgan was right as to time. See, judge, how the gold glows with
+heat and light as the globe turns to receive the sun's blessings!"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said the judge who now for the first time since the storm became
+really enthusiastic, "another page of the record book is turned, and the
+good and bad deeds of humanity will be entered by the recording angel.
+The mighty sun, around which we revolve at fabulous speed is, in its
+relations to us mortals, the most important material fact in the
+universe. If I ever change my religion I shall become a sun-worshiper.
+The Turk in his prayers, five times a day, faces the sun."</p>
+
+<p>An early brisk walk on the deck sharpened appetites, and our
+sun-worshipers were among the first at breakfast. Gradually others
+entered, and again the dining room was cheerful with sunny faces. After
+breakfast the decks were astir with pretty women, children, and gentlemen
+lifting their hats. The promenade was as gay as on Fifth Avenue. Doctor
+Argyle gave his arm to Mrs. Harris, Lucille walked between Alfonso and
+Leo, and doctors of divinity and men of repute in other professions kept
+faithful step. Actors and actresses moved as gracefully as before the
+footlights. A famous actor carried on his shoulders a tiny girl who had
+bits of sky for eyes, a fair face, and fleecy hair that floated in the
+sea breeze, making a pretty picture.</p>
+
+<p>Business men with fragrant cigars indulged in the latest story or joke.
+By degrees the promenade disappeared as passengers selected steamer
+chairs, library, or smoking room, and congenial souls formed interesting
+and picturesque groups. At the outset of the voyage you wonder at the
+lack of fine dress, and hastily judge the modest men and women about you
+to be somewhat commonplace, but after days at sea and many acquaintances
+made, you discover your mistake and learn that your companions are
+thoroughly cosmopolitan. In fair weather the decks are playgrounds where
+children at games enliven the scene, and sailors' songs are heard.</p>
+
+<p>When the old clipper ship took from four to six weeks to cross the
+Atlantic, a weekly paper was printed. On some of the swift liners of
+to-day on the fourth day out a paper is issued, when perhaps the steamer
+is "rolling in the Roaring Forties." The sheet is a four-page affair,
+about six inches wide and nine inches long. It gives a description of the
+ship signed by the Captain; the daily runs of the ship follow, the
+distance still to go is stated, and the probable time it will take to
+make port; under "General Information" you learn about seasickness, what
+you have not already experienced, the necessity of exercise aboard ship,
+also much about the handling of luggage in Europe; some of the prose and
+poetry is sure to be good, and is contributed by skilled writers among
+the passengers. A column of "Queries" and a few brief stories and jokes
+brighten the sheet. The price is fifteen cents, and every copy of "The
+Ocean Breeze" is highly prized. On the whole, people at sea enjoy most
+the enforced rest, for they escape newspapers, telegrams, creditors, and
+the tax-gatherer.</p>
+
+<p>At 11 o'clock on the deck, every pleasant day, a large, well-dressed man,
+attended by his valet, generously opened a barrel of fresh oysters for
+the passengers. This benevolent gentleman proved to be a famous Saratoga
+gambler. In this way he made many acquaintances and friends, and each day
+he increased his winnings at cards and in bets on the vessel's run, till
+finally, not he, but the guileless passengers paid for the oysters.</p>
+
+<p>Gambling was the business of the man who advertised by his oysters; with
+the actor, who romped with the pretty child, gambling was a passion. So
+intense was this passion with the actor that he would attempt to match
+silver dollars or gold sovereigns with everybody he met when ashore;
+between acts on the stage he would telegraph his bet to distant cities.
+Crossing parks or walking down Broadway his palm concealed a coin, ready
+for the first possible chance. He would match his coat or his home or
+even his bank account. On ship he matched sovereigns only.</p>
+
+<p>Occasionally the "Majestic" passed in sight of some other ship, or
+"tramp-steamer," and by signal exchanged names and location. Rarely do
+the great passenger steamers meet on the Atlantic, as the course outward
+is quite to the north to avoid collisions. Half-awake, half-asleep, the
+days on shipboard go by as in a dream, and you gladly welcome back
+restored health. Perhaps a sweet or strong face wins your interest
+or heart, as the case may be, and life-long friendships are formed.
+Confidence thus bestowed often begets the same in others, and you are
+thankful for the ocean voyage.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2>
+
+<h3>LIFE AT SEA A KALEIDOSCOPE</h3>
+
+
+<p>In a shady retreat on the ship after lunch sat the Harrises, Leo, the
+judge, and Dr. Argyle, the latter reading a French novel. Leo had just
+finished a new novel entitled "A Broken Promise," Alfonso had read
+three hundred pages in one of Dickens's novels that tells so vividly how
+the poor of London exist.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Argyle said, "Judge, what do you think of novels anyway?"</p>
+
+<p>The matter-of-fact judge gruffly replied, "I never read the modern novel
+because I don't care to waste my time."</p>
+
+<p>Whereupon Alfonso said, "Give me the novel of an idealist that has a
+purpose. Colonel Ingersol spoke the truth in a recent lecture when he
+said that a realist can be no more than an imitator or a copyist. His
+philosophy makes the wax that receives and retains an image of an artist.
+Realism degrades and impoverishes. The real sustains the same relation to
+ideal that a stone does to a statue, or that paint does to a painting."</p>
+
+<p>"No," replied Leo, "a novel proper should be a love story spiced with
+the beauties of nature and exciting adventures. A novel with a purpose,
+Alfonso, should advertise under another name for it is a cheat. It is
+often written with a deliberate attempt to beguile a person into reading
+a story which the writer deliberately planned to be simply the medium of
+conveying useful or useless information. Possibly a social panacea, or
+the theme may include any subject from separating gold from the ocean,
+to proving the validity of the latest theory on electricity."</p>
+
+<p>"Leo, you go too far," said Mrs. Harris, "the modern novel that appears
+in press and magazine, and later in book form, entering all our homes,
+should teach high morality and contain only proper scenes and passages."</p>
+
+<p>"But, mother," said Lucille, "you would thus debar many of the world's
+masterpieces in literature. It seems to me that the morality of character
+and scene has little to do with the artistic value of the book. The
+realist must depict life as it is. 'Art, for art's sake,' is what
+commends a novel to artistic minds."</p>
+
+<p>"The modern novel is too much like modern architecture," said the judge,
+"a combination of classical and subsequent styles thrown together to
+satisfy groups of individuals rather than to conform to well accepted
+rules or ideas of art. Modern novels and modern architecture are sure
+to give way to nobler thoughts that shall practically harmonize the
+useful and the beautiful."</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Argyle, having asked for opinions on the modern novel, obtained them.
+He was an earnest listener as he had wished more knowledge of the Harris
+family, which would enable him the better to lay plans; he hoped to win
+Lucille's favor.</p>
+
+<p>It was now a quarter to six o'clock and many passengers, including the
+Harris group, moved to the port side of the ship to observe if the sun,
+at the expiration of twelve hours, would again touch the water. This
+twenty-first day of the month had been one of Lowell's rare June days.
+It had been ushered in by beautiful cloud coloring.</p>
+
+<p>The ocean was now free from mist, the blue clouds overhead darkened the
+sea to the horizon, and it looked as if the sun would set behind clouds.
+Unexpectedly, however, the clouds near the water separated, and the sun
+again appeared in all his glory, sending a weird light out over the
+water, gilding the "Majestic," flooding the faces of the passengers with
+an unnatural light, and bringing into strong relief a sailing craft
+hovering on the starboard horizon.</p>
+
+<p>"Perfectly beautiful," exclaimed several ladies. "There," said the
+purser, as four bells rang out and the gong for dinner sounded, "the sun
+is kissing the waves." Before any one could answer, the gorgeous sun was
+slowly sinking into the blue waters of the Northern Atlantic. Passengers
+held their watches and in three minutes the sun had said farewell.</p>
+
+<p>The dinner was much enjoyed. After an evening of charming moonlight,
+midnight found all, save those on duty, asleep in the "Majestic," which
+was speeding rapidly towards the safe granite docks at Liverpool.</p>
+
+<p>Moonlight at sea is so bewitching, the wonder is that pleasure-seekers
+ever consent to land except when denied the companionship of the silver
+goddess of night. Whether she races with the clouds, silver tips the
+waves, or with her borrowed light floods the world with fairy-like
+beauty, it is only that her admirers may exchange sorrow for joy and
+conflict for peace.</p>
+
+<p>The sixth day out, the sun illumined a clear sky, and those that loved
+the sea were early on deck for exercise and fresh air. These early risers
+were well repaid, as the steamer was passing through a great school of
+porpoises that sometimes venture long distances from the British Islands.
+Alfonso ran to rap at Lucille's door and she hurried on deck to enjoy the
+sight. Hundreds of acres of the ocean were alive with porpoises or sea
+hogs as sailors often call them.</p>
+
+<p>Porpoises average five feet in length and are the size of a small boy
+and quite as playful. These animals are smooth, and black or gray in
+color, except the under side which is pure white. They are gregarious
+and very sociable in their habits. Porpoises race and play with each
+other and dart out of the sea, performing almost as many antics as the
+circus clown. They feed on mackerel and herring, devouring large
+quantities. Years ago the porpoise was a common and esteemed article of
+food in Great Britain and France, but now the skin and blubber only have
+a commercial value. The skins of a very large species are used for
+leather or boot-thongs.</p>
+
+<p>The early risers were standing on the prow of the steamer where the
+cutwater sent constantly into the air a nodding plume of white spray.
+Suddenly the watch shouted, "Whale ahead, sir!" Officers and sailors
+were astir. Just ahead, and lying in the pathway of the steamer lay a
+whale, fifty feet in length, seemingly asleep, for he was motionless. The
+officer's first thought was that he would slack speed, but presence of
+mind prompted him to order full speed, planning no doubt, if the whale
+was obstinate, to cut him in halves.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille and others, fearful of consequences, turned and ran, but the
+leviathan suddenly dropped down out of sight, his broad tail splashing
+salt water into the faces of the young people who were bold enough to
+await events. With a sense of relief, Leo exclaimed, "Narrow escape,
+that!"</p>
+
+<p>"Narrow escape for whom?" Alfonso inquired.</p>
+
+<p>"For both the steamer and the whale," replied Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>On the way to breakfast, Lucille asked an officer if similar instances
+frequently happened.</p>
+
+<p>"Rarely," he replied, but added, "very likely we may see other whales in
+this vicinity." Sure enough, after breakfast, children ran up and down
+the deck shouting, "Whales! Whales!" and several were seen a mile or two
+north of the ship's course, where they sported and spouted water.</p>
+
+<p>About four o'clock, the temperature having fallen several degrees, the
+passengers sighted to the northeast a huge iceberg in the shape of an
+arch, bearing down on the steamer's course, and had it been night,
+possibly freighted with all the horrors of a ship-wreck. As it was,
+Captain Morgan deemed it wise to lessen the speed as the ship approached
+the iceberg.</p>
+
+<p>"This is wonderful, Leo," said Mrs. Harris; "can you tell us where and
+when icebergs are formed?"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh yes, Mrs. Harris, icebergs that float down the Atlantic are born on
+the west coast of Greenland. Up there great valleys are filled with snow
+and ice from hill-top to hill-top, reaching back up the valleys, in some
+instances from thirty to forty miles. This valley-ice is called a 'Mer
+de Glace,' and has a motion down the valley, like any river, but of
+three feet more or less only per day. If time enough is allowed, vast
+quantities of this valley-ice move into the gulf or sea. When the sea
+is disturbed by a storm the ice wall or precipice is broken off, and
+enormous masses, often a hundred times larger than a big building, fall
+and float away with the report of the firing of a park of artillery, and
+these floating mountains of ice are lighted in their lonely pathways by
+the midnight sun."</p>
+
+<p>Before dinner, came the regular promenade which presented many contrasts.
+A pretty bride from the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky walked with her
+young husband whom she had first met at a New England seaside. She was
+glad to aid in bridging the chasm between north and south. Her traveling
+dress of blue was appropriately trimmed with gray.</p>
+
+<p>The gorgeously dressed gambler walked on the deck alone. Then came two
+modest nuns dressed in gray and white. Alfonso and his mother, the judge
+and Lucille, and a group of little children followed. Dr. Argyle and a
+Philadelphia heiress kept step. Everybody walked, talked, and laughed,
+and the passengers had little need of the ship's doctor now. If the
+weather is fair the decks are always enlivened as a steamer approaches
+land. The next day, by noon at latest, Ireland and Fastnet Rock would
+be sighted, if the ship's reckoning had been correct.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner, Dr. Argyle was walking the deck with Lucille in the
+star-light. He had told her much of his family, of his talented brother
+in the Church, and of another in the army; he had even ventured
+to speak of Lucille's grace of manner, and she feared what might follow.
+The call of Mrs. Harris relieved Lucille of an unpleasant situation.</p>
+
+<p>Secretly, Lucille was pleased to escape from Dr. Argyle. Something in his
+manner told her that he was not sincere; that he was a schemer, perhaps a
+fortune-seeker, and she gladly rejoined her mother.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris and her children often wondered how matters were progressing
+at home. Alfonso had faith in his father's ability to cope with the
+strike, but Mrs. Harris and Lucille were much worried. "Don't let us
+trouble," said Alfonso, "till we reach Queenstown, as there we shall
+surely get a cablegram from father."</p>
+
+<p>Just then Leo joined the family, and Lucille taking his arm, the two
+walked the deck, and later they found quiet seats in the moonlight. The
+moon's welcome rays revealed fleece-like clouds overhead and changed the
+waters astern into acres of diamonds. Gentle breezes fanned the cheeks
+of two troubled lovers who thus far had kept well their heart secrets.
+Lucille's warm and sensitive nature yearned for some confidant in whom
+she could find consolation. Mrs. Harris never quite understood her
+daughter. Lucille was noble, generous, and true in her affection. Her
+ideal of marriage was that the busy shuttle of life must be of Divine
+guidance, and often she was at a loss to understand some of the deep
+mysteries that had clouded her own life. Of this world's blessings her
+life had been full, except she could not reconcile some of her late
+experiences. Of this, of course, Leo knew nothing. He too had had a cup
+of bliss dashed suddenly to the ground. A moment of anger had destroyed
+his plans for life. The moon's soft light changed Leo's purpose never to
+speak to Lucille of his affection for Rosie Ricci, and he now frankly
+told her the whole story.</p>
+
+<p>At first Lucille did not wish to believe that Leo had ever been in love,
+as her own heart had turned to him in the silent hours of the night when
+the pain in her heart forbade sleep.</p>
+
+<p>Trembling she said, "Leo, you have given Rosie up forever then?"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh no, Miss Harris, it was Rosie who said to me, 'Good-bye, Leo,
+forever.' She accepted my attentions for a year. Alas! Rosie's love for
+the rich man's gold I fear was more powerful than her love for me, a poor
+artist, and so she threw back the ruby ring and my mother's cameo, and
+crushed my heart and hopes. In accepting the kind invitation of your
+brother to accompany your family on this trip, I hoped that the journey
+might heal my suffering soul."</p>
+
+<p>"I am delighted," said Lucille, her voice and hand still trembling a
+little, "that your own vow was not broken."</p>
+
+<p>Leo's olive complexion was softened in the moon's rays, his face was
+saddened by the recital of his deep affliction, and his dark eyes were
+lowered, as he looked out upon the troubled pathway of the steamer. For
+a moment Lucille earnestly gazed at Leo who seemed to her to be handsome
+and noble, but he appeared lost as in a dream. Every man is thought to be
+noble by the woman who loves him. Then she took both his hands in hers in
+pity and said, "Leo, be brave as your ancestors were brave. You will be a
+success in the world because you have remaining your intense love for
+art."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Lucille, and I think I shall marry art only."</p>
+
+<p>"Don't be rash, Leo, we frail human beings know little in advance as to
+heaven's plans."</p>
+
+<p>Few forces work truer in nature than the principle that like begets like.
+Leo confided in Lucille, and now Lucille confided in Leo; she slowly told
+in low voice the story of her own great disappointment.</p>
+
+<p>"I too, once had an ideal lover. Our souls were one; the day of wedding
+even had been fixed; orders for an expensive trousseau had been sent to
+Paris; the details of the marriage had been arranged, a long journey
+abroad planned, and the city for our future home was selected. These
+things had become part of my dreams, and the joy of anticipation was
+filling my cup to the brim.</p>
+
+<p>"One evening, in the moonlight, such as now smiles upon us, I asked
+Bernard if he would read a short note which I had just received, and tell
+me if its contents were true. Bernard removed the letter from the
+envelope, looked at the signature, and reading turned pale. The note was
+from a lady who asked if I was aware that he had offered himself to
+another.</p>
+
+<p>"A second time I pressed the question to know if the contents were true,
+and he answered, 'Yes', and added that it was not his fault that he did
+not marry the lady.</p>
+
+<p>"'Then you love her still, Bernard?'</p>
+
+<p>"'Yes, Lucille, but I love you also.'</p>
+
+<p>"In anger and disappointed love I left him. Of course all plans for the
+marriage were cancelled at once. 'First love or none,' was then written
+on my heart, where it still remains."</p>
+
+<p>Lucille wept while Leo sat surprised. He knew not what to say, for her
+heart-story and heart edict, "First love or none," had opened his own
+wounds afresh, and had shut the door to Lucille's heart perhaps forever.</p>
+
+<p>"Come, Lucille," a call of Mrs. Harris, aroused the courage of Leo, and
+he said to Lucille, who with a flushed face looked more beautiful than
+ever, "At least we should be friends." "Yes," she murmured, and Mrs.
+Harris and her daughter retired.</p>
+
+<p>The night before, the second officer had told Lucille that land would
+probably be seen early next day on the port-side. All the morning, Mrs.
+Harris was awaiting anxiously more news about the great strike at
+Harrisville.</p>
+
+<p>"Land, on the port-side, sir!" shouted the forward lookout, just as four
+bells struck the hour of ten o'clock. The officer on duty, pacing the
+bridge, raised his glass and in a moment he answered, "Ay! Ay! The
+Skelligs."</p>
+
+<p>"What do they mean?" inquired Mrs. Harris of a sailor passing. "The
+officer has sighted land, madam. Don't you see the specks of blue low
+down on the horizon to the northeast? That's the Skelligs, three rocky
+islets off the southwest coast of Ireland, near where I was born, and
+where my wife Katy, and the babies live. That's where my dear old mother
+also keeps watch for her Patsie."</p>
+
+<p>"Is your name Patsie?" Alfonso asked.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, sir, Patsie Fitzgerald, and I'm proud of my name, my family, the
+Emerald Isle, and the fine steamer that's taking us safely home, and may
+God bless all you fine people, and keep my wife and babies and my dear
+old mother!"</p>
+
+<p>"Thank you!" said Alfonso, "here, Patsie, is a little money for the
+babies," and the sailor tipped his hat and bowed his thanks.</p>
+
+<p>The signal officer on Brea Head, Valentia Island, was soon exchanging
+signals with the "Majestic," and five minutes later the sighting of the
+"Majestic" was cabled to the Lloyds of Liverpool and London and back to
+New York, via Valentia Bay, and it was known that evening in Harrisville
+that the Harris family were safely nearing Queenstown.</p>
+
+<p>Travelers experience delightful feelings as the old world is approached
+for the first time. All that has been read or told, and half believed, is
+now felt to be true, and you are delighted that you are so soon to see
+for yourself the "Mother Islands," and Europe which have peopled the
+western world with sons and daughters.</p>
+
+<p>With the precision of the New York and Jersey City ferries the ocean
+steamers enter the harbors of the old and new world. On the southwestern
+coast of Ireland is Bantry Bay, memorable in history as having been twice
+entered by the French navy for the purpose of invading Ireland. In sight
+is Valentia, the British terminus of the first Atlantic cable to North
+America, also the terminus of the cables laid in 1858, 1865, and 1866,
+and of others since laid. The distance is 1635 miles from Valentia Bay
+to St. John, Newfoundland.</p>
+
+<p>From the deck of the steamer, Ireland seems old and worn. Her rocky capes
+and mountainous headlands reach far into the ever encroaching Atlantic
+like the bony fingers of a giant. Fastnet Rock lighthouse on the right,
+telling the mariner of half-sunken rocks, and Cape Clear on the left,
+soon drop behind.</p>
+
+<p>Approaching Queenstown, the green forests and fields and little white
+homes of fishermen and farmers are visible along the receding shore.
+Roach's Point, four miles from Queenstown is reached, where the mails are
+landed and received, if the weather is bad, but Captain Morgan decided
+to steam into Queenstown Harbor, one of the finest bays in the world,
+being a sheltered basin of ten square miles, and the entrance strongly
+fortified. Within the harbor are several islands occupied by barracks,
+ordnance and convict depots, and powder magazines. This deep and
+capacious harbor can float the navies of the world. In beauty it compares
+favorably with the Bay of Naples.</p>
+
+<p>Cove, or Queenstown, as Cove is called, since the visit of Queen Victoria
+in 1849, has a population of less than ten thousand. It is situated on
+the terraced and sheltered south side of Great Island. Here for his
+health came Rev. Charles Wolfe, author of "Not a drum was heard, not a
+funeral note."</p>
+
+<p>In the amphitheatre-shaped town on parallel streets rise tiers of white
+stone houses, relieved by spire and tower. On neighboring highest hills
+are old castles, forts, and a tall white lighthouse.</p>
+
+<p>One or more of Her Majesty's armored warships may always be seen within
+the bay. The "Majestic" dropped anchor in the quiet harbor, and the
+company's lighter came along side with passengers for Liverpool, and to
+take ashore the Queenstown passengers, and the mails which, checked out,
+numbered over 1600 sacks. The transatlantic mail is put aboard the
+express and hurried to Dublin, thence from Kingston to Holyhead, via a
+swift packet across St. George's Channel, and to its destination, thus
+saving valuable hours in its delivery throughout Europe.</p>
+
+<p>Several small boats appeared bringing natives who offered for sale fruit,
+Irish laces, and canes made of black bog oak, with the shamrock carved on
+the handles. Mrs. Harris was much pleased to renew her acquaintance with
+the scenes of her girlhood, having sailed from Queenstown for Boston when
+she was only ten years old.</p>
+
+<p>The baggage was left on the steamer to go forward to Liverpool, and
+Alfonso led the way aboard the lighter, and from the dock to the Queen's
+Hotel. Each carried a small satchel, with change of clothing, till the
+trunks should be overtaken.</p>
+
+<p>At the hotel Alfonso found the longed-for cablegram from his father which
+read as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Harrisville</span>,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><i>Mrs. Reuben Harris,<br />
+Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland.</i></p>
+
+<p>Employees still out. Mills guarded. Will hire new men. Searles visits
+Australia. All well. Enjoy yourselves. Love.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Reuben Harris</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>"It's too bad that father and Gertrude couldn't be with us," said Mrs.
+Harris.</p>
+
+<p>The lunch ashore of Irish chops, new vegetables, and fruit was a decided
+improvement on the food of the last few days. The Harrises after a stormy
+sea voyage were delighted again to put foot on mother earth, to enjoy the
+green terraces, ivy-clad walls, cottages, and churches, and also to see
+the shamrock, a tiny clover, which St. Patrick held up before the Irish
+people to prove the Holy Trinity. Lucille found the pretty yellow furz,
+the flower which Linn&aelig;us, the famous Swedish botanist, kissed.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso suggested that they take the part rail and part river route
+of a dozen miles to Cork, the third city of Ireland. En route are seen
+beautiful villas, green park-like fields, rich woods, and a terrace
+that adorns the steep banks of the River Lee. A ruined castle at
+Monkstown is pointed out, which a thrifty woman built, paying the workman
+in goods, on which she cleared enough to pay for the castle, except an
+odd groat, hence the saying, "The castle cost only a groat."</p>
+
+<p>A delightful day was spent at Cork, an ancient city, which pagans and
+Danes once occupied, and which both Cromwell and Marlborough captured.
+Here Rev. Thomas Lee, by his preaching, inclined William Penn, "Father of
+Pennsylvania," to become a Quaker. Here was born Sheridan Knowles, the
+dramatist, and other famous writers.</p>
+
+<p>After visiting the lakes of Killarney and Dublin, the Harris family took
+a hasty trip through England.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2>
+
+<h3>COLONEL HARRIS RETURNS TO HARRISVILLE</h3>
+
+
+<p>The strong will of Reuben Harris was to meet its match, in fact its
+defeat. His plans for a well rounded life were nearing a climax when the
+telegram from his manager Wilson changed all his plans, and standing on
+the pier, as his family steamed away, he experienced the horrors of a
+terrible nightmare.</p>
+
+<p>Mechanically he shook his white handkerchief, saw his family carried
+far out to sea as if to another world, and he longed for some yawning
+earthquake to engulf him. He stood transfixed to the dock; the
+perspiration of excitement, now checked, was chilling him when Gertrude
+caught his arm and said, "Father, what is the matter?"</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris's strong frame trembled like a ship that had struck a
+hidden rock, and then he rallied as if from a stupor, and taking Mr.
+Searles's arm was helped to a carriage.</p>
+
+<p>He said, "You must pardon me, Mr. Searles, if for a moment I seemed
+unmanned. It is a terrible ordeal to be thus suddenly separated from my
+family."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Colonel Harris, I had a similar experience recently on the docks
+in Liverpool when my family bade me adieu, and I came alone to America.
+Separation for a time even from those we love is trying."</p>
+
+<p>The heroic in Colonel Harris soon enabled him to plan well for the
+afternoon. He telegraphed Mr. Wilson of his decision to return, and then
+said, "We will leave New York at 6 o'clock this evening for Harrisville.
+Mr. Searles, we will try to use the afternoon for your pleasure. Driver,
+please take us to the Windsor Hotel, via the Produce Exchange." The
+colonel having left the Waldorf did not wish, under the circumstances,
+again to enter his name on its register.</p>
+
+<p>The ride down West Street, New York, at midday, is anything but
+enjoyable, as few thoroughfares are more crowded with every kind of
+vehicle conveying merchandise from ship to warehouse, and from warehouse
+to ship and cars. However, the ride impressed Searles with the immensity
+of the trade of the metropolis. West Street leads to Battery Park, the
+Produce, and Stock Exchanges, which Colonel Harris desired Mr. Searles
+and his daughter Gertrude to see in the busy part of the day.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris explained that here in Battery Park terminated the
+Metropolitan Elevated Railway. A railway in the air with steam-engines
+and coaches crowded with people interested Mr. Searles greatly.</p>
+
+<p>"In London," he said, "we are hurried about under ground, in foul air,
+and darkness often."</p>
+
+<p>"Here at Battery Park, Mr. Searles, November 25, 1783, Sir Guy Carleton's
+British army embarked. Our New Yorkers still celebrate the date as
+Evacuation Day. Near by at an earlier date Hendrick Christianson, agent
+of a Dutch fur trading company, built four small houses and a redoubt,
+the foundation of America's metropolis. In 1626 Peter Minuit, first
+governor of the New Netherlands, bought for twenty-six dollars all
+Manhattan Island."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Searles visited the tall Washington Building which occupies the
+ground where formerly stood the headquarters of Lords Cornwallis and
+Howe. He told Gertrude that he had read that, in July, 1776, the people
+came in vast crowds to Battery Park to celebrate the Declaration of
+Independence, and that they knocked over the equestrian statue of George
+III., which was melted into bullets to be used against the British.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," replied Colonel Harris, "in early days, Americans doubtless lacked
+appreciation of art, but we always gave our cousins across-sea a warm
+reception."</p>
+
+<p>"Colonel Harris," said Mr. Searles, "it has always puzzled me to
+understand why you should have built near Boston the Bunker Hill
+Monument."</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Searles, because we Americans whipped the British."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh no, Colonel, that fight was a British victory."</p>
+
+<p>"Father," said Gertrude, "Mr. Searles is right; the British troops, under
+General Gage, drove the American forces off both Breed's Hill and Bunker
+Hill. The obelisk of Quincy granite was erected at Charlestown, I think,
+to commemorate the stout resistance which the raw provincial militia made
+against regular British soldiers, confirming the Americans in the belief
+that their liberty could be won."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Searles thanked Miss Harris for her timely aid and added that a
+patriot is a rebel who succeeds, and a rebel is a patriot who fails. He
+observed also the witty sign over the entrance of a dealer in American
+flags, "Colors warranted not to run."</p>
+
+<p>The party drove to the Produce Exchange, one of the most impressive
+buildings in New York. It is of rich Italian Renaissance architecture.
+Beneath the projecting galley-prows in the main hall, the fierce
+bargaining of excited members reminded Mr. Searles of a pitched battle
+without cavalry or artillery.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude was anxious to climb the richly decorated campanile that rises
+two hundred and twenty-five feet, which commands an unrivalled bird's-eye
+view of lower New York, the bay, Brooklyn, Long Island, and the mountains
+of New Jersey. All hoped to catch a glimpse of the "Majestic," but she
+was down the Narrows and out of sight.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Searles desired to see Trinity Church, so he was driven up Broadway
+to the head of Wall Street. Its spire is graceful and two hundred and
+eighty-four feet high. The land on which it stands was granted in 1697
+by the English government. There were also other magnificent endowments.
+Trinity Parish, or Corporation, is the richest single church organization
+in the United States, enjoying revenues of over five hundred thousand
+dollars a year. In Revolutionary times the royalist clergy persisted in
+reading prayers for the king of England till their voices were drowned
+by the drum and fife of patriots marching up the center aisle.</p>
+
+<p>It was now past two o'clock and the Harris party was driven to the Hotel
+Windsor for lunch. Promptly at six o'clock the conductor of the fast
+Western Express shouted, "All aboard," and Colonel Harris, Gertrude, and
+Mr. Searles in their own private car, left busy New York for Harrisville.</p>
+
+<p>The Express creeps slowly along the steel way, under cross-streets,
+through arched tunnels, and over the Harlem River till the Hudson is
+reached, and then this world-famed river is followed 142 miles to
+Albany, the capital of the Empire State. This tide-water ride on the
+American Rhine is unsurpassed. The Express is whirled through tunnels,
+over bridges, past the magnificent summer houses of the magnates of the
+metropolis that adorn the high bluffs, past wooded hill and winding dale,
+grand mountains, and sparkling rivulets. Every object teems with historic
+memories. This ride, in June, is surpassed only when the forests are in a
+blaze of autumnal splendor.</p>
+
+<p>For twenty miles in sight are the battlemented cliffs of the Palisades.
+Mr. Searles was familiar with the facile pen of Washington Irving, and
+from the car caught sight of "Sunny Side" covered with nourishing vines,
+grown from slips, which Irving secured from Sir Walter Scott at
+Abbottsford.</p>
+
+<p>Passing Tarrytown Colonel Harris said, "Here Major Andre was captured,
+and the treachery of Benedict Arnold exposed, otherwise, we might to-day
+have been paying tribute to the crown of Great Britain."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," replied Mr. Searles, "George Washington, patriot, hung Major
+Andre, the spy. You made Washington president, and we gave Andre a
+monument in Westminster Abbey."</p>
+
+<p>Sing Sing and Peekskill were left behind, and the Express was approaching
+the picturesque Highlands, a source of never failing delight to tourists.
+West Point, the site of the famous United States Military Academy, is on
+the left bank of the Hudson in the very bosom of the Highlands.</p>
+
+<p>The sun set in royal splendor behind the Catskills;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"And lo! the Catskills print the distant sky,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And o'er their airy tops the faint clouds driven<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So softly blending that the cheated eye<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Forgets or which is earth, or which is heaven."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>"Mr. Searles," said Colonel Harris, "before leaving America you must
+climb the Catskills. Thousands every summer, escaping from the heat and
+worry of life, visit those wind-swept 'hills of the sky.' There they find
+rest and happiness in great forests, shady nooks, lovely walks, and fine
+drives.</p>
+
+<p>"There are several hotels in the vicinity. From one hotel on an
+overhanging cliff you behold stretched out before you a hundred miles of
+the matchless panorama of the Hudson. The Highlands lie to the south, the
+Berkshire Hills and Green Mountains to the east, and the Adirondacks to
+the north. The latter is a paradise for disciples of Nimrod and of Izaak
+Walton, and a blessed sanitarium for Americans, most of whom under skies
+less gray than yours do their daily work with little if any reserve
+vitality."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude, who had excused herself some minutes before, now returned. She
+had been visiting in an adjoining Pullman a friend of hers, whom she had
+met for a moment in the Grand Central Station before the train started.
+Calling Colonel Harris aside, she said, "Father, Mrs. Nellie Eastlake, my
+classmate at Smith College, is going with friends to the Pacific Coast;
+shall I ask her to dine with us?"</p>
+
+<p>"Certainly, child, invite her, and I am sure, Mr. Searles, that you
+concur in my daughter's plan to increase our party at dinner, do you
+not?"</p>
+
+<p>"Most assuredly, Colonel."</p>
+
+<p>A little later charming Mrs. Eastlake followed Gertrude into the
+"Alfonso," and soon dinner was announced. The steward, thoughtlessly, had
+forgotten in New York to purchase flowers for the table, but they were
+not missed.</p>
+
+<p>There are women in this world whose presence is so enjoyable that they
+rival the charm of both art and flowers. Their voices, their grace of
+manner, their interest in you and your welfare, laden the air with an
+indescribable something that exhilarates. Their presence is like the
+sunshine that warms and perfumes a conservatory; you inhale the odors of
+roses, pinks, and climbing jessamines. Such a woman was Nellie Eastlake.
+She was tall and winning. The marble heart of the Venus of Milo would
+have warmed in her presence. Shakespeare would have said of her eyes,
+"They do mislead the morn."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Eastlake was in sympathy with the Harrises in their keen
+disappointments. She possessed the tact to put Mr. Searles in the
+happiest frame of mind, so that he half forgot his mission to America.
+The Colonel also forgot, for the hour, that his family were absent, and
+that his workmen in Harrisville were on a strike.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Eastlake in her girlhood had converted all who knew her into ardent
+friends. While at school on the Hudson, she met the rich father of a
+schoolmate. Later she was invited to travel with this friend and her
+father, Mr. Eastlake, a widower, among the Thousand Islands and down the
+St. Lawrence River. She so charmed the millionaire that after graduation
+at Smith College she accepted and married him. She was now journeying to
+her palatial home on the Pacific Coast. She skilfully helped to guide the
+table-talk, avoiding unwelcome topics. The dinner over, a half-hour was
+spent with music and magazines, and the party retired for the night.</p>
+
+<p>Breakfast was served as the Express approached Lake Erie. It was agreed
+that Mr. Searles should accompany Mrs. Eastlake and Gertrude in the car
+"Alfonso," and spend a day or two at Niagara Falls.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris kissed Gertrude, said good-bye to all, and taking a seat
+in a Pullman, continued alone on his journey to Harrisville. Returning
+home he hoped, if possible, to set matters right at the steel mills
+before Mr. Searles arrived.</p>
+
+<p>Left to himself, he now had opportunity for reflection. The time was,
+when he was as proud of his ability to do an honest day's work at the
+forge as he was to-day proud of his great wealth and growing power in the
+manufacturing world. Then he was poor, but he was conscious of forces
+hidden within which if used on the right things and at the right time and
+place he believed would make him a man of influence.</p>
+
+<p>He was able then with his own hands to fashion a bolt, a nail, or
+horseshoe, unsurpassed in the county. He was handy in shaping and
+tempering tools of every kind. When he ate his cold dinner, reheating his
+coffee over the forge coals, he often thought of the dormant fires within
+him, and he wondered if they would ever be fanned to a white heat. For
+years he had toiled hard to pay the rent of his forge and home and his
+monthly bills. His wife was saving and helpful in a thousand ways, but
+life was a hard struggle from sun to sun.</p>
+
+<p>One summer's day when work was slack, there came to his shop a tall
+Englishman to get a small job done. So well was the work performed by
+Harris that the Englishman, whose name was James Ingram, said to Harris,
+"I believe you are the mechanic I have long been looking for. In early
+life I was apprenticed in England to a famous iron-master, and when the
+Bessemer patents for converting iron into steel were issued, it was my
+good fortune to be a foreman where the first experiments were made by
+Henry Bessemer himself, and so I came to have a practical knowledge of
+Bessemer's valuable invention; but my health failed, and for six months
+I have been in your country in search of it, and now being well again,
+I plan to start if possible a Bessemer steel plant in America. Can you
+help me?"</p>
+
+<p>Reuben Harris was quick to see that great profits might be realized from
+Bessemer's patents and Ingram's ideas, and promptly said, "Yes, but I
+must first know more about these patents and their workings." Before a
+week had passed, he had learned much from Ingram concerning the practical
+working of the Bessemer process of converting iron into steel. Bessemer
+claimed that his steel rails would last much longer than the common iron
+rail then in use.</p>
+
+<p>Reuben Harris easily comprehended that the profits would be large. It was
+verbally agreed between Harris and Ingram that they would share equally
+any and all profits realized. Ingram had contributed reliable knowledge,
+Harris was to enlist capital, and both were to make use of all their
+talents, for they were both skilled mechanics.</p>
+
+<p>It was not an easy matter for Harris to secure capital, for capital is
+often lynx-eyed, and usually it is very conservative. It was especially
+cautious of investment in Harris's schemes, as the practical workings of
+the Bessemer process were not yet fully understood in America.</p>
+
+<p>The profits promised by both Harris and Ingram to capitalists were great,
+and this possibly made capital suspicious. Finally enough ready money was
+obtained to make a successful experiment, which so convinced a few rich
+men that more money was immediately advanced, and the steel plant was
+soon furnishing most satisfactory steel rails at greatly reduced cost for
+both the manufacturer and consumer.</p>
+
+<p>Harris's ability to manage kept pace with the rapid growth of the new
+enterprise, while Ingram's knowledge and inventive talents proved that as
+superintendent of the steel plant he was the right man in the right
+place.</p>
+
+<p>At first Harris found great difficulty in convincing railway managers
+that the steel rail would render enough more service to compensate for
+the additional cost. The most anybody could say in favor of the steel
+rail was largely theoretical. The Bessemer steel rail had had only a few
+months of actual service, long enough, however, to demonstrate that at
+the joints it would not batter and splinter like the iron rail. This was,
+indeed, a desideratum and many orders came in. Not only was the steel
+mill kept running day and night, but orders accumulated so rapidly that
+large additions were made to the mills.</p>
+
+<p>Money for all these improvements and the capital necessary to carry on
+the increasing business were matters of vital importance to the success
+of the company. To manage a business with greatest advantage quite as
+much ready cash is needed as is invested in the plant, otherwise the
+banker's discount becomes a heavy lien on the profits, and the
+stockholders grumble at small dividends.</p>
+
+<p>Possibly Reuben Harris overestimated the value of his service in
+financiering the business; at least he came to believe that he earned,
+and ought to have a larger interest than James Ingram. Ingram, became
+so cramped by assessments and money obligations that he was obliged to
+sell to Harris most of his interest in the steel plant. Harris's
+interests increased, till practically he was the owner of the Harrisville
+Iron &amp; Steel Works, and much property besides. He was quoted as a
+millionaire, while James Ingram was superintendent of only a department
+of the steel works, and his income was nominal. Often he felt that great
+injustice had been done him. Several times he had talked the matter over
+with Colonel Harris, but with little satisfaction.</p>
+
+<p>The great wrong done to James Ingram, to whom Harris was so largely
+indebted for the initial and practical knowledge of successfully
+manufacturing steel rails was uppermost in Reuben Harris's mind as
+the express hurried him back to Harrisville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2>
+
+<h3>CAPITAL AND LABOR IN CONFERENCE</h3>
+
+
+<p>Colonel Harris's awakened conscience was considering seriously the
+question, "How can I right this wrong done to Ingram?" when the Express
+stopped at a station thirty miles out of Harrisville, and into his car
+came the son of James Ingram, George Ingram who was now superintendent of
+the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co.'s plant. Somebody, perhaps Gertrude, had
+telegraphed from Buffalo to the superintendent to tell him on which train
+Colonel Harris expected to return.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram was visibly affected as he took the proffered hand of
+Reuben Harris, and inquired about his health and the whereabouts and
+welfare of his family. Harris implored young Ingram to tell him all about
+the strike, its latest phases, and what the municipal authorities were
+doing for the protection of his property. George Ingram gave him a brief
+history of the troubles up to the time of his leaving Harrisville. He
+told how the manager aided by the company's general counsel, Mr. Webster,
+had used every possible argument with the workingmen's committee; that a
+statement even had been submitted, showing that very small or practically
+no profits had resulted from recent contracts, which were now being
+completed by the company. The effort to arrive at a satisfactory
+adjustment with the employees was thus far absolutely fruitless. Since
+daylight the four thousand men had been parading the streets with music
+and clubs, forcing employees of other establishments to quit work, and
+threatening to destroy the steel plant.</p>
+
+<p>The color in Colonel Harris's face came and went as he listened, showing
+a white heat of indignation. Ingram sat facing his employer, watching the
+emotions of a strong man, and not then daring to offer any suggestion,
+for he felt strongly in behalf of the employees, who always looked upon
+him as their friend.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris was a man of powerful build, wide forehead, overhanging
+brows, broad chest and shoulders, short thick neck, and strong arms
+developed at the anvil. His superintendent from boyhood had studied him,
+but never before had he seen the lion in his employer so aroused.</p>
+
+<p>Arriving at Harrisville the wealthy iron-master, accompanied by his
+superintendent, stepped into his own private carriage, and immediately
+drove to the general offices of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. The
+directors of the company were in special session to devise means of
+protecting their threatened property and of crushing the strike.</p>
+
+<p>B.C. Wilson, the manager, rose to greet Colonel Harris, who shook hands
+with him and the directors, and then the meeting was resumed, Harris
+acting as chairman of the board. Colonel Harris soon grasped the
+situation, and he approved of all that his directors and manager had
+done.</p>
+
+<p>Rising to his feet, in a firm tone, he made a vigorous talk to his board:
+"Gentlemen, my views as to the best method of dealing with the important
+question before us are known to some of you. Four years ago a similar
+trouble perplexed our company, and our failure then to act decisively
+resulted in prolonging the discontent among our employees. Their purposes
+are as apparent to-day as then, viz., to rule or ruin our gigantic
+enterprise. Capital and labor should be the best of friends.
+Unfortunately, trusts and labor organizations are alike avaricious and
+selfish.</p>
+
+<p>"Centuries ago, in Belgium, weavers dictated terms to capital, and hurled
+rich men from balconies to death upon spears below. This unnatural
+revolution lasted for a short time only; brains and wealth again acquired
+control, and they always will control. To yield to our employees the
+privilege of fixing their own wages, and a voice in directing the affairs
+of our company is to cloud or mortgage our capital. This is a most
+unreasonable demand. Why should they expect us to share with them our
+property, title to which the United States has guaranteed?</p>
+
+<p>"If our state, or national government cannot or will not defend us in the
+title to our property, on which they yearly levy taxes, then we will
+place our interests beneath a flag that can and will give ample
+protection. This terrible uncertainty as to titles and values in the
+United States will yet wreck the republic."</p>
+
+<p>It was natural that the directors should heartily approve Colonel
+Harris's utterances, as he was the owner of five-sixths of the stock of
+the company. He then asked Mr. Webster their general counsel, to read
+to the board the position which the company proposed to take before the
+public.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Webster was a tall, elderly man, who had served five years on the
+supreme bench of his state, an attorney of few words, but well versed in
+the laws of his country, especially in corporation laws. Holding a sheet
+of paper in his hands he read, "The Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Company
+claims the fundamental right to manage its own business in its own way,
+in accordance with and under the protection of the laws of the land."</p>
+
+<p>The board voted its approval of the attorney's position, and also voted
+that a petition be drawn and immediately sent to the mayor of the city
+asking protection for their property. The board then adjourned.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris, his manager, and Mr. Webster entered a carriage, and
+drove rapidly to the mayor's office, while superintendent George Ingram
+drove back to the steel works to execute his orders, though he did not
+believe in harsh measures. Harris presented the petition to the mayor,
+who hastily examined it. Bands of music were now audible on the street,
+and a long procession of workingmen, bearing national banners, was seen
+marching towards the city hall. Citizens on the streets held their
+breath, and policemen feared the outcome.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris rose to go, but the Mayor seized his arm and said,
+"No! you and your friends must stay here and meet a committee of your
+employees who have an appointment with me at three o'clock.</p>
+
+<p>"Already I have said to the same committee, who called at ten o'clock
+this morning, that I should expect them to influence your employees to
+keep the peace, to aid in protecting your property, to disperse quietly
+and remain in their homes. Colonel Harris, please be seated, you and your
+friends must remain."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, Mr. Mayor, since you insist, we will remain, but our company
+demands the protection of all our property, and the preservation of peace
+and lives in our midst. You are the city's executive officer. The payment
+annually by our corporation of thousands in taxes, calls for an
+equivalent, therefore we ask that you maintain the dignity of the city
+and her laws."</p>
+
+<p>The mayor stepped to the telephone and called Major Strong, the chief of
+police. "Send at once a captain and twenty-five policemen in patrol
+wagons to the city hall. Hold fifty more men in readiness."</p>
+
+<p>A great throng of people occupied the sidewalks and the windows of
+adjoining buildings. Thousands of workmen crowded the pavement from curb
+to curb. The vast crowd below, though impressive was not new to Colonel
+Harris nor did it alarm him.</p>
+
+<p>Four years before, his employees were out on a strike for several months.
+Then the issue was, "Will the company recognize the demands of the
+Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of America?" The reply
+of the company was, "No!" The struggle then was severe, but the strike
+failed. The present issue was, "Will the company pay an increase of
+wages?"</p>
+
+<p>The committee of five of the employees soon entered the mayor's office.
+They were much surprised to find that Colonel Harris had returned to the
+city; it was believed that he had actually set sail for Europe. The
+committee unfortunately was a radical one, and did not represent the
+average thoughtful and conservative type of workingmen. Evidently the
+committee had been selected for the purpose of intimidating capital, as
+their manner did not indicate a conciliatory policy.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Burns, acting as spokesman, said, "Mr. Mayor, it is 3 o'clock, and we
+are back again promptly, as you requested, and you see that our committee
+is increased by several thousand workingmen on the street below who have
+come to demand bread of a soulless corporation. Mayor Duty, what do you
+advise us to do?"</p>
+
+<p>The Mayor was nervous as he replied, "Mr. Burns and members of the
+committee, I confess that so many thousands of honest and upturned faces
+of workingmen move my heart. If I were able it would give me pleasure
+first to ask you all to partake of a good meal, for more satisfactory
+business is usually accomplished after people are well fed. You ask my
+advice. Here, gentlemen of the committee, is Colonel Harris, your
+employer, let him speak to you."</p>
+
+<p>Memories of a wife and three babies at home, dependent for bread upon his
+own earnings at the forge, flashing upon the mind of Colonel Harris,
+sweetened his spirit and softened his voice, so that he spoke briefly and
+kindly to the committee, repeating, however, what his manager had told
+the committee at ten o'clock, viz., "that the present bad condition of
+the steel market would not permit the company to grant the advance of
+wages they asked."</p>
+
+<p>The committee, aware of the large profits of former years, sullenly
+retired, and after the company's decision had been communicated to the
+anxious thousands below, the employees of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel
+Co. slowly returned to their homes. The mayor ordered his chief of
+police to dispatch immediately in patrol wagons fifty men to the steel
+works, to guard the property and keep the peace.</p>
+
+<p>After the committee retired, the mayor said, "Well, Colonel Harris, what
+will be the outcome?"</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Mayor, we cannot foretell anything. You never know what workingmen
+in their lodges will do. There, as a rule, the 'Walking delegate' and a
+few agitators rule with despotic power. If a workman, whose large family
+forces him to take conservative views, dares in his lodge to suggest
+peaceful measures, an agitator rises at once in indignation and demands
+that traitors to the cause of labor be expelled. This throttles freedom
+of action in many labor unions, so that often what appears on the surface
+to be the unanimous action of the members of workingmen's leagues, is but
+the exercise of despotic power by a few men who have nothing to lose, and
+whose salary is paid from the slim purses of honest labor.</p>
+
+<p>"Usually those who talk much and loudly think little and unwisely, and
+the opposite to their advice is safest to follow. The greatest need
+to-day in most of our labor organizations is wise leadership, and this
+will result when the best element in the labor lodges asserts itself.</p>
+
+<p>"The despotism of ill-advised labor is to be dreaded by civilization more
+than the reign of intelligent capital. This is especially true in the
+United States, where under wise laws, wealth cannot be entailed, and
+where most large fortunes soon disappear among the heirs.</p>
+
+<p>"A simple pair of shears illustrates perfectly the relationship that
+capital and labor should sustain each to the other. Capital is one blade
+of the shears, and labor is the other blade; either blade without the
+other is useless, and the two blades are useless unless the rivet is in
+place. Confidence is to capital and labor what the rivet is to the two
+blades. The desideratum to-day in the business world is full and abiding
+confidence between capital and labor." Thus speaking Colonel Harris and
+his friends left the mayor and returned to their homes.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>After a visit to Niagara Falls, Mr. Searles and his party went on to
+Harrisville, where Mrs. Eastlake rejoined some friends and continued her
+long journey to the Pacific Coast. Colonel Harris met his daughter and
+Mr. Hugh Searles at the station, the latter, under the circumstances,
+being the last person he cared to see. The carriage was driven at once to
+Reuben Harris's beautiful home that overlooked Harrisville and blue Lake
+Erie.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner Colonel Harris explained to Mr. Searles all about the
+inopportune strike; also that it was impossible to say when the steel
+plant would be started again. Mr. Searles decided next morning that after
+a short ride through Harrisville he would continue his journey through
+the States to California, and possibly to Australia, where he had another
+important interest to attend to in behalf of a London client.</p>
+
+<p>It was further arranged that he would return to London via Harrisville in
+about six months, if so desired by Colonel Harris, otherwise he would
+complete the journey around the world, returning to England by way of the
+Suez Canal.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X</h2>
+
+<h3>KNOWLEDGE IS POWER</h3>
+
+
+<p>The Ingrams lived not far from the steel mills in one of two wooden
+houses, each two stories in height, which Reuben Harris and James Ingram
+had built for their families, when they began in a modest way to
+manufacture steel. As Reuben Harris grew rich he moved his family into
+a beautiful home in the fashionable part of the city, and good society
+accepted them as their equals.</p>
+
+<p>The large family and small income of James Ingram forced him to continue
+his residence in the same brown house near the steel mills. The Ingram
+family kept much to their English ways and knew little or nothing of
+society. The English and Germans cling tenaciously to their old habits
+and customs which they carry across seas and over mountains. Generations
+must elapse before it will be safe to predict what the national type of
+an American citizen will be. One discovers on the British Isles the
+mixture of centuries of European blood which has developed a virility of
+body and brain that dominates the globe. "More honor to be a British
+subject to-day than to have been a Roman in Rome's palmiest days," thought
+James Ingram, who was proud of his race and his family blood.</p>
+
+<p>James Ingram came from a well-bred English household. His environment now
+hedged him in. In England ill-health, and now, in America, ill-treatment
+made him miss golden opportunities. Except good qualities are inbred, it
+is almost as impossible for a person in one stratum of society to be
+lifted up into another as it is for the geological strata of the earth to
+change positions.</p>
+
+<p>The grandmother of James Ingram had good blood in her veins; she came
+from a family that had performed valiant deeds in war and in peace. James
+Ingram's father had erred in judgment, and a large estate, partially
+inherited, had been swept away as by a flood. He died, leaving James the
+eldest son to aid in supporting his mother and several children.</p>
+
+<p>James Ingram was now over fifty years of age. Could he, or his children,
+retrieve their family prestige was a question he often asked himself. He
+still had energy, unconquerable determination, and faith in himself.
+These are some of the essential elements in a successful character; but
+the fates thus far had decreed adversely. His early education was not of
+the best, but by carefully devoting not less than two hours a day to good
+reading, he had not only kept pace with current history, but had also
+acquired a helpful knowledge of the sciences.</p>
+
+<p>When his oldest son George was born, he planned to give his children the
+best education possible. Two of his three daughters were teaching in the
+public schools; May Ingram taught music. Two of his sons worked in the
+mills, one as chemist and one as an electrician; a third son was
+conductor on a passenger train, and a fourth was studying to be a
+physician.</p>
+
+<p>The father and his son, George, after the day's work at the mills
+was over, spent much time over a problem which, if solved, would
+revolutionize many things. Twice they thought they were on the eve of a
+solution of the subject, but unforeseen obstacles were encountered, and
+still they struggled on.</p>
+
+<p>It is no wonder that the father was proud of George, now chemist of the
+vast steel works, for he was manly and respected by all the employees.
+When a boy, George worked nights, Saturdays, and during his vacations in
+the mills, and the men came to know and love his genial ways and fair
+methods, and thus he gained a good knowledge of steel-making.</p>
+
+<p>His father was urgent that his son should not miss a single day in his
+schooling. At length he graduated at the high school with the esteem of
+his teachers and his class. During the twelve years spent in public
+schools he had acquired a fine discipline of mind, a love of the
+sciences, and enough of Latin and Greek to aid him in determining the
+derivation and exact meaning of words. Co-education too had refined his
+nature, and enabled him to estimate correctly his own abilities, but best
+of all he had come to know at the high school the second daughter of
+Reuben Harris, Gertrude, who graduated in his own class. During the
+senior year he had frequently walked and talked with her, and came to
+know somewhat of her plans.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude's parents, especially Mrs. Harris, were anxious that both their
+daughters should go to private schools, and Lucille was easily persuaded
+to attend a young ladies' seminary, where &aelig;sthetic accomplishments were
+emphasized and considered essentials and a passport into good society.
+But Gertrude decided in favor of a public school education.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille and Gertrude as sisters were fond of each other, but Lucille
+lived more for self, while Gertrude preferred others to self. Gertrude
+had learned early how by a smile or bow to retain an old friend or to
+win a new one. She spent very little time thinking about her own needs,
+preferring to take flowers or fruit, even when given her, to some sick or
+aged person. Nothing pleased her more than to visit the Old Ladies' Home
+with a few gifts and read the Bible or comforting stories to the inmates.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris when east chanced to spend a June day at Wellesley College
+near Boston. By early moonlight several hundred Wellesley girls and
+thousands of spectators had assembled on the banks of Lake Waban to enjoy
+the "Float." Gaily uniformed crews in their college flotilla formed
+a star-shaped group near the shore for their annual concert. Chinese
+lanterns, like giant fire-flies, swung in the trees and on many graceful
+boats. The silver notes of the bugle and the chant of youthful voices
+changed the college-world into a fairyland.</p>
+
+<p>Both mother and daughter were charmed and Lucille gladly decided to enter
+Wellesley. Hard study, however, and the daily forty-five minutes of
+domestic work then required, did not agree with her nature, and after a
+few weeks she decided upon a change, and continued her education at one
+of the private schools on the Back-Bay in Boston.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude, possessing a more active mind and ambition, resolved to obtain
+an education as good as her brother Alfonso had had at Harvard. She had
+read of a prominent benefactor who believed that woman had the same right
+as man to intellectual culture and development, and who in 1861 had
+founded on the Hudson, midway between Albany and New York, an institution
+which he hoped would accomplish for women what colleges were doing for
+men.</p>
+
+<p>So Gertrude applied for enrollment and was admitted to Vassar College.
+Rooms were assigned her in Strong Hall. She liked Vassar's sensible way
+of hazing, a cordial reception being given to freshmen by the sophomores.
+She was glad to be under both men and women professors, for this in part
+fulfilled her idea of the education that women should receive.</p>
+
+<p>At Vassar were several girls from Harrisville whom Gertrude knew, but no
+boys. She wrote her mother that she would be better pleased if Vassar had
+less Greek and more boys. She could not understand why co-education at
+the high school in Harrisville, that worked perfectly, should stop at the
+threshold of Vassar, or other women's and men's colleges.</p>
+
+<p>The two following years on the beautiful Hudson were happy years for
+Gertrude. She conquered mathematics, stood well in Latin, and was
+enthusiastic in the study of psychology, the science of mind, which
+teaches the intimate relation of mental phenomena to the physical
+organism. German was an elective study with Gertrude, which she had
+studied at the high school, but at Vassar she learned to write and talk
+the language with accuracy and freedom, which is not usual, unless one
+lives in a German family.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude was already planning to study history and some of the sciences
+in original German text-books, if occasion offered. She cared little
+for music, though she was extremely fond of poetry and now and then
+contributed verses for publication. Her essay on architecture at the
+close of the second year elicited applause from the students and praise
+in red ink across the first page of the composition.</p>
+
+<p>Self-government of the Vassar girls develops self-respect and
+self-control. A Vassar girl is bound on her honor to retire every night
+at ten o'clock, with three exceptions a month, to exercise in the
+gymnasium three hours a week, and to take at least one hour of outdoor
+exercise daily. Regular exercise, regular meals, nine hours of sleep, and
+plenty of mental work were rapidly preparing Gertrude to fill some noble
+position in the world.</p>
+
+<p>At Vassar other sources of mental rest and physical strength are,
+tennis-court tournaments, basket ball, rowing and skating on the lake,
+bicycling, or five-mile tramps, studying birds, photographing scenery, or
+gathering wild flowers. The Vassar girl is also enthusiastic over the
+"Tree and Trig Ceremonies" and amateur dramatic entertainments.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude closed her second and last year at Vassar with regret. The
+farewell "fudge" party was for Gertrude, and given in her own room by a
+score of her warm personal friends. The rule for "fudge-making" is, two
+cups of sugar, milk, two rolls of butter melted with chocolate in a
+copper kettle over a gas stove. The fused compound is poured into paper
+plates and cut into tiny squares. So eager is the Vassar girl for "fudge"
+that the struggle is earnest for the first taste, and for the cleaning of
+the big spoon and kettle. The Vassar girl has a sweet tooth, and "fudge"
+parties always evolve love stories and fun in abundance.</p>
+
+<p>After a pleasant vacation in the Adirondacks with friends, Gertrude
+resolved to complete her education at Smith College on the lovely
+Connecticut River, which winds through western Massachusetts. To educate
+a whole family of boys and girls at the "dear old alma mater" is now an
+exploded fancy. A better plan is to educate the half dozen brothers and
+sisters at a half dozen good colleges. What faculty of educators can lay
+claim to all the best methods of evolving characters?</p>
+
+<p>The industry and economy of James Ingram had enabled him to send his son
+George for two years to the Polytechnic Institute at Troy. Suddenly
+financial troubles made it impossible for him longer to assist his son.
+Mrs. Harris, very likely by Gertrude's suggestion, offered to provide
+funds for the third and last year at the institute, and George was
+delighted to complete his course.</p>
+
+<p>By invitation, George had spent the last days of his vacation with
+Gertrude in the Adirondacks, and he had accompanied Mrs. Harris and her
+daughters back to Albany, while the mother continued the journey leaving
+Gertrude at Smith College, Northampton, and Lucille at Boston. Mrs.
+Harris was justly proud of her girls. Their figure and dress often caused
+people to stop in their conversation or reading, as mother and daughters
+entered a car or a hotel.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram returned to the institute with high hopes. A few of his
+plans were revealed to Gertrude on the last night of his vacation. He
+told her some things he never dared mention before to any one. They were
+on Saranac Lake and the moon seemed to change the water to silver. Their
+birch canoe drifted along the shore and George, dropping his oars,
+reversed his seat and faced the girl he loved as he told her much of his
+plan for life. Gertrude dipped her oars lightly in the water, George
+guiding the canoe beneath the forest overhanging the pebbly shore.</p>
+
+<p>Thus far his education had been a struggle. Time which his mates employed
+in recreation he had used in the steel mill. Thus he gained a trade and a
+knowledge of the value of time. Early he had learned that knowledge is
+power and that intellect and wealth rule the world. He told Gertrude that
+she had kindled within him the spark of ambition, and that he proposed to
+make life a success. "Gertrude, you must be my friend in this struggle,"
+he added.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, George, always your friend," she replied.</p>
+
+<p>He felt that Gertrude meant all she said. Long ago her sincerity had
+captured his heart. Her sympathy, her unselfishness, and her words of
+helpfulness had been the light by which he was shaping his course.</p>
+
+<p>Another school year went by swiftly, and both Lucille and Gertrude were
+present in June at Troy to see George Ingram graduate. It was a pity that
+his own father and mother, who had sacrificed so much for him, could not
+attend. How often his noble mother had prayed for her first-born son, and
+Gertrude had prayed too, but George did not know this.</p>
+
+<p>At times he was conscious of a strong force within, impelling him
+forward, whose source he could not divine, neither could he free himself
+from it. Fortunate person whose sails are filled with breezes from
+heaven, for craft of this kind go forward guided rightly, almost without
+the rudder's aid!</p>
+
+<p>George pursued at the institute a three years' course, leading up to the
+degree of Bachelor of Science. After the first two years he took less
+higher mathematics and more natural history, chemistry, and geology. The
+institute is within easy access of engineering works and manufacturing
+plants of great diversity, which afforded young Ingram opportunities for
+valuable investigation and observation. His graduating thesis was
+entitled, "A Design for an Electrical Steel Plant with Working Details,
+Capacity One Thousand Tons per Diem." It was much complimented,
+especially the detail drawings for the plant.</p>
+
+<p>His books and clothes had been packed and shipped to Harrisville.
+Reluctant good-byes were given to all the professors, class-mates, and
+many townspeople, who were fond of him. Life in Troy had been a constant
+inspiration, for he was in touch with young men from cultivated families
+which in itself is an education. George had the usual experience of the
+student world, for to him all the professors were very learned men.</p>
+
+<p>After George had locked the door of his old study-room to go to the
+train, he stopped in the hallway in serious thought, then turning back
+he unlocked the door and again entered the dear old rooms. He reseated
+himself at the desk, where he had so often studied far into the night.
+He took another look into the bedroom, into the little store-room, and
+pleasant memories crowded his mind, as for the last time he gazed from
+the window towards the Berkshire Hills, beyond which Gertrude was
+being educated, and then as he finally re-locked the door, he recalled
+his afternoon engagement to meet Gertrude and Lucille at 4:30 o'clock at
+the Albany station to take the Boston &amp; Chicago Special for Harrisville.</p>
+
+<p>George had entered the institute with a light heart and much zest,
+because three years of progressive work were marked out for him. His
+mental journey had now ended and his heart was heavy. No road opened
+before him except the one that led back to the dingy old Harrisville
+mills. In the last three years his sky had lifted a little, but the
+intelligence gained only made him all the more conscious of the small
+world in which he and his family lived. How was he ever to earn a living
+for two, if Gertrude should possibly say "yes?"</p>
+
+<p>Just as he put his foot on the platform of the railway station a letter
+was placed in his hand by a fellow classmate. The envelope bore the
+printed address of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. George, thinking the
+letter was from his father, instantly tore it open and began reading. At
+first his face flushed and then it was lit with joy.</p>
+
+<p>"Good tidings, I hope," said Gertrude, as she with her sister approached.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Gertrude, read for yourself. A friend at court is a friend indeed."</p>
+
+<p>The two sisters were delighted and heartily congratulated George. "Of
+course, you will accept the position?" inquired Gertrude.</p>
+
+<p>"Your father, Gertrude, is very kind to me, and I believe I could fill
+satisfactorily the position of chemist now offered by the steel company.
+Later, Gertrude, we can talk this matter over." Three happy young people
+bought tickets for home and took seats in a Pullman car.</p>
+
+<p>After a week's rest, George Ingram assumed the duties of assistant
+chemist for the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. Two weeks' initiation by the
+old chemist, whose health was failing, sufficed to give young Ingram
+efficiency and confidence in his desirable position.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XI" id="CHAPTER_XI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2>
+
+<h3>IN TOUCH WITH NATURE</h3>
+
+
+<p>The school vacation of the Harris young ladies came and went on wings.
+The mother was too ill to leave her home; she stood in her door-way, and
+gave her farewell, "God keep and bless you, children!" The father had
+gone to Chicago, so George Ingram saw the daughters off touching
+Gertrude's hand, with a hearty good-bye as she stood in the car door.</p>
+
+<p>As George returned slowly to his task at the steel mills, he resolved to
+use his evenings in post-graduate work. The more he studied iron ores and
+steel-making, the more he felt that he must conquer the whole intricate
+subject, if he would be of greatest service to his employers. The intense
+competition in the trade demanded it.</p>
+
+<p>The Empire State Express, the fastest train in the world, carried
+Gertrude and Lucille through New York state with speed and ease to
+delightful New England. Secretly Gertrude loved George, and she
+resolved to study chemistry and electricity and keep pace with his
+studies, and if ever asked to become his wife, to aid him in every
+possible way. She thought that she discovered in him the material for
+a noble man, a statue which she hoped to chisel. Too often marriageable
+young women and their anxious mothers demand the complete statue at the
+outset, and are not content to accept and chisel granite.</p>
+
+<p>At Smith College the months sped rapidly, as earnest study and bright
+expectations occupied Gertrude's time and satisfied her heart. Every week
+brought a letter and a reply was promptly sent. George wanted to write
+twice a week, but Gertrude checked him, saying that both needed their
+time, and that too frequent correspondence, like too much intimacy, often
+brings disfavor.</p>
+
+<p>"More details of the doings at the steel mills," wrote Gertrude. She
+cared more about the welfare of her father's employees and their families
+and George Ingram's plans than to know the latest fad in society. George
+was equally anxious to keep her informed, and to learn of her
+intellectual advancement, what books she read, and her views on the
+leading topics of the day.</p>
+
+<p>Her first letter began, "My Coatless Friend," a reference to the loss of
+a linen coat or duster, when the last ride at Harrisville was taken. The
+second letter began "Friend George," and the third, "My dear Friend."
+Gertrude and George never addressed each other twice alike in their
+whole correspondence. The weekly letters were always torn open by each in
+haste, and both noticed a gradual increase of warmth in these addresses.
+The fact that Gertrude was an heiress neither hindered nor helped his
+devotion. His heart was attracted by her many charms.</p>
+
+<p>At Smith College Gertrude occupied rooms in the Morris Cottage among the
+apple tree blossoms. Much of her spare time was spent in the scientific
+library and laboratory of Lilly Hall, or with the professor and his
+telescope in the observatory.</p>
+
+<p>On clear nights, aided by the telescope, Gertrude gazed into the
+immensity of space, whispering sometimes to her own soul, "How grand this
+vast world-making, this frightful velocity of the giant dynamos in their
+elliptical pathways through space!"</p>
+
+<p>Often unable to sleep, she continued her thoughts and wondered if space
+were not interlaced with electrical currents that move the earth, the
+sister planets, and the myriads of suns and their planets. She thought
+she saw, as never before, the necessity for an eternal existence of the
+mind, if God is to be studied and known in his infinite variety.</p>
+
+<p>Four years in college had developed Gertrude into a beautiful character.
+Regular work in the gymnasium, much outdoor exercise, and care as to
+ventilation in her rooms, especially at night, had kept her in perfect
+physical health. Her intimates shared her glow of vitality, for her
+presence at "Lawn, or Character Teas," at tennis-courts, or at
+basket-ball always brought sunshine and enthusiasm.</p>
+
+<p>The Saturday before commencement, her mother and Lucille came to enjoy
+the charming festivities of Smith College. A representation of Racine's
+"Athalie," with Mendelssohn's music, was the evening attraction at the
+Academy of Music, which the class had rented for the occasion.</p>
+
+<p>Groups of ushers, with white satin wands, conducted students in tasteful
+dresses, and invited guests to their seats. When the curtain rose it was
+difficult to decide which one most admired, the stage with its artistic
+setting, its young faces, sweet voices, and graceful movements, or the
+sympathetic audience of students and their friends. The stage and press
+of the future guided in part by college-bred men and women will preach,
+it is hoped, purity, truth, and the beautiful.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris and Lucille were very happy that Gertrude was to graduate,
+and Lucille who had just finished her education in Boston, half regretted
+that she too had not entered a woman's college. Gertrude never looked
+more beautiful than she did in the white-robed procession, as, on
+Baccalaureate Sunday, the several classes passed down the aisles of the
+church.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram had hurried to Northampton to see Gertrude graduate. She
+met him at the station, and took his hand warmly in both of hers. George
+had brought from New York a box of white roses for her room, and a big
+bunch of the star-flower, the pretty English blue forget-me-not. He also
+had in his valise a tiny case of which he made no mention to anybody.</p>
+
+<p>Hundreds of young women in white walked across the campus and were massed
+on the college steps for their Ivy Exercise. Never before was George so
+proud of Gertrude. She and Nellie Nelson, afterwards Mrs. Eastlake, had
+been chosen by the class for their beauty and sweet ways to head the
+procession of the white-gowned graduates. The evening of Class-day is a
+fitting close of the gay festivities at Smith College.</p>
+
+<p>At the evening reception, George was introduced to many of Gertrude's
+class-mates, and some of her intimate friends whispered, "Mr. Ingram and
+Gertrude must be engaged! What a handsome pair they will make." George
+offered his arm to Gertrude, and they walked about the campus under the
+classical trees that glowed with hundreds of colored paper lanterns;
+everywhere a throng of pretty happy girls with their relatives and
+friends. Music by the glee clubs on the college steps, and refreshments,
+closed pleasantly Gertrude's last night of college life on the beautiful
+Connecticut.</p>
+
+<p>She went to bed tired, but very happy. That evening her mother and sister
+had left for New York, and in the morning she and George were to spend
+the day at Mt. Holyoke. Twice in the night, Gertrude awoke, looked at her
+watch, and longed for daylight, and then went back to dream of flowers
+and music.</p>
+
+<p>While she slept, warm southern breezes spread a coverlet of silver gray
+mist over the homes of energy and thrift up and down the Connecticut
+Valley. In the morning when Gertrude opened the blinds, and saw the fog
+against the window panes and over the valley, she exclaimed, "It is too
+bad, I so wanted George to drive to Mt. Holyoke to-day, and see nature at
+her best! I hoped this would be the happiest day of my life."</p>
+
+<p>It was a quarter to 8 o'clock when a pair of spirited black roadsters,
+hitched to a buckboard, were driven in front of the hotel for George
+Ingram. As he appeared on the porch he looked every inch a gentleman.
+He was twenty-five years old, had received a practical education, and was
+filling acceptably the important position of assistant chemist of the
+Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co., to which, six months before, he had been
+promoted. He had fine physique, dark hair and eyes, and a military
+bearing that made him the natural commander of men. His firmness,
+tempered with great kindness of heart, always won for him the respect
+of both men and women.</p>
+
+<p>He handled the team with skill for he was a member of the driving club at
+home. At a college window sat Gertrude who was eagerly watching for him,
+and now she ran down the gravel walk with a sunny face, greeting her
+manly lover with such sweet voice and grace, that a college girl in
+passing whispered to her companion. "Look, Bessie, there are true and
+handsome lovers such as we read about in novels, but seldom meet."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude insisted, since the fog was lifting, that George should hitch
+his horses and for five minutes go with her up on the college tower. As
+they looked out, Gertrude said, "Here, George, on the west are our half
+dozen cozy college houses; on the smooth green lawn below you see our
+tennis-courts, and an abundance of shade.</p>
+
+<p>"Now, George, turn to the east and see how kindly the sun has removed the
+mist and made for us a glorious day. How bright the colors in our flag
+that floats over the high school yonder! There stands the Soldiers'
+Memorial Hall, the Edwards Church with graceful spire, and across the
+green meadows, with its winding stream of silver, rise the ranges of Mt.
+Tom and Mt. Holyoke, outlined in curves against the blue sky."</p>
+
+<p>"Beautiful!" responded George, "and yet, Gertrude, nothing in nature is
+half so lovely as your own dear self." Without warning he kissed her rosy
+cheek, her whole face changing to crimson as she said, "George, we must
+be going."</p>
+
+<p>Two happy young souls drove away from Smith College out under the Gothic
+elms, where the birds were mating and building their nests. The plan for
+the day was to drive to the mountain, and follow the mother and sister on
+the evening express to New York. The hotel clerk had pointed out the best
+road to Mt. Holyoke, and following his directions they drove southeast,
+leaving behind them shady Northampton, Smith College, and delightful
+memories of Jonathan Edwards, George Bancroft, and others.</p>
+
+<p>A single white parasol was quite enough to protect two lovers from the
+sun's rays. Circular shadows, photographs of the sun, frolicked with each
+other in the roadway as gentle breezes swayed the overhanging boughs.</p>
+
+<p>Milk wagons with noisy cans were returning home, herds of black and white
+Holstein-Friesian cattle, famous for their yield of milk, were cropping
+sweet grasses in the pastures. Farmers were guiding their cultivators and
+mowing machines, while wives and daughters were shelling June peas,
+hulling strawberries, and preparing for dinner. The large white houses,
+with roomy barns in the shade of big elms, were the happy homes of
+freemen. Gertrude wanted the horses to walk more, but George was
+unwilling to take the dust of wagons returning from the market, so
+he kept the horses moving at a brisk pace.</p>
+
+<p>At length the Hockanum Ferry with its odd device was reached. George got
+out and led the horses into the middle of the small river craft. Then the
+boat was pushed off and a strong man and boy pulled at the wire rope. The
+ferryman's shanty, the willows, and tangled driftwood on the shore, fast
+receded, and soon the middle of the Connecticut River was reached, where
+the current is swiftest. In sight were several canoes with light sails,
+scudding before the wind. It seemed as if the tiny rope of the ferry
+would break, but the rope is of steel wire and the boat moved slowly till
+the opposite bank was reached. Gertrude held the lines, the sun shining
+full in her face, and talked to the boatman, to George, and the horses,
+but George said little as he was busy quieting the excited animals and
+studying the primitive rope-ferry.</p>
+
+<p>To the regular ferrage, Gertrude added a dime for Tim, the helper, who
+watered the horses. As George was about to start his team, a twelve-year
+old farm boy ran aboard the boat with a string of fine speckled trout
+strung on a willow twig. All the spring the boy's anticipations for
+"a day off" had now been fully realized. Since daylight the little fellow
+had tramped up and down the brook, his feet were bruised and sore, and
+his face and hands were bitten by mosquitos. But what of that? He had
+caught a string of fine fish and was happy. Gertrude, for a silver
+dollar, bought the trout, and the boy danced with joy.</p>
+
+<p>It was half past eleven before the Half-way Station up the mountain was
+reached, and the steep ascent to Prospect House on the top of Mt. Holyoke
+was made by the car on the inclined railway. The morning ride and the
+thought of a dinner of brook trout on the mountain had sharpened the
+appetites of the lovers. George and Gertrude needed but a single
+announcement of dinner from the clerk to make them hasten for seats at so
+inviting a meal. They sat near an open window, and never did they enjoy a
+dinner more. College work was now over, and on the threshold of life,
+apart from the busy world in sight below, two souls could plan and
+confide in each other. As the two walked the broad porch, a panorama
+unfolded before them of almost unsurpassed beauty.</p>
+
+<p>Charles Sumner who, in 1847, stood on Mt. Holyoke, said, "I have never
+seen anything so unsurpassingly lovely as this." He had traveled through
+the Highlands of Scotland, up and down the Rhine, had ascended Mont
+Blanc, and stood on the Campagna in Rome. Gertrude with her college mates
+had often climbed Mt. Holyoke, and she was very familiar with this
+masterpiece of nature in western Massachusetts. So she described the
+grand landscape to her lover who sat enchanted with the scene before him.</p>
+
+<p>"This alluvial basin," she said, "is twenty miles in length and fifteen
+in width, and is enclosed by the Mt. Holyoke and Mt. Tom ranges, and the
+abrupt cones of Toby and Sugar Loaf, while the Green Mountains lie to the
+north, whence the rich soils have been brought by thousands of vernal
+floods. Grove-like masses of elms mark well the townships of Northampton,
+Easthampton, Southampton and Westhampton, Hatfield, Williamsburg and
+Whately, Hadley, Amherst, Leverett and Sunderland.</p>
+
+<p>"In twelve miles, the Connecticut River turns four times to the east and
+three times to the west, forming the famous 'Ox-Bow.'</p>
+
+<p>"This beautiful river receives its life from springs in adjacent forests
+and mountains, and, forcing a passage between Mt. Holyoke and Mt.
+Nonotuck, flows far south into Long Island Sound. Its banks are fringed
+with a tanglewood of willows, shrubs, trees, and clambering vines.
+Bordering on the Connecticut River and near thrifty towns are thousands
+of acres of rich meadows and arable lands, without fence, which are
+interspersed with lofty trees and orchards and covered with exquisite
+verdure.</p>
+
+<p>"These countless farms seen from this mountain top resemble garden plots,
+distinguishable from each other by vegetation varying in tints from the
+dark green of the maize to the brilliant gold of barley, rye, and oats.
+Over the billowy grain, cloud shadows chase each other as if in play.
+Grazing herds are on every hillside and in all the valleys."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude's words were music to George's ear. Her voice and the
+magnificent landscape charmed him. When released from the spell he said,
+"Yes, dear, you have this day hung a never-to-be-forgotten picture in my
+memory. I shall always remember the arching elms, white gables, college
+towers, and spires pointing heavenward that mark the towns in this
+historic and lovely intervale. I seem to hear far off sounds of busy
+people, thrifty mills, and successful railways. These reveal the secret
+of New England's power at home and abroad. The greatness of this people
+springs from their respect for, and practice of, the virtues so long
+taught in their schools and churches; viz., honesty, industry, economy,
+love of liberty, and belief in God. Here can be found inspirations for
+poet, painter, and sculptor."</p>
+
+<p>How glorious the picture as the two young lovers looked out upon the
+world of promise! It was well thus, for much too soon in life, humanity
+experiences the same old story of unsatisfied ambitions and weary
+struggles after the unattainable.</p>
+
+<p>Thus a happy summer afternoon was enjoyed till the sun hid his face
+behind the western hills. Clouds floated low on the horizon, revealing
+behind the gold and purple to ambitious souls the indistinct outlines
+of a gorgeous temple of fame; and birds of rich plumage among the
+mountain foliage were lulled to sleep by their own sweet songs.</p>
+
+<p>"Life without Gertrude," thought George, "would prove a failure." Then
+taking her white hand in his, he whispered, "I love you, dearest, with
+all my heart, and you must be my wife."</p>
+
+<p>"George," she replied, "in a thousand ways you have shown it. I have
+known your heart ever since we studied together at the high school. My
+own life has been ennobled by contact with yours." Her voice and hand
+trembled as she added, "Yes, George, my life and happiness I gladly
+place in your sacred keeping, and I promise purity and loyalty for
+eternity."</p>
+
+<p>Then George opened the little case which he had brought from New York,
+and gave Gertrude a ring containing two diamonds and a ruby, which
+surprised and delighted her. She placed it on her first finger, saying,
+"George, we will advance this crystal pledge to the third finger just
+as soon as we get the consent of father and mother."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude had found on a former trip some purple crystals on the
+mountainside, and had had two unique emblems of their love made in New
+York City. George pinned upon Gertrude a gold star set with a purple
+amethyst, a tiny cross and a guard chain being attached, and she gave
+George a gold cross set with an amethyst, the guard pin being a tiny star
+and chain. Before midnight the two happy lovers had joined the mother and
+Lucille in New York, and at the close of the week all had returned to
+Harrisville.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XII" id="CHAPTER_XII"></a>CHAPTER XII</h2>
+
+<h3>THE STRIKE AT HARRISVILLE</h3>
+
+
+<p>Labor strikes are terribly disagreeable things to encounter whether in
+the daily routine of steel mills and railways, or in the kitchen before
+breakfast on blue Monday. Especially inconvenient are strikes in steel
+mills when the order books are full as were those of the Harrisville Iron
+&amp; Steel Co. That the company had large orders could not possibly be
+concealed. Vast quantities of ore, limestone, and coke were being
+delivered daily at the mills. Never were more men on the pay-roll, and
+all the machinery of the gigantic plant was crowded to its utmost night
+and day. That business had improved was evident to everybody.</p>
+
+<p>In love and war all things are fair, and the same principle, or lack of
+it, seems to control most modern strikes. No doubt what young Alfonso
+Harris told his mother on the steamer was true, that the labor agitators
+were advised of Reuben Harris's plan to sell the steel plant to an
+English syndicate. Souls of corporations decrease as the distance between
+labor and capital increases, and naturally American employees oppose
+foreign control of every kind.</p>
+
+<p>For more than a year the employees had accepted reduced wages with the
+understanding that the old scale should be restored by the company as
+soon as times improved and the business warranted. That the employees had
+timed their strike at an opportune moment was apparent even to stubborn
+Reuben Harris. It was galling indeed to his sensitive nature and proud
+spirit that his project of selling the steel plant for millions should
+have failed.</p>
+
+<p>As he kissed his wife good-bye on the steamer in New York, her last
+words were, "Reuben, stand up for your rights." Her avaricious spirit
+had always dominated him.</p>
+
+<p>Before Reuben Harris left his city office for his home he had arranged,
+in addition to the precaution taken by the mayor, to dispatch to the
+mills and homes of his employees twenty-five special detectives in
+citizens' clothes, who were to keep him fully advised as to the doings
+of his employees about the mills and in their public and private
+meetings. He had given his men no concessions in a previous strike which
+lasted for months. He would neither recognize their unions nor their
+demand for shorter hours.</p>
+
+<p>It was true he had risen to be a millionaire from the humble position of
+a blacksmith, but he was always severe in his own shop. Every horse must
+be shod, and every tire set in his own way. He heated, hammered, and
+tempered steel just as he liked, and if anybody objected he replied, "Go
+elsewhere then." To have one's own way in life is often an expensive
+luxury. In his first great mill strike Colonel Harris lost most of his
+skilled labor and the profits of half a year. His own hands and those of
+James Ingram became callous in breaking in new employees.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude had arrived on the evening of the third day of the strike, and
+had busied herself in unpacking her trunk. She knew her father too well
+to talk much to him about the strike. While waiting in the drawing-room
+for her father, knowing that George was too busy to come to her, she had
+written to her lover as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">At Home</span></p>
+
+<p><i>My Darling George</i>,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>I wish you were here safe by my side. How I hate strikes, they are so
+like a family quarrel on the front porch. Everybody looks on in pity,
+husband and wife calling each other names, and breaking the furniture,
+and innocent little children fleeing to the neighbors for protection.
+Strikes are simply horrid. Can't you stop it? Labor and capital are like
+bears in a pit with sharpened teeth tearing each other's flesh. Of what
+use is our so-called civilization if it permits such brutal scenes?
+George, the lion in father is again aroused. There is no telling what
+he will do this time.</p>
+
+<p>It was cruel of the employees to stop his sale to the English syndicate.
+Something terrible is going to happen. I feel it. I dreamed about it last
+night before I left Niagara. You must counsel moderation. I am so glad
+mother is not here to counsel severity. In the morning I shall put my
+hand on father's arm, and say, "Father, I have been praying for God to
+help you."</p>
+
+<p>I read in the <i>Evening Dispatch</i> that the employees claimed an increase
+of their pay because promised by the company when times improved; that
+the company now flatly refused to restore the old wages; that the mayor
+of the city had sent fifty policemen to guard the mills, and that the
+4000 employees in an enthusiastic public meeting had resolved to continue
+the strike.</p>
+
+<p>George, you are in a very trying position. The company of course depends
+on your loyalty, and the employees also have great confidence in your
+fairness. What can you do? If disloyal to the Company, you lose your
+position. What more can I do, except to pray!</p>
+
+<p>Above all, my dear, be loyal to your conscience and do right. Be just.
+Come and see me at your earliest possible moment.</p>
+
+<p>Your own loving</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Gertrude</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>Gertrude's brave letter reached George
+before ten o'clock the next morning, and
+greatly cheered him. He was never more
+occupied, but he snatched a moment to say
+in reply:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Office of The Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Dearest Peacemaker</i>,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Glad for your heroic letter. It sings the peace-song of the angels.
+I shall be guarded in my words and actions. Good things, I hope, will
+result from all this terrible commotion. I confess I see only darkness
+ahead, save as it is pierced by the light of your love.</p>
+
+<p>We have a thousand men this morning building a fence eight feet high
+around our works. It looks like war to the knife under the present
+policy. Of course I can't say much till my opportunity comes, if it
+ever does.</p>
+
+<p>Believe me, darling Gertrude,</p>
+
+<p>Wholly yours,</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">George</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>The note was dispatched by special messenger. Its receipt and contents
+gave comfort to Gertrude.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris left his breakfast table almost abruptly. One egg, a piece
+of toast, and a cup of coffee were all he ate. It was an earlier meal
+than usual which the Swiss cook had prepared, and by half past six
+Colonel Harris started from home to his office, Gertrude from her chamber
+window kissing her hand to him, saying, "Keep cool, father!"</p>
+
+<p>By seven o'clock he and his capable manager were busily using the two
+office telephones. Before nine o'clock, all the teams of several lumber
+firms were engaged in hauling fence posts, two by four scantling, and
+sufficient sixteen foot boards to construct a fence eight feet high about
+the entire premises of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co.'s plant.</p>
+
+<p>This early action of the company for a time confused the strike managers,
+as they could not divine whether Colonel Harris in a fit of despair
+planned to fence in and close down his mills, or, perhaps, once getting
+his plant enclosed, purposed to eject all members of labor organizations,
+and again as in a former strike, attempt to start his plant with
+non-union labor.</p>
+
+<p>The leader of the strike was a brawny man with full beard, unkempt hair,
+and a face far from attractive. "Captain O'Connor," as the labor lodges
+knew him, was the recognized leader of the strike. He was not an employee
+at the steel mills, but an expert manager of strikes, receiving a good
+salary, and employed by the officers of the central union. At 2:30
+o'clock a secret meeting of the officers of the several labor lodges and
+Captain O'Connor was held behind closed doors. All were silent, when
+suddenly O'Connor rose and began to denounce capital, charging it with
+the robbery of honest labor.</p>
+
+<p>"Behold labor," he said, "stripped to the waist, perspiring at every pore
+in the blinding heat of molten iron, shooting out hissing sparks.
+Pleasures for you laborers are banished; your wives and children are
+dressed in cheap calicoes; no linen or good food on your tables, and most
+of you are in debt."</p>
+
+<p>This and more Captain O'Connor said in excited language. Finally he
+shouted, "Slaves, will you tamely submit to all this indignity and not
+resent it? The managers of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. are tyrants
+of the worst sort. They are fencing you out to-day from the only field on
+which you can gain bread for your starving wives and children.</p>
+
+<p>"Reuben Harris cares more for his gold than for your souls. Since you
+refuse him your labor on his own terms, he purposes by aid of the high
+fence and bayonets to forbid every one of you union men from earning an
+honest living."</p>
+
+<p>The strike committee decided to call a public meeting of all the
+employees of the steel works on the base-ball grounds at 7 o'clock
+the next morning. All the saloons that night were crowded, and loud
+denunciation of capital was indulged in by the strike leaders. Early the
+next morning a band of music marched up and down the streets where the
+employees resided, and by 7 o'clock nearly four thousand men had
+gathered.</p>
+
+<p>The chief spokesman was Captain O'Connor whose words evoked great
+cheering. He said, "Friends, we meet this morning to strike for our
+freedom. How do you like being fenced out from your work? What will your
+families do for a roof when the snows come and you have no bread for your
+children? We are assembled here not for talk, but for action. I hold in
+my hand a resolution which we must pass. Let me read it: 'Resolved, that
+we, the employees of The Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co., having been driven
+out of our positions by a soulless corporation which promised a return to
+former wages when the times improved, will not re-engage our services to
+the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. till the promised restoration of wages
+is granted." This resolution was unanimously carried, with hurrahs and
+beating of the drums.</p>
+
+<p>"Bravo men! Here is another resolution for your action," and Captain
+O'Connor read it as follows: "American citizens! In the spirit of
+brotherly love we appeal to you citizens and taxpayers of Harrisville
+for fair play. Four years ago the employees of the Harrisville Iron &amp;
+Steel Co. bowed before the law, and we should continue to do so had we
+not discovered that the law, the judges, and the government seem to be
+for the rich alone. But we prefer liberty to slavery, and war to
+starvation. Again we lay down our tools and seek to arouse public
+sympathy in our behalf. Again we plead the righteousness of our cause,
+and may the God of the poor help us."</p>
+
+<p>This resolution was carried with shouts and the throwing up of hats. The
+band began playing, and the procession headed by Captain O'Connor and his
+assistants moved forward.</p>
+
+<p>A third of the sober-minded of the employees soon dropped out of the
+procession, while three thousand or more, many of them foreigners, were
+only too glad to escape the everyday serfdom of a steel plant. All were
+armed with clubs and stones. When O'Connor from the hill-top looked back
+upon the mob that filled the street down into the valley and far up the
+opposite hill, his courage for a moment failed him.</p>
+
+<p>"What shall I do with this vast army?" he said to himself. Just then
+the employees made a rush for the company's furnaces by the riverside,
+filling the yards and approaches, shouting "Bank the fires! Down with
+capital!"</p>
+
+<p>The big engines were stopped and the furnaces were left to cool.
+Frightened faces of women and children filled the door-ways and windows
+of the many little brown houses on the hillside. Success emboldened the
+strikers whose numbers were now greatly augmented. Again the band played
+and the strike managers shouted, "Forward!"</p>
+
+<p>The route taken was along an aristocratic avenue where the wealthy
+resided. Windows and doors were suddenly closed, and the terrified
+occupants forgot their riches, their diamonds, and their fine dress,
+and thought only of safety. Vulcans of the steel works, each armed with
+a club, occupied the avenue for two miles. Evidences of hunger and
+vengeance were in their faces and sadly worn garments were on their
+backs.</p>
+
+<p>Prominent citizens now hurried to the mayor's office, where the chief
+executive was found in conference with some of the labor leaders. The
+mayor was told that unless he acted promptly in restoring peace and
+protecting property, a citizens' committee of safety would be organized,
+that he would be placed under arrest, and the mob driven back. At once
+the mayor sent one hundred policemen in patrol wagons in pursuit of the
+rioters. The latter had already battered down the great doors of the
+screw-works, and hundreds of employees, men, women, and children, were
+driven out of the factory. The president of the company was beaten into
+insensibility. Adjacent nail works were ordered to close and all
+employees were driven into the streets. Finally, near night, the strikers
+were subdued by platoons of police and forced to return to their homes.</p>
+
+<p>The mayor issued his riot act, which was printed in all the evening
+papers and read as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRISVILLE AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.</p>
+
+<p>In the name of the people of the State of Ohio, I, David A. Duty, Mayor
+of the City of Harrisville, do hereby require all persons within the
+limits of the City to refrain from unnecessary assemblies in the streets,
+squares, or in public places of the City during its present disturbed
+condition, and until quiet is restored, and I hereby give notice that the
+police have been ordered, and the militia requested to disperse any
+unlawful assemblies. I exhort all persons to assist in the observance
+of this request.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">David A. Duty</span>.</p>
+
+<p><i>Mayor.</i></p></div>
+
+<p>The mayor telegraphed to the governor for troops. The governor responded
+promptly, and ordered the First Brigade to be in readiness, and to report
+at 5 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> next morning in Harrisville, with rifles, cannon,
+Gatling and Hotchkiss guns and ammunition. Orderlies went flying through
+the city with summons that must be obeyed. The signal corps flashed their
+green and red lights from the tower to distant armories. Ambulance corps
+hastened their preparation, packing saws, knives, lint, and bandages.</p>
+
+<p>Imperative orders from general to colonels, to majors, to captains, to
+corporals tracked the militia men to their homes, and to their places
+of amusement. By midnight every military organization in Harrisville was
+under arms. The general with his staff was at his headquarters and ready
+for action.</p>
+
+<p>Before sunset Colonel Harris had his steel mills enclosed by a high
+fortress-fence; many agents were dispatched to other cities to advertise
+for, and contract with, skilled labor for his mills. On his way home, he
+called again on the mayor, also at brigade headquarters, and satisfied
+himself that his property would be protected. In forty-eight hours five
+hundred new workmen had arrived, and in squads of from twenty-five to
+fifty they were coming in on every train.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris, experienced in strikes, knew just what to do. A great
+warehouse in the board enclosure was converted into barracks and supplied
+with beds, and kitchens, and an old army quartermaster was placed in
+charge. The new men on arrival were taken under escort of the soldiers
+to the barracks, and were rapidly set to work under loyal foremen.</p>
+
+<p>In a single week Colonel Harris had secured over fifteen hundred new men.
+Smoke-stacks were again pouring forth huge volumes of smoke. The renewed
+and familiar hum of machinery was audible beyond the high board fence.
+This activity in the mills was to the old employees like a red flag
+flaunted before an enraged bull. Inflammatory speeches were the order
+of the hour. It was three o'clock on the eighth day of the strike, when
+three thousand of the old employees left their halls and marched directly
+to the steel mills. Hundreds of women and children joined the long
+procession.</p>
+
+<p>The strike leaders in advance carried the American flag, and their band
+played the "Star Spangled Banner." Most of the men, and some of the
+women, carried clubs and stones. Radicals concealed red flags and pistols
+within their coats. Detectives reported by telephone the threatening
+attitude of the strikers to Colonel Harris at his home, to Manager Thomas
+at the mills, and to the mayor who ordered more police in patrol wagons
+to proceed immediately to the steel works. Following the police rode the
+Harrisville Troop, one hundred strong. Gertrude would not let her father
+go to the steel plant, so he sat by the telephone in his own house.</p>
+
+<p>Captain Crager in charge of the fifty police on guard in and around the
+steel plant at once concentrated his force at the great gateway leading
+into the fenced enclosure. His men were formed in three platoons, the
+reserve platoon being stationed fifty feet in the rear. Captain Crager
+himself took position in the center of the first line. He had time only
+for a few words to his men. "The city expects each policeman to do his
+duty. No one is to use his revolver till he sees me use mine. Stand
+shoulder to shoulder, use your clubs, and defend the gateway."</p>
+
+<p>Probably not one of his fifty men had ever read of the 300 Spartan heroes
+at Thermopyl&aelig;, who for three days held at bay the Persian army of five
+millions. To pit fifty policemen against three thousand enraged strikers
+was too great odds. Captain Crager's orders were "to defend the
+property of the steel company." The reserve police force and troops en
+route might or might not reach him in time. The strikers purposed driving
+out of the mills all the non-union men, and taking possession. Nearer
+came the mob, determined to rule or ruin, O'Connor in the lead holding
+the Stars and Stripes. The last fifty feet of approach to the gateway,
+the mob planned to cover by a rush. On they came swinging their clubs
+and filling the air with stones.</p>
+
+<p>Captain Crager and his platoons used their short iron-wood clubs
+vigorously. The strikers' flag was captured. O'Connor fell bleeding.
+Right and left, heads and limbs were broken. Women screamed and strong
+men turned pale. The whole mob was soon stampeded and the rioters fled
+like animals before a prairie fire. Those strikers who looked back saw
+the approach of more patrol wagons loaded with police, heard the clatter
+of horses' hoofs, and the heavy rumbling of artillery, and they knew that
+the city's reserve forces had arrived. A battery of Gatling guns at once
+wheeled into a strategic position. The police and troop occupied points
+of advantage, and soon the victory was complete.</p>
+
+<p>Within thirty days over four thousand employees, mostly new men, were at
+work in the steel mills. Policemen and detectives, however, were still
+kept on duty. Colonel Harris was frequently congratulated on his second
+triumph, and orders for steel rails were again being rapidly filled.</p>
+
+<p>Most of the strike leaders left the city, some threatening dire revenge.
+Many of the employees, who had lost their situations, were already
+searching for work elsewhere. All who were behind in their payments of
+rents due the company, were served with notices of evictment, as the
+tenements were needed for the new employees. Wives and children were
+crying for bread. In sixty days labor had lost by the strike over two
+hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and capital even more.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>It was in August. The moon had set beyond the blue lake, and the myriad
+lights of heaven were hung out, as George and Gertrude alighted from
+their carriage in front of Colonel Harris's residence. They had been to
+the Grand Opera House, where they had witnessed Shakespeare's "Midsummer
+Night's Dream," beautifully played by Julia Marlowe and her company.
+Between the acts, George and Gertrude talked much of the strike, of labor
+troubles in general, and earnestly discussed the possible remedies.</p>
+
+<p>Reuben Harris, who had awaited their return, hearing the carriage drive
+up, extended a cordial welcome. His hand was on the knob of the front
+door, which stood half open, when the sky above the steel mills suddenly
+became illuminated and deafening reports of explosions followed. The
+door, held by Harris, was slammed by the concussion against the wall, the
+glass in the windows rattled on the floor, the ground trembled, Harris
+seized George's arm for support, and Gertrude's face was blanched with
+fear. Fire and smoke in great volumes were now seen rising above the
+steel plant.</p>
+
+<p>George ran to the telephone, but before he could shout "Exchange," a call
+came for Colonel Harris from his night superintendent, who announced that
+the engines and batteries of boilers had been blown up, and that all the
+mills were on fire. The chief of police telephoned that he had sent one
+hundred more police to the mills; the chief of the fire department
+telephoned that ten steamers had been dispatched. George dropped the
+telephone, kissed Gertrude, and on the back of her Kentucky saddle horse
+flew into the darkness to direct matters at the mills as best he could.</p>
+
+<p>The next morning's <i>Dispatch</i> contained two full pages, headed,</p>
+
+<h5>"The Deadly Dynamite!</h5>
+<h5>Frightful Loss of Life,<br />
+and<br />
+Destruction of Property<br />
+at<br />
+The Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Plant.
+</h5>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"One hundred employees were killed outright, and hundreds more were
+wounded. All the mills were either burned or wrecked. Many women and
+children were also injured. Five hundred tenement houses were damaged,
+and the windows of most of the buildings within a half mile of the mills
+were badly broken."</p></div>
+
+<p>Next morning the citizens of Harrisville were wild with excitement.
+Ringing editorials appeared in all the morning and evening journals
+declaring that "Lawlessness is anarchy," and that "Law and order must
+prevail."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIII" id="CHAPTER_XIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII</h2>
+
+<h3>TRIAL OF ANARCHY AND RESULTS</h3>
+
+
+<p>George Ingram had scarcely disappeared in the darkness, when Colonel
+Harris fully comprehending the terrible situation at his works telephoned
+the exchange to summon at once to his mills every physician and ambulance
+in the city.</p>
+
+<p>The Colonel then ordered his carriage, and taking Gertrude, rapidly
+drove to the scene of the disaster. Great crowds had gathered, but the
+policemen, and the Harrisville Troop, already had established lines about
+the burning steel mills, beyond which the people were not permitted to
+pass. The police and fire departments were doing all in their power to
+save life and property.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris drove directly towards his office at the mills, but this
+he could not reach as policemen guarded every approach. The two story
+brick office had been completely wrecked by a huge piece of one of the
+fly-wheels, that had fallen through the roof.</p>
+
+<p>The night watchman whose duty it was to enter the office hourly was
+killed, and his bleeding body was now being moved to a temporary morgue,
+which had been established in an adjoining old town-hall. Already over
+fifty mangled forms had been brought in and laid in rows on the floor,
+and more dead workmen were arriving every moment.</p>
+
+<p>The mayor and Colonel Harris were everywhere directing what to do. Scores
+of the wounded were hurried in ambulances to a large Catholic Church, an
+improvised hospital. Here were sent physicians, volunteer nurses, beds,
+and blankets. Fortunately the seats in the church, being movable, were
+quickly carried into the streets, and on beds and blankets the suffering
+men were placed, and an examination of each wounded person was being
+made. Names and addresses were taken by the reporters, and ambulances
+began to remove the severely injured to the city hospitals.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris left Gertrude to minister to the wounded in the church,
+and sought out Wilson his manager, and George Ingram. Everybody worked
+till daylight. Many wounded and dead men, and women and children were
+brought up to the morgue and hospitals from the wrecked tenements that
+stood near the exploded mills. Several bodies of the dead workmen, and
+the wounded who could not escape from the burning works were consumed.
+When the sun rose on that dreadful scene, thousands of workmen and their
+families and tens of thousands of sympathizers witnessed in silence the
+awful work of anarchists. At daylight Colonel Harris rode with George and
+Gertrude home to breakfast.</p>
+
+<p>In the evening press a call for a public meeting at 8 o'clock next
+morning of the prominent citizens resulted in the forming of an emergency
+committee of one hundred earnest men and women to furnish aid to the
+afflicted and needy work-people. The most influential people of
+Harrisville were enrolled on this committee, which to be more thoroughly
+effective was subdivided. Every house occupied by the mill-people was
+visited, and every injured person was cared for.</p>
+
+<p>The women on the committee visited the hospitals and for a time became
+nurses ministering to every want. Money and abundance of food were also
+contributed, and such kindness on the part of the rich the work-people
+had never known before.</p>
+
+<p>The evening papers gave the authoritative statement that the total
+number of those killed outright by the explosions at the steel mills was
+one hundred and twenty-seven. Of this number eighty-six were workmen,
+fourteen were men who lived in the vicinity, but were not employed in the
+mills, ten were women, and seventeen were children. The total number of
+wounded was sixty-eight.</p>
+
+<p>A public funeral was decided upon by the committee. The Harrisville Iron
+&amp; Steel Co. sent their check for $5000 to the committee and many others
+contributed money. The time fixed for the public services was Sunday at 2
+o'clock. Ten separate platforms for the clergy and church choirs of the
+city had been erected on the same open fields where the great strike
+meetings had so often been held. By 1 o'clock people began to assemble.
+Workmen came from all parts of the city, till over fifty thousand
+laborers with their wives were on the ground. Most wore black crepe on
+their arm.</p>
+
+<p>Fifteen minutes before 2 o'clock solemn band music gave notice to the
+crowd of the approach of an imposing procession. Platoons of police led
+the column who were followed in carriages by the mayor, his cabinet, and
+the city council; then another platoon of police, followed by a long line
+of hearses, the black plumes of which seemed to wave in unison with the
+solemn tread of over a thousand workmen, acting as pall-bearers, walking
+in double file on either side of their dead comrades.</p>
+
+<p>It was some moments before the speaking could begin. By concerted action
+all the clergy preached on the "Brotherhood of Mankind," the text used
+being, John XV.-12. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as
+I have loved you." The speakers were moved by the Holy Spirit. The
+services closed with the hymn, "Nearer my God to Thee."</p>
+
+<p>The funeral procession was several miles in length. Public and private
+buildings along the route to the cemetery were draped with the emblems of
+mourning. Twenty-five of the bodies were given private burial. Over one
+hundred of the victims of the dynamite disaster were buried in one common
+grave. Together they had died, and together they were buried. The mantle
+of charity covered them.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after the funeral, the press contained an account of a great meeting
+held by the surviving workmen of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co., and of
+resolutions that were unanimously adopted:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p><span class="smcap">Resolved</span>, That we, the surviving workmen of the Harrisville
+Iron &amp; Steel Co., hereby desire to express our deep sympathy with the
+bereaved families of our late comrades in toil.</p>
+
+<p>That further we desire to contribute from the pay-roll due us the wages
+received for two days' services, the same to be paid to the emergency
+committee, one-half the proceeds of which is to apply to the relief of
+the bereaved workmen's families, the balance to be used for the purpose
+of erecting suitable monuments over the graves of our unfortunate
+comrades.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Resolved</span>, That we, employees of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel
+Co., extend our sympathy to the company in their great financial loss.</p>
+
+<p>That we hereby declare ourselves as law-abiding citizens, and that we
+neither directly, nor indirectly, were connected in any manner with the
+late dynamite explosions and fires which destroyed the plant of The
+Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co., and we denounce those acts as dastardly
+and inimical to the best interest of labor and civilization.</p></div>
+
+<p>Following the resolutions were appended the signatures of over four
+thousand workmen. It was also voted that the resolutions, and names
+attached, should be printed in the press of the city, and that a copy
+should be delivered to the president of the steel company. This action
+freed the atmosphere of distrust, and business in Harrisville returned
+to its accustomed ways.</p>
+
+<p>At a meeting of the directors of the Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. it
+was voted "Not to rebuild our mills at present." Manager Wilson was
+instructed at once to so advise the employees, also to dispose of all the
+manufactured stock and raw material on hand, and to clean up the grounds
+of the old mill site.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris remembered the action of Herr Krupp of Germany when a
+letter once reached him, threatening to destroy with dynamite his vast
+works at Essing. Herr Krupp immediately called a meeting of his tens of
+thousands of workmen, and read the letter to them, and then said,
+"Workmen, if this threat is executed, I shall never rebuild." This
+settled the matter.</p>
+
+<p>The city council of Harrisville and the county commissioners offered
+rewards for the arrest and conviction of the dynamiters. The sum was
+increased to $10,000 by the steel company, and notices of these rewards
+were mailed far and wide.</p>
+
+<p>By aid of an informer of the band of conspirators, Mike O'Connor and
+his confederates were arrested as they were about to embark for South
+America. In the hotly contested trial it was disclosed that O'Connor had
+directed the placing of dynamite beneath engines and boilers before the
+high board fence was constructed about the works, that electric wires to
+ignite the dynamite had been laid underground from the mills to an old
+unused barn, nearly half a mile distant, and that O'Connor was seen to
+come from the barn just after the explosion. Within two months after the
+arrest, the whole band were convicted and sentenced for life to hard
+labor in the penitentiary.</p>
+
+<p>It was decided that Colonel Harris and Gertrude should soon sail to
+rejoin Mrs. Harris and party in England, and notice of this decision was
+cabled next day to them at London. The colonel was busy examining
+carefully George Ingram's detailed drawings of a new, enlarged, and
+much improved plan for a huge steel plant. The improvements were to be up
+to date, and his plans involved an entirely new process of converting
+ores into steel. It was agreed that George and his father, James Ingram,
+should perfect their inventions on which both for a long time had been
+zealously at work, and that later George and the colonel should make a
+tour of observation of leading iron and steel works in Europe.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude was now very happy. The selled together, concerning the proper
+relations of capital and labor, and since the explosion they studied the
+question more earnestly than ever. Their scheme involved not only
+improved works in a new location, but also a plan to harmonize, if
+possible, capital and labor, which they hoped might work great good to
+humanity. Gertrude told George Ingram that his golden opportunity had
+come, and she resolved to render him all the assistance possible.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIV" id="CHAPTER_XIV"></a>CHAPTER XIV</h2>
+
+<h3>COLONEL HARRIS FOLLOWS HIS FAMILY ABROAD</h3>
+
+
+<p>Gertrude's receipt for growing oranges in a northern climate was as
+follows: Let a child hold a large and a small orange in her hands, and
+give away the large orange, and the smaller will begin to grow until,
+when eaten, it will look bigger and taste sweeter than the large fruit
+given away. "Try it!" Gertrude often said.</p>
+
+<p>That was the principle by which Gertrude Harris was always acting. If she
+had flowers, fruit, books, pretty gifts, or money, her first thought
+always was, "How can I make somebody happy?" With such a generous soul,
+part nature's gift and part acquired by self-sacrifice, the life of
+Gertrude was as buoyant and happy as the birds in a flower garden.</p>
+
+<p>The decision of Gertrude's father to take her and meet his family in
+Europe was not known in Harrisville except to a few. Most of the
+colonel's friends supposed that he was busy planning some new business
+adventure, in which he might employ his surplus capital and his undoubted
+business abilities. Because of the recent calamity, and the hardships of
+the employees in connection with their strike, he thought it unwise to
+make public mention of his future projects.</p>
+
+<p>The more Gertrude meditated upon her father's plan, the more dissatisfied
+with herself she became. The idea of going to Europe and leaving George
+behind was unendurable. He needed rest more than she. True, he was to
+follow later, but she wanted him to cross the ocean on the same steamer,
+and she earnestly desired that the one she loved best should share all of
+her enjoyments. It was, perhaps, a test of her love that she constantly
+longed to lose herself in him, or better, possibly, to find herself in
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Two days before the date fixed for their sailing, as George left the
+Harris home, Gertrude was urging him to accompany her and her father,
+when he ventured to say, "Gertrude, this is what would please me
+immensely, take my sister May with you. I will gladly pay her expenses.
+And when your summer's travel is over, I want May to study music abroad."</p>
+
+<p>"Capital!" said Gertrude. "Both you and your sister May shall join our
+party. Please don't say another word on the subject, nor tell father,
+till we meet tomorrow evening," and she kissed him an affectionate
+good-night.</p>
+
+<p>The next evening before the stars shone; Gertrude sat on the piazza
+anxiously awaiting him, for she had good news for her lover. Gertrude's
+white handkerchief told him that she recognized his coming, though he was
+still two blocks away. How light and swift the steps of a lover; though
+miles intervene, they seem but a step. An evening in Gertrude's presence
+was for George but a moment. The touch of her hand, the rustle of her
+dress, and the music of her voice, all, like invisible silken cords, held
+him a willing prisoner. The love he gave and the love he received was
+like the mating of birds; like the meeting of long separated and finally
+united souls.</p>
+
+<p>"George, this is your birthday and the silver crescent moon is filled to
+the brim with happiness for you and May. Yesterday I had a long talk with
+father, and I asked him to let me stay at home and to take your sister
+May to Europe. What do you think he said, George? Never did my father so
+correctly read my heart. He drew me closely to him, and while I sat upon
+his knee, said: 'Daughter, I have decided that it is wise, even in the
+interests of my business, to take George with us.' He also said that I
+might invite your sister May to go, and that he would pay all the
+expenses. Oh, how I kissed him! I never loved my father so much before.
+Here, George, is a kiss for you. Aren't you glad now, that you, and your
+sister May are going with us? No excuses, for you are both going surely."</p>
+
+<p>"If it is settled, Gertrude, then it is settled, I suppose, but how do
+you think May and I can get ready in so short a time to go to Europe?"</p>
+
+<p>"Well, George, you can wear your new business suit, and in the morning, I
+will go with May and buy for her a suitable travelling dress and hat. In
+Europe we can procure more clothes as they are needed."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude was now very happy. The dream of her life was to be realized.
+She wanted George near her as she traveled, so each could say to
+the other, "Isn't it beautiful?" That is half of the pleasure of
+sight-seeing. The small orange kept by Gertrude had doubled in size,
+and she never before retired with so sweet a joy in her soul. That night
+she slept, and her dreams were of smooth seas, her mother, Lucille, and
+George.</p>
+
+<p>It is needless to say that May Ingram was overjoyed. She had been fond of
+music from her childhood, and had given promise of rare talents. She had
+taken lessons for two years in vocal and instrumental music in the best
+conservatories in Boston, George paying most of her expenses. For six
+years May had been the soprano singer in the highest paid quartette in
+Harrisville. Though she occasionally hoped for a musical education
+abroad, yet these hopes had all flown away. Her parents could not aid
+her, and she had resolved not to accept further assistance from her
+generous brother. At first she could not believe what George told her,
+but when the reality of her good fortune dawned upon her, taking George's
+hand in both of hers, she pressed it to her lips and fell upon his
+shoulder, her eyes flooding with tears.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, May," said George, as he kissed her, "can you get ready by noon
+tomorrow?"</p>
+
+<p>"Ready by noon? Ready by daylight, George, if necessary."</p>
+
+<p>That night was a busy, happy time for the Ingrams. So much of ill-luck
+had come to the father, and so much of household drudging to the faithful
+mother, that work and sacrifice for the children had ploughed deep
+furrows across the faces of both Mr. and Mrs. Ingram. Opportunities for
+advancement now opening for their children, both parents found the heavy
+burdens growing lighter.</p>
+
+<p>Before sunrise George and May had packed two small trunks, by ten o'clock
+Gertrude and May had made necessary purchases, and the two o'clock
+express quickly bore the second contingent of the Harris family towards
+New York, which was reached the night before their steamer's date of
+sailing.</p>
+
+<p>For some reason, perhaps because the elements of superstition still
+lurked in the mind of Colonel Harris, he decided not to stop any more at
+the Hotel Waldorf. It had brought him ill-luck, so his party was driven
+to the tall Hotel Plazza which overlooks the Central Park.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately George had inherited a talent for untiring investigation
+and the power of close observation. His reasoning faculties also were
+excellent. Besides his education, gained in a practical school at Troy,
+George, with, his father, James Ingram, had made many experiments,
+mostly after business hours; each experiment was numbered and the various
+results had been carefully noted. Before leaving Harrisville his
+investigations were all drifting towards great possible changes in the
+production of iron and steel. He was glad to take this trip to Europe,
+as it might afford him opportunity to verify or change some of his
+conclusions. He resolved to use every moment for the enlargement of his
+powers.</p>
+
+<p>After bidding May and Gertrude good-night, he told the colonel that he
+should now take the Elevated Railway for the steamer "Campania," as he
+wished to observe at midnight the firing of the great battery of boilers
+of the steamer; and that he would return in time for breakfast with the
+party. "Let eight o'clock then be the hour, George," and the capitalist
+and his trusted superintendent separated for the night.</p>
+
+<p>The elevated railway was not swift enough to carry George Ingram to Pier
+No. 40, so anxious was he to see the midnight fires started in the
+hundred furnaces of one of the two largest steamers afloat. It was
+fifteen minutes to twelve o'clock when he reached the dock, and provided
+with a letter of introduction to the chief engineer, he hurried as fast
+as possible to the officer's cabin.</p>
+
+<p>The young engineer's night ashore had been spent at the opera, and,
+advised of George Ingram's visit, he had promptly returned to the
+steamer. Mr. Carl Siemens, engineer, was a relative of Siemens Brothers
+&amp; Co., Limited, the great electrical and telegraph engineers of London.
+His education had been thorough, and he was very proud of his steamer the
+"Campania," especially of the motive power, which he helped to design. He
+gave young Ingram a cordial greeting.</p>
+
+<p>For two hours they examined and talked of mechanism for ships and mills,
+and they even ventured to guess what the earth's motive power might be.
+It was now five minutes of midnight. The chief furnished Ingram an
+oversuit and the young engineers dropped through manholes and down
+vertical and spiral ladders into the cellar of the steamer, the bottom of
+which was thirty feet below the water level.</p>
+
+<p>"The 'Campania,'" said Siemens, "has a strong double bottom that
+forms a series of water-tight compartments which, filled with water,
+furnish ballast when necessary. On the second steel or false bottom
+of the steamer, fore and aft, are located the boilers, furnaces,
+and coal-bunkers. We have fourteen double-ended boilers, fitted
+longitudinally in two groups, in two water-tight compartments, and
+separated by huge coal-bunkers. Each boiler is eighteen feet in diameter
+and seventeen feet long. The thickness of the steel boilerplate is
+1-17/32 inches. Above each group of boilers rises 130 feet in height a
+funnel nineteen feet in diameter, which, if a tunnel, would easily admit
+the passage of two railway trains abreast."</p>
+
+<p>George saw the fires lighted, and when the furnaces required more coal,
+suddenly a whistle brought fifty stokers or firemen, the automatic
+furnace doors flew open, and a gleam of light flooded everything. Long
+lances made draft-holes in the banks of burning coal, through which the
+air was sucked with increasing roar. The round, red mouths of the hundred
+craters snapped their jaws for coal, which was fed them by brawny men
+whose faces were streaked with grimy perspiration, and their bodies
+almost overcome by heat. The hundred furnaces are kept at almost white
+heat from New York to Liverpool.</p>
+
+<p>"Four hours on, and four hours off, and the best quality of food are some
+of the recent improvements," said Siemens.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram shook his head, and his heart ached as he witnessed the
+stokers, and resolved to do his utmost to mitigate the hardships of
+labor. "What are the duties of the stokers?" inquired George.</p>
+
+<p>"Our stokers," replied Siemens, "must be men of strength and skill, for
+they both feed and rake the fires. The ashes and slag must be hoisted and
+dumped into the ocean, and twice an hour, as the gauges indicate, fresh
+water is let into the boilers. Daily the boilers convert into steam over
+a hundred tons of water, which, condensed, is used over and over again."</p>
+
+<p>"What quantity of coal do you use?"</p>
+
+<p>"About three hundred tons per day, or an average of nearly two thousand
+tons per voyage. The coal carrying capacity of the "Campania," however,
+when needed as an armed cruiser, can be greatly increased."</p>
+
+<p>Siemens led Ingram to see the gigantic cranks, and propeller shafts. Each
+of the several cranks is twenty-six inches in diameter and weighs 110
+tons; the shafts made of toughest steel are each twenty-four inches in
+diameter, and each weighs over 150 tons. The propellers are made of steel
+and bronze, and each of the six blades of the two screws weighs eight
+tons. It was now past two o'clock and George thanked Mr. Siemens and said
+he should be pleased to examine further his department when at sea. It
+was past three o'clock when George turned off his gas at the hotel.</p>
+
+<p>At eight o'clock the next morning the Harrises met promptly at breakfast.
+Promptness was one of Reuben Harris's virtues, and fortunately all his
+party were agreed as to its absolute necessity, especially when several
+journey together, if the happiness of all is considered.</p>
+
+<p>"George's eyes look like burnt holes," whispered May to Gertrude.</p>
+
+<p>Overhearing his sister's remark, George added: "Yes, May, and they feel
+worse after my two hours last night in the stokehole of the 'Campania.'"</p>
+
+<p>"We thought after our long railway ride and the concert yesterday, that
+you would gladly welcome a little sleep," said Gertrude.</p>
+
+<p>"I did sleep four hours, Gertrude, but my owl-visit to the steamer was
+highly instructive, and when we get to sea, you all will be delighted to
+help me complete the study of the marine engines on the 'Campania.'"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XV" id="CHAPTER_XV"></a>CHAPTER XV</h2>
+
+<h3>A SAFE PASSAGE AND A HAPPY REUNION</h3>
+
+
+<p>Gertrude and May never knew what happiness was before. One maiden had her
+lover, and the heart of the other was pledged to music. George too was
+happy in Gertrude's happiness and joyous in his own thoughts that perhaps
+he had already entered upon his life work, the development of plans which
+would bless humanity. Colonel Harris's chief joy was that he had earned a
+rest, was soon to see the absent members of his family, and to behold the
+work of men in Europe.</p>
+
+<p>People crowded the gangway, the same as on a previous occasion when duty
+forced him suddenly to leave the "Majestic." It was almost two o'clock;
+visitors were no longer admitted to the steamer, except messengers with
+belated telegrams, mail, packages, and flowers for the travelers. On
+the bridge of the "Campania" stood the uniformed captain and junior
+officers. The chief officer was at the bow, the second officer aft. The
+captain, notified that all was ready, gave the command, "Let go!" and the
+cables were unfastened. The engineer started the baby-engine, which
+partially opens the great throttle-valves, the twin-screws began to
+revolve, and the "Campania," like an awakened leviathan slowly moved into
+the Hudson River. Hundreds on both the pier and steamer fluttered their
+handkerchiefs, and through a mist of tears good-byes were exchanged,
+till the increasing distance separated the dearest of friends.</p>
+
+<p>For twenty-four hours George Ingram was seen but little on deck. Most of
+his time he spent with Carl Siemen, the engineer. The colonel took great
+delight as the escort of two appreciative young ladies. Before the voyage
+ended every available part of the "Campania" was explored.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude was surprised to find an engineer so cultivated a gentleman. He
+was surrounded in his oak-furnished office by soft couches, easy chairs,
+works of art, burnished indicators and dials. Mr. Siemen received his
+orders from the captain or officer on the bridge by telegraph.</p>
+
+<p>"It's mere child's play," said May, "and as easy as touching the keys of
+a great organ."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Siemen now conducted his friends into the engine-room. "It is not
+easy to imagine the tremendous force of the two swiftly turning screws or
+propellers exerted against the surging waters of the Atlantic," he said.
+"Our 30,000 horse power engines, a horse power is equal to six men, equal
+180,000 strong men pulling at the oars, or twice the number of men that
+fought at Gettysburg to perpetuate the American Union."</p>
+
+<p>"Wonderful!" said Colonel Harris.</p>
+
+<p>"Steam guided by command of the officer on the bridge, with slightest
+effort, also steers our immense steamer."</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. Siemen, tell us please how the steamer is lighted?" said George.</p>
+
+<p>"We have fifty miles of insulated wire in the "Campania" for the electric
+current generated by our two dynamos, which give us 1350 sixteen-candle
+power lights, equal to a total of 22,000 candle power, absorbing 135
+horse-power. We also use large electric reflectors and search lights to
+pick up buoys on a dark night. All our machinery is in duplicate.</p>
+
+<p>"At night when the broad clean decks of hardwood are illuminated with
+electric lights and filled with gay promenaders, you easily imagine that
+you are strolling along Broadway."</p>
+
+<p>The accommodations and appointments of staterooms, of all the large
+public rooms, and especially the dining-room, are perfect. A week on the
+Atlantic, with the joyous bracing sea-air of the summer months, and
+surrounded as you are by a cosmopolitan group of people, passes as
+delightfully as a brief stay at the ocean side.</p>
+
+<p>The passage of the "Campania" from Sandy Hook Light to Queenstown was
+made in less than five and one-half days, 5 days, 10 hours, and 47
+minutes, or at an average speed of 21.82 knots per hour, the highest
+day's run being 548 knots. At Queenstown Colonel Harris received
+telegrams and letters from his family saying that they would meet him at
+Leamington, and that Alfonso would meet his father at Liverpool.</p>
+
+<p>Reuben Harris wired his wife when his party expected to arrive. It was
+ten o'clock in the morning when the S.S. "Campania" arrived in the Mersey
+off Alexandra dock, and the company's tender promptly delivered the
+passengers on the Liverpool Landing Stage.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude was first to single out Alfonso, whose handkerchief waved a
+brother's welcome to the old world. Alfonso was the first to cross the
+gangway to the tender, and rushed to his friends. The greeting was
+mutually cordial. The father embraced his boy, for he loved him much and
+still cherished a secret hope that his only son might yet turn his mind
+to business. Alfonso seemed specially pleased that George and his sister
+May had come, for he had frequently met May Ingram and her singing had
+often charmed him.</p>
+
+<p>May was about his own age. As Alfonso helped her down the gangway to the
+deck, he thought he had never seen her look so pretty. She was about the
+size of his sister Lucille; slender, erect, and in her movements she was
+as graceful as the swaying willows. May's face was oval like that of
+her English mother. She had an abundance of brown hair, her eyes were
+brilliant, and her complexion, bronzed by the sea-breezes, had a pink
+under-coloring that increased her beauty. If Alfonso's eyes were fixed on
+her a moment longer than custom allows, perhaps he was excusable, for
+portrait painting was his hobby, and he fancied that he knew a beautiful
+face.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso was all attention to his friends in clearing the baggage through
+the customs and getting checks for Leamington. After lunch, at the fine
+railway hotel, the two o'clock express from Lime Street station was
+taken, and Colonel Harris and party became loud in their praises of John
+Bull's Island, as they sped on, via Coventry with her three tall spires,
+to the fashionable Spa, where the Harris family were again to be
+reunited. It was six o'clock when Alfonso alighted on the platform.
+"Here they are, mother, I have brought them all; father, Gertrude,
+George, and May."</p>
+
+<p>The Leamington meeting was a happy one. The sorrow of separation is often
+compensated by the joys of reunion. Mrs. Harris embraced her husband as
+if he had returned a hero from the wars. In fact, he had emerged from a
+conflict that brought neither peace nor honor to capital or labor.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille too was enthusiastic. She, who was haughty, rarely responsive,
+and often proud of her father's wealth, for the time assumed another
+character and warmly welcomed her sister Gertrude and Gertrude's intended
+husband as "brother George." Leo too was glad to make new acquaintances.
+Eight joyous people attracted the attention of many at the station.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately, the next day was Sunday, which gave time for rest, for
+review of the past few exciting weeks, and for the development of future
+plans of travel. Much was told of the Harris trip through Ireland and of
+the last week spent in the south of England.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille described to Gertrude and May Stonehenge, hanging stones,&mdash;the
+wonder of Salisbury Plain, where stand the ruins of the Druid
+temple&mdash;three circles of upright moss-grown stones with flat slabs across
+their tops, in which it is supposed the sun was worshiped with human
+sacrifices. Many burial mounds are scattered about. A broad driveway, a
+mile in extent, surrounds the temple, where possibly great processions
+came to witness the gorgeous displays. In early Britain the Druid priests
+held absolute sway over the destinies of souls. These priests were
+finally overpowered by the Romans, and some of them burned upon their own
+altars.</p>
+
+<p>"But, Lucille, you wrote that you planned to visit Osborne House."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, dear, we did go to the Isle of Wight, and saw Osborne House, Queen
+Victoria's home by the sea, as Balmoral is her summer home among the
+mountains of Scotland. Her Majesty's palace is surrounded by terraced
+gardens, nearly five thousand acres of forests, pastures, and fertile
+meadows. Osborne House is furnished with much magnificence, mosaic
+flooring, costly marbles, statuary, paintings, books, and art souvenirs.</p>
+
+<p>"There the queen and Prince Albert painted, sang, and read together.
+Those were happy days indeed for the young rulers of a kingdom. Each of
+their children had a garden. The Prince of Wales worked in a carpenter's
+shop, and the royal princesses learned housework in a kitchen and dairy
+prepared for them." This was a revelation to Lucille, who had been reared
+with little or nothing to do.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille told Gertrude and May that she had just been reading the early
+life of the queen, who said, "If one's home is happy, then trials and
+vexations are comparatively nothing." The queen also said, "Children
+should be brought up simply and learn to put the greatest confidence
+in their parents." Lucille continued, "The queen often visited her
+people, bringing toys for the children&mdash;a promise to a child she never
+forgets&mdash;and gifts of warm clothing for the aged, to their great
+delight."</p>
+
+<p>At a conference of the Harris family, it was decided to go to London
+after spending Monday in a carriage drive to Warwick and Kenilworth
+castles and Stratford-on-Avon. So Monday promptly at eight o'clock
+two carriages stood waiting at the hotel. Colonel Harris took Mrs.
+Harris, May Ingram, and Alfonso with him, and George Ingram took
+Gertrude, Lucille, and Leo in the second carriage.</p>
+
+<p>There are few, if any, more magnificent drives in England than the one
+through the beautiful Stratford district. It is recorded that two
+Englishmen once laid a wager as to the finest walk in England.
+One named the walk from Coventry to Stratford, the other from Stratford
+to Coventry.</p>
+
+<p>It was a delightful day and both the colonel and George entirely forgot
+business in their enjoyment of the loveliest country they had ever seen.
+A drive of two miles, from Leamington and along the banks of the historic
+Avon, brought them to Warwick Castle which Scott calls "The fairest
+monument of ancient and chivalrous splendor uninjured by the tooth of
+time." It is said that Warwick Castle was never taken by any foe in days
+gone by.</p>
+
+<p>Our visitors drove over the draw-bridge through a gateway covered with
+ivy, and still guarded as of old, by an ancient portcullis. In the hall
+of the castle, pannelled with richly carved oak, are religiously guarded
+the helmet of Cromwell, the armor of the Black Prince, and many historic
+relics and art treasures. The drawing-room is finished in cedar. In
+former days guests were summoned to the great banqueting hall by a blare
+of trumpets. In the gardens is seen the celebrated white marble Warwick
+vase from Adrian's villa. Interwoven vines form the handles, and leaves
+and grapes adorn the margin of the vase. Superb views were had from the
+castle towers. In the Beauchamp chapel in the old town of Warwick repose
+the remains of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of Queen Elizabeth's
+favorites. She gave Leicester beautiful Kenilworth Castle, which is five
+miles distant.</p>
+
+<p>As the carriages drove over the smooth road, beneath the venerable elms
+and sycamores, artists along the way were sketching. Both Alfonso and Leo
+tipped their hats, as members of a guild that recognizes art for art's
+sake, a society that takes cognizance of neither nationality nor sect.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude and George had read Scott's novel in which he tells of the
+ancient glories of Kenilworth, which dates back to the twelfth century,
+and to-day is considered the most beautiful ruin in the world. Ivy mantles
+the lofty ruined walls; the sun tinges in silver the gray old towers, and
+sends a flood of golden light through the deep windows of the once
+magnificent banqueting hall.</p>
+
+<p>For years Kenilworth Castle was a royal residence, and later it was
+the scene of bloody conflicts between kings and nobles. Today sheep
+peacefully graze within the ruins and about the grounds. Visitors from
+all parts of the world look in wonder upon the decay of glories that once
+dazzled all Europe. Here the earl of Leicester entertained his virgin
+queen hoping to marry her. As Elizabeth crossed the draw-bridge a song in
+her praise was sung by a Lady of the Lake on an island floating in the
+moat. Story writers have never tired of telling of the magnificence of
+these entertainments that cost the ambitious earl $20,000 per day for
+nineteen days.</p>
+
+<p>Returning, Warwick Arms Hotel was reached for lunch, after which the
+party drove eight miles to Stratford-on-Avon, a model town on the classic
+Avon. Here in Henley Street, in a half-timbered house recently carefully
+restored, Shakespeare was born. The walls and window panes are covered
+with the names of visitors, while inside are kept albums for the
+autographs of kings, queens, of Scott, Byron, Irving, and others. One
+of the three rooms below is an ancient kitchen, where by the big open
+chimney the poet often sat. Climbing a winding, wooden stairway,
+George and Gertrude in the lead, our Harrisville friends entered the
+old-fashioned chamber, where, it is said, on St. George's Day, April 19,
+1564, William Shakespeare was born. A bust of the poet stands on the
+table.</p>
+
+<p>"We know little of his mother," said Gertrude, "except that she had a
+beautiful name, Mary Arden. If it is true, as a rule, that all great men
+have had great mothers, Mary Arden must have been a very superior woman."</p>
+
+<p>"The reverse, Gertrude, must be equally true," said George, "that all
+great women must have had great fathers."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude who had made a special study of Shakespeare and his works did
+much of the talking. She said, "All that is definitely known of the life
+of the great poet can be put on half a page. It is thought that William
+was the son of a well-to-do farmer who lost his property. William, not
+above work, assisted his father as butcher, then taught school, and later
+served as a lawyer's clerk. When he was eighteen, like most young people,
+he fell in love."</p>
+
+<p>Saying this, Gertrude led to the street, and the party drove to Shottery,
+a pretty village a mile away, where is Ann Hathaway's thatched cottage.
+"Here the beardless William often came," said Gertrude, "and told his
+love to the English maiden. Ann Hathaway was older than William, she was
+twenty-six, but they were married, and had three children.</p>
+
+<p>"When Shakespeare was twenty-five he was part owner of the Blackfriar's
+Theatre in London. There he spent his literary life, and there he was
+actor, dramatist, and manager. He became rich and returned occasionally
+to Stratford where he bought lands and built houses.</p>
+
+<p>"If we can trust statues and paintings and writers, William Shakespeare
+had a kingly physique, light hazel eyes and auburn hair."</p>
+
+<p>"What about his death?" inquired Colonel Harris.</p>
+
+<p>"Of his death," said Gertrude, "we know little, save that the Vicar of
+Stratford wrote that Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Johnson had a merry
+meeting, possibly drank too much, and that Shakespeare died of a fever
+then contracted, on the anniversary of his birth, when he was fifty-two
+years old."</p>
+
+<p>"And where was he buried?" inquired Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>"In the Stratford church," answered Gertrude, and the carriages were
+driven up an avenue of arching lime trees. The old church, with its tall
+and graceful spire, reflected in the waters of the Avon, is a restful
+place for the body that contains the mightiest voice in literature. Near
+by also lie buried his wife and their children. A plain slab in the floor
+covers his remains.</p>
+
+<p>Recently a new grave was dug near Shakespeare's and the intervening wall
+fell in. A workman ventured to hold a lighted taper in death's chamber,
+which revealed that the ashes of the immortal Shakespeare could be held
+in the palm of the hand. The Harris party drove back to Leamington to
+spend the night.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XVI" id="CHAPTER_XVI"></a>CHAPTER XVI</h2>
+
+<h3>A SEARCH FOR IDEAS</h3>
+
+
+<p>Later on the Harrises spent considerable time in London staying at the
+Grand Hotel which occupies the site of the old Northumberland House on
+Trafalgar Square. They soon learned that the English matrons are devoted
+mothers, that they take long walks, dress their children simply, and that
+their daughters have fair complexions, are modest in manner, and are the
+pictures of health.</p>
+
+<p>Many of the English women find time to study national questions, to
+organize "Primrose" and "Liberal Leagues," and to vote on municipal
+affairs. Miss Helen Taylor and other cultivated women have been elected
+members of the London school board, and aided in temperance reform.</p>
+
+<p>While Alfonso, Leo, Lucille, and May were absent studying the artistic
+life of the metropolis, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Gertrude, and George spent
+most of the day planning for the future. Reuben Harris and his wife had
+repeatedly talked over the Harrisville affair, and their trips in London
+where so many generations had lived and passed away had given both
+clearer ideas of life.</p>
+
+<p>"At best," thought the colonel, "life seems short indeed." More than once
+he admitted to his wife that his early privations had made his life in
+Harrisville selfish and inconsiderate, that the questions of higher
+civilization were involved in the vigorous efforts of humanity for a
+closer brotherhood, and that if God permitted him he would lend a helping
+hand.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris, naturally proud, was slow to respond to the colonel's new
+ideas, but he felt that under Gertrude's generous influences his wife
+would prove a help rather than a hindrance. Mrs. Harris knew that
+Gertrude and George, who had received a broad education, were ambitious
+to do good, and besides she trusted and loved them both.</p>
+
+<p>It was clear to George and Gertrude that little or no hindrance would be
+offered to wise plans of usefulness. It was finally agreed that Colonel
+Harris and George should spend a week or two visiting some of the great
+industrial centers of Europe, and that Alfonso and Leo should accompany
+the ladies to Paris, and then visit the haunts of the old portrait
+painters of the Netherlands.</p>
+
+<p>It was also decided by George and Gertrude that they would be married in
+Paris. This made the two lovers happy; for soon the two diamonds and ruby
+would be advanced to the ring finger, as promised by Gertrude on Mt.
+Holyoke. Each felt that an inexpensive marriage in Paris would be a
+fortunate escape from possible criticisms at home. Colonel Harris had
+promised Gertrude a special gift of a thousand dollars for the
+approaching nuptials, she to do what she desired with the money. So she
+decided to use only one-fourth of the gift for herself, to send one-half
+of it to the Relief Society, and the balance to two ladies' benevolent
+societies of Harrisville.</p>
+
+<p>The discussion of these plans made the last night in London a happy one.
+Happiness comes when we warm the hearts near us. When selfishness leaves
+the heart, the dove of peace enters. Early next morning at the Victoria
+Station, Colonel Harris and George saw their friends off for Paris. The
+route taken was the one via the London, Chatham &amp; Dover Railway, an
+hour's run to Dover, thence in the twin steamer "Calais-Dover," an hour
+and a half's ride across the English Channel to Calais, and from Calais
+via railway to Paris, capital of the French Republic.</p>
+
+<p>Then Reuben Harris and George Ingram left Victoria Station to pay their
+respects to Henry Bessemer, civil engineer, who lived at Denmark Hill
+south of London. They desired to study the conditions which make the
+British people powerful. Both were aware that England was richly stored
+with the most serviceable of all minerals, coal and iron, in convenient
+proximity; that her large flocks of sheep supplied both wool and leather;
+that Ireland had been encouraged in the cultivation of flax; that the
+convenience of intercourse between mother country and her neighbors,
+especially America, had enabled England to engage largely in the
+manufacture of the three textile staples, wool, flax, and cotton. But
+material resources are only one element in great industrial successes.
+Both labor and capital are equally essential.</p>
+
+<p>Englishmen have strength and skill. In delicate and artistic
+manipulation, however, the Englishman may be surpassed, but he possesses
+in a rare degree great capacity for physical application to work, also
+tremendous mental energy and perseverance. Most of the world's valuable
+and great inventions, as successfully applied to the leading industries,
+were made by the English.</p>
+
+<p>Though England has neither gold nor silver mines, yet for centuries she
+has commanded vast capital. Her trading enterprise, which has made the
+Englishman conspicuous round the world, existed long before the Norman
+conquest. Helpful and consistent legislation has also favored British
+industries. Besides, England enjoyed a good start in the race with
+foreigners. Surplus English capital of late has been employed in
+promoting foreign industry, and the interests of England as a rival
+may suffer.</p>
+
+<p>Reaching the station at Denmark Hill, the colonel and George drove at
+once to Bessemer's home. It is doubtful if England has forty acres, owned
+by a private citizen, more tastefully laid out and adorned, with forests,
+lawns, and flowers.</p>
+
+<p>Henry Bessemer was tall and well formed, and looked the ideal Englishman,
+as he gave cordial welcome, in his large drawing room, to Colonel Harris
+and George Ingram. Evidences of his constructive skill and exquisite
+taste were seen on every hand, notably in his billiard room,
+conservatory, and astronomical observatory. The last contained a
+reflector telescope of his own design, that rivals the world-famed
+telescope of Lord Rosse. Both were soon charmed with Bessemer's manners
+and conversation.</p>
+
+<p>George had read of this wonderful man who was born in 1813; between 1838
+and 1875 he had taken out 113 patents, and the drawings of his own work
+made seven thick volumes. This record of Bessemer indicates an almost
+unrivalled degree of mental activity and versatility as keen observer,
+original thinker, and clever inventor.</p>
+
+<p>His drawings showed patents in connection with improvements in engines,
+cars, wheels, axles, tires, brakes, and rails. Fifteen patents for
+improvements in sugar manufacture, patents for motors and hydraulic
+apparatus, for the manufacture of iron and steel, the shaping, embossing,
+shearing, and cutting of metals, for marine artillery, ordnance,
+projectiles, ammunition, armor plates, screw propellers, anchors,
+silvering glass, casting of type, patents for bronze powder, gold paint,
+oils, varnishes, asphalt pavements, waterproof fabrics, lenses, etc.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Bessemer's greatest invention, announced to the British Association
+at Cheltenham, in 1856, is his method of the manufacture of iron and
+steel without fuel, which started a new era in the iron trade. His name
+will be forever associated with the rapid conversion of pig iron into
+malleable iron and steel. By this process the price of steel per ton has
+been reduced from $160 to $25, a price less than was formerly paid for
+iron. Mr. Bessemer received the Telford and Albert gold medals and honors
+from sovereigns and societies round the world.</p>
+
+<p>George said to Mr. Bessemer that he thought Lord Palmerston's definition,
+"dirt was matter out of place," was especially applicable to the
+undesirable elements in ores.</p>
+
+<p>"Very true," replied Mr. Bessemer, "and the man who can clean the dirt
+from our ores, and produce the most desirable steel, at the least cost,
+is a great benefactor of humanity."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Bessemer's own story of his most important invention was very
+interesting. Practical iron men had said that it was an impossible feat
+to convert molten pig iron in a few minutes into fluid malleable iron,
+and then into available steel, and all this without additional fuel. But
+the genius and perseverance of Mr. Bessemer, aided by his practical
+knowledge of chemistry and mechanics, did it. It had long been known
+that, if a horseshoe nail were tied to a cord and the point heated to
+whiteness, the iron nail could be made to burn in common air by being
+whirled in a circle. The ring of sparks proved a combustion. Mr. Bessemer
+was the first however to show that if air was forced, not upon the
+surface, but into and amongst the particles of molten iron, the same
+sort of combustion took place.</p>
+
+<p>Pig iron, which is highly carbonized iron from the blast furnace, was
+laboriously converted into malleable iron by the old process of the
+puddling furnace. Bessemer conceived the process of forcing air among the
+particles of molten iron, and by a single operation, combining the use of
+air in the double purpose of increasing temperature, and removing the
+carbon. The carbon of the iron has a greater affinity for the oxygen of
+the air than for the iron. When all the carbon is removed, then exactly
+enough carbon is added by introducing molten spiegeleisen to produce
+steel of any desired temper with the utmost certainty.</p>
+
+<p>With the ordinary kinds of pig iron early in use, Bessemer's process
+was powerless. The old puddling process was more capable of removing
+phosphorus and sulphur. But with pig iron produced from the red hematite
+ores, practically free from phosphorus, Bessemer's process was a
+surprising success.</p>
+
+<p>At once exploration began to open vast fields of hematite ores in the
+counties of Cumberland and Lancashire of England, in Spain, in the Lake
+Superior regions of North America, and in other countries. Bessemer
+wisely made his royalty very low, five dollars per ton; capital rapidly
+flowed into this new industry, and Bessemer won a fortune. Mushroom towns
+and cities sprung up everywhere and fortunes were made by many.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Bessemer himself vividly described his process in action: "When the
+molten pig iron is poured into mortar-like converters, supported on
+trunions like a cannon, the process is brought into full activity. The
+blast is admitted through holes in the bottom, when small powerful jets
+of air spring upward through the boiling fluid mass, and the whole
+apparatus trembles violently. Suddenly a volcano-like eruption of flames
+and red-hot cinders or sparks occurs. The roaring flames, rushing from
+the mouth of the converter, changes its violet color to orange and
+finally to pure white. The large sparks change to hissing points, which
+gradually become specks of soft, bluish light as the state of malleable
+iron is approached."</p>
+
+<p>This very brilliant process, which includes the introduction and mixture
+of the spiegeleisen, may occupy fifteen minutes, when the moulds are
+filled, and the steel ingots can be hammered or rolled the same as blooms
+from a puddling furnace.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Bessemer explained many things, and offered many valuable
+suggestions. A remark of Mr. Bessemer to George Ingram led the latter
+to tell Bessemer a story which he heard in the smoking-room of the S.S.
+"Campania."</p>
+
+<p>"Two Irishmen once tried to sleep, but could not for Jersey mosquitoes
+had entered their bedroom. Earnest effort drove the mosquitoes out, and
+the light was again extinguished. Soon Mike saw a luminous insect, a big
+fire-fly approaching. Quickly he roused his companion saying, 'Pat, wake
+up! Quick! Let's be going! It's no use trying to get more sleep here,
+there comes another Jersey mosquito hunting us with a lantern.'"</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Bessemer was amused, and he ventured the assertion that when
+electricity could be as cheaply produced directly from coal as the light
+by the fire-fly, and successfully delivered in our great cities, the
+smoke nuisance would be effectually abated, all freight charges on coal
+would be saved, and coal operators could utilize all their slack at the
+mines.</p>
+
+<p>"Do you think this possible?" inquired Colonel Harris.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, yes, quite possible," answered Bessemer, "our necessities beget our
+inventions and discoveries. Thorough investigation in the near future on
+this and kindred lines must be fruitful of astonishing results in the
+interests of a higher civilization." The colonel and George took their
+leave. Truly the fire-fly, like the whirling hot nail, is suggestive of
+great possibilities, thought George.</p>
+
+<p>That evening it was planned to visit on the morrow the extensive
+telegraphic works of Siemens Brothers &amp; Co., Limited. George retired to
+sleep, but his mind was never more active. On warm summer evenings he had
+often held in his hand glow-worms and studied them as they emitted bright
+phosphorescent light. He had learned that this faculty was confined to
+the female which has no wings, and that the light is supposed to serve
+as a beacon to attract and guide the male. The light proceeds from the
+abdomen, and its intensity seems to vary at will. He had also read of
+a winged, luminous insect of South America, which emits very brilliant
+light from various parts of its body.</p>
+
+<p>When George reflected that under even the most favorable conditions there
+was realized in mechanical work of the energy stored in coal only 10%, he
+was convinced that the extravagant waste of 90% of energy was in itself
+sufficient argument against the present method as being the best
+possible. Ever since his graduation, he had believed that the greatest of
+all technical problems was the production of cheaper power. That it was
+the great desideratum in cities in the production of food, and in food
+transportation from farms to trunk lines, on railways and on the ocean.</p>
+
+<p>While in America he had discussed the matter of cheaper power with
+Edison, Thompson, Tesla, and others.</p>
+
+<p>George and his father, James Ingram, experimenting with chemical energy,
+had already discovered a galvanic element which enabled them to furnish
+electrical energy direct from coal and the oxygen of the air, but this
+important discovery was kept a secret. The chief object of George
+Ingram's visit abroad was to follow the footsteps of other great
+scientists and manufacturers to the edge or frontier of their discoveries
+and practical workings.</p>
+
+<p>It was two o'clock that night before George could close his eyes, but
+promptly at 6:30 o'clock next morning he was ready for his bath and
+shave, and later he and the colonel ate the usual European breakfast
+of eggs, rolls, and coffee. The eight o'clock train was taken for the
+great works of Siemens Brothers &amp; Co., Limited, which are located at
+Woolwich, down the Thames.</p>
+
+<p>This firm, the pioneers of ship lighting by electricity, has already
+fitted out hundreds of vessels with electric lights. They also
+manufacture submarine and land telegraphs in vast quantities, having
+aided largely in enclosing the globe in a network of cables. All the
+Siemens brothers have shown much ability. Charles William was born at
+Lenthe, Hanover, in 1823, and has received high scientific honors. The
+world recognizes the valuable services that Dr. Siemens has rendered to
+the iron and steel trade by his important investigations and inventions.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Siemens, like Mr. Bessemer, labored to make iron and steel direct
+from the ores. By the invention of his regenerative gas furnace, which
+makes the high grade and uniform steel so desirable in the construction
+of ships, boilers, and all kinds of machines, Dr. Siemens has rendered
+signal service. This visit at Siemens Brothers &amp; Co.'s works was of great
+interest, and many valuable ideas were gained.</p>
+
+<p>Several days were next spent in Birmingham, and at the centers of steel
+making in northwest England. Birmingham is called the "Toy Shop of the
+World" for there almost everything is manufactured from a cambric needle
+to a cannon.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris and George Ingram studied the workings of the English
+"Saturday half-holiday," which employees earn by working an extra
+half-hour on the five previous days. A visit was made to the Tangye Bros.
+Engine Works at Soho, near Birmingham, which absorbed the engine works of
+Boulton and Watt. It was Boulton who said to Lord Palmerston visiting
+Soho, "Sir, we have here for sale what subjects of his Majesty most
+seek, viz., Power."</p>
+
+<p>The Tangyes employ thousands of men, manufacturing engines and other
+products. Steam engines of all sizes, in enormous quantities are stored,
+ready at a moment's notice to be shipped broadcast. It was the invention
+of the powerful Tangye jack-screw that finally enabled the famous
+engineer Brunel to launch his "Great Eastern" steamship which he had
+built on the Thames, and which had settled on her keel.</p>
+
+<p>Today the Tangye Brothers are fond of saying, "We launched the 'Great
+Eastern,' and the 'Great Eastern' launched us." One of the Tangye
+Brothers took the two Americans through James Watt's old home, and into
+his famous garret, where Watt invented the parallel motion and other
+parts of the steam engine. So important were Watt's engine inventions
+that he alone should have the honor of inventing the modern engine which
+has so elevated the race.</p>
+
+<p>George was greatly interested in what the Tangye Brothers were doing for
+their employees. Instructive lectures by capable men were given weekly to
+their workmen, while they ate their dinners. Medical aid was furnished
+free, and in many ways practical assistance was rendered their working
+force.</p>
+
+<p>After a most interesting journey among the steel firms, including Bocklow
+&amp; Vaughn of Middleborough, John Brown at Sheffield, and others, Reuben
+Harris and George crossed over into busy Belgium, and thence they
+journeyed via historic Cologne to Westphalia, Germany. Here are some of
+the most productive coal measures on the earth, which extend eastward
+from the Rhine for over thirty miles, and here one wonders at the dense
+network of railways and manufacturing establishments, unparalleled in
+Germany.</p>
+
+<p>At Essen are the far-famed Krupp Works, one of the greatest manufacturing
+firms on the globe. These works are the outgrowth of a small old forge,
+driven by water power, and established in 1810 by Frederick Krupp. His
+short life was a hard struggle, but he discovered the secret of making
+cast-steel, and died in 1828. Before his death, however, he revealed his
+valuable secret to his son Alfred, then only 14 years of age. After many
+years of severe application, Alfred Krupp's first great triumph came in
+1851 at the London World's Fair, where he received the highest medal. At
+the Paris Exposition of 1855, as well as at Munich the year before, he
+also won gold medals.</p>
+
+<p>Abundant orders now flowed in for his breech-loading, cast-steel cannons.
+In severe tests which followed, the famous Woolwich guns were driven from
+the field. The Krupp guns won great victories over the French cannon at
+Sedan, which was an artillery duel. At Gravelotte and Metz the Krupp guns
+surpassed all others in range, accuracy, and penetrating power, and Herr
+Alfred Krupp became the "Cannon King" of Europe. Americans remember well
+his gigantic steel breech-loading guns at the expositions held in
+Philadelphia, and Chicago.</p>
+
+<p>Alfred Krupp, however, delighted more in improving the condition of his
+army of employees. He provided for them miles of roomy, healthful homes.
+He formed a commissariat, where his employees could secure at cost price
+all the necessaries of life. He also established schools where the
+children of his employees could receive education if desired in
+technical, industrial, commercial, and mechanical pursuits, and in
+special and classical courses as well. He devised a "Sick and Pension
+Fund," for disabled workmen, which scheme Emperor William II. has made a
+law of the German Empire. He likewise created life insurance companies,
+and widow and orphan funds. The golden rule has been Alfred Krupp's
+guiding star. He was always kind and considerate, and never dictatorial.</p>
+
+<p>When asked to accept a title, he answered, "No, I want no title further
+than the name of Krupp." Alfred Krupp died July 14, 1887, in the 75th
+year of his age. His request was that his funeral should take place, not
+from his palatial mansion, but in the little cottage within the works,
+where he was born, which is to-day an object of great reverence to the
+25,000 workmen who earn their daily bread in the vast Krupp foundries.</p>
+
+<p>Alfred Krupp lived to see Essen, his native village, grow from a
+population of 4,000 to a busy city of 70,000, where annually hundreds
+of engines and steam hammers produce thousands of tons of steel castings
+and forgings. Alfred Krupp built his own monument in the vast mills and
+benevolences of Essen, a monument more useful and enduring than marble
+or bronze. His son Frederick Alfred Krupp, his successor, married the
+beautiful Baroness Margarette von Ende. Colonel Harris and George visited
+other great works in Europe, and finally started to rejoin their friends
+in Paris.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XVII" id="CHAPTER_XVII"></a>CHAPTER XVII</h2>
+
+<h3>THE HARRIS PARTY VISITS PARIS</h3>
+
+
+<p>The distance is two hours from London to Dover. Half-way is Gad's Hill,
+famous as the residence of the late Charles Dickens. Further on is
+Canterbury, which is celebrated as the stronghold of Kentishmen and the
+first English Christian city. Its prime attraction of course is its fine
+cathedral, which in 1170 was the scene of Becket's murder.</p>
+
+<p>Dover on the English Channel lies in a deep valley surrounded by high
+chalk hills. On one of these, which is strongly fortified, may be seen
+evidences of Norman, Saxon, and Roman works.</p>
+
+<p>Every morning and evening the royal mail steamers leave Dover for Calais.
+The channel ride of twenty-one miles was made by the Harrises without the
+dreaded <i>mal de mer</i>. In the railway restaurant at Calais, Lucille
+volunteered to order for the party, but she soon learned, much to the
+amusement of her friends, that the French learned in Boston is not
+successful at first in France.</p>
+
+<p>The express to Paris is through Boulogne, an important sea town of
+fifty-thousand inhabitants, which combines much English comfort with
+French taste. From there hundreds of fishing boats extend their voyages
+every season to the Scotch coast and even to far-off Iceland.</p>
+
+<p>The scenery in the fertile valley of the Somme is beautiful. The route
+lies through Amiens, a large city of textile industries, thence across
+the Arve; the Harrises reached the station of the Northern Railway,
+in the Place Roubaix, in northern Paris as the sun faded in the west.</p>
+
+<p>Carriages were taken for the Grand Hotel, Boulevard des Capucines, near
+the new opera house, which is centrally located, and offers to travelers
+every comfort. The carriages enter a court, made inviting by fountains,
+flowers, and electric light.</p>
+
+<p>The first day or evening in Paris is bewildering. Early in the morning
+the Harrises drove along the inner and the outer boulevards that encircle
+Paris. Many miles of fine boulevards were built under Napoleon III. Most
+from the Madeleine to the July Column are flanked with massive limestone
+buildings, palatial mansions, and glittering shops, the architecture of
+which is often uniform, and balconies are frequently built with each
+story. Early every morning the asphalt and other pavements are washed.
+At midday a busy throng crowds all the main streets.</p>
+
+<p>Parisians favor residence in flats, and they enjoy immensely their
+outdoor methods of living. At sundown the wide walks in front of
+brilliant caf&eacute;s are crowded with well dressed men and women, who seek
+rest and refreshment in sipping coffee, wine, or absynthe, scanning the
+papers for bits of social or political news, and discussing the latest
+fad or sensation of the day. The English hurry but the French rarely.</p>
+
+<p>Paris under electric light is indeed a fairyland. The boulevards are
+brilliant and the scenes most animating. Everybody is courteous, and
+all seen bent on a pleasurable time. Caf&eacute;s, shops, and places of
+entertainment are very inviting, and you easily forget to note the
+passage of time. Midnight even overtakes you before you are aware of
+the lateness of the hour. This is true, if you chance to visit, as did
+the Harris party, some characteristic phases of Parisian life.</p>
+
+<p>Near the east end of the Champs-Elys&eacute;es, under the gas light and beneath
+the trees, they found open-air theaters, concerts, crowded cafes, and
+pretty booths supplied with sweets and drinks. Every afternoon if the
+weather is favorable, tastefully dressed children appear in charge of
+nursemaids in white caps and aprons, and together they make picturesque
+groups in the shade of elm and lime trees.</p>
+
+<p>At breakfast, Leo proposed a study of Paris, as seen from the Arc de
+Triomphe de l'Etoile, so named from the star formed by a dozen avenues
+which radiate from it. The location is at the west end of the Avenue des
+Champs-Elys&eacute;es. This monument is one of the finest ever built by any
+nation for its defenders. It is 160 feet in height, 145 in width, was
+begun in 1806 by Napoleon and completed thirty years afterwards by Louis
+Philippe. Figures and reliefs on the arch represent important events in
+Napoleon's campaigns. Arriving at the arch, Leo led the way up a spiral
+staircase, 261 steps to the platform above which commands fine views of
+Paris.</p>
+
+<p>The Champs-Elys&eacute;es, a boulevard one thousand feet in width, extends east
+over a mile from the monument of the Place de la Concord. Handsome
+buildings flank the sides, and much of the open space is shaded with elm
+and lime trees. Grand statues, fountains, and flowers add their charm.
+Between three and five o'clock every pleasant afternoon this magnificent
+avenue becomes the most fashionable promenade in the world. Here you will
+behold the elite in attendance at Vanity Fair; many are riding in elegant
+equipages, many on horseback, and almost countless numbers on foot.</p>
+
+<p>The popular drive is out the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 320 feet in
+width, to the Bois de Boulogne, a beautiful park of 2250 acres,
+containing several lakes and fringed on the west side by the River
+Seine. In the southwest part of this park is located the Hippodrome de
+Longchamp, which is the principal race-course near Paris, where races
+attract vast crowds, especially when the French Derby or the Grand Prix
+of twenty thousand dollars is competed for early in June.</p>
+
+<p>The Harrises standing on the monument, looked eastward, and Leo pointed
+out the River Seine shooting beneath more than a score of beautiful stone
+and iron bridges, and making a bold curve of seven miles through Paris.
+Then the Seine flows like a ribbon of silver in a northwesterly direction
+into the English Channel. On the right bank is seen the Palais du
+Trocadero of oriental style, which was used for the International
+Exposition of 1878. On the left bank stands the Palais du Luxembourg,
+rich in modern French art, the Hotel des Invalides, where rests Napoleon,
+and the Church of St. Genevieve, or the Pantheon, where Victor Hugo is
+buried.</p>
+
+<p>Beyond the Place de la Concord are the Royal Gardens of the Tuileries,
+where Josephine and Eugenie walked among classic statues, vases,
+fountains and flowers; the Louvre filled with priceless art treasures,
+the beautiful Hotel de Ville or city-hall, majestic Notre Dame, and
+the graceful Column of July. Paris is truly an earthly Paradise. For
+centuries it has been the residence of French rulers, and the mecca of
+her pleasure loving citizens. Fire, famine, foreign invasion, civil war,
+and pestilence have often swept over this, the fairest of cities, yet
+from each affliction, Phoenix-like, Paris has risen brighter and
+gayer than ever.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude, May, and Lucille were charmed with the fair vision before them,
+and were anxious to leave the Arch of Triumph and become a part of the
+gay city. The carriages drove back to the Place de la Concord, one of the
+finest open places in Europe. Around this place the chief cities of
+France are represented by eight large stone figures. That of Strasburg
+the French keep in mourning. In the center stands the Obelisk of Luxor,
+of reddish granite, which was brought at great expense from Egypt and
+tells of Rameses II. and his successor. Other ornaments are twenty
+rostral columns, bearing twin burners. On grand occasions this place
+and the avenue are illuminated by thirty thousand gas lights.</p>
+
+<p>In the Place de la Concord the guillotine did its terrible work in the
+months between January 21st, 1793, and May 3rd, 1795, when thousands of
+Royalists and Republicans perished. Two enormous fountains adorned with
+Tritons, Nereids, and Dolphins beautify the court. No wonder the
+brilliant writer Chateaubriand objected to the erection here of these
+fountains, observing that all the water in the world could not remove
+the blood stains which sullied the spot.</p>
+
+<p>How beautiful the vista up the broad and short Rue Royale, which conducts
+to the classic Madeleine! Alfonso was entranced with the beauty of this
+rare temple, which was begun and finally dedicated as a church, though
+Napoleon earnestly hoped to complete it as a temple of glory for his old
+soldiers. Its cost was nearly three million dollars. A colonnade of
+fifty-two huge fluted Corinthian columns and above them a rich frieze
+surround the church. The approach is by a score and more of stone steps
+and through enormous bronze doors on which the Ten Commandments are
+illustrated.</p>
+
+<p>Entering the Madeleine, one sees an interior richly adorned, floors of
+marble, and lofty columns supporting a three-domed roof, through which
+light enters. On either side are six confessionals of oak and gilt,
+where prince and peasant alike confess their sins. Beyond is the altar
+of spotless marble. How beautiful the group of white figures, which
+represents Madeleine forgiven, and borne above on angels' wings! This
+artistic group cost thirty thousand dollars.</p>
+
+<p>On Sunday morning Leo and his friends came to the Madeleine which is the
+metropolitan church of Paris. Here every Sunday exquisite music is
+rendered, and here come the elite to worship and to add liberal gifts. It
+is a broad policy that no Catholic Church on the globe, not even splendid
+St. Peter's of Rome, is considered too good for rich and poor of all
+nationalities to occupy together for the worship of the Master.</p>
+
+<p>All the Parisian churches are crowded on Sunday mornings, but Sunday
+afternoons are used as holidays, and all kinds of vehicles and trains are
+burdened with well dressed people in pursuit of pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>Traveling by omnibus and tramway in Paris is made as convenient to the
+public as possible; nobody is permitted to ride without a seat, and there
+are frequent waiting stations under cover. This is as it should be.
+Nearly a hundred lines of omnibuses and tramways in Paris intersect
+each other in every direction. Inside the fares are six cents, outside
+three cents. A single fare allows of a transfer from one line to another.
+Railways surround Paris, thus enabling the public to reach easily the
+many pretty suburbs and villages.</p>
+
+<p>Both Mrs. Harris and Gertrude on their return to the Grand Hotel were
+glad to find letters from the men they loved. George wrote Gertrude that
+he was amazed at the enormous capacity of the manufacturing plants which
+he and Colonel Harris were visiting; that both labor and capital were
+much cheaper than in America. His closing words were, "Learn all you can,
+darling, I shall soon come to claim you."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude had read of the laundries on the Seine, so she left the hotel
+early with her mother and Alfonso to see them, while Leo, Lucille, and
+May went to study contemporaneous French masterpieces in the Luxembourg
+palace and gallery. The public wash houses on the Seine are large
+floating structures with glass roofs, steaming boilers, and rows of tubs
+foaming with suds. Hard at work, stand hundreds of strong and bare armed
+women, who scrub and wring their linen, while they sing and reply to the
+banter of passing bargee or canotier.</p>
+
+<p>If the sun is shining and the water is clear, the blue cotton dresses
+of the women contrast prettily with white linen and bare arms busily
+employed. Though they earn but a pittance, about five cents an hour, yet
+they are very independent; mutual assistance is their controlling creed,
+and few, if any, honor more loyally the republican principle of liberty,
+equality and fraternity. The women seemed to do all the hard work, while
+the men in snowy shirts and blue cotton trousers, with scarlet girdles
+about their waists, pushed deftly to and fro the hot flat or box irons
+over white starched linen.</p>
+
+<p>Each ironer has a bit of wax, which he passes over the hot iron when he
+comes to the front, the collar, or the wrist-bands, and he boasts that he
+can goffer a frill or "bring up" a pattern of lace better than a
+Chinaman.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso and his party drove along the handsome Rue de Rivoli, with its
+half-mile of arcades, attractive shops, and hotels of high grade, and
+up the Rue Castiglione, which leads to the Place Vendome. Here in one
+of a hundred open places in Paris rises the Column Vendome in imitation
+of Trajan's column in Rome. The inscription records that it is to
+commemorate Napoleon's victories in 1805 over the Austrians and Russians.
+On the pedestal are reliefs which represent the uniforms and weapons
+of the conquered armies. The memorable scenes, from the breaking of camp
+at Boulogne down to the Battle of Austerlitz, are shown on a broad bronze
+band that winds spirally up to the capital, and the shaft is surmounted
+by a bronze statue of Napoleon in his imperial robes.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately Alfonso's carriage overtook Leo's party, and they visited
+together the pretty arcades and gardens of the Palais Royal. In the open
+courts are trees, flowers, fountains, and statues, and on the four sides
+are inviting caf&eacute;s and shops which display tempting jewelry and other
+beautiful articles. On summer evenings a military band plays here.
+Returning, the ladies stepped into the Grand Magasin du Louvre. At a
+buffet, refreshments were gratis, and everywhere were crowds, who
+evidently appreciated the great variety of materials for ladies' dresses,
+the fine cloths, latest novelties, exquisite laces, etc. The ladies
+planned to return here, and to make a visit to the famous Au Bon Marche,
+where cheap prices always prevail. Most of the afternoon was spent in the
+Louvre, a vast palace of art, and the evening at the Theatre Fran&ccedil;ais,
+the ceiling of which represents France, bestowing laurels upon her three
+great children, Moli&egrave;re, Corneille, and Racine. The Theatre Fran&ccedil;ais
+occupies the highest rank. Its plays are usually of a high class, and the
+acting is admirable. The government grants this theatre an annual subsidy
+of about fifty thousand dollars.</p>
+
+<p>Early next morning, the Harrises took carriages to the Halles Centrales,
+or union markets. These markets consist of ten pavilions intersected by
+streets. There are twenty-five hundred stalls which cover twenty-two
+acres, and cost fifteen million dollars. Under the markets are twelve
+hundred cellars for storage. The sales to wholesale dealers are made by
+auction early in the day, and they average about a hundred thousand
+dollars. Then the retail traffic begins. The supplies, some of which
+come from great distances along the Mediterranean, include meat, fish,
+poultry, game, oysters, vegetables, fruit, flowers, butters, cream
+cheese, etc. Great throngs of people, mostly in blue dresses and blouses,
+with baskets and bundles constantly surge past you. The whole scene is
+enjoyable. Everything they offer is fresh, and the prices usually are
+reasonable. When you make a purchase, you are made to feel that you
+have conferred a favor and are repeatedly thanked for it.</p>
+
+<p>The few days that followed in Paris were days of rest, or were spent
+in planning for the future. The art galleries and the shops on the
+boulevards were repeatedly visited, theaters and rides were enjoyed,
+and on Friday morning, the ladies went to the railway station to take
+leave of Alfonso and Leo, who left Paris for the study of art in the
+Netherlands. Colonel Harris and George Ingram were expected to arrive
+in Paris on Saturday evening.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XVIII" id="CHAPTER_XVIII"></a>CHAPTER XVIII</h2>
+
+<h3>IN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND</h3>
+
+
+<p>Reluctantly Alfonso and Leo left Lucille and May in Paris. Both were well
+educated and beautiful women. It is possible that Alfonso might have
+loved May Ingram had he been thrown more into her company, and so known
+her better in early life, but the Harrises and Ingrams rarely met each
+other in society. As for Leo, he loved Lucille, but she had erected an
+impassable barrier in her utterance on the steamer, "First love or none."</p>
+
+<p>Leo in a thousand ways had been kind to her, because he hoped eventually
+to win her favor, and possibly because he fully appreciated the value of
+money. Fortunes in Europe are not so easily made, but once won, the rich
+of the old world as a rule husband their resources better then they of
+the new world. On the whole Alfonso and Leo were glad to cut loose from
+society obligations and be free to absorb what generations of art
+development in the Netherlands had to offer.</p>
+
+<p>Leaving Paris they took the express via Rheims for Brussels. Entering
+this beautiful capital of the Belgians in the northern part of the city,
+they took a cab that drove past the Botanic Garden down the Rue Royale to
+the Hotel Bellevue which is near the Royal Palace and overlooks a park,
+embellished with sculptures, trees, flowers, and smooth lawns. One of the
+most enjoyable and profitable things for tourists to do in their travels
+is to climb at least one tower or height, as the views and correct
+information thus obtained will cling longest to the memory.</p>
+
+<p>Brussels is Paris in miniature. The royal palace and park may be compared
+to the Tuileries. The beautiful drive down the Boulevard de Waterloo and
+up Avenue Louise leads directly to the Bois de la Cambre, a lovely forest
+of four hundred and fifty acres, which resembles the Bois de Boulogne of
+Paris. Nearly six miles of old and new boulevards encircle Brussels,
+passing through the upper and lower portions of the city. The pleasing
+variety of some of the more handsome buildings is due to the competition
+for large premiums offered for the finest fa&ccedil;ades. The resemblance of
+Brussels to Paris is perhaps more apparent in the caf&eacute;s, shops, and
+public amusements along the busy boulevards. West of the Royal Palace is
+the picture gallery owned by the state, and by judicious and repeated
+purchases, the collection of pictures is considered superior to that of
+the famous gallery in Antwerp. In this gallery the two young artists
+spent several pleasant half-days comparing the early Flemish and Dutch
+schools. Especially did they study portrait work by Rubens, Frans Hals,
+and Van der Helst. All the work by the blacksmith artist Quinten Matsys
+in color or iron proved of great interest to the young Americans.</p>
+
+<p>Finally Leo, who knew much of the old masters of Europe, took Alfonso to
+see the Musee Wiertz, which contains all the works of a highly gifted and
+eccentric master. In a kind of distemper Wiertz painted Napoleon in the
+Infernal Region, Vision of a Beheaded Man, A Suicide, The Last Cannon,
+Curiosity, and Contest of Good and Evil, Hunger, Madness and Crime, etc.
+As Brussels is located near the center of Belgium, the city is very
+convenient to several cities that contain many works attractive to
+painters and architects.</p>
+
+<p>On arrival at Antwerp Alfonso and Leo rode to one of the stately
+cathedrals, near which a military band was playing. Before the church
+stood a bronze statue of Peter Paul Rubens. The scrolls and books,
+which lie on the pedestal, with brush, palette, and hat, are allusions
+to the varied pursuits of Rubens as diplomatist, statesman, and painter.
+The two young artists hastened into the cathedral to see Rubens's famous
+pictures, The Descent from the Cross, and The Assumption. His conception
+and arrangement were admirable, his drawing carefully done, and his
+coloring harmonious and masterly.</p>
+
+<p>Rubens, the prince of Flemish painters, was knighted. He was handsome and
+amiable, and his celebrity as an artist procured for him the friendship
+and patronage of princes and men of distinction throughout Europe.</p>
+
+<p>Not far from the cathedral the young artists came to the museum, in
+front of which rises a statue to Van Dyck, pupil of Rubens. "Here,
+Alfonso," said Leo, "is encouragement for you, for Van Dyck like yourself
+was the son of a wealthy man or merchant of Antwerp. He was educated in
+Italy, where he executed several fine portraits which I saw in Genoa as
+I journeyed to Paris." Charles I. of England appointed Van Dyck
+court-painter and knighted him. Van Dyck's ambition was to excel in
+historical works, but the demand upon him for portraits never left him
+much leisure for other subjects. How often "man proposes, but God
+disposes."</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso and Leo reached Dort or Dordrecht, which in the middle ages was
+the most powerful and wealthy commercial city in Holland. Huge rafts
+float down from the German forests, and at Dordrecht the logs are sawed
+by the many windmills. The Dutch province of Zealand is formed by nine
+large islands on the coast of the North Sea, and it has for its heraldic
+emblem a swimming lion with a motto <i>Luctor et Emergo</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Most of the province, which is created by the alluvial deposits of the
+Scheldt, is below the sea-level, and is protected against the
+encroachments of the sea by vast embankments of an aggregate length of
+300 miles. Willows are planted along the dykes, the annual repairs of
+which cost $425,000. An old proverb says, "God made the land, we Dutch
+made the sea."</p>
+
+<p>This fertile soil produces abundant crops of wheat and other grain. Near
+Dort is a vast reed-forest, covering more than 100 islands, which is also
+called, "Verdronken land," drowned land. This area of forty square miles,
+once a smiling agricultural tract, was totally inundated on the 18th of
+November, 1421. Seventy-two thriving market towns and villages were
+destroyed, and 100,000 persons perished. Leo made a sketch of the tower
+of Huis Merwede, the solitary and only relic of this desolate scene.</p>
+
+<p>The two artists visited Rotterdam, the second commercial city in Holland,
+which is fourteen miles from the North Sea and on the right bank of the
+Maas. An attractive quay a mile in length is the arriving and starting
+point for over 100 steamboats that connect Rotterdam with Dutch towns,
+the Rhine, England, France, Russia, and the Mediterranean.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso and Leo studied the collection of portraits at Boyman's Museum,
+and sketched in the River Park the happy people who were grouped under
+trees, by the fish ponds, and along the grassy expanses. Alfonso bought a
+photograph of the illustrious Erasmus. It is about ten miles to Delft,
+once celebrated for its pottery and porcelain, a city to-day of 25,000
+inhabitants. Here on the 10th of July, 1584, William of Orange, Founder
+of Dutch independence, was shot by an assassin to secure the price set on
+William's head by Farnese.</p>
+
+<p>Our two artists visited a church in Delft to see the marble monument to
+the memory of the Prince of Orange, which was inscribed "Prince William,
+the Father of the Fatherland." Not far is Delft Haven which Americans
+love to visit, and where the pious John Robinson blessed a brave little
+band as it set sail to plant in a new world the tree of Liberty.</p>
+
+<p>At length the artists reached The Hague, which for centuries has been the
+favorite residence of the Dutch princes, and to-day is occupied by the
+court, nobles, and diplomatists. No town in Holland possesses so many
+broad and handsome streets, lofty and substantial blocks, and spacious
+squares as The Hague.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso and Leo hastened to Scheveningen, three miles west of The Hague,
+on the breezy and sandy shores of the North Sea, a clean fishing village
+of neat brick houses sheltered from the sea by a lofty sand dune. Here
+bathing wagons are drawn by a strong horse into the ocean, where the
+bather can take his cool plunge. Scheveningen possesses a hundred fishing
+boats. The fishermen have an independent spirit and wear quaint dress. A
+public crier announces the arrival of their cargoes, which are sold at
+auction on the beach, often affording picturesque and amusing scenes,
+sketches of which were made. The luminous appearance of the sea caused by
+innumerable mollusca affords great pleasure to visitors, twenty thousand
+of whom every year frequent this fashionable sea-bathing resort.</p>
+
+<p>The second evening after the artists' arrival at Scheveningen, as they
+sauntered along on the brick-paved terrace in sight of white sails and
+setting sun, Alfonso was agreeably surprised to meet in company with her
+mother, Christine de Ruyter, a young artist, whose acquaintance he had
+made in the Louvre at Paris.</p>
+
+<p>Christine's father, prominent for a long time in the vessel trade, had
+recently died, leaving a fortune to his wife and two daughters, one of
+whom, Fredrika was already married. They were descended from the famous
+Admiral de Ruyter, who in 1673 defeated the united fleets of France and
+England off the coast of Scheveningen, which fact added much of interest
+to their annual visit to this resort. While Leo talked with the mother,
+Alfonso listened to Christine, as she told much about the historic family
+with which she was connected, and in return she learned somewhat of young
+Harris's family and their visit to Europe.</p>
+
+<p>Christine, who was about Alfonso's age, had fair complexion, light hair,
+and soft blue eyes. Her beauty added refinement that education and wide
+travel usually furnish.</p>
+
+<p>It was seen in Alfonso's face and in his marked deference that Christine
+filled his ideal of a beautiful woman. Christine and her mother and the
+young artists were registered at the Hotel de Orange, so of necessity
+they were thrown into each other's company. They drove to The Hague,
+compared the statues of William of Orange with each other; rode along
+the elegant streets, south through the Zoological and Botanical Gardens,
+through the park, and to the drill grounds. A half-day was spent in
+visiting the "House in the Woods," a Royal Villa, one and one-half
+miles northeast of The Hague. This palace is beautifully decorated,
+particularly the Orange Salon, which was painted by artists of the school
+of Rubens.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso and Leo enjoyed their visits to the celebrated picture gallery,
+which contains among many Dutch paintings the famous pictures by Paul
+Potter and Rembrandt. Paul Potter's Bull is deservedly popular. This
+picture was once carried off to Paris, and there ranked high in the
+Louvre, and later the Dutch offered 60,000 florins to Napoleon for its
+restoration.</p>
+
+<p>Christine, who was well conversant with art matters, knew the location
+and artistic value of each painting and guided the young Americans to
+works by Van Dyck, Rubens, the Tenniers, Holbein, and others. She was
+proud of a terra-cotta head of her ancestor, Admiral de Ruyter. The party
+soon reached Rembrandt's celebrated "School of Anatomy," originally
+painted for the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons. Tulp is in black coat with
+lace collar and broad-brimmed soft hat, dissecting a sinew of the arm of
+the corpse before him. He is explaining, with gesture of his left hand,
+his theory to a group of Amsterdam surgeons. No painter ever before
+succeeded in so riveting the attention of spectators in the presence of
+death. The listeners appear altogether unconscious of the pallid corpse
+that lies before them on the dissecting table.</p>
+
+<p>Invited by Christine's mother, the young artists accompanied the De
+Ruyters to Amsterdam, the commercial capital of Holland, with 300,000
+inhabitants. They live on ninety islands formed by intersecting canals,
+which are crossed by three hundred bridges. The buildings rest on
+foundations of piles, or trees, which fact gave rise to Erasmus's jest,
+that he knew a city where the people dwelt on tops of trees, like rooks.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso took Leo into the suburbs to see diamond polishing. The machinery
+is run by steam, and the work is done largely by Portuguese Jews. These
+precious stones are cut or sawed through by means of wires covered with
+diamond dust, and the gems are polished by holding them against rapidly
+revolving iron disks moistened with a mixture of diamond dust and oil.</p>
+
+<p>Christine's people lived in a red brick mansion, the gable of which
+contained a portrait in relief of Admiral de Ruyter, and fronted a shaded
+street on a canal. Here the American artists were handsomely entertained.
+They were driven to the picture galleries and the palace or town-hall in
+the Dam Square, where Louis Napoleon and Hortense once resided. From the
+tower which terminates in a gilded ship the artists obtained fine views
+of Northern Holland. Christine pointed out the Exchange and other objects
+of interest in the city, which abounds in narrow streets and broad
+canals, the latter lined with fine shade trees. Many of the tall,
+narrow houses have red tile roofs, quaint fork-chimneys, and they stand
+with gables to the canals. The docks show a forest of masts.</p>
+
+<p>The environs of the city are covered with gardens; trees adorn the roads,
+while poplars and willows cross or divide the fields, which are studded
+with windmills and distant spires, and everywhere are seen fertile corps,
+black and white cattle, and little boats creeping slowly along the
+canals.</p>
+
+<p>A Hollander's wealth is often estimated by his windmills. If asked, "How
+rich?" The reply comes, "Oh, he is worth ten or twelve windmills."
+Holland seems alive with immense windmills. They grind corn, they saw
+wood, they pulverize rocks, and they are yoked to the inconstant winds
+and forced to contend with the water, the great enemy of the Dutch. They
+constantly pump water from the marshes into canals, and so prevent the
+inundation of the inhabitants. The Hollander furnishes good illustration
+of the practical value of Emerson's words, "Borrow the strength of the
+elements. Hitch your wagon to a star, and see the chores done by the gods
+themselves."</p>
+
+<p>To the west are seen the church spires of Haarlem, and its long canal,
+which like a silver thread ties it to Amsterdam. To the east the towers
+of Utrecht are visible, and to the north glitter in the morning sun the
+red roofs of Zaandam and Alkmaar.</p>
+
+<p>Far away stretched the waters of the Zuider Zee, which Holland plans to
+reclaim by an enbankment from the extreme cape of North Holland, to the
+Friesland coast, so as to shut out the ocean, and thereby acquire 750,000
+square miles of new land; a whole province. At present 3,000 persons
+and 15,000 vessels are employed in the Zuider Zee fisheries, the revenues
+of which average $850,000 a year. It is proposed to furnish equivalents
+to satisfy these fishermen. It is estimated that this wonderful
+engineering feat will extend over 33 years and cost $131,250,000.</p>
+
+<p>Christine now conducted her artist friends out of the Palace and over to
+the Rijks Museum to see Rembrandt's largest and best work, his "Night
+Watch." It is on the right as you enter, covering the side of the room.
+It represents a company of arquebusiers, energetically emerging from
+their Guild House on the Singel. The light and shade of the Night Watch
+is so treated as to form a most effective dramatic scene, which, since
+its creation, in 1642, has been enthusiastically admired by all art
+connoisseurs.</p>
+
+<p>Rembrandt was the son of a miller, and his studio was in his father's
+wind-mill, where light came in at a single narrow window. By close
+observation he became master of light and shade, and excelled in vigor
+and realism. At $50 a year he taught pupils who flocked to him from all
+parts of Europe, but, like too many possessed of fine genius, he died in
+poverty. Later, London paid $25,000 for a single one of his six hundred
+and forty paintings. The Dutch painters put on canvas the everyday
+home-life and manners of their people, while the Flemish represented more
+the religious life of the lower Netherlands.</p>
+
+<p>These journeys in Belgium gave Alfonso and Leo enlarged ideas as to the
+possibilities of portrait painting. In Alma Tadema, of Dutch descent, and
+Millais they saw modern examples of wonderful success, which made clear
+to them that the high art of portrait painting once acquired, both fame
+and fortune are sure to follow.</p>
+
+<p>Christine de Ruyter had taken lessons of the best masters in Holland,
+Italy, and France. Few, if any women artists of her age, equalled or
+excelled her. Her conversations on art in the Netherlands charmed her
+two artist friends. She said, "The works of art of the fifteenth and
+seventeenth centuries in the Netherlands seemed to grow out of the very
+soil of the low countries. Our old artists revelled in the varied
+costumes and manifold types that thronged the cities of the Hanseatic
+League. The artist's imagination was fascinated by the wealth of color he
+saw on sturdy laborers, on weather-beaten mariners, burly citizens, and
+sagacious traders.</p>
+
+<p>"Rubens delighted often in a concentrated light, and was master of
+artistic material along the whole range. He painted well portraits,
+landscapes, battles of heroes, gallant love-making of the noble, and the
+coarse pleasures of the vulgar. Nearly a thousand pictures bear the name
+of Rubens.</p>
+
+<p>"The artistic labor of Frans Hals of Haarlem extended over half a
+century. He possessed the utmost vivacity of conception, purity of color,
+and breadth of execution, as shown in his latest works, and so well did
+he handle his brush that drawing seems almost lost in a maze of color
+tone. The throng of genre painters, who have secured for Dutch art its
+greatest triumph, are well nigh innumerable."</p>
+
+<p>Christine was very fond of flower-pieces, and had painted lovely
+marguerites on Gertrude's white dress, in Alfonso's full length picture
+of his sister, which he was soon to carry to Paris as his wedding
+present.</p>
+
+<p>Leo and Alfonso much wished to extend their journey north to Copenhagen
+and Stockholm, the "Venice of the North," but letters urging a speedy
+return to the marriage of George and Gertrude in Paris, forced the two
+artists to shorten their journey, say good-bye to their kind friends of
+Amsterdam, and hasten back to Paris, taking portraits of their own skill
+as wedding gifts.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIX" id="CHAPTER_XIX"></a>CHAPTER XIX</h2>
+
+<h3>PARIS AND THE WEDDING</h3>
+
+
+<p>Friday morning, Alfonso and Leo were missed at the table, and during the
+day as guides. Early every day while in Paris, Alfonso had bouquets of
+fresh flowers sent to the rooms of his mother, sisters, and May Ingram.
+After his departure the flowers did not come, so Gertrude and May before
+breakfast walked down the boulevard to the flower show, near the
+Madeleine, where twice a week are gathered many flower carts in charge of
+courteous peasant women. The flowers of Paris are usually cheap. A franc,
+eighteen cents, buys a bunch of pansies, or roses in bud or full bloom,
+or marguerites. The latter are similar to the English ox-eyed daisy, a
+favorite flower with the French, also with Gertrude, who often pinned a
+bunch on May Ingram. In mid-winter Parisian gardeners delight in forcing
+thousands of white lilac blossoms, which are sold in European capitals
+for holiday gifts.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude and May hurried back to the hotel as happy as the birds in the
+trees of the boulevard. When Gertrude reached her mother, a telegram was
+given her from George which read:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">City of Brussels.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>Gertrude</i>,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>We expect to arrive in Paris Saturday evening 6 o'clock. Alfonso and Leo
+here. All well. Grand trip. Love to all.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">George</span></p></div>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris and her young ladies planned to give most of the day to the
+purchase of Gertrude's trousseau and other needed articles. May Ingram
+thought it was "just lovely" to be with Gertrude in Paris, and help her
+select the wedding outfit. Earlier than usual on Friday morning the
+Harrises left the hotel. All four women were somewhat excited, as Mrs.
+Harris and Gertrude led the way, Lucille and May following, to M. Worth's
+establishment, located at Rue de la Paix 7.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille said, "It is strange indeed that, in view of the French ridicule
+made of the English on account of their lack of taste in dress, the best
+dressmakers in Paris should be Englishmen."</p>
+
+<p>Chief among all the Parisian dressmakers is Charles Frederick Worth, who
+was born in 1825, at Bourne, Lincolnshire. He came to Paris in 1858, and
+opened business with fifty employees combining the selling of fine dress
+material and the making of it. Worth now employs twelve hundred persons,
+and turns out annually over six thousand dresses and nearly four thousand
+cloaks; his sons ably assist him.</p>
+
+<p>Rare fabrics and designs in silk and other choice material are woven, and
+artistic ornaments are made especially for M. Worth. Paris, as the center
+of fashion, is greatly indebted to him, who gained in his line world-wide
+fame, and for nearly half a century he has been universally recognized by
+his competitors and the fair sex as master of his art. Kingdoms, empires,
+republics, and cabinets in swift succession followed each other, but the
+establishment of M. Worth maintained its proud position against all
+changes and rivals. He was helped to the highest pedestal of dictator
+of fashions by Mme. de Pourtales and Princess Pauline Metternich, both
+of whom possessed a keen sense of the fitness of texture, color, and
+cut, and with delicate hands could tone and modify till perfection was
+reached. The former introduced M. Worth to Empress Eugenie, for whom,
+and for the ladies of whose court, he designed state, dinner, and fancy
+costumes.</p>
+
+<p>That M. Worth possessed rare artistic taste aside from dressmaking is
+evidenced in the beauty of his rural home at Suresnes on the Seine, seven
+and a half miles from Paris. It is a superb work of harmony and is like
+a charming mosaic, every piece fitting into every other piece. He was
+his own architect, designer, upholsterer, and gardener. His villa lies
+beneath Mt. Valerien, one of the finest sites near Paris, and the outlook
+on the Seine, the Bois de Boulogne, and Paris, is a dream of beauty.</p>
+
+<p>Hurriedly passing down the Rue de la Paix, the stately Column Vendome in
+the vista, the Harris party entered M. Worth's establishment, to which
+women, from actress to empress, make pilgrimages from the end of the
+world.</p>
+
+<p>What a medley of people were already assembled! English duchesses,
+Russian princesses, Austrians, Spanish and Levantine aristocracy; wives
+and daughters of American railroad kings, of oil magnates, and of coal
+barons; brunette beauties from India, Japan, South America, and even
+fair Australians, all unconsciously assuming an air of ecstasy as they
+revelled in the fabric and fashion of dress; and stalking among them,
+that presiding genius, M. Worth, who in his mitre-shaped cap of black
+velvet, and half mantle or robe, strikingly resembled the great painter
+Hogarth.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Harris sent forward her letter of introduction from her husband's
+New York banker, and soon she and her friends were ushered into the
+presence of M. Worth himself. He seemed very gracious, asking about
+several good friends of his in America, and added, "Americans are my best
+clients, though we dispatch dresses to all parts of the world."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude inquired as to the origin of fashion. M. Worth answered
+cautiously, "When new fabrics or designs of material are invented, some
+require a severe style, and some are adapted for draperies, puffings,
+etc., and then the stage has great influence over fashion."</p>
+
+<p>May Ingram said, "Mr. Worth, how do you arrange designs?" He answered,
+"All my models are first made in black and white muslin, and then copied
+in the material and coloring which I select. In a studio our models are
+photographed for future reference."</p>
+
+<p>Saying this, he excused himself to welcome new arrivals, first having
+placed the Harrises in charge of a competent assistant. M. Worth's many
+rooms were plainly furnished with counters for measuring materials. The
+floors were covered with a gray and black carpet, in imitation of a
+tiger's skin, with a scarlet border. Several young women dressed in the
+latest style of morning, visiting, dinner, and reception toilets, passed
+up and down before clients to enable them to judge of effects. Mrs.
+Harris explained that one daughter desired, at an early date, a wedding
+dress and that the other members of her party wanted gowns.</p>
+
+<p>Friday and Saturday were occupied at Worth's in selecting dresses, and
+elsewhere in search of gloves and other essentials. A delightful hour was
+spent among the many makers of artificial flowers. Skilled fingers make
+from wire and silk stems and stamens and dies, shape leaves and petals
+which are darkened by a camel's hair pencil, or lightened by a drop of
+water. Capable botanists and chemists are employed, and nature herself is
+rivaled in delicate construction and fragrance even.</p>
+
+<p>In their round of shopping, the Harrises saw an ideal robe being made for
+an American belle. It was composed entirely of flowers, a skirt of roses
+of different tints, with a waist of lovely rose buds, and over all a veil
+with crystal drops in imitation of the morning dew. "A gem of a dress for
+some fairy," thought Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>Promptly at six o'clock Gertrude and Lucille drove to the railway
+station, and welcomed back George and Colonel Harris, and after dinner
+all went to the opera. Between the acts Gertrude and George told much
+of their late experiences. George said that Colonel Harris had become
+greatly interested in their scheme to build in America an ideal plant and
+town, and that he was anxious to return home as he felt that one's work
+must be done early, as life was short at best.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude explained to George all that had been done in preparing for the
+wedding, and said that she would be ready soon, that her mother and
+Lucille approved of their wedding trip of two weeks in Switzerland, and
+then Gertrude added, "I shall be ready, George, when you are, to return
+to America and to aid you all I can."</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris suggested a ride to Versailles, and Monday morning at nine
+o'clock Gaze's coach and four drove to the Grand Hotel, and six outside
+seats which had been reserved for the Harris party were filled. The
+coachman drove down the Avenue de l'Opera and into the Place du
+Carrousel, stopping a moment that all might admire the artistic pavilions
+of the Louvre, and the statue to the memory of Leon Gambetta, "Father of
+the Republic." Thence they rode out of the Court of the Tuileries, across
+the Place de la Concord, and down the charming Champs Elys&eacute;es. On the
+left stands the Palais de l'Industrie, where the salon or annual
+exhibition of modern paintings and sculptures occurs in May and June. On
+the right is the Palais de l'Elys&eacute;e, the official residence of the French
+president.</p>
+
+<p>George recalled that in these gardens of Paris, in 1814, Emperors
+Alexander and Francis, King Frederick III., and others sang a <i>Te Deum</i>,
+in thanksgiving for their great victory over Napoleon I.; that here
+the English, Prussian, and Russian troops bivouacked, and that in the
+spring of 1871, Emperor William and his brilliant staff led the German
+troops beneath the Arc de Triomphe, while the German bands played "Die
+Wacht am Rhine."</p>
+
+<p>The coach passed through the Bois de Boulogne, in sight of lovely lakes,
+quaint old windmills, and across famous Longchamps, where after the
+Franco-German War under a bright sky, in the presence of the French
+president, his cabinet, the senate and chamber of deputies, in full
+dress, and a million of enthusiastic citizens, Grevy and Gambetta
+presented several hundred silk banners to the French army. Thence the
+drive was along the left bank of the river till the ruins of St. Cloud
+were reached, where Napoleon III. Unwittingly signed his abdication when
+he declared war against Prussia.</p>
+
+<p>Climbing the hills through fine old forests after fourteen miles of
+travel southwest of Paris, the coach reached Versailles. Here that
+magnificent monarch, Louis XIV. lavished hundreds of millions on
+palaces, parks, fountains, and statues, and here the Harrises studied the
+brilliant pictorial history of France. In the Grand Gallery, which
+commands beautiful views of garden and water, are effective paintings
+in the ceiling, which represent the splendid achievements of Louis XIV.
+In this same Hall of Glass, beneath Le Brun's color history of the defeat
+of the Germans by the French, occurred in 1871 a bit of fine poetic
+justice, when King William of Prussia, with the consent of the German
+States, was saluted as Emperor of reunited Germany. After visiting the
+Grand Trianon the home of Madame de Maintenon, the coach returned via
+Sevres, famous for its wonderful porcelain, and reached Paris at sunset.
+The day was one long to be remembered.</p>
+
+<p>The Paris mornings were spent either in visits to the Louvre or in
+driving. George and Gertrude walked much in Paris. Monday morning all
+resolved to enjoy on foot the Boulevards from the Grand Hotel to the
+Place de la Republique. It was a field-day for the women, for every shop
+had its strong temptation, and the world seemed on dress-parade.
+Boulevard des Italiens in Paris is the most frequented and fashionable.
+Here are located handsome hotels and caf&eacute;s, and many of the choicest and
+most expensive shops. Several of these were visited, and many presents
+were sent back to the hotel for friends at home.</p>
+
+<p>At noon the Harrises took a simple lunch at one of the popular Duval
+restaurants. While the ladies continued their purchases, Colonel Harris
+and George visited the Bourse, or exchange, a noble building. Business at
+this stock exchange opens at twelve o'clock and closes at three o'clock.
+The loud vociferations of brokers, the quick gestures of excited
+speculators, and the babel of tongues produced a deafening noise, like
+that heard at the stock exchange in New York.</p>
+
+<p>By appointment the ladies called at the exchange, and a coach took the
+party to the Place de la Republique, where stands a superb statue of the
+Republic, surrounded with seated figures of Liberty, Fraternity, and
+Equality. Colonel Harris had often noticed these remarkable words cut
+into many of the public buildings of Paris, and he remarked that the
+lesson taught by them was as injurious as that taught in the Declaration
+of Independence, which declares, that "all men are created equal."</p>
+
+<p>Along the broadest parts of some boulevards and in public parks many
+chairs are placed for hire. On all the boulevards are numerous pillars,
+and small glass stalls, called kiosques, where newspapers are sold. The
+pillars and kiosques are covered with attractive advertisements. In these
+kiosques are sold, usually by women and children, many of the 750 papers
+and periodicals of Paris. Fifty of these papers are political. The
+<i>Gazette</i> is two hundred and sixty-four years old, established in 1631.
+<i>Le Temps</i>, "The Times," an evening paper, is English-like, and widely
+known. <i>Le Journal des Debats</i>, "The Journal of Debate," appears in
+correct and elegant language, and it usually discusses questions of
+foreign as well as of home politics. Papers called <i>Petite</i>, or "Little,"
+have an immense circulation. Over a half million copies of <i>Le Petite
+Journal</i> are sold daily. Frenchmen at home or abroad are not happy
+without their <i>Figaro</i>, which is read for its news of amusements, spicy
+gossip, and the odor of the boulevards. The sensitive and powerful press
+of Paris has often provoked political changes and revolutions.</p>
+
+<p>To study better the important revolution for liberty which occurred on
+the ever memorable 14th of July, 1789, the Harrises drove along the
+boulevard till they approached the Bastille, formerly the site of a
+castle, or stronghold, used for a long time as a state prison for the
+confinement of persons who fell victims to the caprice of the government.</p>
+
+<p>The graceful bronze July Column is 154 feet in height, and it
+commemorates the destruction of the Bastille, symbol of despotism. A
+strong desire for independence raised the cry "Down with the Bastille,"
+and the advancing tide of revolution overcame the moats, the walls, the
+guns, and the garrison, and freedom was victorious. On the column the
+names of the fallen "July Heroes" are emblazoned in gilded letters. In
+large vaults beneath are buried the heroes of 1789, with the victims of
+the later revolution of 1848. The capital of the column is crowned with
+an artistic Genius of Liberty standing on a globe, and holding in one
+hand the broken chains of slavery, and in the other the torch of
+enlightenment.</p>
+
+<p>All the boulevards were crowded with artisans in blue blouses, hurrying
+to their homes, as the Harrises drove along the quays to Notre Dame. They
+were in time to witness the sun burnish with his golden rays the graceful
+spire, the majestic tower, and elegant fa&ccedil;ade, and to enjoy the harmony
+of its grand organ within. To know Notre Dame, founded seven centuries
+ago, is to learn well the history of Paris, and to study the monuments of
+Paris alone, is to acquire the history of France.</p>
+
+<p>Every day some of the Harris party visited the vast Louvre, the most
+important public building of Paris, both architecturally and on account
+of its wonderful art treasures which are the most extensive and valuable
+in the world. Thus two weeks went swiftly by in sight-seeing, and in
+preparation for the marriage.</p>
+
+<p>The private parlors, banquet hall, and several rooms for guests of the
+Grand Hotel had been secured for Gertrude's wedding, which was to take
+place on George's birthday. Though superstition for ages had placed
+birthdays under a ban, yet Gertrude herself preferred this day, and all
+concurred. Beautiful presents had already arrived from America, and
+letters from schoolmates and friends, several of whom, however, had sent
+their presents to Harrisville. Nearly a thousand invitations in all,
+mostly to friends in America, had been mailed, including a hundred to
+friends traveling on the British Isles, and on the continent. May Ingram
+had met in London Claude Searles, son of Hugh Searles, and a graduate of
+Oxford University. She had an invitation mailed to Claude, and he
+promised to come.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso and Leo arrived from Holland the night before, and each brought
+paintings of their own skill as presents. Alfonso had done an exquisite
+full-length portrait of Gertrude in white, the dress, the same that she
+wore at Smith College graduation. All wondered about Leo's gift. Gertrude
+herself cut the strings, and pushed back the paper, while her sister
+Lucille looked first at her own beautiful likeness and then at Leo. Her
+face grew crimson, as she said, "Leo, this is just what I most wanted for
+Gertrude. Thank you! Thank you!" and she came near kissing the handsome
+artist.</p>
+
+<p>The mother had bought a plentiful supply of those things which daughters
+most need. The father's gift was the promised check for $1000, and a
+mysterious long blue envelope sealed, with the name "Mrs. Gertrude
+Ingram" written on the outside. Underneath her name were the tantalizing
+words, "To be opened when she reaches New York."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I so wonder what is inside," said Gertrude.</p>
+
+<p>May Ingram's gift was unique; a mahogany box, inlaid with the rare
+edelweiss, encasing a Swiss phonograph, that was adjusted to play "Elsa's
+Dream Song" from Lohengrin on Gertrude's marriage anniversary, till her
+golden wedding should occur.</p>
+
+<p>Next morning after the sun had gilded the domes and spires of Paris, the
+Harrises sat at breakfast in a private room, fragrant with fresh cut
+flowers. Gertrude wore at her throat her lover's gift, and she never
+looked prettier or happier. All the morning till 11 o'clock everybody was
+busy, when the ushers and friends began to arrive. Soon came the American
+ambassador, his wife and children. At 11:45 a bishop of New York City,
+Claude Searles of London, and intimate friends of the Harrises and George
+Ingram followed, till the private parlors were full.</p>
+
+<p>The orchestra of twenty pieces of Grand Opera House, stationed in the
+reception hall, played the "Largo" of Handel. In the third parlor from
+the ceiling were suspended ropes or garlands of smilax and bride's roses,
+which formed a dainty canopy. White satin ribbons festooned on two rows
+of potted marguerites made a bridal pathway direct from the foot of the
+stairway to the dais beneath the canopy.</p>
+
+<p>On the low platform stood the bishop and the manly bridegroom expectant,
+when a voice at the foot of the stairway, accompanied by three
+instruments, sang the Elsa's Dream Song. The wedding party came
+downstairs as the orchestra played Wagner's Wedding March. The bride was
+dressed in duchess satin of soft ivory tone, the bodice high and long
+sleeves, with trimming of jewelled point lace. The bridesmaids wore pale
+yellow cloth, with reveres and cuffs of daffodil yellow satin and white
+Venetian point. Mrs. Harris wore a gown of heliotrope brocaded silk,
+trimmed with rich lace and a bodice of velvet.</p>
+
+<p>The wedding party took their places and Mme. Melba accompanied by piano,
+harp, and violin sang Gounod's "Ave Maria."</p>
+
+<p>The bishop addressed a few earnest words to the couple before him, spoke
+of responsibilities and obligations, and then the formal questions of
+marriage, in distinct voice, were put to George and Gertrude.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. and Mrs. George Ingram received hearty congratulations. The guests
+retired to the banquet hall where breakfast was served. One table with
+marguerites was reserved for bride and bridegroom, ushers, and
+bridesmaids. Before the breakfast was ended the bride and bridegroom had
+escaped, but soon returned, the bride in a traveling gown of blue cloth.
+Volleys of rice followed the bridal pair, and more rice pelted the
+windows of the coach as it drove to the express train which was to convey
+the happy pair to Fontainebleau for a day, and thence into Switzerland.
+In the evening Colonel Harris entertained a large party of friends at the
+new opera house. The Harrises next morning left for southern France.</p>
+
+<p>Before the marriage day George and Gertrude had carefully provided in
+Paris for the welfare of May Ingram whom both loved. And well they might,
+for May had a noble nature, and her music teachers in Boston, who had
+exerted their best efforts in her behalf, believed that she possessed
+rare talents, which, if properly developed, would some day make her
+conspicuous in the American galaxy of primadonnas.</p>
+
+<p>They had secured for May sunny rooms at a pension in the Boulevard
+Haussmann, where a motherly French woman resided with her two daughters.
+In beautiful Paris, May Ingram was to live and study, hoping to realize
+the dreams of her childhood, a first rank in grand opera.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XX" id="CHAPTER_XX"></a>CHAPTER XX</h2>
+
+<h3>ABOARD THE YACHT "HALLENA"</h3>
+
+
+<p>Before leaving Paris Colonel Harris was solicitous that his son Alfonso
+should accompany him to Rome, and Leo urged the artistic advantage of a
+trip to Italy, but Alfonso had attractions in Holland of which the father
+knew not. Leo, of course, had his suspicion, but did not wish to betray
+his friend, and so Alfonso returned to the Netherlands ostensibly to
+study art.</p>
+
+<p>Before leaving New York it was frequently stated by Leo that when he
+reached Rome he hoped to be able to even up favors with Alfonso by a
+series of visits among his relatives, the famous Colonna family. While
+Leo regretted seriously to lose this opportunity, he was quick to see
+that the change of plans would leave him much in Lucille's company, the
+thing that gave him most pleasure. Lucille before leaving Harrisville had
+a severe attack of the grip, and Mrs. Harris hoped the journey abroad
+would prove beneficial to her health.</p>
+
+<p>The ocean voyage had brought the roses back to her cheeks, but the
+railway trips, the over-work of sight-seeing, and especially the
+excitement of the Paris wedding, had renewed frequent complaints of heart
+difficulty, and at night Lucille was restless and failed to secure
+satisfactory sleep. Of course the mother was anxious, and was glad when
+the express arrived at Nice, on the Mediterranean. Fortunately this was
+not the fashionable season, so quiet quarters were secured overlooking
+the terraced promenade, the small harbor open to the southeast, and the
+smooth sea beyond. Here Mrs. Harris hoped that her daughter would
+speedily recover her health.</p>
+
+<p>Nice is charmingly situated in a small plain near the French frontier at
+the foot of the triple-ridged mountains, which shelter the city on the
+north and east against northern winds, while the river Paglion bounds
+Nice on the west. Far beyond stretch the snow-clad peaks of the Maritime
+Alps.</p>
+
+<p>In the cold season thousands of foreigners, especially the English, visit
+this winter paradise. On the high background are Roman ruins and an old
+castle enclosed by bastioned walls; leading to two squares, one of which
+is surrounded with porticoes, are streets embellished with theater,
+public library, baths, and handsome homes that are frescoed externally.
+In Nice the patriot Garibaldi first saw the light, and just above the
+town on a sunny hillside lies buried the illustrious Gambetta.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille was soon able to sit on the portico and watch the vessels in the
+harbor come and go, also parties of excursionists in pleasure boats, and
+well dressed people in the shade of the great palms on the adjacent
+promenade. Thus hours went pleasantly by while Leo often played
+delightfully on his guitar.</p>
+
+<p>Few if any places in the world are like the Riviera where in winter
+months royalty and aristocracy gather. Here come the gay world of fashion
+and the delicate in health to beg of death a respite of a few more days.
+The physician in attendance upon Lucille advised much outdoor air, and
+frequent coach rides along the shore were taken to Cannes, to Monaco, and
+Mentone.</p>
+
+<p>In the seaport town of Cannes, a bright gem set in groves of olives and
+oranges, Napoleon landed from Elba on the first of March, 1815. The
+tri-color of France was again thrown to the breeze, and en route to Paris
+Napoleon received on every hand the renewed allegiance of officers and
+garrisons. The French were wild with excitement, but Europe was filled
+with amazement. Again France was conquered without the shedding of blood,
+a victory unparalleled in history.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille particularly enjoyed the ride of eight miles east along the
+peaceful Mediterranean, also the visit to Monaco, capital of the
+principality of its own name, with an area of about 34,000 acres. Monaco
+is beautifully situated on a promontory in the sea, and has an attractive
+palace and cultivated terraces. The ruling prince resides here six months
+and at Paris the other six months.</p>
+
+<p>Monte Carlo is a veritable bit of paradise so far as nature and art can
+work wonders. Around this famous gambling resort grow aloes, orange
+trees, and tufted palms. Within the handsome casino weak humanity of all
+nationalities is allured by glittering promises of wealth. No wonder
+a dozen or more suicides occur every month.</p>
+
+<p>It was three o'clock on the sixth day of the stay at Nice, when Colonel
+Harris sitting on the porch of the hotel and using a marine glass,
+discovered to the southwest a tiny craft rapidly approaching Nice. For
+three days he had been anxiously watching and waiting for the arrival of
+the "Hallena," built at Harrisville for the son of his special friend Mr.
+Harry Hall.</p>
+
+<p>Before leaving Paris, Harry Hall Jr. had invited the colonel's family to
+coast along the Mediterranean in his new yacht. It was arranged that the
+"Hallena" should touch at Nice and take aboard the colonel's family.
+Young Mr. Hall was to rejoin his yacht at Gibraltar, and doubtless he was
+now aboard.</p>
+
+<p>The colonel grew nervous as he observed the approach of the little boat.
+It had been agreed between Harris and Hall that the yacht would fly the
+Union Jack at the bow, the national banner at the flag-staff, and a
+streamer bearing the yacht's name at the mast-head.</p>
+
+<p>As the colonel again wiped the dust from his glasses, Lucille said,
+"Father, please let me try the glass, perhaps my eyes are better." While
+Lucille eagerly looked toward the yacht, Leo watched every motion, as the
+mention of young Hall's name in connection with his great wealth had
+awakened jealousy in his heart.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly Lucille shouted, "There she is! I can see the stars and stripes;
+how welcome is the dear old flag, we see it abroad so rarely!"</p>
+
+<p>"Hasten, Leo," said the colonel, "and ask the hotel proprietor to raise
+the stars and stripes over his hotel."</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris had promised Mr. Hall to do this, and so advise him where
+the Harris family were stopping. No sooner was the red, white, and blue
+given to the breeze above the hotel, than a puff of white smoke was seen
+on the yacht, and then came the report of a gun in response to Harris's
+flag signal. Bills were paid at once, and the Harrises took carriage down
+to the landing. As the "Hallena" glided in between the piers, she was as
+graceful as a swan, or as Leo expressed it, "as pretty as a pirate."</p>
+
+<p>Harris himself when at home saw the yacht launched, and he was as proud
+of her behavior then as were the officers of the Harrisville Ship
+Building Company.</p>
+
+<p>The yacht had now approached so near that Colonel Harris and Harry Hall
+saluted each other, and in five minutes the Harris and Hall parties were
+exchanging cordial greetings on the deck of the "Hallena." "Captain
+Hall," as Harry was known at sea, was very cordial to all. Colonel Harris
+was glad again to meet some of his old Harrisville business friends.</p>
+
+<p>Luke Henley and wife were of the Hall party. He was stout, resolute, and
+ambitious; his wife womanly and well dressed. Henley early learned that
+money was power. Combining what he fell heir to with his wife's fortune,
+and what he had made by bold ventures in the steel, ore, and coal trade,
+he was enabled to live in a fine villa, overlooking the water, and to
+carry on an immense business on the inland lakes.</p>
+
+<p>His business, however, was used as a cover to his real designs in life.
+Influential in the local politics of Harrisville he had experienced the
+keen pleasure of wielding the silver sceptre of power, and he longed not
+only to be the "power behind the throne," but to sit on the throne itself
+and guide the Ship of State.</p>
+
+<p>Major Williams also was one of the "Hallena" party. He was young,
+slender, and had a cheerful smile for everybody. He had climbed to the
+presidency of the Harrisville Bank which had thousands of depositors, and
+which wielded a gigantic financial power.</p>
+
+<p>It was decided not to start for Genoa till the next morning. Dinner was
+soon announced and Captain Hall offered his arm to Lucille, whom he
+placed at his right hand, and Mrs. Harris at his left. The dinner hour
+and part of the evening were spent in pleasant reminiscences of what
+each had seen since leaving Harrisville. The marriage of George Ingram
+and Gertrude was also a suggestive topic, and many agreeable things were
+spoken. Captain Hall was present at the Paris wedding, and it was the
+stately beauty of Lucille more than all else that prompted him to invite
+the Harrises to take the Mediterranean cruise.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the mothers of fine daughters in Harrisville had exhausted their
+wits in trying to entrap Harry Hall, who was impartially attentive to
+all, but was never known to pay marked attention to any young lady. That
+Captain Hall should overlook the other women on the yacht, and place
+Lucille at his right hand was so marked that Major Williams after dinner,
+lighting his cigar, said, "Henley, why wouldn't Harry and Lucille make a
+good match?" "Lucille is a beautiful girl," was all Henley said, and as
+the lights of Nice disappeared, the "Hallena" party retired for the
+night.</p>
+
+<p>An early breakfast was ordered as everybody wished to be early on deck to
+witness the yacht's departure for Genoa. As the "Hallena" responded to
+her helm, the United States consul at Nice hoisted and lowered the flag
+thrice, as a <i>bon voyage</i> to the American yacht, and the consul queried
+whether the American statesman was yet born who was wise enough to
+introduce and maintain such a national policy as would multiply his
+country's commerce and flag on the sea. Patriotic Americans stopping at
+Monaco also responded with flag and gun, as the "Hallena" steamed swiftly
+away.</p>
+
+<p>The sun had reached the zenith, when Captain Hall sighted Genoa, and he
+called Lucille to stand with him on the bridge. "Superb Genoa! Worthy
+birthplace of our Columbus," said Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said Harry, "Genoa is older than Borne; she was the rival of
+Venice, and the mother of colonies."</p>
+
+<p>As the "Hallena" approached this strongly fortified city of northern
+Italy, the capacious harbor was a forest of masts, and a crazy-quilt of
+foreign flags, but not one ship was flying the stars and stripes, a fact
+which saddened the hearts of the tourists. The "Hallena" steamed past the
+lighthouse and moles that protect the harbor, and all the guests of
+Captain Hall stood on the forward deck admiring the city with its
+palaces, churches, white blocks, and picturesque villas that occupy land
+which gradually rises and recedes from the bay.</p>
+
+<p>On landing, the officials were very courteous, and gave Captain Hall and
+his party no trouble when it was learned that that "Hallena" brought
+travelers only. The Genoese are very proud of their city and its past
+history, and they are courteous to Americans, especially so since the
+Columbian World's Fair.</p>
+
+<p>The tourists found the streets in the older part of Genoa narrow, seldom
+more than ten feet wide, with lofty buildings on either side. But in the
+new portions, especially on the wide Strada Nuova and the Strada Balbi,
+the palaces and edifices present fine architecture.</p>
+
+<p>Nearly a day was spent in driving about Genoa with its flower-crowned
+terraces. It was after five o'clock when the party stood before the noble
+statue of Columbus recently dedicated in a prominent square filled with
+palms and flowering shrubs, and near the principal railway station. Here
+the statue welcomes the coming and speeds the parting guest. Its design
+is admirable. Surmounting a short shaft is Columbus leaning upon an
+anchor, and pointing with his right hand to the figure of America; below
+him are discerned encircling the shaft ornaments symbolic of Columbus's
+little fleet, while other statues represent science, religion, courage,
+and geography; between them are scenes in bass-relief of his adventurous
+career.</p>
+
+<p>Dinner was taken aboard the yacht as it steamed away from Genoa. The
+flowers that Harry had bought for Lucille's stateroom she thoughtfully
+placed on the table, and with the porcelain they added artistic effect.
+The day's experiences were reviewed, and, as the appetizing courses
+were served, the conversation drifted back to the World's Columbian Fair
+which all had attended. Many of the wonders of the "White City" were
+recounted, and Henley in his off-hand manner repeated a compliment
+which was paid by a cultivated Parisian who visited the Fair. The
+Frenchman said that at the last Paris Exposition, he saw immense and
+unsightly structures, such as one might expect to find in far-off
+Chicago, but that at the Columbian World's Fair, he beheld buildings
+such as his own artistic Paris and France should have furnished; that the
+Columbian Fair was an artistic triumph that had never been paralleled
+except in the days of imperial Rome by her grand temples, palaces,
+arches, bridges, and statues.</p>
+
+<p>"The Parisian is right, and he pays America a most deserved compliment.
+Never was so elegant a panorama enrolled as at Chicago," responded
+Colonel Harris.</p>
+
+<p>"You are correct, Colonel," said Captain Hall, "the triumph of our
+Exposition was largely due to the masterly supervision which evoked
+uniformity of design and harmonious groupings by employing only those
+of our architects, sculptors, painters, and landscape gardeners, who
+possessed the highest skill."</p>
+
+<p>Leo ventured to add that the "White City" seemed to him dream-like and
+that under the magical influence of Columbus, as patron-saint, all
+nationality, creed, and sex, were harmoniously blended in ideal beauty
+and grandeur.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille, who had just sipped the last of her chocolate, also bore
+testimony, and Harry watched her admiringly as she said, "At times,
+especially in the evening, when thousands of incandescent lights outlined
+the Court of Honor with its golden Goddess of the Republic and the
+fa&ccedil;ades, turrets, and domes, it seemed to some of us as if we had stepped
+out upon a neighboring planet, where civilization and art had been
+purified, or that the veil was lifted and we were gazing upon the
+glories of the New Jerusalem."</p>
+
+<p>The ladies now sought the deck of the "Hallena," and were soon followed
+by the gentlemen, who smoked their fragrant Havanas, enjoying every
+moment's vacation from business anxieties at home. The yacht, like a
+slender greyhound, in charge of the first officer was swiftly running
+towards the Isle of Elba, en route to Naples. The stars never shone more
+brilliantly in the Italian sky, and land breezes were mingling their rich
+odors with the salt sea air.</p>
+
+<p>The spell of Columbus's great discovery stirred the soul of Harry Hall.
+Holding his half-smoked cigar, he repeated the familiar couplet,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6">"Man's inhumanity to man<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Makes countless thousands mourn."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>"Strange that four centuries go by before even Genoa erects his monument,
+which we have admired to-day; though monuments to the memory of Columbus
+have been erected in many cities, yet, how tardy the world was to
+appreciate the value of Columbus's discovery, a third of the land of the
+globe. How pitiful the last days of Columbus, who, old and ill, returning
+in 1504 from his fourth voyage to the new world, found his patroness
+Isabella dying, and Ferdinand heartless. With no money to pay his bills,
+Columbus died May 20th, 1505, in poor quarters at Valladolid, his last
+words being, 'Into thy hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit.' It is now
+natural perhaps that many cities should claim his birth and his bones."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said Lucille, "how encouraging some of the world's kind epitaphs
+would be if they were only spoken before death came. Two hemispheres now
+eagerly study the inspiring story of Columbus's faith, courage,
+perseverance, and success."</p>
+
+<p>Henley said, "Captain Hall, you are young yet, but by the time you reach
+my age you will have little use for the sentiment young people so often
+indulge in. When New York tries her hand with expositions she will
+doubtless deal with facts. The truth is, Columbus was human like the
+rest of us, and followed in the wake of others for his own personal
+aggrandizement. He was not the first man to discover America. The
+Norsemen antedated him by five centuries."</p>
+
+<p>"What if the Norsemen did first discover America?" said Colonel Harris.
+"The discoveries of the vikings were not utilized by civilization. It is
+held by the courts that a patent is valid only in the name of the
+inventor who first gives the invention a useful introduction. Columbus's
+discovery was fortunately made at a time when civilization was able with
+men and money to follow up and appropriate its advantages."</p>
+
+<p>"The true discoverer of America," said Henley, "I believe to be Jean
+Cousin, a sea captain of Dieppe, France, who crossed the Atlantic and
+sailed into the Amazon River in 1488, four years before Columbus reached
+San Salvador. Then Spain, Portugal, the States of the Church, Ferdinand,
+Isabella, and Columbus attempted to rob Cousin of his bold adventure. In
+brief these are the facts: Jean Cousin was an able and scientific
+navigator. In 1487 his skill so contributed in securing a naval victory
+for the French over the English that the reward for his personal valor
+was the gift of an armed ship from the merchants of Dieppe, who expected
+him to go forth in search of new discoveries.<br />
+<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></p>
+
+<p>"In January, 1488, Cousin sailed west out into the Atlantic, and south,
+for two months with Vincent Pinzon a practical sailor, second in command.
+He sailed up the Amazon River, secured strange birds, feathers, spices,
+and unknown woods, and returned to the coast of Africa for a cargo of
+ivory, oil, skins, and gold dust. Pinzon quarreled with the natives,
+fired upon them, and seized some of their goods, so that they fled and
+would not come back to him. He thus lost a valuable return cargo. At
+Dieppe the merchants were enraged; Pinzon was tried by court martial for
+imperilling the trade of Africa, and banished from French soil. He
+thirsted for revenge and went back to Palos to tell his brothers Alonzo
+and Martin, shipowners, of the mighty Amazon; often they speculated as to
+the vast lands which the Amazon drained.</p>
+
+<p>"Columbus, discouraged, ridiculed, and begging his way, started out to
+meet at Huelva his brother-in-law and secure promised help, so that he
+could visit France. Suddenly he changed his route, stopped at the little
+convent La Rabida, met Juan Perez, who knew Queen Isabella, and Fernandez
+the priest, the latter a close friend of the three Pinzon brothers.
+Columbus got what he wanted at court, returned to Palos, and with the
+Pinzon brothers sailed west, with Vincent Pinzon, Cousin's shipmate, as
+pilot. The conclusion that Jean Cousin, and not Columbus first discovered
+America, seems irresistible. Pope Alexander VI., by Papal bull, had
+already divided all the new discoveries made, between Catholic Spain and
+Portugal. Dieppe and France were in the Pope's black books. What chance
+of recognition had Cousin against Columbus, the prot&eacute;g&eacute; of this Pope?"</p>
+
+<p>"You seem to win your case," said Major Williams, "what romance in
+history will be left us? William Tell is now a myth, and Washington's
+little hatchet story is no more."</p>
+
+<p>Lucille quieted Leo with a smile, cigars were thrown overboard, the light
+on the Isle of Elba was visible, and all retired for the night, while the
+alert yacht, like a whirring night-hawk, flew on towards Naples.</p>
+
+<p>On the yacht "Hallena" early to bed and early to rise was an unwritten
+law. By six o'clock next morning, breakfast had been served, and the
+tourists were on deck with glasses, each anxious to discover objects of
+interest. During the night busy Leghorn on the coast, and Pisa, and
+Florence up the Arno, were left behind. Leo was proud of sunny and
+artistic Italy and he much desired that Lucille should see at Pisa the
+famous white marble leaning tower, with its beautiful spiral colonnades;
+its noble cathedral and baptistry, the latter famous for its wonderful
+echo, and the celebrated cemetery made of earth brought from the Holy
+Land. At Florence she should see the stupendous Duomo, with the
+Brunelleschi dome that excited the emulation of Michael Angelo; the
+bronze gates of Ghiberti, "worthy to be the gates of paradise," and the
+choice collections of art in the Pitti Palace and the Uffizi Gallery
+connected by Porte Vecchio. But Leo contented himself with the thought
+that when the yacht episode was over, and Harry Hall had passed out of
+sight, he could then take Lucille over Italy to enjoy a thousand-and-one
+works of art, including masterpieces by such artists as Michael Angelo,
+Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Guido, and others.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille had studied art in Boston, and she was fond of Leo because he
+passionately loved art and could assist her. She began to comprehend what
+Aristotle meant when he defined art as "the reason of the thing, without
+the matter," or Emerson, "the conscious utterance of thought, by speech,
+or action, to any end."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XXI" id="CHAPTER_XXI"></a>CHAPTER XXI</h2>
+
+<h3>TWO UNANSWERED LETTERS</h3>
+
+
+<p>During the night the yacht "Hallena" had steamed down through the Channel
+Piombino, and the Tuscan Archipelago, studded with islands, and had
+passed Rome, the Eternal City.</p>
+
+<p>"Naples cannot be far off," thought Leo, for to the southeast is seen the
+smoking torch of Mt. Vesuvius, southwest is the island of Ischia with its
+extinct volcano, and beyond is Cape Miseno. The "Hallena" cautiously felt
+her way among the luxuriant islands that guard the broad and beautiful
+Bay of Naples and the Siren City. Her passengers had ample opportunity
+to study the attractions of this justly celebrated locality.</p>
+
+<p>Vesuvius, reflected in the smooth waters of the bay, lifts high her peak,
+the ascending smoke coloring the white clouds above. At her feet lies
+ancient Hurculaneum, submerged on the 24th of August, A.D. 79, by a flood
+of molten lava.</p>
+
+<p>Nearer the bay and only five miles from the volcano, is ancient Pompeii,
+which was overwhelmed by the same eruption of Vesuvius. Pompeii was
+buried, not with lava, but with tufa, ashes and scori&aelig;, and since 1755
+has thus been the more easily and extensively uncovered. This ancient
+Roman city was enclosed by walls and entered by several gates. Its
+numerous streets were paved with lava. The traveler of to-day beholds
+uncovered the one story and terraced houses, shops, mansions, the market
+place, temples, theatres, and baths. In some of the houses were found
+furniture, statues, paintings, books, medals, urns, jewels, utensils,
+manuscripts, etc., all less injured than one would suppose.</p>
+
+<p>Today more modern towns are located about the curved shore of this
+unrivaled bay. The sparkling waters, the winding shore, the bold cliffs,
+the threatening lava cone, the buried cities, all combine under the
+bluest skies to make the Bay of Naples a Mecca for worshipers of the
+beautiful.</p>
+
+<p>On the deck of the "Hallena" stood the group of American tourists,
+enchanted with the picturesque environment of historic Naples. The city
+is built along the shore and up the sides of adjacent mountains. A mole,
+with lighthouse, projects into the bay and forms a small harbor.</p>
+
+<p>The sun had climbed towards the zenith, and shone full upon this fair
+city, as the yacht entered the harbor. Many of the buildings are white,
+five or six stories in height, with flat roofs covered with plants and
+shrubbery. If the weather is favorable the inmates resort at sunset to
+their roof-gardens to enjoy lovely views and the cool breezes from the
+bay.</p>
+
+<p>The Spiaggia, a popular thoroughfare, is adorned with statues, and
+extends along the shore to the Tomb of Virgil, and the mole. It is
+crowded every evening with Neapolitans in equipages, some elegant, and
+some grotesque.</p>
+
+<p>Two or three days were spent in studying the palaces and art galleries of
+Naples. Of special interest is the national Museo Borbonico, which is
+remarkable for its collection of antiquities. In the palmy days of Borne,
+Naples was a luxurious retreat for emperors and wealthy citizens of the
+great empire. Naples was the scene of a most disgraceful outrage in May,
+1848, when it was plundered by the Lazzaroni, or Begging Community, and
+fifteen hundred lives were lost.</p>
+
+<p>When the sight-seeing in Naples was completed Captain Hall offered to
+take the Harrises in his yacht back to Rome, but his offer was declined.
+Good-byes were cordially exchanged and the "Hallena" steamed south to
+Palermo, en route to Athens and other Levantine cities, while the
+Harrises took the express for Rome.</p>
+
+<p>Leo was glad to see the "Hallena" steam away, and to be with Lucille
+aboard a train moving towards Rome. When the station in the eastern part
+of the city was reached, a carriage conveyed the Harrises along the Corso
+which at the hour of their driving was enlivened by many vehicles and
+foot-passengers.</p>
+
+<p>Leo told Lucille of the popular festivals at Rome, especially of the
+Carnival that extends over several days, which consists of daily
+processions in the Corso, accompanied by the throwing of bouquets and
+comfits; the whole concluding with a horse race from the Piazza del
+Popolo to Piazza di Venezia, upwards of a mile. On the last, or the
+Moccoli evening, tapers are lighted immediately after sunset. Balconies
+most suitable for observing these animated scenes are expensive, but
+always in great demand, especially by tourists.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris took his family and Leo to an excellent hotel on the
+Piazza de Popolo. The weather being uncomfortably warm, it was decided
+to spend only a few days in the city, and go as soon as possible to the
+country. Leo was very familiar with Rome, ancient and modern, and he
+felt that weeks were absolutely necessary to study and comprehend the
+grandeur of a city that for so many centuries had been mistress of the
+world. He agreed with Niebuhr, "As the streams lose themselves in the
+mightier ocean, so the history of the people once distributed along the
+Mediterranean shores is absorbed in that of the mighty mistress of the
+world."</p>
+
+<p>Leo back again in Rome was in an ecstasy of joy. Here Greece had laid at
+the feet of Rome her conqueror, the accumulated art treasures of ages.
+Here Leo could have keenest delight, where he moved among the noblest
+examples of antique sculpture, which filled the galleries and chambers of
+the Vatican and Capitol. Most of the night he lay awake, planning how he
+could in so short a time exhibit to his American friends Rome and her
+wealth of art. At breakfast he said, "A whole day is needed to inspect
+the Forum Romanum, a day each, for the Capitoline Hill, the Appian Way,
+and many other historic localities in this seven-hilled city."</p>
+
+<p>Leo, acting as guide, took his party to the Pincian Hill near the
+northern wall, a fashionable resort with fine boulevards and frequent
+band music. From the summit, he pointed out the yellow Tiber, which winds
+for seventeen miles to the sea. The larger part of modern Rome lies on
+the left bank of the Tiber, and covers three historic hills. Towering
+above the tops of the buildings are the domes and spires of nearly four
+hundred churches of which the dome of St. Peter's is the most imposing.
+In sight beyond are the Capitol, the ruins of the Colosseum, and ancient
+tombs along the Appian Way. To the west on the Palatine Hill are the
+ruins of the palace of the C&aelig;sars, and outside the walls, on the broad
+Campagna, are the remains of several aqueducts converging on the city,
+some of which, restored, are in use to-day.</p>
+
+<p>The day's ride included a visit to Agrippa's Pantheon, now denuded of its
+bronze roofing and marble exterior. A circular opening in the huge dome
+admits both light and rain. Leo standing with Lucille by the tomb of
+Raphael in one of the recesses, for a moment was silent. Then he said,
+"Lucille, it is impossible to fully appreciate the many and beautiful
+works of this 'prince of painters.' He was born on Good Friday, 1483, and
+lived exactly thirty-seven years. He was of slight build, sallow, and had
+brown eyes. Over nine hundred prints of his works are known. Besides his
+works in fresco at the Vatican, for a time he had charge of the
+construction of St. Peter's, and he also painted masterpieces now at
+Bologna, Dresden, Madrid, Hampton Court, and executed numerous
+commissions for Leo X.; and Madonnas, holy families, portraits, etc.,
+for others. Raphael stands unrivaled, chiefly in his power to portray
+lofty sentiments which persons of all nationalities can feel, but few
+can describe. He also excelled in invention, composition, simplicity
+and grandeur. For moral force in allegory and history, and for fidelity
+in portrait, Raphael was unsurpassed. His last and most celebrated oil
+picture, the transfiguration, unfinished, stood at his head as his body
+lay in state."</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Harris was interested in the restored Triumphal Arch of Titus
+erected to commemorate the defeat of the Jews A.D. 70, also in the
+beautiful Arch to Severus. At the end of the Rostra, or Orators' Tribune
+was the Umbilicus Urbis Romae, or ideal center of Rome and the Roman
+Empire. True it was that all roads led to Rome. Leo and Lucille visited
+by moonlight the ruins of the great Colosseum, and the lights and shadows
+in the huge old stone and brick amphitheater, made it look all the more
+imposing and picturesque.</p>
+
+<p>On the morning of the second day Leo Colonna guided his friends down the
+Via di Ripetta, stopping at the Mausoleum of Augustus, which in the
+middle ages was used by the Colonnas as a fortress. Then continuing down
+the left bank of the Tiber, the Ponte S. Angelo was reached. This ancient
+bridge of five arches leads directly to the Castello S. Angelo, the
+citadel of Rome, which originally was a tomb erected by Hadrian for
+himself and successor. The tomb is 240 feet in diameter, and must have
+been very beautiful, as it was once encrusted with marble. Statues stood
+around the margin of the top, and above all a colossal statue of Hadrian
+himself. Later the Goths, veritable iconoclasts, converted this tomb of
+the emperors into a fortress, hurling the marble statues down on the
+besiegers. For centuries this castle-tomb was used as a stronghold by
+the party in power to maintain their sway over the people. In 1822 Pius
+IX. refortified the castle. In it was seen the gloomy dungeon where
+Beatrice Cenci and others were incarcerated.</p>
+
+<p>The Harrises drove down the Borgo Nuovo to the church of St. Peter. Its
+approach is through a magnificent piazza ornamented on the right and left
+by two semicircular porticoes of 284 columns, which are surmounted by an
+entablature, and 192 statues, each eleven feet in height. It is claimed
+that the origin of the Cathedral of St. Peter is due to the impulse
+given by Pope Julius II. who decided to erect a grand monument for
+himself in his life-time, and the new edifice was needed to shield it.
+St. Peter's was begun in 1506 and dedicated in 1626.</p>
+
+<p>Bramante's wonderful plans were accepted, and both Michael Angelo and
+Raphael aided in its construction. From a Greek cross rises a gigantic
+dome, which is one of the boldest and most wonderful efforts of
+architecture. Lucille recalled Byron's description,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"The vast and wondrous dome,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To which Diana's marvel was a cell."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Entering this mighty cathedral, Colonel Harris was bewildered with its
+grand and harmonious interior. The height from the pavement to the cross
+rivals the height of the Washington monument. The nave is 607 feet in
+length, and the transept is 445 feet. St. Paul's at London covers only
+two acres, St. Peter's five acres. The cost of the former was $3,750,000,
+the cost of the latter from $60,000,000 to $80,000,000.</p>
+
+<p>The Harrises visited St. John Lateran, the mother-church of the Eternal
+City, where Popes were crowned, and where on Ascension Day, from one of
+its balconies, the Pope's benediction to the people is pronounced.</p>
+
+<p>They also visited the restored St. Paul's Church outside the walls. Its
+interior is of vast dimensions. It was built of valuable materials, and
+the whole is very imposing. Especially was Lucille impressed with the
+long series of portrait medallions of all the Popes from St. Peter to Leo
+X. worked in mosaic above the polished columns.</p>
+
+<p>Many monuments in St. Peter's were erected to the memory of several of
+the famous Popes. The Vatican, the largest palace in Europe, is where the
+Popes came to reside after their return from Avignon, France, in 1377,
+for here they felt much security in the vicinity of the Castle S. Angelo,
+with which it communicated by a covered gallery. For a time the Popes
+vied with each other in enlarging and embellishing the Vatican, which
+covers an immense space, and is a collection of separate buildings; the
+length is 1150 feet, and the breath 767 feet. The Vatican is said to
+contain 20 courts, and 11,000 halls, chapels, salons, and private
+apartments, most of which are occupied by collections and show-rooms,
+while only a small part is set apart for the papal court.</p>
+
+<p>The Harrises visited the most celebrated portions of the Vatican; the
+Scala Regia, covered with frescoes of events in Papal history, the
+Sistine Chapel, adorned with fine frescoes by Michael Angelo, including
+the Last Judgment. Here the Cardinals meet to elect the Pope, and here
+many of the most gorgeous ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church are
+performed.</p>
+
+<p>Equally enthusiastic were Leo and Lucille over Raphael's superb frescoes
+in the Loggie, and in the chambers adjoining. The few pictures in the
+gallery are scarcely surpassed. The museum contains some of the noblest
+treasures of art, including the Laocoon, and Apollo Belvidere. The
+library is very valuable. The superb palace of the Quirinal has beautiful
+gardens.</p>
+
+<p>Besides the several elegant public palaces in Rome, there are in and near
+the city over sixty private palaces or villas; the finest of which is the
+Barberini Palace. Several of the villas are located above terraces amid
+orange and citron groves, and they are ornamented with statues and
+fountains. Leo with pride took his friends to see the Colonna Palace,
+which contained many old portraits of his family.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner a drive was taken outside the Porta del Popolo to the
+magnificent Villa Borghese and the Pincian Hill. It was planned to visit
+on the morrow the gallery Borghese, next to the Vatican, the most
+important in Rome. It was dark as Leo returned with his party to the
+hotel. The landlord handed him a gentleman's card which read,</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Mr. Ferdinand Francisco Colonna.<br />
+Piazza Colonna, Rome</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>The landlord said that this gentleman was waiting for Leo in the
+reception-room. Leo at once recognized the card as that of his cousin,
+who was an attorney in Rome, and he hurried to meet his relative. They
+grasped hands warmly, and soon were in earnest conversation.</p>
+
+<p>Ferdinand, taking a large official envelope from his pocket, opened it
+and began reading what he called a very important paper. It was a copy of
+the will of their rich uncle, who had just died, while inspecting his
+possession in Sicily. Leo Colonna bore the name of this uncle, his
+father's oldest brother, who was fond of art, and who was never married.
+He had always been attached to Leo, his nephew, and in his will Leo was
+made his sole heir. Great was Leo's surprise to learn that he was now not
+only the owner of a fine palace southeast of Rome, but of large
+possessions in Rome, Sicily, and South America.</p>
+
+<p>Leo leaned back in his chair, his eyes closed, his face changed color
+and the muscles of his hands and face twitched as if he were in pain.
+Suddenly he recovered possession of himself and said, "Ferdinand, you
+almost paralyze me by the news you bring. Am I dreaming, or not?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, no, Leo. This is a copy of the will of our uncle. The original will
+is in my safe. By this same will I am to have 100,000 lira for assisting
+you. I am now at your service."</p>
+
+<p>"Ferdinand, you bring sad and glorious news. What is your advice?"</p>
+
+<p>"That we file the original will at once in the proper court, and that you
+proceed with me immediately to Marino to take possession there of your
+palace and property."</p>
+
+<p>"Agreed, Ferdinand. We will leave Rome for Marino at noon tomorrow.
+Meet me here, as I may have friends to join us."</p>
+
+<p>Leo hastened at once to tell the good news to the Harrises, who were
+nearly as much elated as himself, and it was agreed that all would join
+Leo in his proposed trip. It was late that night when Leo and Lucille
+separated in the parlor below. Each had dreamed of castles in Spain, but
+now it looked as if Leo and possibly Lucille, might actually possess
+castles in Italy.</p>
+
+<p>That night Leo told Lucille much about the princely Colonna family of
+Italy, which originated in the 11th century. Pope Martin V., several
+others who took part in the contest between the Guelphs and the
+Ghibellines, and many others of the Colonna family had attained to
+historical and literary distinction.</p>
+
+<p>Lucille was interested in the story of the great naval battle of Lepanto
+in which Marc Antonio Colonna aided Don Juan of Austria to gain a
+world-renowned victory for Christianity against the Turks, the first
+effective triumph of the cross over the crescent. Leo recited the story
+of the life of the illustrious Vittoria Colonna, pictures of a bust of
+whom Lucille had seen that day in Rome.</p>
+
+<p>Vittoria, and the son of the Marquis of Pescara, when children four years
+old, were affianced, and in their seventeenth year they were married. The
+young bride bravely sent her husband to the wars with a pavilion, an
+embroidered standard, and palm leaves, expressing the hope that he
+would return with honors, for she was proud of the Colonna name.</p>
+
+<p>Vittoria full of genius and grace, idealized her young showy cavalier,
+who was gallant and chivalrous. Her brave knight Pescara, among other
+victories, won the battle of Pavia, and finally died of his wounds in
+Milan before she could reach his side. Vittoria Colonna buried her love
+in Pescara's grave at Naples. Her widowhood was a period of sorrow, song,
+friendship, and saintly life. She was tall, stately, and dignified; of
+gracious manners, and united much charm with her culture and virtue. She
+is considered the fairest and noblest lady of the Italian Renaissance.</p>
+
+<p>Vittoria Colonna was on intimate terms with the great men and women of
+her day, and in close sympathy with the Italian reformers. Michael Angelo
+was warmly her friend. His strong verses full of feeling to Vittoria were
+replied to in gentle, graceful strains. She died as the sun sank in the
+Mediterranean on the afternoon of February 25, 1547, Michael Angelo
+regretting as he saw her, lying on her death-bed, that he had not kissed
+her forehead and face as he had kissed her hand.</p>
+
+<p>As Lucille retired that night she felt the force of Vittoria's noble
+life, and longed to emulate one so related to her friend Leo. She felt
+her own heart drawing nearer to Leo's, and in the silent hours of the
+night, she sometimes wondered if she should ever bear the honored name of
+Colonna.</p>
+
+<p>Next day at 12 o'clock promptly, Leo's cousin came, and the Harrises and
+Leo took the Rome and Naples line for Marino, located sixteen miles
+southeast of Rome, where Vittoria Colonna had lived, and where Leo
+expected to find and take possession of his own palace and property.</p>
+
+<p>The Roman tombs of the Via Appia on the right were soon left behind.
+A dozen miles out and Frascate a summer resort was conspicuous with
+its many lovely villas. Later the party left the train and enjoyed a
+beautiful drive of three miles to Marino, a small town famous for its
+wine, and located on the Alban Mountains. In the middle ages, the Orsini
+defended themselves here in a stronghold against their enemies the
+Colonna, but the latter under Martin V. captured Marino, which with the
+surrounding country has remained a fief of the Colonna family to the
+present day.</p>
+
+<p>Ferdinand had already attended to much of the detail at Marino, so that
+Leo, as owner of the vast Colonna estate, was loyally received by the
+villagers, the tenants, and the old servants. Leo made his friends, the
+Harrises, most welcome at his unexpected and palatial home. The Harrises
+were delighted at what they saw. Leo and Lucille took several drives
+together over the large estate. Once they drove along the shady roads,
+commanding extensive views, through the beautiful park of Colonna, and
+down a well wooded valley to the clear waters of the Alban Lake. Often
+Leo wished that Alfonso had accompanied him.</p>
+
+<p>For some time before leaving Rome, Lucille had complained of a dull
+headache and chills at night. In France Mrs. Harris was fearful that the
+summer trip to Italy was not wise, but Leo and her family thought the
+yacht voyage to Naples would be charming. On the morning of the third
+day at Marino, Lucille was unable to leave her bed. Leo hastily called a
+physician who found her pulse very low. She experienced great thirst and
+nausea, and the heat of her body was much increased. When the doctor
+learned that Colonel Harris's daughter had slept in Rome with the window
+open, he at once declared to the family that Lucille had Roman fever,
+that dreaded malaria which is engendered in summer months near the
+marshes of Italy. Leo summoned to Marino the ablest physicians of Rome,
+who were in constant attendance, and heroic treatment was adopted.</p>
+
+<p>Both Mr. and Mrs. Harris were half crazed with the fear of losing
+their beautiful daughter, and Leo himself was nearly frantic. Lucille
+grew rapidly worse. Her strength and courage failed her, she became
+unconscious, and as the tall white lily in the midday sun loses its
+beauty and life, so Lucille passed from earth, her agonizing mother
+holding the dead daughter's slender white hands.</p>
+
+<p>Leo fell insensible and was removed from the death-chamber by his
+servants. Womanly courage returned to the mother after a few moments of
+intense grief, and aided by others the necessary preparations were made
+for the removal of Lucille to America.</p>
+
+<p>Captain Harry Hall with his yacht en route to Athens had called at
+Brindisi to get a reply from a most important letter of his mailed to
+Lucille at Palermo. As he stepped ashore a telegram was handed him
+announcing the sudden death of the woman he loved. He was so shocked that
+his friends were alarmed. After a short conference Harry wired Colonel
+Harris the use of his yacht to carry back to America the remains of
+beautiful Lucille.</p>
+
+<p>While Colonel Harris was writing an acceptance of Captain Hall's
+services, a second telegram came announcing the death, by drowning, of
+his only son Alfonso in the Zuider Zee at Amsterdam. How true that
+misfortunes never come singly!</p>
+
+<p>Beneath the pillow on which Lucille died, were found two unanswered
+letters, proposals of marriage, one from Leo and one from Captain Hall.
+The broken hearted mother took charge of these letters, and before the
+metallic coffin was sealed, the unanswered letters were placed in
+Lucille's white hand, over the heart that could not now decide.</p>
+
+<p>Later the casket was put on board the yacht "Hallena" at Rome, and
+Captain Hall with his flag at half-mast steamed towards America with the
+woman, who could never on earth accept the tribute of his heart. Leo, now
+Marquis Colonna, true chevalier that he was, insisted that he be
+permitted to accompany Colonel Harris to Amsterdam in search of his son
+Alfonso.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XXII" id="CHAPTER_XXII"></a>CHAPTER XXII</h2>
+
+<h3>COLONEL HARRIS'S BIG BLUE ENVELOPE</h3>
+
+
+<p>The honeymoon of George and Gertrude included not only the two delightful
+weeks in Switzerland, but also the ten or twelve days on a slow steamer
+returning to New York. The weather at sea was all that could be desired.
+The longer a smooth sea-voyage, the better lovers are pleased. Return
+ocean passages usually furnish the much needed rest after a so-called
+vacation abroad. Overworked Americans need, not so much an entire
+cessation of activities, as a change of occupation, which usually, brings
+the desired results.</p>
+
+<p>George and Gertrude made but few acquaintances on the steamer. The
+thought that each possessed the other was enjoyment that satisfied, and
+both were happy. Each lived as in dreamland, and scarcely observed even
+the daily runs made by the steamer. The death by accident of a sailor,
+and his strange burial at sea, served only for a brief time to arrest a
+happiness made complete by each other's voice and presence. The two weeks
+on the ocean came and went as softly as flowers unfold and disappear.
+Thus far, married life had been ideal.</p>
+
+<p>It was after eleven o'clock, and anxious passengers were pacing the
+decks, hoping to sight native land before retiring. Suddenly the officer
+on the bridge discerned the dim Fire Island Light, bearing north by west,
+twenty miles distant. Ten minutes later, five points on the port bow, a
+pilot boat was sighted. Her mast-head light was visible, also the torch,
+which soaked in turpentine, burnt brightly at intervals.</p>
+
+<p>The steamer signals, "We want a pilot," by burning a blue light on the
+bridge, and bears down on the pilot schooner. The moon reveals enormous
+figures, with a heavy dot beneath, on the mainsail of the schooner. Over
+the rail goes the yawl, followed by the oarsman and pilot, whose turn
+it is to go ashore. The pilot carries a lantern, which in the egg-shaped
+yawl dances on the white wave crests up and down like a fire-fly. The
+yawl is soon under the steamer's lee, and a line from the big ship pulls
+the little boat to the ladder, and the pilot nimbly climbs to the
+steamer's bridge, bringing the latest papers. The schooner drifts under
+the steamer's stern, takes in the yawl, and again sails to the eastward
+in search of another liner.</p>
+
+<p>The entrance to the port of New York is patrolled night and day by a
+pilot-fleet of thirty boats, which cost from $10,000 to $20,000 each.
+They are staunch and seaworthy, the fastest schooners afloat. Often,
+knocked down by heavy seas, for a moment they tremble, like a frightened
+bird, then shaking the water off their decks, they rise, heave to,
+perhaps under double reefed foresail, and with everything made snug,
+outride the storm, and are at their work again. Pilots earn good pay, and
+this they deserve, as they often risk their lives in behalf of others.</p>
+
+<p>Sandy Hook Light was now in sight, and long before the sun began his
+journey across the heavens, the steamer lay at anchor at quarantine,
+waiting for a certificate from the health officer. As the steamer proudly
+sped through "The Narrows," a jubilant crowd of passengers on the
+promenade deck sang,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"My country 'tis of thee<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet Land of Liberty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of thee I sing;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Land where my fathers died;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Land of the pilgrim's pride;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From ev'ry mountain side<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let freedom ring."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The hymn was sung to the tune of "God Save the Queen," and several
+enthusiastic Englishmen joined with their kith and kin.</p>
+
+<p>On Bedloe's Island Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty waved her torch, outward
+bound steamers exchanged salutes, the Brooklyn Bridge and all the ferries
+were thronged with people hurrying to the labor marts of the metropolis,
+as the steamer with George and Gertrude aboard moved up the harbor and
+was safely docked on the North River.</p>
+
+<p>In the lead down the gangway Gertrude hastened George to secure a
+carriage for their hotel, so anxious was she to reach rooms on American
+soil, where she might honorably break the seal of her father's mysterious
+big blue envelope. It had rarely been out of her mind since the day of
+her wedding in Paris.</p>
+
+<p>After breakfast, served in true American style, the Ingrams glanced at
+the big morning papers crowded with American news, and wondered why
+European papers printed so little about the States. Then they retired to
+their rooms to break the seal of the blue envelope.</p>
+
+<p>George was all attention as his young wife with the flush of health and
+excitement in her cheeks tore apart the envelope, and stepping to the
+window for better light, she began to read Reuben Harris's letter.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Paris</span>&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><i>Dear George and Gertrude</i>,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>The accumulation of my fortune, now largely invested in prime securities,
+has been a surprise and often a burden to me, and with it came, as I now
+clearly see, great responsibilities.</p>
+
+<p>Money is power, and most people zealously seek it. Many fail to get it,
+and often those who do succeed, fail to keep it. Wealth unsought comes
+only to a few, while others, with perhaps hereditary financial instincts,
+pursue with certainty of success the golden fleece.</p>
+
+<p>My early experiences with poverty, and now with wealth, and my late
+extensive observations have impressed upon me, as never before, the
+common brotherhood of mankind. The great problem of our age is the proper
+administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind
+together the rich and poor in harmonious relations. What shall be the
+laws of accumulation and distribution? To decide this wisely the
+discretion of our present and future legislators will be heavily
+burdened.</p>
+
+<p>The condition of many races is better to-day on the foundations on which
+society is built, than on the old ones tried and abandoned. What were
+yesterday's luxuries are to-day's necessities. The poor enjoy to-day what
+yesterday even the rich could not afford. Mankind always has exhibited
+great irregularities. In every race some are born with an energy and
+ability to produce wealth, others not. Invention and discovery have
+replaced scarcity and dearness with abundance and cheapness. The law of
+competition seems to cheapen comforts and luxuries.</p>
+
+<p>Both labor and capital are organizing, concentrating, competing. The
+idealist may dream of what is attainable in the future, but our duty is
+plainly with what is practicable now. My prayer is for wisdom and ability
+to administer wisely our wealth, during my life-time. I am therefore
+resolved to act as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>1st. To retain for my family only what will provide modestly for them
+all. I do not wish to leave much property for my relatives to use
+prodigally, or to quarrel over.</p>
+
+<p>2nd. I plan not to wait till I die and then leave behind for public
+purposes money which I cannot take with me. I shall consider myself as an
+agent, or trustee, in charge of certain surplus funds to be expended in
+behalf of my poorer brethren.</p>
+
+<p>On our return to America, Mrs. Harris and I will make our wills in
+accordance with the above. It is our desire that, when you reach home,
+you both enter at once upon the development of your plans, of a
+cooperative manufacturing corporation, in accordance with the views which
+you have so frequently mentioned. In the execution of these plans, you
+may use, if necessary, five millions. With best wishes for your
+happiness.</p>
+
+<p>Your father,</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Reuben Harris</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>The writing of this letter gave Colonel Harris more pleasure than any act
+of his life; in fact it was for him the beginning of a new life; a life
+for others.</p>
+
+<p>The reading of the letter also gave George and Gertrude much happiness,
+for it furnished them abundant means for the execution of their
+beneficent plans, which had been thoroughly considered by the Harris
+family. This important letter was returned to the blue envelope and given
+to Gertrude for safe keeping, and it was agreed to leave for Harrisville
+next day at 1 o'clock on the Chicago Special.</p>
+
+<p>Among the personals in the Harrisville Sunday paper appeared the
+following:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Arrived from Europe Saturday morning, Mr. and Mrs. George Ingram. It is
+needless to say that their many friends will give them cordial welcome.
+Colonel and Mrs. Reuben Harris, their son and daughter, Alfonso and
+Lucille, will remain in Europe for several weeks.</p></div>
+
+<p>This notice, though brief, was of much interest to rich and poor in
+Harrisville. Society, of course, was interested in the marriage of
+Gertrude, business men in the return of so skilled a manufacturer as
+George Ingram, and many workmen, still unemployed, hoped that their old
+superintendent whom they loved would find or make positions for them.</p>
+
+<p>The continued absence of Colonel Harris the financier aided George Ingram
+in certain important negotiations which he proceeded quietly to make,
+viz., the purchase in the suburbs of Harrisville, in fifty parcels, of
+4,000 acres of contiguous land, that had both a river and a lake front.
+While these purchases were being made, agents were dispatched into
+several Ohio counties, and more than 20,000 acres of well tested coal
+lands were secured. When it was learned that all these lands were bought
+in the name of George Ingram, and paid for in cash, the wisacres of the
+city began to say, "I told you so; these monopolists having visited
+England have adopted foreign ideas, and now they have returned to buy and
+hold our valuable lands." George Ingram was reticent, as most successful
+business men are, for he gave attention to business. "Talkers are no
+great doers," wrote Shakespeare.</p>
+
+<p>The offices of the old Harrisville Iron &amp; Steel Co. had been rented to
+other parties, so a suite of rooms near by was occupied by George Ingram
+and his five assistants. It had leaked out, however, that Ingram had
+given orders for twenty millions of brick and a large quantity of
+structural iron and copper tubes, all to be delivered within four months.
+The order for copper tubes puzzled even the wisest in Harrisville. Later,
+when a thousand laborers were set at work on the river front of
+his purchase, building extensive foundations, it dawned upon the
+expectant that a gigantic plant for some purpose was to be erected near
+Harrisville. Newspaper reporters found it difficult to reach George
+Ingram, even with a card, which would be returned with the reply "Busy
+to-day. Please excuse me."</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime Harrisville agreed to create a more available harbor, and
+to establish dock lines, not less than 500 feet apart, and in three years
+to dredge the river to a depth of 25 feet for five miles back from the
+lake.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram in his own mind had settled three vital points; that
+Harrisville was one of the most favorable producing and distributing
+centers in America; that he would so design and build a manufacturing
+plant as to minimize the cost of production; that he would attempt to
+harmonize capital and labor. Important provisions of the Company's
+charter were:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>ARTICLE III</p>
+
+<p>The capital stock of this Corporation shall be Five Million Dollars
+($5,000,000) to be divided into Five Hundred Thousand Shares at Ten
+Dollars each, fully paid, and non-assessable.</p>
+
+<p>ARTICLE VI</p>
+
+<p>The private property of stockholders shall be exempt from any and all
+debts of this Corporation.</p></div>
+
+<p>Two thousand of the four thousand acres purchased were set apart for
+manufacturing purposes. Most of the land sloped gradually, and the
+surface-water naturally drained into the river. George Ingram's plans for
+an enormous steel-plant had been most carefully worked out in detail.
+Night and day the construction went forward. In eight months the plant
+was in full operation. He had obtained the latest important labor-saving
+devices and improved facilities in use throughout America and Europe. The
+whole was supplemented by the inventions already perfected by his father
+and himself.</p>
+
+<p>The Harris-Ingram Steel Co. was provided with every modern device that
+could in any manner contribute economy and rapidity from the time the
+ores left the ship, till the finished product was loaded for market. All
+ores and limestone were delivered on a tableland of the same height, and
+adjacent to a series of several enormous blast-furnaces. The melted iron
+from the blast-furnaces was tapped into ladles mounted on iron cars, and
+provided with mechanism for tipping the ladles. The molten iron of the
+cars was next transferred to improved converters in an adjoining
+building, constructed entirely of iron. Nearby were the spiegel cupolas.
+The greatest possible accuracy was thus attainable in delivering definite
+quantities of molten iron into the converter for a given blow, also of
+spiegeleisen. This was easily accomplished by standing the ladle cars
+upon scales.</p>
+
+<p>The metal was cast into ingot moulds, standing upon cars, and then
+transferred to the mould stripper; afterwards the ingots were weighed
+and sent to the soaking-pit furnaces. After a "wash heat" the ingots,
+or blooms, entered the rolls, and were drawn and sized in shape to fill
+orders from every part of the world.</p>
+
+<p>The marvel at the Harris-Ingram Steel Co.'s mills was that electricity,
+developed in vast quantities at the coal mines and conveyed on patented
+copper tubes, furnished all the power, heat, and light used in the entire
+plant. Electricity hoisted and melted all the ores; it worked Sturtevant
+fans and blowing engines, which supplied necessary air for cupolas and
+converters. Electricity furnished all the power requisite to handle
+innumerable cranes and cars. As easily as a magnet picks up tacks,
+electricity also handled ingots or finished steel. Five thousand tons of
+finished steel per day were made and the labor and fuel account had been
+reduced over one-half.</p>
+
+<p>While the huge steel plant at Harrisville was being constructed, a large
+force of men were building a conduit to protect copper tubes, from the
+steel plant to the coal fields. At the mines hundreds of miners were set
+at work, several shafts were sunk, and tunnels, levels, and winzes were
+developed.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram believed that all the force in the world available for
+man's use was derived from the sun; so he heroically resolved to hitch
+his wagon, if not to a star, to the mighty sun. With this purpose in
+view, he had bought the 20,000 acres of coal land. Half of this area was
+located in Jefferson, Harrison, and Belmont counties on the Ohio River,
+and thus title was secured to vast quantities of fossil power in the
+upper coal measures, which ignites quickly and burns with a hot fire. The
+other 10,000 acres were valuable because nearer to Harrisville. This coal
+came from lower measures or seams.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram had made a thorough study of coal, or fossil fuel, its
+formation and value. The coal of the carboniferous age is derived almost
+entirely from the family of plants called <i>Lycopods</i>, or club mosses, and
+the ferns, which back in high antiquity attained gigantic size. The
+microscope has clearly developed this vegetable origin of coal. The great
+Appalachian and other coal fields are without doubt, the long continued
+and vigorous forest growths, and subsequent fossilization of the same in
+the marginal swamps of ancient gulfs or seas.</p>
+
+<p>The agency of transfer for solar energy is the vegetable kingdom. The
+vegetable cell has the surprising property through the sun's agency of
+being able to live and multiply itself on air alone. The carbon of
+carbonic acid, a constituent of the atmosphere, is so liberated and
+appropriated, as to become fixed in the forming tissues of plants. Thus
+the plant is a storer of light and heat, a reservoir of force. It
+mediates between the sun's energy and the animal life of the world. Thus
+coal seams are the accumulations of the sun's energy for thousands of
+centuries, requiring the patient growth and slow decay of hundreds of
+immense forests. One secret of the unprecedented late growth of cities is
+discovered in the steam engine, or the coal which feeds it.</p>
+
+<p>A pound of good coal, used in a good engine, stands for the work of six
+horses for an hour; a ton of coal for the work of thirteen hundred horses
+for a day of ten hours; ten thousand tons of coal, used in a day by
+single lines of railways, stand for the work of thirteen million horses,
+working ten hours a day. In 1894 the English mines produced 188,277,525
+tons of coal. In Great Britain alone, coal does the work of more than a
+hundred millions of men, and adds proportionately to the fabulously
+increasing wealth of those fortunate islands.</p>
+
+<p>The Ingrams had solved two important problems, and on their practicable
+application depended the success of the great Harris-Ingram experiment.
+The more important of the two was the unlocking of the sun's stored
+energy, electricity, at the coal mines. The second was a device for
+conveying this energy from the mines to the steel plant, and it had been
+patented to protect it.</p>
+
+<p>Since electricity possibly travels on the surface of wires or metals, the
+Ingrams patented a valuable device of small corrugated copper tubes,
+strengthened in the center by steel wires, and thus the carrying capacity
+of electricity was greatly increased, and the amount of costly copper
+much decreased. These corrugated tubes enclosed in cheap glass, and
+surrounded with oil, were laid in properly prepared conduits of vitrified
+fire-clay sewer pipes. Without the intervention of the steam engine, by
+a surprisingly simple process, electrical force was liberated chemically
+at the mines and transferred for multiple uses at the steel plant.
+Expensive coal-freights were thus saved. All the slack coal was utilized,
+and instead of the waste of nine-tenths of the stored energy of the coal,
+only one tenth was now lost. To husband properly the fruits of so great a
+discovery, it was decided not to patent this latter invention, which if
+disclosed would give too great publicity to the details.</p>
+
+<p>The electrical works at the mines were constructed of safe-steel walls
+and roof, and so built that the operations of generating electricity
+directly from coal were conducted in secret in several separate
+apartments, so that no single operator without the knowledge of all the
+initiated employees would be able to successfully work the inventions.
+The dozen initiated employees had made life long contracts with the
+company in consideration of liberal and satisfactory rewards. The
+Harris-Ingram Steel Co. thus equipped began operations.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XXIII" id="CHAPTER_XXIII"></a>CHAPTER XXIII</h2>
+
+<h3>"GOLD MARRIES GOLD"</h3>
+
+
+<p>Alfonso Harris was content to leave his friends to continue their
+journey, as they were willing that he should return to the Netherlands,
+or to Amsterdam, where lived the beautiful woman who had won his heart.</p>
+
+<p>Christine de Ruyter cordially welcomed Alfonso back to study art as he
+expressed it to her on the first evening after his arrival. Alfonso was
+much in Christine's society, at art exhibits, in carriage drives, and on
+pleasure boat excursions down the bay. Weeks went by before he could
+summon courage enough to ask Christine's hand in marriage.</p>
+
+<p>In the game of hearts Alfonso thought himself an able combatant. He had
+studied Christine in action and in repose, in society, and when alone
+under his protection at Scheveningen, and at home, and he prided himself
+that he knew at least one woman thoroughly. She loved art, flowers,
+music, and fine dress, and was very ambitious. The latter trait was
+doubtless inbred from her distinguished naval relatives.</p>
+
+<p>Christine had many acquaintances among the best families of Holland. Her
+beauty, coupled with the fact that she was an heiress, made her the
+object of much attention from artists and members of clubs, but possibly
+her love, or affection for art, might have sprung from the desire to gain
+more knowledge of how to make herself attractive in dress, manner, and
+conversation. Christine was not offensively vain, but she was
+passionately fond of admiration. Alfonso had never dreamed that Christine
+was not genuine at heart. She appeared to him to make much of her
+American acquaintance, introducing him to her many friends, young ladies
+as well as young gentlemen, and always seemed to prefer his company to
+others.</p>
+
+<p>She manifested even tenderness for him, expressed her strong liking for
+America, and Alfonso believed that Christine was truly fond of him. No
+arguments or persuasions could have convinced him otherwise. The contrary
+wishes of his own family, the eloquence of a Webster, winds from the
+poles, all combined, could not have cooled his ardor. Alfonso had firmly
+resolved to wed Christine, come what would.</p>
+
+<p>He had often dreamed of her smiles, her pretty blue eyes, and her fleecy
+hair floating in the breezes of the Zuider Zee. He had also dreamed of a
+brilliant wedding in Holland, of a large reception at Harrisville, and
+had even heard the plaudits of his fellow artists in New York, as they
+lauded his master piece "Admiral De Ruyter's Great Naval Victory."</p>
+
+<p>Fortified with these proofs of Christine's devotion, he sought the
+company of his blond sweetheart on a balcony that overlooked the moon-lit
+harbor of Amsterdam.</p>
+
+<p>Here Alfonso offered his hand and heart&mdash;to a coquette&mdash;who rejected him.
+He was astonished, almost stunned. Recovering from his dazed condition,
+she again chilled his heart by the utterance, "You have not learned in
+this practical world of ours that gold marries gold; that society plays
+for equivalents. You once admitted to me that your father wanted you at
+the head of his large business, and disapproved of your choice of a
+profession. As an artist you seek fame. How can you divide it with me? In
+asking my hand you seek to divide my gold, thus securing both fame and
+gold. Alfonso we have enjoyed each other's company as friends."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Christine, though you have been cruel we can separate as friends.
+Sometime I may be able to match gold with gold. Till then, adieu."</p>
+
+<p>Saying this Alfonso left the De Ruyter mansion all the more resolved,
+however, to win Christine. For a moment her deceptive heart rebuked her
+as she watched Alfonso's departure. In the papers of the following
+evening an announcement frightened Christine. The head lines read: "Mr.
+Alfonso Harris, a young American artist, drowned this morning in the
+harbor."</p>
+
+<p>Later the police brought to the De Ruyter home detailed news. Christine
+gave instructions to use every possible effort to recover Alfonso's body,
+and at once sent her servant with a telegram for Colonel Reuben Harris,
+Grand Hotel, Paris, the only address she knew.</p>
+
+<p>The next day, with her mother, she accompanied the police to Alfonso's
+room, where she gathered up several of her love letters. A new suit of
+clothes hung in the closet, a package of returned laundry lay on the
+table, also pen, ink and paper. Evidently Alfonso expected to return soon
+to the hotel. His clothes, watch, and money had been found in the boat
+that drifted ashore.</p>
+
+<p>Christine concluded that Alfonso had gone for a boat-ride and swim, as
+was his custom; very likely this time to free his mind, if possible, from
+recent trouble, and was seized with cramp and drowned before aid could
+reach him. Vigorous search in the harbor and along the shore instituted
+by the police department and the American consul failed to locate his
+body or to furnish further facts to Christine as to the cause of the
+accident.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Alfonso Harris meant all he said to Christine in his last words,
+"Sometime I may be able to match gold with gold." He might be blind in
+love matters, but his mind after a storm always righted itself. That
+night when Alfonso reached his hotel, he planned to leave the impression
+on Christine's mind that he was dead. To make the deception complete,
+his trunk and all effects in his room were left as found by Christine.
+Even his watch, pocket book and clothes were left behind in the little
+pleasure boat, while he donned an extra suit. A Norwegian captain, who
+was about leaving Amsterdam with a cargo for Canada, agreed for fifty
+dollars to pick up Alfonso down the harbor and to land him in Quebec.</p>
+
+<p>Fine family, beauty, and gold were powerful incentives to effort to an
+ambitious young man like Alfonso, and he was resolved, incognito, to
+explore the Great West in search of riches, and once found, he would lay
+all at Christine's feet, and again claim her hand.</p>
+
+<p>Jans Jansen, the Norwegian captain, was a jolly good ship-master, and the
+fair weather voyage across the Atlantic proved enjoyable. Alfonso always
+took his meals with the captain. Jans Jansen's wife and children lived in
+Christiania, and his constant talk was that he hoped some day to get rich
+and quit the sea. Alfonso made a warm friend of Captain Jansen, who
+pledged secrecy as to his escape from Amsterdam.</p>
+
+<p>The captain was robust and his big flowing red beard, blue eyes, and
+bravery made him a worthy successor of the ancient vikings of the
+Norseland. Jans Jansen enjoyed his pipe, and with his good stories whiled
+away many an hour for Alfonso, so that when the ship, under full sail,
+entered the Strait of Belle Isle and sailed across the Gulf towards the
+River St. Lawrence, both the captain and young Harris regretted that
+their sea-voyage was so soon to close.</p>
+
+<p>The entrance of the St. Lawrence River is so broad that the navies of the
+world abreast might enter the river undiscovered from either bank. Two
+hundred miles up the river, Trinity House, an association of over three
+hundred pilots, put aboard a pilot, and at noon next day Captain Jansen
+docked his vessel at Quebec.</p>
+
+<p>This old French city is located on a high promontory on the left bank
+of the St. Lawrence. Its citadel, one of the strongest fortresses in
+America, commands a varied and picturesque beauty. Alfonso walked up to
+the obelisk, which stands in one of the squares of the Upper Town, in
+joint memory of the brave generals Wolfe and Montgomery.</p>
+
+<p>Next morning he was off on the Canadian Pacific Railway for Duluth, the
+zenith city. Thence the journey west was through. Dakota in sight of
+occasional tepees, where the brave Sioux patiently waits his call to join
+the buffalo in the happy hunting grounds. Alfonso did not agree with the
+popular sentiment, "The best Indian is a dead Indian," for the Sioux
+seemed to him to belong to a noble race of red men.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso's enthusiasm for mining was greatly quickened by a fellow
+traveler, who was the owner of a large block of stock in the famous
+Homestake Mining Co. of Lead City, Black Hills, So. Dakota. This company
+possesses one of the largest gold mines and mills in the world. The ore
+bodies show a working face from two to four hundred feet in width, and
+sink to a seemingly inexhaustible depth. The Homestake has produced over
+$25,000,000 in bullion, and has divided over six millions in dividends to
+stockholders.</p>
+
+<p>Three days' journey brought young Harris to Montana, an inland empire
+state, which lies on both sides of the Rocky Mountains. The Pacific
+Express was laden with a motley crowd of men and women in search of fame
+and fortune. Alfonso soon caught their enthusiasm, and visions of castles
+with gilded domes floated in his imagination.</p>
+
+<p>It was 1:35 P.M. when No. 1, the Pacific Express, pulled into thrifty
+Helena, capital of Montana, a commercial metropolis metamorphosed from
+a rude mining camp of twenty-five years ago.</p>
+
+<p>The electric cars carried Alfonso to the Hotel Helena on Grand St.,
+which he thought quite as good as any in his own city. Here he was
+fortunate in meeting Mr. Davidson, a gentleman of large experience
+as owner, organizer, and locator of some of the best gold and silver
+properties in Montana and adjoining states. Irrigating canals and
+water-rights were a special branch of Mr. Davidson's business. He never
+failed to make the round of the leading hotels after the arrival of the
+Overland. In this way he met Alfonso Harris. Davidson knew when to tell a
+good story, and when to be serious. He took Alfonso to the Club, located
+in elegant quarters, and the secretary gave him a complimentary visitor's
+card. Davidson quickly discerned that Harris needed a week's rest, and so
+took him on the motor line two miles out to the Hotel Broadwater and
+Natatorium. No wonder the citizens of Helena take pride in their fine
+health resort, the Helena Hot Springs.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Davidson introduced Alfonso to Colonel Broadwater, who extended the
+hospitalities of his hotel on which he had expended a fortune. The
+verandas were long and wide, the park was dotted with fountains, and the
+interior of the hotel was luxurious in all its furnishings. The mammoth
+plunge bath was the largest in the world under a single cover. Curative
+mineral waters, steaming hot, flowed in abundantly from the grotto. In
+the natatorium fun-loving men and women slid down the toboggan planks, or
+jumped from the spring boards, while spectators in the gallery enjoyed
+the aquatic sports. Elegantly appointed bathrooms in the hotel offered at
+one's pleasure the double spray plunge, vapor, and needle baths.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso was not prepared to find in the mountains elegance surpassing
+what he had seen abroad. Here he luxuriated for a week, and recovered his
+health, which had been somewhat impaired by the unfortunate experiences
+in Amsterdam, and the long journey from Holland.</p>
+
+<p>Davidson visited Harris every day. At first he only sought to entertain
+and awaken enthusiasm. He recited the familiar story of the Last Chance
+Gulch, how in 1864, four half-starved and disheartened miners, on their
+homeward journey from a prospecting tour among the gulches of the
+Blackfoot country in search of the precious dust, had settled down to
+work their last chance to make a stake, and had found gold in abundance.</p>
+
+<p>Davidson said, "Here, where to-day runs the main street of Helena, was the
+'Last Chance Gulch,' and the output of its placers was not less than
+fifteen millions. From 300 feet square, where now stands the Montana
+Central Railway depot, two miners took out over $330,000." Davidson told
+of the great successes at the "Jay Gould," and "Big Ox Mine," and, that
+in five years the output of the Drum Lummon Mine was six millions.</p>
+
+<p>All this pleased young Harris, and whetted his appetite for mining
+investments. Finally, as a result of several trips to examine prospects
+and mines, Alfonso bought two prospects one hundred miles west of Helena
+at a place called Granite.</p>
+
+<p>At Drummond west of Helena, a line branches south of the Northern Pacific
+to Rumsey. From Rumsey, Alfonso rode four miles to Granite, which was
+located high up among huge granite boulders. Here, for a year he isolated
+himself and labored hard for silver that was to be exchanged into gold
+and laid at the feet of Christine. His mines had been named "Hidden
+Treasure" and "Monte Christo." Possibly these mystical names influenced
+Alfonso to make the purchase, and no doubt they often renewed his
+courage.</p>
+
+<p>The United States patents for his two lode mining claims finally came,
+and were examined by legal experts, who pronounced them perfect. In the
+purchase of the properties and in the development work, Alfonso and his
+two associates expended $50,000. On the showing, which the development
+made, together with the Annual Report of the adjacent Granite Mountain
+Mining Company, young Harris hoped to form a syndicate and profitably
+work his mines.</p>
+
+<p>The facts in the report which Alfonso emphasized, were that the Granite
+Mining Co. had paid dividends as follows:</p>
+
+<pre>
+
+Twelve dividends ending
+July 31st, 1889                 $1,900,000
+
+Total of fifty-five dividends,
+an aggregate of,                $6,700,000
+
+In eight years these mines
+had produced and sold
+of pure silver                  10,989,858 ozs.
+
+Of pure gold                         6,521 ozs.
+
+Realizing a gross sum          $10,988,800
+
+Total gross expenditures        $4,092,512</pre>
+
+<p>Alfonso felt free to use the facts of the Granite Reports, as his
+property was supposed to be a continuation of the same lode or metallic
+vein. His syndicate was finally organized, and with the money thus made
+available, all possible work was done for the next twelve months, on
+shaft, levels, cross-cuts, drifts, winzes, and raises. For two long years
+he pursued underground promising indications of wealth, which like the
+will-with-the-wisp evaded him, until every prospect of silver and gold in
+the "Hidden Treasure," and "Monte Christo" disappeared, and the mines
+were abandoned.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XXIV" id="CHAPTER_XXIV"></a>CHAPTER XXIV</h2>
+
+<h3>THE MAGIC BAND OF BEATEN GOLD</h3>
+
+
+<p>The demonetization of silver by the government in 1873, and its great
+production, had reduced the value of the white metal one-half, so young
+Harris resolved to seek for gold, and began a search, which proved to be
+a most romantic success.</p>
+
+<p>At first he hesitated to leave Montana, as its quartz veins and sluice
+boxes in twenty-five years had poured out $400,000,000, and its mineral
+resources were yet almost wholly unknown. The area of this single
+mountainous state could not be blanketed by the six New England States,
+and New York, or covered by England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
+combined.</p>
+
+<p>Finally Alfonso determined to follow the great mineral belt in a
+southwesterly direction even to the Sierra Nevada Range if need be. At
+Livingston he went south by railway through a gateway of the mountains,
+and up the fertile Paradise Valley, following the cool green waters of
+the Yellowstone alive with trout and equally gamesome graylings.</p>
+
+<p>At Cinnabar Alfonso joined a merry party of tourists, who mounted a
+Concord coach, and the four grays were urged to a brisk pace over a
+smooth government road towards the great National Park. How exhilarating
+this six miles' ride, and how imposing the scenery, as the coach enters
+this Geologist's Paradise!</p>
+
+<p>The Yellowstone or National Park contains 2,288,000 acres, and is fifty
+times the size of France's greatest park at Fontainebleau. Its altitude
+is a half mile higher than the summit of Mt. Washington, and the whole
+park is encircled by snow-clad peaks and majestic domes from three to
+five thousand feet high. This reservation by Congress in 1872, of 3575
+square miles of public domain in perpetuity for the pleasure of the
+people, was a most creditable act.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso found that the park abounded in wild gorges, grand canyons,
+dancing cascades, majestic falls and mountains, picturesque lakes,
+curious hot springs, and awe-inspiring geysers. He and his party pushed
+through the Golden Gate, marveled at the wonders of the Norris and
+Firehole Basins, stood entranced before the mighty Canyon then bathed in
+the transparent Yellowstone Lake, and by nine o'clock were lulled to
+sleep in the shade of fragrant pines.</p>
+
+<p>After breakfast next morning, while Alfonso and the hotel guests sat on
+the porch, a retired army captain, who had served in the Seventh U.S.
+Cavalry, said he wished a party could be organized to visit General
+Custer's monument east of the National Park on the Little Big Horn River.
+There the Government had marked the historic battleground, where on the
+morning of the 24th of June, 1876, two hundred of the famous Seventh
+Cavalry and their brave leader, were overwhelmed and slaughtered by 2,500
+Indians under the famous chief, Sitting Bull. Custer was tall and
+slender, with blue eyes and long light hair. He had fought at Bull Run
+and Gettysburg, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was
+promoted to brigadier general when he was twenty-three years old, and
+became major general when he was twenty-five. Eleven horses were shot
+under him. Once he saved the flag by tearing it from its staff and
+concealing it in his bosom. What Napoleon said of Ney is also true of
+Custer, "He was the bravest of the brave."</p>
+
+<p>The recital of Custer's deeds nerved Alfonso to renewed efforts to win
+Christine's hand. He declined with thanks to join the captain's excursion
+party, and early next day rode south into the upper basin of the Park,
+which contains over 400 springs and geysers; many of the springs in their
+peculiar shapes, translucent waters, and variety and richness of color,
+are of exquisite beauty. Alfonso visited emerald and sapphire springs,
+where it is said nymphs, elfs, and fairies came to bathe, and don their
+dainty dress of flowers and jewelled dew drops.</p>
+
+<p>Many bronzed tourists had assembled, and their faces showed amazement as
+they watched giant geysers in action. Suddenly the solid earth is
+tremulous with rumbling vibrations, like those that herald earthquakes.
+Frightful gurgling sounds are audible in the geyser's throat. Sputtering
+steam is visible above the cone, the water below boils like a cauldron,
+and scalding hot, the eruption becomes terribly violent, belching forth
+clouds of smoke-like steam, and hurling rocks into the air as though
+a mortar of some feudal stronghold had been discharged. The stupendous
+column of hot water is veiled in spray as it mounts towards heaven.
+Boiling water is flowing in brooks to the Firehole River, which is soon
+swollen to a foaming torrent washing away the bridges below. The valley
+is filled with dense vapors, and the air is laden with sulphurous fumes,
+while the hoarse rumblings and subterranean tremors chill the heart.
+Beneath your feet are positive evidences of eternal fires, and all about
+you the might of God. Alfonso was glad to leave this region of the
+supernatural.</p>
+
+<p>He hastened across the Snake River, which winds through Idaho, and pushed
+on towards the Teton Range, one of many that form the Rocky Mts. In sight
+are snow-touched sentinel peaks kissed by earliest and latest sun. The
+Rocky Mts. or Great Continental Divide is a continuation of the famous
+Andes of South America, and jointly they form the longest and most
+uniform chain of mountains on the globe. Amid the gorges of this system
+of mountains, over 3000 miles in length, America's largest rivers have
+their birth, and find their outlet into the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific
+Oceans.</p>
+
+<p>These mountains are vast vaults that will hold in trust for centuries to
+come untold supplies of precious metal for the American nations. This
+general fact did not concern Alfonso. He was ambitious to unlock for his
+own use only a single box of the huge vault. He was familiar with the
+wonderful story of Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien, Kings of the
+Comstock Lode, and owners of the Big Bonanza, who paid their 600 miners
+five dollars per day in gold, for eight hours' labor a third of a mile
+below the earth's surface. The Comstock Lode yielded over $5,000,000 per
+month, or a total output of silver and gold of over $250,000,000.</p>
+
+<p>For six long weary months Alfonso and his companion searched for gold
+down the Green River and along the river bottom of the Grand Canyon of
+the Colorado, till they reached the Needles on the A. &amp; P. Railway.
+Thence they rode west to Kern River. This stream they followed on
+horseback into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, all the time searching for
+precious metals, especially gold. The mountains were crossed over to
+Owen's Lake, and a river traced north. Alfonso was prospecting in new
+fields, but his search thus far was fruitless. His companion sickened and
+died, but Alfonso bravely climbed among the mountains hoping to cross the
+crest and reach the cabins of friendly government officials on duty in
+the park of the big trees in Mariposa County.</p>
+
+<p>It was late in the fall, grasses and leaves had browned, Alfonso's horse
+had grown thin, and being too weak and lame to go forward, finally died.
+His provisions had given out; his own strength and courage had failed; he
+needed water for his parched tongue and lips, but none was at hand; fever
+quickened his pulse. Sitting alone in the shadow of a giant boulder that
+afforded partial protection from the gathering storm, his mind reverted
+to his home at Harrisville where abundance could be had, to his family
+that thought him dead, and to Christine across the sea, whom he had
+vowed to win with gold. All seemed lost. Alfonso's head reeled, he fell
+back upon the ground, and the early snows seemed to form for him a
+shroud.</p>
+
+<p>Good fortune guided this way a party of Yosemite Indians, who were
+returning from an extended hunt for deer and elk. They had also slain a
+few bears and a couple of mountain lions. The dead horse first arrested
+their attention, and then the exhausted miner was found asleep covered
+with snow. The Indians wrapped the sick man at once in a grizzly bear
+skin, fastened him to a pony, and carried him to their camp near the big
+trees. It was morning before Alfonso was conscious of his surroundings.
+Standing by him was a shy Indian maiden with a dish of hot soup. His bed,
+he discovered was in a burned-out cavity of one of the big trees. Near by
+were several tepees, the tops of which emitted smoke. Straight,
+black-haired Indians in bright blankets moved slowly from tent to tent.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso scarcely conscious had strange dreams. Sometimes he thought he
+was in the Hodoo Region, or Goblin Land, the abode of evil spirits, where
+he saw every kind of fantastic beast, bird, and reptile, and no end of
+spectral shapes in the winding passages of a weird labyrinth on a far-off
+island. Then his dreams were of rare beauty. Green foliage was changed to
+pure white, the trees became laden with sparkling crystals, roadways and
+streams were laid in shining silver, and geyser-craters enlarged in
+strange forms resembled huge white thrones in gorgeous judgment halls.
+Such fleeting beauty suggested to Alfonso's feverish brain the
+supernatural, the abode perhaps of spirit beings. For days the medicine
+man and Mariposa, daughter of the Indian chief, watched and cared for
+Alfonso, whose life hovered over the grave.</p>
+
+<p>Mariposa, Spanish for butterfly, was a fit name for the pretty Indian
+maiden. She paid great deference not only to her tall father, Red Cloud,
+but to the pale faces whenever in their presence. For four years
+Mariposa, unusually bright, attended the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.;
+when she returned to her wild home in the forest she was able to speak
+and read the language of the pale face, and beside she loved history and
+poetry.</p>
+
+<p>One day, Alfonso's health having slowly improved, Mariposa put in his
+hands a small pine cone, the size of a hen's egg, and said, "Three years
+go by from the budding to the ripening of the seed of the sequoias, or
+big trees."</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso did not know, till Mariposa told him that the big trees were
+called sequoia in honor of a Cherokee chief, Sequoyah, who invented
+letters for his people. She also told Alfonso that there were at least
+ten groves of big trees on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada range;
+that some of the trees were thirty feet in diameter, and 325 feet in
+height; that sixteen Yosemite braves on their ponies had taken refuge
+from a terrible storm in the hollow of a single sequoia. Alfonso prized
+highly a cane, fashioned by the Indian maiden from a fallen Big Tree. The
+wood had a pale red tint, and was beautifully marked and polished.</p>
+
+<p>Part of the Indian hunting party went forward with the game, while
+Mariposa, Red Cloud, and three Yosemite braves with their ponies, waited
+for the handsome pale face to recover partially. Then they rode with
+Alfonso among the Big Trees, past Wawona, toiling up long valleys,
+stopping now and then to cook simple food. The Indians followed a
+familiar trail up dark gulches, along steep grades, through heavy timber,
+skirting edges of cliffs and precipitous mountains, the ruggedness
+constantly increasing, till suddenly Mariposa conducted Alfonso to a high
+point where his soul was filled with enthusiasm. Mariposa, pointing to
+the gorge or canyon of extraordinary depth, which was floored with forest
+trees and adorned with waterfalls, said, "Here in the Yosemite (grizzly)
+Valley is the home of my people. Here we wish to take you until you are
+well. Will you go?"</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso, still weak and pale, but trusting the Indian girl, replied
+"Yes." The young artist-miner had never seen such stupendous masonry; the
+granite walls that surrounded the valley were a succession of peaks and
+domes, from three thousand to four thousand feet high, all eloquent in
+thought and design. Alfonso began sketching, but Mariposa motioned him
+to put his paper aside, and the six Indian ponies with their burdens
+carefully picked their way into the paradise below.</p>
+
+<p>Red Cloud, Mariposa, Alfonso, and the braves were received with
+expressions of joy unusual for the stolid red men, and Alfonso was given
+a tent to himself near the chief's big tepee, close by a broad clear
+stream, and in the shadow of large old oaks. Here for several days
+Alfonso tarried, grew stronger, and often walked with pretty Mariposa.
+She taught him a novel method of trapping trout which thronged the river.
+She had him sketch the reflection in Mirror Lake of cathedral spires and
+domes, of overhanging granite rocks, and tall peaks of wildest grandeur.</p>
+
+<p>He also sketched several waterfalls fed by melting snow. Mariposa's
+favorite falls at the entrance to the valley made a single leap of
+hundreds of feet, and when the white spray was caught by the breezes and
+the sun, the lace-like mist, sparkling like diamonds, swayed gracefully
+in the winds like a royal bridal veil. "The highest of a series of
+cascades," Mariposa said, "was called 'The Yosemite Falls.'"</p>
+
+<p>Here eagles soar above the Cap of Liberty and other granite peaks.
+Robins, larks, and humming birds swarm in the warm valley, and abundance
+of grass grows in the meadows for the Indian ponies.</p>
+
+<p>As Alfonso's strength increased, he walked more frequently with Mariposa
+along the banks of the river, by the thickets of young spruce, cedar, and
+manzanita with its oddly contorted red stems. At times, each vied with
+the other in bringing back echoes from the lofty granite walls of the
+valley.</p>
+
+<p>One sunset, as Alfonso and Mariposa sat by the river bank, Alfonso
+holding the light redwood cane, the gift of the maiden, he took the
+shapely hand of Mariposa in his own and said, "Mariposa, I owe my life to
+you, and if I am ever rich I will come back and reward you."</p>
+
+<p>"I shall miss you," said the maiden shyly, "I want no money; I am happy
+because you are well again."</p>
+
+<p>"Mariposa, I have long searched for gold," said Alfonso, "but finally
+I lost courage, became sick, and you know the rest. You have a ring of
+beaten gold on your finger, did it come from near here?"</p>
+
+<p>"My father gave it to me," was all that Mariposa would say about the ring
+as they separated for the night.</p>
+
+<p>It was past midnight when Alfonso felt someone pulling at his shoulder.
+There in the moonlight stood Mariposa beckoning him to come. Quickly
+dressing, Alfonso left his tent without speaking as the maiden put her
+fingers to her lips, and quietly following Mariposa they walked by the
+silver stream into a wild gorge. Graceful pines afforded cover for
+Mariposa and Alfonso, as swift of foot, they scaled high cliffs, till the
+Indian girl held aloft her hand, and above in a cleft of white quartz the
+yellow gold shone brightly in the moon's rays.</p>
+
+<p>When the time came for Alfonso to leave the Yosemite Valley, one of
+nature's masterpieces, tears filled the eyes of lovely Mariposa. He
+earnestly thanked Red Cloud and his daughter, and, saying good-bye,
+mounted his pony, a gift from Mariposa, when the girl ran to him and
+whispered, "Here, Alfonso, is the ring; bring it back to me when you are
+rich, but you will forget Mariposa."</p>
+
+<p>"No! no!" replied Alfonso, "I will bring back the ring, and you shall
+give it to the one who makes you his bride." Then the Indian girl turned
+her face toward the Bridal Veil Falls, and Alfonso rode sadly out of the
+valley.</p>
+
+<p>After several years, still wearing the magic band of beaten gold, having
+developed the Mariposa Gold Mines into property worth millions, Alfonso
+left the far west to seek beautiful Christine.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XXV" id="CHAPTER_XXV"></a>CHAPTER XXV</h2>
+
+<h3>WORKINGS OF THE HARRIS-INGRAM PLAN</h3>
+
+
+<p>A telegram received at Liverpool by Reuben Harris from Marquis Leo
+Colonna, who at the Colonel's request went on to Amsterdam, verified the
+facts as to Alfonso's death by drowning. Colonel and Mrs. Harris's
+journey back to America under leaden and unsympathetic skies was sad
+indeed.</p>
+
+<p>George and Gertrude met them on the pier at New York. The next day at
+noon, in deep mourning, they received the remains of Lucille from the
+yacht "Hallena."</p>
+
+<p>Ten days with Lucille on the pitiless ocean, and unable to exchange
+with her a word of love, had sunk deeply the iron of affliction into
+the soul of Harry Hall. He often wished that he had never been born. He
+dreaded every new sunset, as the darkness that gathered about his
+catafalque-yacht whispered to him of cruel fates, of rest in the deep
+sea, and of angels' songs. Like the silent vigils of certain watchful
+plants, Captain Hall carefully observed his compasses, studied the
+weather, and often wished that he too might cross over and rejoin
+Lucille.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Ten days went by before Colonel Harris visited the offices of the
+Harris-Ingram Steel Co. Then followed several meetings of the directors,
+at which it was finally decided to issue the following circular:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Official Notice, No. 27.<br />
+Offices of The Harris-Ingram Steel Co.,<br />
+400 to 410 Brough Building,<br />
+Harrisville, O.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><i>To Whom, it may Concern</i>,&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>For the purpose of better promoting the harmonious workings of capital
+and labor, The Harris-Ingram Steel Co., Limited, has been organized, and
+its scope of co-operation has been planned on the following
+basis.</p>
+
+<pre>
+Capital Stock of the Harris-Ingram Steel Company  $5,000,000
+Total number of shares                               500,000
+Par value each share                                     $10
+</pre>
+
+<p>The liability of each stockholder is limited to the amount of stock held.
+Half of the entire stock of the corporation shall be owned by so-called
+"capital," and half by the employees of the company, or so-called
+"labor." The stock issued shall represent the actual cash expended upon
+the plant, and employed as a working capital. It is the wish of the
+management that each employee in the steel company shall own at least
+ten shares of the stock, and more, if he so desires.</p>
+
+<p>All the stock bought is to be paid for in cash. A loan at 4% interest,
+equal to the par value of the stock, can be made by employees, when
+necessary, to purchase a limited amount of the stock. Ten per cent of the
+wages of all such employees will be retained as needed, which, with
+dividends actually earned by the stock, will be applied on the amounts
+due for the purchase of stock and real estate for a home. The new model
+town will be known as Harris-Ingram.</p>
+
+<p>Two thousand acres of land near the mills will be properly allotted and
+improved by the company for homes for the employees, and practical
+architects have been secured. It is further the wish of the steel company
+that each employee shall own a good home. The size of each lot is 50 ft.
+x 200 ft. and the price per lot is $50 which is in proportion to the
+original cost and improvement of the allotment, so that the employees in
+advance will thus secure all the profits that result from any increased
+value of the lots. This is only just.</p>
+
+<p>A Stock and Building Bureau will be established, and money, at 4%, will
+be furnished the employees to build comfortable homes. This bureau
+created and officered by the employees will attend to the purchase and
+sale of stock, lots, the construction of homes, and the payment for the
+same. When for any reason, an employee desires to sever his connection
+with the steel company, his stock in the company and his home, if sold,
+must first be offered at a fair price to the Stock and Building Bureau.</p>
+
+<p>By this scheme capital and labor will have equal interests in the
+Harris-Ingram Steel Co., also an equal voice in the management of the
+steel company's welfare. Should capital and labor disagree, then the
+matter in dispute, with all the facts, and before any strike on the part
+of labor shall occur, shall at once be submitted to arbitration, and the
+decision of the arbitrators shall be final.</p>
+
+<p>Signed by
+<span class="smcap">George Ingram</span>,
+<i>President of The Harris-Ingram Steel Co</i>.</p></div>
+
+<p>In eight months George Ingram had spent of the five millions at his
+disposal three million dollars on the steel plant. A working capital of
+$500,000 was deposited in four banks, and the balance of one and a half
+millions was invested in call loans, and so held ready to loan in small
+amounts at 4%, to aid employees in securing their quota of stock, a lot
+and house.</p>
+
+<p>In twelve months, the $2,500,000 stock of the company, allotted to
+labor, had been subscribed for by the employees, over a thousand pretty
+cottages, costing from $1,000 to $2,500 each, were built or in process of
+construction, and nearly three thousand lots had been bought by the
+workmen.</p>
+
+<p>A Co-operative Supply Bureau was organized and managed in the interests
+of the workmen, to furnish food, clothing, and all the necessary comforts
+of life at about cost prices. The profits of the bureau, if any, were to
+be divided annually among purchasers, in proportion to purchases made.</p>
+
+<p>Women in Harris-Ingram voted on several matters the same as the men.
+Saloons, all forms of gambling, and corruption in politics were
+tabooed. Sewerage was scientifically treated by the use of chemicals
+and machinery. Storm water only was sent to the lake. The valuable
+portions of the sewerage were utilized on adjacent vegetable farms. At
+Harris-Ingram electrical energy supplied water free for streets, lawns,
+and gardens, and filtered water was delivered free for family purposes.
+All the public buildings and homes were heated and lighted by
+electricity.</p>
+
+<p>A Transportation Bureau was organized to manage the electric railways in
+the interests of the people, and the fare was reduced to two cents.
+Everybody rode, and the receipts were astonishingly large and quite
+sufficient to meet expenses and leave a profit, which went into the town
+treasury. Thus the people received large benefits from the electric
+railway, conduits for wires, gas privileges, and other franchises.</p>
+
+<p>Electricity also propelled the pleasure launches and fishing boats. The
+smoke nuisance was a vexatious trouble of the past. Life for the laborer
+and his family ceased to be a burden. Eight hours were given to
+conscientious labor, eight hours to physical, mental, and moral
+improvements, and eight hours to rest.</p>
+
+<p>By the Harris beneficences all the employees became personally interested
+in the profitable workings of the steel plant. The profits of the
+business also were greatly increased by the valuable inventions of
+the Ingrams.</p>
+
+<p>The money advanced to the employees was rapidly returned through the
+company's treasurer to Colonel Harris, and by him, and later by his
+heirs, was again invested in other lines of practical benevolence.
+The act which gave Colonel Harris most comfort was his righting the great
+wrong done James Ingram, his early joint-partner, and father of George,
+his son-in-law. Colonel Harris held $2,500,000 of the steel company's
+stock. He disposed of this stock as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<pre>
+To George and Gertrude, each $250,000 or   $500,000
+To James Ingram, early partner            1,000,000
+Retaining for himself only                1,000,000
+                                         ----------
+Total                                    $2,500,000
+</pre>
+
+
+<p>Since his return Reuben Harris had aged rapidly, his hair having
+whitened, caused probably by the loss of his only son and lovely
+daughter. His joy on account of the success of the Co-operative Steel
+Mills could not banish his intense grief. He had performed his life work,
+and the cares and burdens of the new enterprise he had placed upon George
+Ingram in whom he had full confidence. He had seen much in his travels
+abroad; and now he had learned a most valuable lesson, taught by the
+Savior himself, that it is more blessed to give than to receive.</p>
+
+<p>At the close of a long summer day, as the golden sun dropped into blue
+Lake Erie, the life of Reuben Harris passed from sight. It was a strange
+coincidence that the papers Monday morning should contain parallel
+obituary notices of both Reuben Harris and James Ingram. Together
+they had labored earnestly for humanity, each in his own way, and now
+reconciled, together they entered,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"The undiscovered country from whose bourne<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No traveller returns."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The four thousand employees, in a body, attended the double funeral. Each
+man had been the recipient of tangible assistance from both Harris and
+Ingram, and each laborer felt that he had lost a personal friend. It was
+a touching scene as the four regiments of employees, each wearing
+evidence of mourning on his arm, filed past the two open caskets. Each
+employee left a rose on the caskets till both were hidden from sight. The
+thousands of roses were more eloquent than marble or bronze. During the
+week, the employees each contributed the wages of two days for bronze
+statues of their late employers.</p>
+
+<p>George and Gertrude felt keenly the loss of their fathers. They also
+become conscious of increased responsibilities, but each had courage, and
+good cheer was imparted if either faltered or stood beneath gray skies.
+Their home life was delightful. Each possessed the art of controlling
+trifles; thus troubles were minimized and joys were magnified.</p>
+
+<p>Later twins, a boy and girl, entered their home, and the mother said, "If
+you call our son George Ingram, Jr., I shall call our daughter Gertrude
+Ingram, Jr.," and so there lived under the same roof George I. and George
+II., Gertrude I. And Gertrude II.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude proved a model wife and mother. The mystery of woman's love and
+purity is no longer a secret when we watch the mother in touch with
+innocent children. Gertrude gave home duties prominence over all others,
+with the blessed result that George found more attractions in his own
+home than in clubs or in the homes of his friends.</p>
+
+<p>To do daily some little favor for his wife, as in lover days, gave him
+much pleasure. Every night George came home with a new book, rare
+flowers, or fruit, the first of the season, or some novel plaything for
+his "Two G's" as he often called the little twins. Gertrude occasionally
+rebuked her husband for spending the money foolishly, as she said, but
+then remembrance of his family when down town gratified her. Wives miss
+and long for appreciation more than for better dress or money. If, on
+return to tea, the bread is good, the thoughtful husband speaks of it. If
+the table-cloth is white or if the arrangement of the meal is artistic,
+he speaks of it. A single word of honest approval makes the wife happy.</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes Gertrude wondered why the marriage ceremony so often untied
+lovers' knots, and why after marriage love and esteem did not increase.
+She never forgot the advice of an old lady, too poor to make her a
+wedding present, who told her that if she wished to be happy in marriage
+she must always keep two bears in her home, bear and forbear.</p>
+
+<p>George and his wife were human, and not unlike other people. Now and then
+George would say to his intimate friends. "The Ingrams like most New
+Englanders did not come over in the Mayflower as the passenger list was
+full, neither do the Ingrams belong to that very large number of families
+who feel the necessity of saying, 'We have never had an unkind word
+in our home.' Gertrude and I both have strong wills, and we often differ
+in opinions, but as often we agree to disagree. In this manner we avoid
+sunken rocks that might wreck our ship."</p>
+
+<p>One day, Irene, George's youngest sister, asked Gertrude for a painting
+of herself and of George. "Too expensive, Irene," replied Gertrude,
+"couldn't think of it for a moment."</p>
+
+<p>"No, Gertrude, I want only a tiny picture of your thumb and George's."</p>
+
+<p>"What in the world do you want of our thumbs?"</p>
+
+<p>"Because, Gertrude, George tells me privately that he has you completely
+under his thumb, and you always act as if you thought you had George
+under your thumb."</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude and George were strong and helpful, both educated, unselfish
+and ambitious; why should they not succeed? Gertrude had learned that
+good and great people are also sometimes selfish. When a little girl,
+she was present with her father who was invited to take dinner with a
+distinguished divine. The good doctor of divinity did the carving, and
+adroitly managed to keep for his own plate the tenderest piece of steak.
+Colonel Harris observed the fact, and enjoying a joke, casually observed,
+"Doctor, how well you carve!" The good man saw his breach of hospitality
+and blushed, remarking, "Colonel, you must forgive me for I believe I was
+born with a delicate stomach."</p>
+
+<p>Business cares were locked up in the office desk down town, and Gertrude
+forgot home annoyances as soon as George was seen coming up the lawn, and
+she and the twins ran to meet "papa." He always brought home the latest
+literary and scientific magazines and journals, while the reviews of
+America and London kept the family up-to-date on the latest books and
+leading topics. George's vacations were sometimes taken with his own
+employees, all of whom in the heated months, had two weeks off, some
+camping along the shores of the lake, others taking boat excursions to
+neighboring groves, or enjoying the outdoor band concerts which were
+furnished every other evening on the public park.</p>
+
+<p>What concerned his employees, concerned him. When any of his workmen
+were injured or sick, the company at once sent a surgeon or physician.
+Rightly, he thought it more important that an employee should be kept
+in good working order than even his best piece of machinery.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram was once heard to say that eleven letters covered a large
+part of his religion, and that he wished he could write across the blue
+dome in letters of gold the word "Helpfulness." To assist an unfortunate
+individual permanently to help himself, is preaching a gospel that
+betters the world.</p>
+
+<p>The community of Harris-Ingram had little or no poverty. Everybody had
+money in the savings bank, or accumulations going into pretty homes, and
+mill stock, and all respected law and order, hence few if any policemen
+were ever seen on the streets. Everybody was well dressed, courteous, and
+daily growing more intelligent. Taxes were light, and general
+improvements were economically and promptly made.</p>
+
+<p>Both George and Gertrude believed that the tendency of the age was
+towards more practical education for the people. London publishes
+millions of penny books, penny histories and biographies, penny
+arithmetics, astronomies and dictionaries, and penny books to teach good
+behavior, honor, and patriotism. In London and elsewhere, the people were
+organizing workmen's clubs, colleges, and institute unions, for mutual
+improvement, and glimpses were already caught of Morris's "Earthly
+Paradise that is to be."</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Then a man shall work and bethink him, and rejoice in the deeds of his hand<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor yet come home in the even too faint and weary to stand.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Men in that time a-coming shall work and have no fear<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For to-morrow's lack of earning and the hungry-wolf a-near.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh, strange, new, wonderful justice! But for whom shall we gather the gain?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For ourselves and for each of our fellows, and no hand shall labor in vain."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Free night schools over the country, for the child of eight to the man of
+eighty, will go a long way in solving the troublesome socialistic
+problem.</p>
+
+<p>George was familiar with the generous gifts and deeds of the Pratts of
+Baltimore, and of Brooklyn, of Carnegie, of Lorillard &amp; Co., of Warner
+Brothers of Connecticut, and of the Messrs. Tangye of Birmingham,
+England. The latter firm provides for its thousands of workmen a library,
+evening classes, and twice a week, while the employees are at dinner in a
+great hall, a twenty minutes crisp talk by capable persons on some live
+topic.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram organized an Educational Bureau for the improvement of his
+employees and others by evening schools and public entertainments. As
+requisite for the success of such a bureau as he planned, he published
+the conditions as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>1. Several study rooms and good teachers.</p>
+
+<p>2. A large and cheerful hall, church or opera house for lectures, that
+the prices may be low, the audience must be large.</p>
+
+<p>3. A capable committee or manager, enthusiasm, good temper, fertility
+of resource and sympathy with the people. Common sense coupled with
+determined perseverance works wonders.</p>
+
+<p>4. Variety and quality in the entertainment, with no wearying pauses
+between the parts. The movement must be swift and sure.</p>
+
+<p>5. Punctuality and business-like thoroughness in the management. Begin
+and end on the minute. Give exactly what you promise; or, if that be
+impossible, what will be recognized as a full equivalent. Ideas, not
+words, old or new on every helpful subject in the universe, spoken or
+illustrated. Music that rests or inspires, and is understood.</p>
+
+<p>6. Sell 5,000 season tickets at $1.00 in advance to secure a guarantee
+fund; this is sound business, as success is then assured, and it will not
+depend upon the weather.</p>
+
+<p>7. Have prominent citizens preside at each entertainment, but pledge them
+to crisp introduction. High grade entertainments wisely managed, prove
+themselves of benign influence, and an agency more potent than many laws
+in the preservation of peace and the reform of public morals.</p></div>
+
+<p>When Colonel Harris's will was probated, two-thirds of the balance of
+his fortune was left in trust with Mrs. Harris, George, and Gertrude,
+to be used for the public welfare, as they deemed wisest. The trustees
+used $100,000 to build for the Workmen's Club a large and attractive
+Central Hall, that had steep double galleries, and five thousand opera
+chairs.</p>
+
+<p>Several necessary committees were organized and George Ingram's gospel of
+Helpfulness found another practical expression. The Educational Bureau
+was not a gratuity in any of its departments, as small fees were charged
+in all the evening classes, which were crowded with old and young. For
+twenty consecutive Saturday evenings in the winter season, a four-fold
+intellectual treat was furnished at $1.00 for tickets for the entire
+course.</p>
+
+<p>By 7:30 o'clock in the evening the Central Hall was packed to the walls,
+no reserved seats were sold, and the rule was observed "First come, first
+served," which brought promptly the audience. Season ticket-holders had
+the exclusive right to the hall till 7:25 o'clock, when a limited number
+of single admission tickets were sold. A large force of polite ushers
+assisted in seating the people, and in keeping order. At 7:30 all the
+entrance doors were closed, so that late comers never disturbed the
+audience.</p>
+
+<p>The musical prelude, or orchestra concert of thirty minutes closed at
+7:30 with a grand chorus by the audience standing; following this,
+precisely at 7:30 was the half-hour lecture-prelude on some scientific
+or practical subject. Among the topics treated were "Wrongs of
+Workingmen, and How to Right Them," "The Terminal Glacier," "Sewerage and
+Ventilation," "The Pyramids," "Wonders of the House we Live in,"
+"Architecture Illustrated," etc.</p>
+
+<p>From 8:00 to 8:15 followed the popular Singing School, in which five
+thousand persons heartily joined, aided by an enthusiastic precentor, and
+orchestra, in singing national hymns and other music. During the singing
+school everybody stood, and with windows lowered, fresh air and music
+swept through the hall and the hearts of the audience.</p>
+
+<p>From 8:15 to 9:30 was given the principal attraction of the evening, a
+popular lecture, dramatic reading, debate on some burning question, or a
+professional concert. The entertainments always closed promptly at 9:30,
+as many electric cars were in waiting. During the season, free lectures
+on "The Art of Cooking," "How to Dress," "The Care of Children,"
+"Housekeeping in General," "The Culture of Flowers," etc., etc., were
+given at 3 P.M. in the great hall to the wives and friends of all the
+ticket holders.</p>
+
+<p>The circulation of useful literature was another important feature of the
+Educational Bureau work. At each entertainment five thousand little books
+of forty pages each, a wagon-load, were given to the owners of course
+tickets, as they entered the hall. These pamphlets included "A Short
+History of France," or "History of the United States," "Story of the
+Steam Engine," "A Brief History of Science," an "Essay on Early Man,"
+"Great Artists," "Secrets of Success," etc. Each little book contained
+the evening's programme, the words and music of at least two national
+hymns, and "Owl Talks," a single page of crisp thoughts, to whet one's
+wits. At the close of each season the twenty pamphlets, continuously
+paged, were bound for fifty cents in two volumes with covers of red
+cloth. Thus the people got much for little, and they were benefited and
+pleased with their bargain. Encores and the discourtesy of stamping the
+feet and leaving the hall before the performance was concluded were
+abolished. Palms and fragrant flowers were always on the platform.
+Everybody listened attentively to the kindly words of teacher, orator,
+or poet; new impulses were received, and all rejoiced in the supply and
+satisfaction of their deepest and best wants. Feelings of a common
+brotherhood made hearts happier and lives better.</p>
+
+<p>Workmen went home sober with their week's earnings in their pockets, as
+there were no saloons in the town, a bright book to read, and a home of
+their own for shelter and rest. Thus also an improved citizenship was
+obtained and the nation was made stronger.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram thought that all our cities should have large, cheerful
+halls, people's forums, where clear and simple truths on important
+questions should be taught. He believed that it would prove an antidote
+to various forms of anarchy and communism, which under the aegis of
+liberty are being advocated in our cities.</p>
+
+<p>The trustees of the Harris estate set aside $250,000, to be known as "The
+Reuben Harris Fund," to assist in providing regular courses of free
+public lectures upon the most important branches of natural and moral
+science, also free instruction to mechanics and artisans in drawing, and
+in practical designing, in patterns for prints, silks, paper hangings,
+carpets, furniture, etc. Free courses of lectures were given to advanced
+students in art, also lectures in physics, geology, botany, physiology,
+and the like for teachers, and the public.</p>
+
+<p>Gertrude felt that the perpetuity and usefulness of such a fund or
+monument dedicated to her father would outrival the pyramids. She greatly
+encouraged among the wives of the workmen the growth of kindergartens for
+children, and the cultivation of flowers, in and out of their homes,
+offering valuable prizes at annual flower shows. Harrisville voted to
+annex the village of Harris-Ingram, hoping that the gospel of helpfulness
+that had worked such wonders might leaven their whole city.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram was now forty years of age. His great ability and practical
+good sense had arrested the attention and admiration of not only his own
+employees, but of the citizens of Harrisville, who demanded that he
+should be chosen mayor of the city.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XXVI" id="CHAPTER_XXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXVI</h2>
+
+<h3>UNEXPECTED MEETINGS</h3>
+
+
+<p>Christine De Ruyter had long contemplated a visit to the new world.
+She was familiar with the history of the Dutch West India Company, a
+political movement organized under cover of finding a passage to Cathay,
+to destroy the results of Spanish conquest in America.</p>
+
+<p>No doubt, love of discovery and of trade also stimulated the Dutch in
+making explorations. In the vessel "Half Moon" they sailed up the Hudson,
+and after building several forts, they finally established themselves in
+New Netherlands. Peter Minuit for a trifle bought from the Indians the
+whole of Manhattan Island. In locating on Manhattan Island, the Dutch
+secretly believed that they had secured the oyster while the English
+settlements further north and south were the two shells only. The
+development of almost three centuries and the supremacy of New York
+to-day, as the new world metropolis, verifies the sound sense of the
+Dutch.</p>
+
+<p>Christine was alive to the important part which her countrymen had early
+played across the Atlantic. Her mother had died, and Christine still
+unmarried, controlled both her time and a goodly inheritance. She
+resolved to visit her sister Fredrika, whose husband was agent in New
+York of a famous German line of vessels.</p>
+
+<p>En route from Holland to New York she spent two weeks with friends in
+London, and on Regent Street replenished her wardrobe, enjoyed Irving
+and Terry in their latest play, attended an exciting Cambridge-Oxford
+boat-race on the Thames, and with a great crowd went wild with delight
+at the English races at Epsom Downs.</p>
+
+<p>Saturday at 9:40 A.M. at the Waterloo Station several friends saw
+Christine off for America on the special train, the Eagle Express, of the
+South Western Railway, which makes the journey of 79 miles to Southampton
+in one hour and forty minutes.</p>
+
+<p>At Southampton the passengers were transferred on the new express dock,
+direct from the train to the steamers, which are berthed alongside. By
+this route passengers escape exposure to weather on tenders and landing
+stage, and avoid all delays at ports of call, and waiting for the tides
+to cross the bar.</p>
+
+<p>Promptly at 12 o'clock, hawsers and gangways vanishing, the great steamer
+moved down the bay, the fertile Isle of Wight in sight. Officers made
+note of the time as the Needles were passed, as the runs of the steamers
+are taken between the Needles and Sandy Hook. It was a bright breezy
+afternoon and after lunch the passengers lounged on the decks, or in
+the smoke room; some inspected their rooms, some read the latest French
+or English novel, and others in groups gossiped, or walked the decks to
+sharpen appetite.</p>
+
+<p>The second steward, of necessity a born diplomat, had succeeded in
+convincing most who were at lunch that he had given them favored seats,
+if not all at the Captain's table, then at the table of the first
+officer, a handsome man, or at the table with the witty doctor.</p>
+
+<p>Christine did not appear at lunch, as she was busy in her stateroom. She
+had given careful instructions that one of her trunks should be sent at
+once to her room. An hour before dinner there appeared on the promenade
+deck a beautiful young woman dressed in black, who attracted attention
+and no little comment. She wore a dress of Henrietta cloth, and cape
+trimmed with black crepe and grosgrained ribbons in bows with long ends.
+Her tiny hat with narrow band of white crepe was of the Marie Stuart
+style; her gloves were undressed kid, her handkerchief had black border,
+and her silk parasol was draped in black.</p>
+
+<p>Hers was the same pretty face and blue eyes that had won Alfonso's heart.
+She supposed him dead; her dress of mourning was not for him, but for her
+mother, whom she idolized. At first Christine hesitated about wearing
+black on the journey, but she soon learned that it increased her charms,
+and that it gave protection from annoyance. Many supposed she was a young
+widow. So thought a handsome naval officer whom she had met in London.
+When Christine returned to her room, she found that a messenger boy had
+brought her his card, with compliments, and a request that she occupy a
+seat at his table for the voyage. With a black jacket on her arm,
+Christine was conducted to her seat at dinner by the chief steward. She
+wore a plain black skirt and waist of black and white, with black belt
+and jet buckle.</p>
+
+<p>An up-to-date liner is a sumptuous hotel afloat. The safety, speed, and
+comfort of the modern steamer does not destroy but rather enhances the
+romance of ocean voyage. The handsome young officer and pretty Christine,
+as they promenaded the decks, added effect to the passing show. Her
+mourning costume gradually yielded to outing suits of violet tints with
+white collar and cuffs, and a simple black sailor's cap with white cord
+for band.</p>
+
+<p>Artist that Christine was, and lover of the ocean, she and the officer
+watched the sea change from a transient green to a light blue and back
+again, then to a deep blue when the sun was hidden in a cloud, then, when
+the fogs were encountered, to a cold grey.</p>
+
+<p>Christine took great interest in the easy navigation of the steamer; she
+watched the officers take observations, and verify the ship's run.
+Frequently she was seen with the young officer on the bridge, he pointing
+out the lighthouse on the dangerous Scilly Islands, the last sight of old
+England off Land's End, she enjoying the long swell and white crested
+billows, as the shelter of the British coast was left behind.</p>
+
+<p>A charming first night aboard ship it was, the moon full, the sky
+picturesque, the sea dark, except where the steamer and her screws
+churned it white; at the bow, showers and spray of phosphorus, and
+at the stern, rippling eddies and a long path of phosphorus and white
+foam.</p>
+
+<p>Christine wished she could transfer to canvas the swift steamer, as she
+felt it in her soul, powerful as a giant and graceful as a woman; at the
+mast-head an electric star, red and green lights on either side, long rows
+of tremulous bulbs of light from numerous portholes; the officers on the
+bridge with night glass in hand, walking to and fro, dark figures of
+sailors at the bow and in the crow's nest, all eyes and ears. "All's
+well" lulls to sleep the after-dinner loungers in chairs along the deck,
+while brave men and fair women keep step to entrancing music.</p>
+
+<p>With a week of favorable weather, and unprecedented speed the record out
+was won; officers, sailors, passengers, all were jubilant. On Pier 14,
+North River, Fredrika and her husband met Christine, and drove to their
+fine home overlooking the Central Park.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Alfonso Harris had come on to New York to spend a week of pleasure;
+already he had secured his ticket for Amsterdam via Antwerp by the Red
+Star Line. He was prepared to keep his promise to Christine. "To match
+gold with gold!"</p>
+
+<p>In his rounds among the artists he happened to step into the Art
+Student's League, and there learned that his old artist-chum, Leo, was
+in New York, and stopping at the Plaza Hotel. At once he took cab, and,
+surely enough, there on the hotel register was the name Leo Colonna,
+Rome. Alfonso sent up his card, and the waiter soon returned with the
+reply, "The marquis will see Mr. Harris at once in his rooms." It is
+needless to say that the marquis was both shocked and delighted to see
+alive a friend whom he supposed long ago dead.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner Alfonso and Leo drove to their old club, and as ever talked
+and confided in each other. Alfonso told the marquis the romantic story
+of his life, of his pecuniary success, and that he should sail in a few
+days to wed Christine, if possible.</p>
+
+<p>The marquis hesitated in his reply, as if in doubt whether to proceed or
+not. Observing this, Alfonso said, "Speak freely, tell me what you were
+thinking about."</p>
+
+<p>"Nothing, Alfonso, only a report I heard at the club last night."</p>
+
+<p>"What report, marquis?"</p>
+
+<p>"A report or story concerning a beautiful widow, who had just arrived
+from Amsterdam. From the minute description given&mdash;she had fair face,
+blue eyes, fleecy hair and loved art&mdash;I suspected that the woman in black
+might be Christine De Ruyter."</p>
+
+<p>"You surprise me, Leo, but what was the report?"</p>
+
+<p>"Alfonso, pardon me, I have said too much already."</p>
+
+<p>"No, go on and tell me all."</p>
+
+<p>"Alfonso, since the report is concerning a woman's character, my lips
+should be sealed, and would be, except you my friend are the most
+interested party. The club story is that a handsome young officer, who
+left his newly wedded wife in Bristol, England, was so much enamored of
+the charming widow aboard ship that suspicions were aroused, and in fact
+confirmed, by an additional report that valuable diamonds had been sent
+by the same officer from Tiffany's to the lady, who is stopping somewhere
+on Central Park. There, Alfonso, I have given you the story and the whole
+may be true or false."</p>
+
+<p>It was now Alfonso's turn to be shocked; he could not believe what the
+marquis had told him. Next day he visited the office of the American
+Line, found that Christine De Ruyter was a passenger on the last steamer,
+and the purser gave him her New York address. Then the marquis
+volunteered to call, in Alfonso's interests, upon Miss De Ruyter who
+seemed glad to see him, and was amazed with the story which he had to
+tell, not only of himself, and his good fortune, but that of Alfonso.
+That the latter was alive and wealthy was news almost too good to
+believe.</p>
+
+<p>The marquis reported to Alfonso that Christine was overjoyed to have a
+bygone mystery so fortunately cleared up, and that she sent him an urgent
+invitation to call at once.</p>
+
+<p>Christine congratulated herself over her good luck at the very threshold
+of the new world. "Strange romance, indeed, it would be," she mused to
+herself, "if, after having refused the poor artist, he having gained
+riches should prove loyal, and lay his heart and fortune at my feet!
+Would I reject him? No, indeed! He has gold now." Thus musing to herself
+before the mirror, she gave final touches to her toilet, and stepped down
+into her sister's sumptuous parlor to wait for a lover, restored from the
+depths of the sea.</p>
+
+<p>Promptly at 9 o'clock Alfonso was ushered into Fredrika's parlor. For a
+second, Christine stood fixed and pale, for Alfonso it really was, and
+she had believed him dead; then extending her hand she gave him greeting.
+For a full hour Alfonso and Christine talked, each telling much of what
+had transpired in the intervening years. Alfonso said he was quite as
+much surprised to find that she was still unmarried, as she seemed
+surprised that he was still alive.</p>
+
+<p>"Alfonso, I have waited long for you," Christine replied.</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, yes, Christine, but have you been true all these years?"</p>
+
+<p>As Alfonso spoke these words, he sat with Christine's hand in his own,
+looking inquiringly into her blue eyes for her answer. Her face flushed
+and she was speechless.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso, dropping her hand, said in a kindly voice, "For years I have
+kept pure and sought to be worthy of you, and fortune has smiled upon me;
+I could now match gold with gold, but when I demand purity for purity
+your silence and your blushes condemn you, and I must bid you a final
+farewell."</p>
+
+<p>Christine could not answer, and as Alfonso left the house, she fell
+weeping upon the sofa, where her sister Fredrika found her, long past
+midnight. The terrible sorrow of that evening remained forever a mystery
+to Fredrika.</p>
+
+<p>It was 10 o'clock next morning when the marquis called upon Alfonso
+Harris at the Hotel Holland. He found him busy answering important
+letters from the coast. The marquis was not long in detecting that
+Alfonso lacked his usual buoyancy of spirits, and so rightly concluded
+that the meeting with Christine the night before had resulted
+unfavorably.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso explained all that transpired, and the two artists, who had
+flattered themselves that they knew women well, admitted to each other
+their keen disappointment in Christine's character. Both lighted cigars,
+and for a moment or two unconsciously smoked vigorously, as if still in
+doubt as to their unsatisfactory conclusions.</p>
+
+<p>Soon Alfonso said, "Leo, how about your own former love, Rosie Ricci? To
+meet Rosie again was possibly the motive that prompted you to leave your
+estate in Italy."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Alfonso, I loved Rosie, as I once frankly stated to your sister on
+the ocean, but in a moment of peevishness she returned the engagement
+tokens, and the lovers' quarrel resulted in separation. But after the
+death of Lucille I found the smouldering fires of the old love for Rosie
+again easily fanned into a flame, so I crossed the sea in search of my
+dear country-woman."</p>
+
+<p>"And did you find her!"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Alfonso, that is, all that was left of the vivacious, happy
+songster, as we once knew her. Her new world surroundings proved
+disastrous."</p>
+
+<p>"How so?"</p>
+
+<p>"Look, here is a picture in water color, that tells the story." Saying
+this the Marquis slowly removed a white paper from a small sketch which
+he had made the week before. It was a picture in the morgue on the East
+River, with its half hundred corpses, waiting recognition or burial in
+the Potter's Field. Upon a cold marble slab lay the body of a young girl,
+her shapely hands across her breast. Alfonso recognized Rosie's sweet
+face and golden tresses that artists had raved over.</p>
+
+<p>The marquis in sad tones added a few words of explanation. "The senator
+who educated Rosie proved a villain. When she acted as Juliet at the
+Capitol, fashionable society gave hearty approval of her rare abilities.
+Rosie's genius, like a shooting star, flashed across the sky and then
+shot into oblivion."</p>
+
+<p>A few days afterwards, Alfonso on the pier with his white handkerchief
+waved adieu to Leo who had resolved to wed art in sunny Italy. Sad
+memories decided Alfonso to leave New York at once. For a short time he
+was inclined to give up a new purpose, and return to his own family at
+Harrisville, but the law of equity controlled his heart, he journeyed
+back to the Pacific Coast, and again approached the Yosemite Valley.</p>
+
+<p>Seated again on Inspiration Point, he gazed long and earnestly into the
+gorge below. He could discern neither smoke nor moving forms. All had
+changed; not the peaks, or domes, or wonderful waterfalls; all these
+remained the same. But where were Red Cloud and kind-hearted Mariposa?
+Alfonso's own race now occupied the valley for pleasure and for gain.</p>
+
+<p>Mariposa might not be of his own race, but she had a noble heart.
+Education had put her in touch with civilization, and she was as pure
+as the snow of the Sierras. He wondered if she ever thought of him. He
+remembered that, when he rode away, her face was turned toward the Bridal
+Veil Falls. Did she thus intend to say, "I love you?"</p>
+
+<p>At midnight, as the moon rose above the forest, the tall pines whispered
+of Mariposa, of wild flowers she was wont to gather, of journeys made to
+highest peaks, of weeks of watching and waiting, and of the burial of Red
+Cloud at the foot of an ancient sequoia; then the language of the breezes
+among the pines became indistinct, and Alfonso, half-asleep, half-awake,
+saw approaching a white figure. Two dark eyes full of tears, gazed into
+his face, at first with a startled look, and then with a gleam of joy and
+trust.</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso exclaimed, "Mariposa!" He sought to clasp her in his arms, but
+the graceful figure vanished, and the pines seemed to whisper, "Alfonso,
+I go to join the braves in the happy hunting grounds beyond the setting
+sun. You will wed the fairest of your people. Adieu."</p>
+
+<p>When Alfonso awoke, the ring of beaten gold was gone, where, he knew not.
+The tourist-coach was rumbling down the mountain road, and he joined it.
+After an inspection of his mines, he sadly left the Sierras for San
+Francisco.</p>
+
+<p>The prophetic words of Mariposa, whispered among the pines, proved true.
+Alfonso again met Gertrude's best friend, beautiful Mrs. Eastlake, now a
+young widow, and later he married her, making their home on Knob Hill,
+the most fashionable quarter of the city by the Golden Gate.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XXVII" id="CHAPTER_XXVII"></a>CHAPTER XXVII</h2>
+
+<h3>THE CRISIS</h3>
+
+
+<p>What is of more value to civilization, or what commands a greater premium
+in the world than successful leadership? Successful leaders are few, and
+the masses follow. Honor, fame, power, and wealth are some of the rewards
+of great leadership. The confidences bestowed and the responsibilities
+assumed are often very great. A betrayal of important trusts, or a
+failure to discharge responsibilities, usually brings swift and terrible
+punishment, poverty, prison, disgrace, and dishonor to descendants.</p>
+
+<p>George Ingram had proved himself a successful leader, and those who knew
+him best, by study of his methods and his works, saw his capacity for
+leadership. Hence the popular demand for him to stand as candidate for
+mayor of Harrisville. His practical intelligence, and his acuteness in
+observation of character, had served him well in organizing, developing,
+and controlling the greatest model steel-plant of his generation, which
+for quality, quantity, and minimum cost of products had attracted the
+attention of manufacturers and scientists. Politicians soon discovered in
+George Ingram natural prudence and tact in behavior. The strong religious
+element of the city conceded that he possessed, as a certain doctor of
+divinity said, "a nice sense of what is right, just and true, with a
+course of life corresponding thereto."</p>
+
+<p>The alert women of the city were in hearty approval of conferring the
+honor of Mayor upon George Ingram. They knew that the completeness of his
+character resulted in no small degree from the influence of his gifted
+wife. The practical business men of the city saw that the proposed
+candidate for mayor had good common sense. So all party spirit was laid
+aside, as it should be in local politics, and George Ingram was nominated
+and elected unanimously as the mayor of Harrisville. His cabinet,
+composed of the heads of several departments, was filled with able men,
+who with zest took up their portfolios not with the thought of personal
+gain but with the lofty purpose of securing the utmost good to every
+citizen.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately the city had adopted the just principle of paying its
+servants liberally for all services rendered. By the so-called "Federal
+Plan" the number of members of the Cabinet, of the Board of Control, of
+the Council, and of the School Board, has been so reduced that at their
+meetings speeches and angry discussions were tabooed; each associate
+member was respected, if not on his own account, then on behalf of his
+constituency, and all business was discussed and consummated with
+the same courtesy and efficiency, as at a well regulated board of bank
+directors.</p>
+
+<p>Never before were streets so well paved, cleaned and sprinkled; never
+were city improvements so promptly made without increase of debt, and
+never did public schools prosper better. Men of experience on all lines
+were drafted on special committees and commissions, and vigorous work
+toward practical ends went forward on river, harbor, and other
+improvements.</p>
+
+<p>Electricity, supplied by the city, furnished power, heat, and light. High
+pressure water relegated the steam fire-engine to the Historical Society,
+and low pressure water, at minimum cost, was supplied to the people in
+such abundance that during the summer season, before sunrise, all paved
+streets were cleansed by running water and brush brooms. All sewerage and
+garbage were promptly removed, and used to enrich the suburban
+market-gardens.</p>
+
+<p>Every country road leading into the city had its electric railway with
+combination passenger and freight cars, and farm products for the people
+were delivered in better condition, earlier at the markets, and at much
+reduced prices. The advantages enjoyed by rich and poor in Harrisville
+were soon noised abroad, and the influx of new comers constantly
+increased the growth of the city. Mayor Ingram had been given a
+re-election. Prosperity in his own business had brought great returns,
+and the mayor's chief concern was, what to do with his accumulations.</p>
+
+<p>One day the County Commissioners, the City Government, the Chamber of
+Commerce, and the Board of Education were equally surprised to receive
+from George Ingram the announcement that he would build for the people at
+his own expense a court house, a city hall, a public library, and public
+baths. He had often wondered how it was possible that other millionaires
+could overlook and miss such opportunities to distribute surplus funds
+among the people. Gertrude early observed the city's needs, and had
+pointed out the opportunity to George, urging that part of her father's
+money should be united with their own increasing wealth to supply funds
+for the execution of their plans.</p>
+
+<p>The four committees appointed by city and county acted speedily in the
+consideration of details. It was decided to construct a group of
+buildings on the park. The architecture adopted for all four structures
+was Romanesque in style; granite was used for wall work, and darker stone
+for ornamentation. The plans accepted exhibited less massiveness than the
+original Romanesque, and showed a tendency towards the lightness and
+delicacy of finish which modern culture demands.</p>
+
+<p>The new court house located on the park enabled the architect to connect
+it by an historical "Bridge of Sighs" with the prison and old court house
+across the street. The city hall was properly made the most prominent of
+the group of buildings. Its first floor and basement were combined in a
+great assembly hall, capable of seating 10,000 people with an abundance
+of light, fresh air, and eight broad entrances for exit. As the belfry or
+tower was a leading feature of most mediaeval town-halls, so the artistic
+feature of the Harrisville city hall was its lofty tower, containing
+chimes, above which was to be placed an appropriate bronze statue. The
+library and the baths were built on the park.</p>
+
+<p>The Romanesque style of all the buildings gave fine opportunity to
+introduce elaborate carvings about the entrance arches, and across the
+fa&ccedil;ades to chisel quaint faces above the windows, and grotesque heads out
+of corbels at the eaves.</p>
+
+<p>The group of public buildings was finally completed and dedicated with
+much formality. The city government unanimously adopted resolutions as
+follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"<span class="smcap">Resolved</span>,&mdash;That the City of Harrisville accepts, with profound
+gratitude, from Mayor George Ingram, the munificent gift of buildings for
+a City Hall and Public Library as stated in his letters <br />of &mdash;&mdash;; That
+the City accepts the three noble gifts upon the conditions in said
+letter, which it will faithfully and gladly observe, as a sacred trust in
+accordance with his desire.</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">Resolved</span>,&mdash;That in gratefully accepting these gifts, the City
+tenders to Mayor George Ingram its heartfelt thanks, and desires to
+express its deep sense of obligation for the elegant buildings, for years
+of wise counsel and unselfish service, and for the free use of valuable
+patents. The City recognizes the Christian faith, generosity, and public
+spirit that have prompted him to supply the long felt wants by these
+gifts of great and permanent usefulness."</p></div>
+
+<p>Similar resolutions were adopted by the county commissioners.</p>
+
+<p>Nearly three millions were thus disposed of by the mayor and his wife.
+Close attention to business, and the severe labors in behalf of the city,
+undermined the health of George Ingram, and his physical and mental
+strength failed him at the wrong time, for his ship was now approaching
+a cyclone on the financial sea.</p>
+
+<p>Tariff matters had been drifting from bad to worse, politicians were
+seeking to secure advantages for their constituents by changes in the
+tariff schedule, speculation was running wild in the stock exchanges of
+the country, cautious business men and bankers in the larger cities
+discovered an ominous black cloud rising out of the horizon. Bank rates
+of interest increased, more frequent renewals were made, deposits
+dwindled, country bankers weakened, and financiers in the metropolis
+were calling loans made to the interior. With the financial cyclone at
+its height, the demands were so great upon The Harris-Ingram Steel Co.
+that creditors threatened to close the steel plant.</p>
+
+<p>The cry for help went up from the Harris-Ingram mills, but their trusted
+leader was powerless. George Ingram lay insensible at death's door, the
+victim of pneumonia. For a week, the directors of the steel company
+struggled night and day with their difficulties. Gertrude could neither
+leave the bedside of her dying husband, nor would she give her consent to
+have the Harris-Ingram Experiment wrecked. She had already pledged as
+collateral for the creditors of the steel company all their stock and
+personal property, and had telephoned the directors to keep the company
+afloat another day, if in their power.</p>
+
+<p>The ablest physicians of the city were standing at George Ingram's
+bedside in despair, as all hope of his recovery had vanished. Gertrude
+stepped aside into her library, and was in the very agony of prayer for
+help, when in rushed her brother Alfonso, whom the family believed dead.
+He had come from California with his wife, and stopping at the company's
+office, had learned of the terrible trouble of his family.</p>
+
+<p>Lifting up his broken-hearted sister, who for a moment thought that
+she had met her brother on the threshold of the other world, he kissed
+Gertrude and said, "Be brave, go back to your husband, and trust your
+brother to look after the steel company's matters."</p>
+
+<p>Alfonso learned that one million dollars were needed at once to tide over
+the company's affairs; he drew two checks, for five hundred thousand
+dollars each, upon his banks in San Francisco and requested the creditors
+to wire to the coast. Before two o'clock replies came that Alfonso
+Harris's cheeks were good, and the only son of Reuben Harris had saved
+the "Harris-Ingram Experiment." Mariposa's band of beaten gold had worked
+its magic.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>A public funeral was given George Ingram. He was a man the city could ill
+afford to lose, and every citizen felt he had lost a personal friend. All
+business was suspended, and the mills were shut down. For two days the
+body of the dead mayor lay in state in the city hall he had built and
+given to the people. The long line of citizens that filed past the coffin
+continued through the night till dawn, and even then, great throngs stood
+in the rain with flowers for his casket.</p>
+
+<p>As a token of their high regard the people voted to change the name of
+the city of Harrisville to Harris-Ingram, the suburb which was annexed,
+and to place a bronze statue of George Ingram on the tower above the city
+hall, which now became his fitting monument. Labor and capital united in
+electing for the head of the great Harris-Ingram Steel Company, Alfonso,
+the millionaire and artist-son of Reuben Harris.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> <i>The True Discovery of America.</i> Captain R.N. Gambier.
+<i>Fortnightly Review</i>, January 1, 1894.</p></div>
+
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+Project Gutenberg's The Harris-Ingram Experiment, by Charles E. Bolton
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
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+Title: The Harris-Ingram Experiment
+
+Author: Charles E. Bolton
+
+Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16834]
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+Language: English
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+
+                      THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT
+
+                       By CHARLES E. BOLTON, M.A.
+
+AUTHOR OF "A MODEL VILLAGE AND OTHER PAPERS," "TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND
+AMERICA," ETC.
+
+                                CLEVELAND
+
+                      THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY
+
+                                   1905
+
+
+
+
+TO MY WIFE
+SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON
+AND MY SON
+CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+This volume was ready for publication when my husband died, October 23,
+1901. In it, in connection with a love story and some foreign travel, he
+strove to show how necessary capital and labor are to each other. He had
+always been a friend to labor, and there were no more sincere mourners at
+his funeral than the persons he employed. He believed capital should be
+conciliatory and helpful, and co-operate with labor in the most friendly
+manner, without either party being arrogant or indifferent.
+
+Mr. Bolton took the deepest interest in all civic problems, and it is a
+comfort to those who loved him that his book, "A Model Village and Other
+Papers," came from the press a few days before his death. He had hoped
+after finishing a book of travel, having crossed the ocean many times and
+been in many lands, and doing some other active work in public life, to
+take a trip around the world and rest, but rest came in another way.
+
+Sarah K. Bolton
+
+Cleveland, Ohio.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+Mr. W.D. Howells, in reply to a literary society in Ashtabula County,
+Ohio, said that most people had within their personal experience one
+book.
+
+I have often quoted Howells's words to my best friend, who has written a
+score of books, and the answer as frequently comes, "Why not write a book
+yourself?" Encouraged by Howells's belief, and stimulated by the accepted
+challenge of my friend, to whom I promised a completed book in twelve
+months, I found time during a very busy year to pencil the chapters that
+follow. Most of the book was written while waiting at stations, or on the
+cars, and in hotels, using the spare moments of an eight-months' lecture
+season, and the four months at home occupied by business.
+
+I am aware that some critics decry a novel written with a purpose. Permit
+me therefore in advance to admit that this book has a double purpose: To
+test the truth of Howells's words as applied to myself; and to describe a
+journey, both at home and abroad, which may possibly be enjoyed by the
+reader, the inconveniences of travel being lessened by incidentally
+tracing a love story to a strange but perhaps satisfactory conclusion;
+the whole leading to the evolution of a successful experiment, which in
+fragments is being tried in various parts of the civilized world.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+Chapter I
+The Harrises in New York
+
+Chapter II
+Mr. Hugh Searles of London Arrives
+
+Chapter III
+A Bad Send-off
+
+Chapter IV
+Aboard the S.S. Majestic
+
+Chapter V
+Discomfitures at Sea
+
+Chapter VI
+Half Awake, Half Asleep
+
+Chapter VII
+Life at Sea a Kaleidoscope
+
+Chapter VIII
+Colonel Harris Returns to Harrisville
+
+Chapter IX
+Capital and Labor in Conference
+
+Chapter X
+Knowledge is Power
+
+Chapter XI
+In Touch with Nature
+
+Chapter XII
+The Strike at Harrisville
+
+Chapter XIII
+Anarchy and Results
+
+Chapter XIV
+Colonel Harris Follows his Family Abroad
+
+Chapter XV
+Safe Passage, and a Happy Reunion
+
+Chapter XVI
+A Search for Ideas
+
+Chapter XVII
+The Harrises Visit Paris
+
+Chapter XVIII
+In Belgium and Holland
+
+Chapter XIX
+Paris, and the Wedding
+
+Chapter XX
+Aboard the Yacht "Hallena"
+
+Chapter XXI
+Two Unanswered Letters
+
+Chapter XXII
+Colonel Harris's Big Blue Envelope
+
+Chapter XXIII
+Gold Marries Gold
+
+Chapter XXIV
+The Magic Band of Beaten Gold
+
+Chapter XXV
+Workings of the Harris-Ingram Experiment
+
+Chapter XXVI
+Unexpected Meetings
+
+Chapter XXVII
+The Crisis
+
+
+
+
+THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+THE HARRISES IN NEW YORK
+
+
+It was five o'clock in the afternoon, when a bright little messenger boy
+in blue touched the electric button of Room No. ---- in Carnegie Studio,
+New York City. At once the door flew open and a handsome young artist
+received a Western Union telegram, and quickly signed his name, "Alfonso
+H. Harris" in the boy's book.
+
+"Here, my boy, is twenty-five cents," he said, and tore open the message,
+which read as follows:--
+
+  Harrisville,--.
+
+  _Alfonso H. Harris,
+  Carnegie Studio, New York._
+
+  We reach Grand Central Depot at 7:10 o'clock tomorrow evening in our
+  new private car Alfonso. Family greetings; all well.
+
+  Reuben Harris.
+
+Alfonso put the telegram in his pocket, completed packing his steamer
+trunk, wrote a letter to his landlord, enclosing a check for the last
+quarter's rent, and ran downstairs and over to the storage company, to
+leave an order to call for two big trunks of artist's belongings, not
+needed in Europe.
+
+A hansom-cab took him to the Windsor Hotel, where he almost forgot to pay
+his barber for a shave, such was his excitement. A little dry toast, two
+soft boiled eggs, and a cup of coffee were quite sufficient, since his
+appetite, usually very good, somehow had failed him.
+
+It was now fifteen minutes to seven o'clock. In less than half an hour
+Alfonso was to meet his father, mother, and sisters, and after a few days
+in the metropolis, join them in an extended journey over the British
+Isles, and possibly through portions of Europe.
+
+Alfonso was the only son of Reuben Harris, a rich manufacturer of iron
+and steel. His father, a man naturally of very firm will, had earnestly
+longed that his only son might succeed him in business, and so increase
+and perpetuate a fortune already colossal. It was a terrible struggle for
+Harris senior to yield to his son's strong inclination to study art, but
+once the father had been won over, no doubt in part by the mother's
+strong love for her only boy, he assured Alfonso that he would be loyal
+to him, so long as his son was loyal to his profession. This had given
+the boy courage, and he had improved every opportunity while in New York
+to acquaint himself with art, and his application to study had been such
+that he was not only popular with his fellow artists, but they recognized
+that he possessed great capacity for painstaking work.
+
+Alfonso jumped into a coupe, having ordered a carriage to follow him to
+the Grand Central Station. It was ten minutes yet before the express was
+due. Nervously he puffed at his unlighted cigar, wishing he had a match;
+in fact, his nerves were never more unstrung. It was a happy surprise,
+and no doubt his youthful vanity was elated, that his father should have
+named his new palace car "Alfonso." At least it convinced him that his
+father was loyal.
+
+As the coupe stopped, he rushed into the station, just in time to see the
+famous engine No. 999 pull in. She was on time to a second, as indicated
+by the great depot clock. A ponderous thing of life; the steam and air
+valves closed, yet her heavy breathing told of tremendous reserve power.
+What a record she had made, 436-1/2 miles in 425-3/4 minutes! Truly,
+man's most useful handiwork, to be surpassed only by the practical dynamo
+on wheels! It was not strange that the multitude on the platform gazed in
+wonder.
+
+There at the rear of the train was the "Alfonso," and young Harris in
+company with his artist friend, Leo, who by appointment had also hastened
+to the station, stepped quickly back to meet the occupants of the new
+car.
+
+First to alight was Jean, valet to the Harris family. Jean was born near
+Paris and could speak French, German, and several other languages. His
+hands and arms were full to overflowing of valises, hat boxes, shawls,
+canes, etc., that told of a full purse, but which are the very things
+that make traveling a burden.
+
+By this time Alfonso had climbed the car steps and was in his mother's
+arms. Mrs. Harris was more fond, if possible, of her only son than of her
+beautiful daughters. She was a handsome woman herself, loved dress and
+was proud of the Harris achievements. Alfonso kissed his sisters, Lucille
+and Gertrude, and shook hands warmly with his father, who was busy giving
+instructions to his car conductor.
+
+Alfonso in his joy had almost forgotten his friend Leo, but apologizing,
+he introduced him, first to his mother, then to Gertrude and finally to
+his sister Lucille, and their father. All seemed glad to meet their son's
+friend, as he was to take passage in the same steamer for his home near
+Rome.
+
+Leo Colonna was connected with the famous Colonna family of Italy. From
+childhood he had had access to the best schools and galleries of his
+peninsular country. He also had studied under the best masters in Paris
+and Berlin, and was especially fond of flesh coloring and portrait
+painting. He had studied anatomy, and had taken a diploma as surgeon in
+the best medical college in Vienna, merely that he might know the human
+form. Alfonso, aware of all this, had invited Leo to join their party in
+making the tour over Ireland, England, and through the Netherlands.
+
+As Lucille left the car, Leo offered aid, taking her blue silk umbrella
+with its wounded-oak handle, the whole rolled as small as a cane. Lucille
+never appeared to better advantage. She was tall, slender, and graceful.
+Excitement had tinged her cheeks and lips, and her whole face had a
+child's smooth, pink complexion. Wavy black hair and blue eyes revealed
+the Irish blood that had come from the mother's veins. She wore a
+traveling suit of navy-blue serge. Her hat, of latest style, was made of
+black velvet, steel ornaments, and ostrich tips. What artist could resist
+admiring a woman so fair and commanding! The dark eyes of Leo had met
+those of Lucille, and he at once had surrendered. In fact, a formidable
+rival had now conquered Leo's heart.
+
+Together they led the way to the front entrance of the station, while
+Harris senior delayed a moment to exhibit the car "Alfonso" to his son.
+"I had this private car built," said the father, "that the Harris family
+might be exclusive. Napoleon once said:--'Let me be seen but three times
+at the theatre, and I shall no longer excite attention.' Our car is
+adapted for service on any standard gauge road, so that we can travel in
+privacy throughout the United States. You notice that this observation
+room is furnished in quartered English oak, and has a luxurious sofa and
+arm chairs. Let us step back. Here on the right are state and family
+rooms finished in mahogany; each room has a connecting toilet room,
+with wash stand and bath room, hot and cold water being provided, also
+mirrors, wardrobe and lockers. The parlor or dining room is eighteen feet
+long and the extension table will seat twelve persons. Here also is a
+well selected library and writing desk."
+
+"But where is the kitchen?" asked Alfonso.
+
+"Beyond," said the father. "The pantry, china closet, and kitchen are
+finished in black walnut. Blankets, linen, and tableware are of best
+quality. Here are berths for attendants and porter's room for baggage.
+Carpets, rugs, draperies, and upholstery were especially imported to
+harmonize. Nobody amounts to much in these days, Alfonso, unless he owns
+a private car or a steam yacht. Henceforth this car, named in your honor,
+may play an important part in the history of the Harris family."
+
+Mrs. Harris, Leo, and Lucille, took seats in the carriage; Gertrude and
+her mother were on the back seat, while Lucille and her artist friend
+faced Mrs. Harris and daughter.
+
+Jean sat upright with the coachman. Colonel Harris and Alfonso rejoined
+their friends and together entered the coupe. Reuben Harris once served
+on the governor's staff for seven weeks, ranking as colonel, so now all
+his friends, even his family, spoke of him as "the Colonel." It was well,
+as it pleased his vanity.
+
+The coachmen's whips left their sockets, and coupe and carriage dashed
+along 42nd Street and down Fifth Avenue. The ten minutes' drive passed as
+a dream to some in the carriage. Mrs. Harris's mind revelled in the
+intricate warfare of society. She had often been in New York, and in
+the summers was seen at the most fashionable watering places with her
+children. Her mind was burdened trying to discover the steps that lead to
+the metropolitan and international "four hundred." She was determined
+that her children should marry into well regulated families, and that the
+colonel should have a national reputation. So absorbed was she that her
+eyes saw not, neither did her ears hear what transpired in the carriage.
+Gertrude was equally quiet; her thoughts were of dear friends she had
+left in Harrisville. The occupants of the front seats had talked in low
+tones of recent society events in New York, and a little of art. Lucille
+herself had dabbled in color for a term or two in a fashionable school on
+the Back Bay in Boston.
+
+The colonel had become enthusiastic in his talk about his own recent
+business prosperity. Suddenly coupe and carriage stopped in front of the
+main entrance of the Hotel Waldorf. How fine the detail of arch and
+columns! How delicate the architect's touch of iron and glass in the
+porte-cochere!
+
+The Harris family stepped quickly into the public reception-room to the
+left of the main entrance adjoining the office, leaving Jean and the
+porter to bring the hand-baggage. The decorated ceiling framed a central
+group of brilliant incandescent lights with globes. Leo directed
+attention to the paintings on the walls, and furniture and rugs.
+
+The colonel excused himself and passed out and into the main offices. The
+sight about him was an inspiring one. The architect's wand had wrought
+grace and beauty in floor, ceiling, column, and wall. Gentlemen, old and
+young, were coming and going. Professional men, not a few, bankers and
+business men jostled each other. Before the colonel had reached the
+clerk's desk, he had apologized, twice at least, for his haste. The fact
+was that metropolitan activity delighted his heart, but it disturbed just
+a little his usual good behavior. Nervously, he wrote in the Waldorf
+register plain Reuben Harris, wife and two daughters. He wanted to prefix
+colonel. His son added his own name. Colonel Harris, at his request, was
+given the best apartments in the Waldorf.
+
+Leo excused himself for the night, Lucille saying the last words in low
+tones, and then, liveried attendants conducted the Harris family to their
+suite of rooms. It was half past eight when the Harrises sat down to
+their first meal in their private dining-room. As Mrs. Harris waited for
+her hot clam soup to cool a little, she said, "Reuben, this exclusiveness
+and elegance is quite to my liking. After our return from Europe, why
+can't we all spend our winters in New York?"
+
+"No, mother," said Gertrude, "we have our duties to the people of
+Harrisville, and father, I am sure, will never stay long away from his
+mills."
+
+But Lucille approved her mother's plan, and was seconded by her brother.
+Colonel Harris was interested in the views expressed, but with judicial
+tone, he replied, "The Harrises better wait till the right time comes.
+Great financial changes are possible in a day."
+
+The dinner, though late, was excellent. Before ten o'clock all were glad
+to retire, except the head of the family, who hoped the night would be
+short, as the next day might witness very important business
+transactions.
+
+Colonel Harris took the elevator down to the gentlemen's cafe, adjoining
+the beautiful Garden Court. For a moment he stood admiring the massive
+fire-place and the many artistic effects, mural and otherwise. The cafe
+was furnished with round tables and inviting chairs. Guests of the hotel,
+members of city clubs, and strangers, came and went, but the colonel's
+mind was in an anxious mood, so he sought a quiet corner, lighted a
+cigar, and accidently picked up the _Evening Post_. Almost the first
+thing he read was an item of shipping news:
+
+  "No word yet from the overdue steamship 'Majestic;' she is already
+  forty-eight hours late, and very likely has experienced bad weather."
+
+The "Majestic" is one of the largest and best of the famous White Star
+Line fleet. Colonel Harris expected an English gentleman to arrive by
+this boat, and he had come on to New York to meet him, as the two had
+business of great importance to talk over. "I wonder," thought the
+colonel, "if such a thing could happen, that my cherished plan of
+retiring with millions, might possibly be frustrated by ship-wreck or any
+unlooked-for event?" Whereupon he pulled from his pocket a cablegram, to
+make himself doubly sure that his was not a fool's errand, and again read
+it in audible tones:
+
+  London, May 24, 18--.
+  _Col. Reuben Harris,
+  Hotel Waldorf, New York._
+
+  Hugh Searles, our agent, sails May twenty-fifth on Majestic. Meet him
+  at Hotel Waldorf, New York.
+
+  Guerney & Barring.
+
+The signers of the cablegram were young bankers and brokers, occupying
+sumptuous quarters on Threadneedle Street, in sight of the Bank of
+England, the Exchange, and the Mansion House or official residence of the
+Lord Mayor of London. The fathers of each member of the firm had been at
+the head of great banking houses in London for many years, and after
+herculean efforts, their banks had failed. These young men had united
+families and forces, and resolved to win again a financial standing in
+the world's metropolis. Shrewdly they had opened a score of branch
+offices in different parts of London and county; besides they had added
+a brokerage business, which had drifted into an extensive specialty of
+promoting syndicates in America and the colonies. Their success in
+handling high grade manufacturing plants had been phenomenal. Already at
+this business they had netted two million pounds. Reliable and expert
+accountants were always sent by them to examine thoroughly a client's
+ledgers. Already, bonds that carried the approval of Guerney & Barring,
+found ready market on Lombard, Prince, and other financial streets near
+the Bank of England.
+
+Colonel Harris relighted his cigar and queried to himself, "What ought I
+to charge these Englishmen for a property that cost barely two millions,
+but that has brought to the Harris family, annually for ten years, an
+average of 30%, or $600,000?" At first he had fixed upon six millions as
+a fair price, and then finally upon five million dollars. While he thus
+reflected, he fell asleep. It was after eleven o'clock when the Waldorf
+attendant caught him, or he would have fallen from his chair to the
+floor. Colonel Harris gave him a piece of silver, and retired for the
+night.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+HUGH SEARLES OF LONDON ARRIVES
+
+
+The next day was Sunday, and the Harris family slept late. Jean was first
+to rise, and buying the morning papers left them at Colonel Harris's
+door.
+
+It was almost nine o'clock when the family gathered in their private
+dining-room. The night's sleep had refreshed all. The mother was very
+cheerful over her coffee, and heartily enjoyed planning for the day. She
+liked New York best of the American cities. Brown stone and marble
+fronts, fine equipage and dress, had charms for her, that almost made
+her forget a pleasant home and duties at Harrisville. She was heart and
+soul in her husband's newest scheme to close out business, and devote
+the balance of life to politics and society. Naturally therefore the
+table-talk drifted to a discussion of the possible causes of the
+steamer's delay.
+
+Lucille looked up, and said, "Father, the _Tribune_ says, 'Fair weather
+for New England and the Atlantic coast.' Cheer up! The 'Majestic' will
+bring your Englishman in, I think. This is a lovely day to be in the
+metropolis. Come father, let me sweeten your coffee. One or two lumps?"
+
+"Two, my dear, if you please. Now what will give you all the most
+pleasure to-day?"
+
+Alfonso answered, "Why not take a drive, and possibly attend some
+church?"
+
+This plan was approved. Breakfast over, the Harris family entered
+a carriage, and the coachman, with Jean by his side, drove through
+Washington Square, under the American Arch of Triumph, and out Fifth
+Avenue, the fashionable street of New York. Alfonso acted as guide. "This
+white sepulchral looking building on the left at the corner of 34th
+street is where A.T. Stewart, the Irish merchant prince, lived."
+
+Gertrude remarked, "How true in his case, the proverb 'Riches certainly
+make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle towards heaven.'"
+
+"You should quote Scripture correctly, my child," said the mother.
+"'Riches take wings.'"
+
+"No, no, mamma--I am sure that I am right. 'Riches _make_ themselves
+wings' and the proverb is as true to-day as in Solomon's time."
+
+"Well, Gertrude, we will look at the hotel Bible on our return."
+
+"Yes, mamma, if the hotel has one."
+
+Colonel Harris responded, "I think Gertrude is right. Stewart's millions
+have changed hands. Dead men have no need of dollars. No wonder Stewart's
+bones were restless."
+
+"Here at West 39th Street is the sumptuous building of the Union League
+Club. It has over 1500 members, all pledged to absolute loyalty to the
+Government of the United States, to resist every attempt against the
+integrity of the nation, and to promote reform in national, state, and
+municipal affairs. The club equipped and sent two full regiments to the
+front in the Civil War."
+
+Alfonso pointed out Jay Gould's old residence, more club houses,
+libraries, the Windsor Hotel, Dr. Hall's handsome Presbyterian Church,
+and the brown stone and marble palaces of the Vanderbilt family, two
+miles of splendid residences and magnificent churches before you reach
+Central Park at 59th Street.
+
+The walks were thronged with beautiful women and well dressed men. It was
+now 10:30 o'clock. The chimes had ceased their hallowed music. People of
+all nationalities were jostling each other in their haste to enter St.
+Patrick's Cathedral, a copy of the Gothic masterpiece in Cologne, and the
+most imposing church building in America.
+
+The Harris carriage stopped; Lucille's heart suddenly began to beat
+quickly, for she saw Leo Colonna hastening from the Cathedral steps
+towards the carriage. "Good morning, Mrs. Harris! Glad you have come to
+my church," Leo said; then taking her hand cordially, he added, "And
+you have brought the family. Well, I am pleased, for you could not have
+come to a more beautiful church or service."
+
+As Leo conducted his friends up the granite steps, all were enthusiastic
+in their praise of the Fifth Avenue facade; white marble from granite
+base to the topmost stones of the graceful twin spires.
+
+All passed under the twelve apostles, that decorate the grand portal,
+and entered the cathedral. The interior is as fine as the exterior. The
+columns are massive, the ceiling groined; the style is the decorated or
+geometric architecture, that prevailed in Europe in the thirteenth
+century. The cardinal's gothic throne is on the right. The four altars
+are of carved French walnut, Tennessee marble and bronze. Half of the
+seventy windows are memorials, given by parishes and individuals in
+various parts of America. The vicar-general was conducting services. His
+impressive manner, aided by the sweet tones of singers and organ, and the
+sun's rays changed to rainbows by the stained-glass windows, produced
+a deep religious feeling in the hearts of the several thousand persons
+present.
+
+As the party left the church, Leo said, "In 1786, the Kings of France and
+Spain contributed to the erection of the first cathedral church, St.
+Peter's, in New York." The Harrises having invited Leo to dinner, said
+good-bye to him, and in their carriage returned to the Waldorf for lunch.
+
+While the colonel waited near the reception-room, he chanced to look at
+the stained-glass window over the entrance to the Garden Court. Here was
+pictured the village of Waldorf, the birthplace of the original John
+Jacob Astor. This pretty little hamlet is part of the Duchy of Baden,
+Germany, and has been lovingly remembered in the Astor wills. Here
+formerly lived the impecunious father of John Jacob Astor and his
+brother. Both gained wealth, very likely, because the value of money was
+first learned in the early Waldorf school of poverty. It was not an ill
+north wind that imprisoned young Astor for weeks in the ice of the
+Chesapeake Bay, as there on the small ship that brought him from Germany,
+he listened to marvelous tales of fortunes to be made in furs in the
+northwest. Shrewdly he determined first to acquire expert knowledge of
+skins, and on landing he luckily found employment in a fur store in New
+York at two dollars per week. This knowledge became the foundation of the
+vast fortune of the Astor family. The colonel was told that the Waldorf
+occupies the site of the town-house of John Jacob Astor, third of the
+name, and was erected by his son, William Waldorf, ex-minister to Italy.
+
+It was two o'clock when the Harrises entered the main dining-room for
+their lunch. The colonel led the party, Alfonso conducting his sister
+Lucille, the light blue ribbon at her throat of the tint of her
+responsive eyes. Mrs. Harris came with Gertrude. The mother wore a gray
+gown, and her daughter a pretty silk. This first entrance of the family
+to the public dining-room caused a slight diversion among some of the
+guests at lunch, where not a few rightly surmised who they were.
+
+Few markets in the world rival that of New York. The coast, streams, and
+valleys of New England and the Central States, send their best food by
+swift steamers and express, that the exacting cosmopolitan appetite may
+be satisfied.
+
+Before the lunch was over and while Reuben Harris was making reference to
+the delay of his English visitor, the waiter placed a white card by his
+plate. The color in the colonel's face suddenly deepened, as he read upon
+the card the name of Mr. Hugh Searles, representing Messrs. Guerney &
+Barring, London.
+
+"What's the matter, Reuben?" anxiously inquired Mrs. Harris.
+
+"Oh, nothing," said the colonel, "only that our overdue English visitor,
+Hugh Searles, has sent in his card."
+
+"How surprising," said Lucille; "you remember, father, that I said at
+breakfast, that the weather was to be fair. Probably the 'Majestic'
+quickened her speed, and stole in unobserved to the docks."
+
+"I will send him my card;" and upon it Mr. Harris wrote in pencil, "I
+will soon join you in the reception room."
+
+The black coffee disposed of, it was agreed that all should accompany
+Colonel Harris, and give Mr. Searles a cordial welcome to America.
+
+The English agent was a good sailor, and had enjoyed immensely the ocean
+voyage. Mr. Searles, of late over-worked in England, was compelled on
+board ship to rest both mind and body. A true Englishman, Mr. Searles,
+was very practical. He comprehended fully the importance of his mission
+to America, and possessed the tact of getting on in the world. If the
+proposed deal with Reuben Harris was a success, he expected as commission
+not less than five thousand pounds. Before the "Majestic" left the
+Mersey, that his mind might be alert on arrival at New York, he had
+measured with tape line the promenade deck of the steamer, and resolved
+to make enough laps for a mile, both before and after each meal, a walk
+of six miles per day, or a total of forty-eight miles for the voyage.
+
+A sturdy Englishman, taking such vigorous and methodical exercise,
+created some comment among the passengers, but it was excused on the
+ground that Englishmen believe in much outdoor exercise. Searles came
+from a good family, who lived north of London in Lincolnshire. His
+father, the Hon. George Searles, had a competency, largely invested in
+lands, and three per cent consols. His rule of investment was, security
+unquestioned and interest not above three per cent, believing that
+neither creditors nor enterprise of any kind, in the long run, could
+afford to pay more. His ancestors were Germans, who crossed the German
+Ocean, soon after the Romans withdrew from England.
+
+A large area of Lincolnshire lies below the level of the sea, from which
+it is protected by embankments. This fenny district gradually had been
+reclaimed, and to-day the deep loam and peat-soils, not unlike the rich
+farms of Holland, are celebrated for their high condition of agriculture.
+What mortgages the Hon. George Searles held were secured upon
+Lincolnshire estates, some of England's best lands.
+
+Hugh Searles, his son, however, had known only London life since he
+graduated from Cambridge. His office was in Chancery Lane, and his
+surroundings and teachings had been of the speculative kind, hence he was
+a fit agent for his firm. Already he had acquired a sunny suburban home
+in Kent, and was ambitious to hold a seat in Parliament. As he walked the
+steamer's deck, he looked the typical Englishman, five feet ten inches in
+height, broad shoulders and full chest; his weight about two hundred
+pounds, or "fifteen stones" as Searles phrased it.
+
+His face was round and ruddy, his beard closely cut, and his hair light
+and fine, indicating quality. His step was firm, and he seemed always in
+deep study. When addressed by his fellow passengers however, he was
+courteous, always talked to the point in his replies, and was anxious to
+learn more of America, or as he expressed it, "of the Anglo-Saxon
+confederation." He was very proud of his Anglo-Saxon origin, and Empire,
+and believed in the final Anglo-Saxon ascendancy over the world.
+
+On board ship were several young Englishmen, who were on their return to
+various posts of duty. Three were buyers for cotton firms in Liverpool
+and Manchester, and they were hastening back to Norfolk, Va., Memphis,
+and New Orleans. Two of the passengers were English officers, returning
+to their commands in far away Australia. Others, like Searles, were
+crossing the Atlantic for the first time in search of fame and fortune.
+These adventurous Englishmen thought it fine sport as the "Majestic"
+sighted Fire Light Island to join the enthusiastic Americans in singing
+"America." So heartily did they sing, that the Americans in turn, using
+the same tune, cordially sang "God save the Queen."
+
+At first Hugh Searles was a little disconcerted, when the whole Harris
+family approached him in the Waldorf reception-room. Colonel Harris
+cordially extended his hand, and said, "Mr. Searles, we are all glad to
+meet you, and bid you hearty welcome to America. Please let me make you
+acquainted with my wife, Mrs. Harris, my daughters, Gertrude and Lucille,
+and my son, Alfonso."
+
+"An unexpected greeting you give me, Colonel Harris," said Hugh Searles,
+as he gave each person a quick hand-shake, thinking that to be an
+American he must grasp hands cordially.
+
+The family were much interested in the details of Mr. Searles's voyage,
+as they expected soon to be en route for Europe. Mr. Searles said, "The
+cause of the 'Majestic's' delay was a broken propeller in rough seas off
+the Banks of Newfoundland. I am glad to reach New York." He had arrived
+at the Hotel at ten o'clock and already had been to lunch.
+
+Mr. Searles gladly accepted an invitation from Colonel Harris for a
+drive, Mrs. Harris and Lucille to accompany them. Searles expressed a
+wish to see the famous Roebling suspension bridge, so the coachman drove
+first down Broadway to the post office, then past the great newspaper
+buildings, and out upon the marvelous highway or bridge suspended in the
+air between New York and Brooklyn. When midway, Mr. Searles begged to
+step out of the carriage, and putting his arms around one of the four
+enormous cables, inquired of Colonel Harris how these huge cables were
+carried over the towers.
+
+Colonel Harris explained that each cable was composed of over five
+thousand steel wires, and that a shuttle carried the wire back and forth
+till the requisite strength of cables was obtained. The expense of the
+bridge was about $15,000,000, which the two cities paid. Its great
+utility had been abundantly proved by the repeated necessity of enlarging
+the approaches.
+
+The drive to the Central Park was up Fifth Avenue, home of America's
+multi-millionaires. An unending cavalcade of superb family equipages was
+passing through the entrance at 59th Street. Colonel Harris explained
+that "Central Park had been planted with over half a million trees,
+shrubs and vines, and that which was once a waste of rock and swamp, had
+by skill of enthusiastic engineers and landscape gardeners blossomed into
+green lawns, shady groves, vine-covered arbors, with miles of roads and
+walks, inviting expanses of water, picturesque bits of architecture, and
+scenery, that rival the world's parks."
+
+The ride and comments of Mr. Searles afforded the Harris family an
+opportunity to study their guest, and on returning to the hotel, all
+agreed that Hugh Searles was thoroughly equipped to protect his English
+patrons in any deal that he might decide to make. It was planned that all
+should dine together at eight, and Leo was to join the party by
+invitation of Lucille.
+
+Evidently the Harrises were well pleased with their English visitor, but
+their pleasure was also quickened with the bright prospect of several
+millions of English money for their manufacturing interest. Then after
+their visit to Europe might follow the long looked-for residence in
+delightful New York. Already rich Americans, famous authors and artists
+gravitate as naturally to this new world metropolis, as the world's elite
+to London and Paris.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+A BAD SEND-OFF
+
+
+It was almost eight o'clock when the dinner party assembled in the
+reception-room of the Waldorf. Leo was first to arrive, and Lucille was
+there to receive him. At ten minutes of eight, solicitor Hugh Searles
+came; then entered Colonel Harris and his daughters, Alfonso following
+with his mother. Mrs. Harris wore a black satin dress with jet trimmings
+and Van Dyke lace. Lucille's dress of light blue faille silk, garnished
+with pearls and guipure lace, was very becoming. Leo so told Lucille, and
+she thanked him but hid behind her lips the thought that Leo never before
+seemed half so manly. Mr. Searles evidently admired Leo, and he talked to
+him of Italy's greatness in literature and art. He sat at Colonel
+Harris's right, opposite Mrs. Harris. Leo and Lucille occupied seats at
+the end of the table, and at their right and left sat Alfonso and
+Gertrude.
+
+Guests of the hotel and their friends chatted in low conversation at the
+many tables of the model dining-room. Electric lights shone soft in the
+ceiling, and under pretty shades at each table, which added much to the
+general effect.
+
+Long before the sweets and fruits were reached, the conversation had
+drifted from one conventional topic to another, until Mrs. Harris asked
+Hugh Searles what he thought of higher education for women.
+
+"Yes, yes, Mr. Searles," said Gertrude, "please tell us all about the
+English girl."
+
+"Does she go to college, and does she ride a bicycle!" queried Lucille.
+
+Mrs. Harris was eager to listen to the Englishman's reply for often she
+had earnestly talked the matter over in her home. Mr. Searles was very
+frank in his views, and surprisingly liberal for an Englishman, and well
+he might be, for his own mother was a power, and his sisters were strong
+mental forces in Lincolnshire. Aided by tutors and their scholarly
+mother, they had pursued at home, under difficulties, about the same
+course of studies, that Hugh, their brother, had followed in the
+university.
+
+Searles believed that absolute freedom should be given to women to do
+anything they wished to do in the world, provided they could do it as
+well as men, and that nobody had any right to assert they should not.
+
+Colonel Harris, even for a business man, was also advanced in his ideas.
+He had advocated for his daughters that they should possess healthy
+bodies and minds, and be able to observe closely and reason soundly.
+
+Lucille said that she favored an education which would best conserve and
+enlarge woman's graces, her delicate feeling and thought, and her love
+for the beautiful.
+
+Then Leo and Alfonso both declared that Lucille had expressed fully their
+own opinions.
+
+Colonel Harris added, "Come, Gertrude, tell us what you think."
+
+Her face flushed a little as she replied, for she felt all that she said,
+"Father, I like what Mr. Searles has told us. I think higher education
+for women should develop purity of heart, self-forgetfulness, and
+enlarged and enriched minds."
+
+"Well spoken, daughter," said Colonel Harris. "Now, dear, what have you
+to say?"
+
+Mrs. Harris had listened well, as she had been a slave in the interests
+of her children, especially of her daughters. She thought that the last
+twenty-five years had proved that women in physical and intellectual
+capacity were able to receive and profit by a college education. Often
+she had longed for the same training of mind that men of her acquaintance
+enjoyed. The subject was thus discussed with profit, till the Turkish
+coffee was served. Closing the discussion, Searles thought that America
+led England in offering better education to woman, but that England had
+given her more freedom in politics; the English woman voted for nearly
+all the elective officers, except members of Parliament. He believed that
+the principle of education of woman belonged to her as a part of
+humanity; that it gave to her a self-centered poise, that it made her a
+competent head of the home, where the family is trained as a unit of
+civilization.
+
+He felt that woman possessed the finest and highest qualities, and that
+it was her mission to project and incorporate these elevating qualities
+into society. He thought man had nothing to fear or lose, but much to
+gain; that to multiply woman's colleges everywhere, was to furnish the
+twentieth century, or "Woman's Century" as Victor Hugo called it, with
+a dynamic force, that would beget more blessings for humanity than all
+previous centuries.
+
+Gertrude thanked Mr. Searles for what he had said, and the party withdrew
+to the Winter Garden Cafe, pretty with palms, where Lucille, Leo, and
+Alfonso talked of society matters, of art and music.
+
+Gertrude read to her mother, while Hugh Searles and Colonel Harris
+stepped outside into the gentlemen's cafe for a smoke, as both were fond
+of a cigar. There the conversation naturally drifted upon the tariff
+question.
+
+Mr. Searles asserted that he favored free trade, and that he was sorry
+America was not as far advanced and willing as Great Britain to recognize
+the universal and fundamental principle of the brotherhood of mankind,
+and the inborn right of everybody to trade as he liked in the world's
+cheapest markets. He added that he sometimes felt that Americans were
+too selfish, too much in love with the vulgar dollar.
+
+Colonel Harris, wounded in his patriotism, now showed that he was a
+little disturbed. He thanked Searles for his deep interest in Americans,
+adding, "We are glad you have come to study Americans and America." Then
+looking the Englishman full in the face he said, "Mr. Searles, you will
+find human nature much the same wherever you travel. Nations usually
+strive to legislate, each for its own interest. You say, 'Americans work
+for the almighty dollar.' So they do, and earnestly too, but our kith and
+kin across the sea worship with equal enthusiasm the golden sovereign.
+Look at the monuments to protection in your own city."
+
+"What monuments?" asked Searles.
+
+"Monuments to protection on all your streets, built under British tariff
+laws. Every stone in costly St. Paul's Church, or cathedral, was laid by
+a duty of a shilling a ton on all coal coming into London. A shilling a
+ton profit on coal, mined in America, would create for us fabulous
+fortunes. Selfishness, Mr. Searles, and not brotherly love, drove your
+country to adopt free trade."
+
+"I do not agree with you," said Mr. Searles.
+
+"'Tis true, and I can prove it," answered Harris. By this time several
+patrons of the hotel stood about enjoying the tilt between tariff and
+free trade.
+
+"Give us the proof then," replied Searles.
+
+"To begin with," said Harris, "I must reply to your first assertion, for
+I deem your first statement a false doctrine that 'everybody has a right
+to trade in the world's cheapest markets.' Nobody has a right to trade in
+the world's cheapest markets, unless the necessary and just laws of his
+own country, or the country he dwells in, permits it. Now as to the much
+abused 'brotherhood argument' let me assert that, like England, any
+nation may adopt free trade, when it can command at least four important
+things: cheap labor, cheap capital, and cheap raw material. Now Mr.
+Searles, what is the fourth requisite?"
+
+Searles did not answer. Clearly, he was interested in Harris's novel line
+of argument for free trade.
+
+"Well," said Harris, "England is inhabited by a virile people, who
+evidently believe in God's command to 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and
+replenish the earth, and subdue it.' England, with her centuries of
+rising civilization, her charm of landscape, and her command of the
+world's affairs, offers at home magnificent attractions for her sons
+and daughters, that make them loyal and law-abiding citizens.
+
+"It is true that annually many thousands seek fame and fortune in new
+countries, but most of her citizens prefer poverty even, and, if need be,
+poverty in the gutters of her thriving cities, to a home of promise in
+distant lands. Hence, a rapidly increasing and dense population obtains
+in all the British Isles, and labor becomes abundant and cheap, and often
+a drug in the market. The repeal of the Corn Laws first became a
+necessity, then a fact, and the cheaper food made cheaper labor possible.
+Lynx-eyed capital, in the financial metropolis of the world, was quick to
+discover surplus labor.
+
+"Already English inventors had made valuable inventions in machinery for
+the manufacture of iron, cotton, woolen and other goods, which further
+cheapened labor and the product of labor.
+
+"England with cheap capital and cheap labor, now had two of the four
+things needed to enable her to go forward to larger trade with the world.
+The third requisite, cheap and abundant raw material, she also secured.
+Material, not furnished from her own mines and soils, was brought in
+plentiful supply at nominal freights, or as ballast, by her vessels,
+whose sails are spread on every sea.
+
+"For three centuries Great Britain has vigorously and profitably pursued
+Sir Walter Raleigh's wise policy: 'Whosoever commands the sea, commands
+the trade, whosoever commands the trade, commands the riches of the
+world, and consequently the world itself.'
+
+"On the ceiling of the reading-room of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange is
+painted the pregnant words:--'O Lord, how manifold are thy works, in
+wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy riches.' Under
+divine inspiration, therefore, English capital seeks investment
+everywhere, and with cheap capital, cheap labor, and cheap raw materials,
+she finds herself able to compete successfully with the world. It is
+possibly pardonable then that the British manufacturer and politician
+should seek earnestly the fourth requisite, viz., a large market abroad.
+Hence the necessity of free trade.
+
+"To advocate publicly that other nations should adopt free trade, that
+England might have an increased number of buyers, and consequently
+greater profit on her products, perhaps would not be judicious; so the
+principle of free trade for the world at large must be sugar-coated, to
+be acceptable. Therefore your philanthropic and alert Richard Cobden, and
+John Bright, and your skilled writers, both talked and wrote much about
+the 'brotherhood of mankind,' hoping that the markets of the world might
+willingly open wide their doors to British traders. Of course, advocates
+of free trade reason that the larger the number of buyers the larger the
+prices.
+
+"Mr. Searles, whenever America can command, as Great Britain does
+to-day, cheap capital, cheap labor, and cheap raw materials, she too
+may vociferously advocate free trade, and that other nations shall open
+wide their markets for the sale of American products.
+
+"Don't you see, Mr. Searles, that protection and free trade are equally
+selfish and not philanthropic principles?"
+
+"Mr. Harris you are right," shouted several of the by-standers.
+
+But Hugh Searles did not reply. Possibly because it was late or, it may
+be, he did not wish to further antagonize Colonel Harris with whom he
+hoped in the morning to drive a good bargain, and it may be that he hoped
+some time in America to operate mills himself and make money under a
+protective tariff.
+
+Both Searles and Harris retired for the night with an agreement to meet
+at nine o'clock in the morning and talk over business. Searles rose with
+the sun, and after eggs, bacon, and tea, he walked to the Battery and
+back, before nine, the appointed hour for his first business conference
+with Reuben Harris.
+
+A good sleep had refreshed Colonel Harris and at breakfast he appeared in
+a joking mood. While he smoked, he glanced at the _Tribune_ and again
+examined Searles's letter of introduction from Messrs. Guerney & Barring.
+At nine o'clock promptly, Mr. Searles came and Colonel Harris exhibited
+to him a brief statement of the business of the Harrisville Iron & Steel
+Co., extending over the last ten years, and showing the company's annual
+profits.
+
+"A very good business your company did, and you made large profits,
+Colonel Harris," said Searles. "And am I to understand that you have made
+in your statement a proper allowance for depreciation of values in
+buildings and machinery, also for all losses and cost of insurance, and
+that after these deductions are made the company's net profits annually
+amounted to an average of over one hundred thousand pounds, or a half
+million dollars?"
+
+"Yes," replied the colonel.
+
+And Mr. Searles remarked, "Colonel Harris, if your arguments last evening
+did not fully convert me to the decided advantage which Americans gain by
+protection, this statement of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. does. A
+year ago, some Americans in London called our attention to your
+profitable plant, hence our first letter of inquiries. Your replies
+confirmed the report and so we cabled for this initial meeting between
+us.
+
+"Messrs. Guerney & Barring have been most successful in financiering some
+of the largest business interests in the world, and thus they have
+achieved a splendid reputation. It was their wish that I should secure
+for them your most favorable terms with an option of purchase of your
+plant, the same to hold good for two months, or for a sufficient length
+of time to allow them to organize a syndicate, and float necessary
+debentures to buy the stock, or a controlling interest in your company,
+and so continue the business."
+
+"Mr. Searles, we Americans are not anxious to sell, especially to
+foreigners, our best paying concerns. We ought to keep them under our own
+control. However, of late, I have been inclined to indulge my family in a
+little foreign travel, and myself in more leisure for books, and possibly
+for politics, believing that not enough of our good citizens enter
+Congress. I might, on certain conditions, name a price for all the stock
+of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co."
+
+"Please state the price and the conditions."
+
+"Well, let me think a moment. The capital stock of the company is not now
+as large as it should be.
+
+Total Capital Stock             $2,000,000
+Par value of shares                    100
+Present Value per Share,               300
+
+"The entire property and good-will of the Company is worth at least
+$6,000,000, and my "fixed price," as the English say, is $5,000,000."
+
+Mr. Searles looked puzzled, for he had hoped to get the stock for less
+money. He hesitated, as if in deep study, but not long, for he believed
+that, if the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. for ten successive years could
+pay $500,000 or an average annual dividend of 25% on its stock of
+$2,000,000, the plant re-organized could easily be marketed at a neat
+advance, say for L1,400,000 or $7,000,000, in London, where even sound
+3% investments are eagerly sought; so Mr. Searles inquired again:
+"Colonel Harris, you omitted to state your conditions." Harris answered,
+"I must have cash enough to guarantee the sale, and short time payments
+for the balance."
+
+"Well, Colonel Harris, how would the following terms please you?
+
+One-eighth cash                 $625,000
+One-eighth 30 days               625,000
+One-fourth 60 days             1,250,000
+One-fourth 90 days             1,250,000
+One-fourth, Preferred Shares,
+    6% dividends guaranteed    1,250,000
+                               _________
+Total price named              5,000,000
+
+"Colonel Harris, before you answer, please let me outline our London
+plan. Suppose I should take for Messrs. Guerney & Barring a contract, or
+option of purchase on the property with payments as named, the purchase
+to be conditioned upon a verification of the correctness of your
+statements. Our experts can examine and report soon on your accounts for
+ten years back, and on buildings, machinery, stock on hand, land, etc."
+
+"Mr. Searles, please explain further your 'London plan' of
+reorganization."
+
+"Colonel Harris, we would modify the old firm name, so as to read--'The
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., Limited, of London, England,' and
+capitalize it at L1,400,000, or $7,000,000.
+
+Par value of shares     L20 or $100
+Number of shares             70,000
+
+"When our experts shall have verified your statements at Harrisville,
+then the option of purchase is to be signed by us and forwarded to
+London, where it will be signed by Messrs. Guerney & Barring, the first
+payment made, and the contract underwritten or guaranteed by the
+Guardian, Executor & Trust Association, Limited, of London, whose capital
+is $5,000,000. The association will also underwrite the bonds and
+preference shares. This will practically complete the purchase."
+
+"But what about the last one-fourth payment in preferred shares of
+$1,250,000?"
+
+"Pardon me, Colonel Harris, that is just what I desire to explain
+further. The new company will issue debentures or bonds, running 30
+years, at 4%, for L800,000 or $4,000,000; preference shares L400,000 or
+$2,000,000; with dividends 6% guaranteed, and a preference in
+distribution of property, if company is dissolved. Ordinary shares
+L1,200,000 or $6,000,000. And our London prospects will show that the
+ordinary shares can earn at least 5%. For the last one-fourth we wish you
+to take 12,500 preferred shares, or $1,250,000.
+
+"London holders, of course, will elect all the officers, a managing board
+of directors, with general office in London. For a time they will expect
+you to advise in the management of the business at Harrisville."
+
+After some further explanations, Harris agreed to sign a contract or
+option of purchase, drawn as specified, if after investigation, he should
+become satisfied with the responsibility of the London parties. On
+Tuesday morning, contracts in duplicates were presented for Colonel
+Harris's inspection. After twice carefully reading the contract, he gave
+his approval and wrote Mr. Searles a letter of introduction to Mr. B.C.
+Wilson, his manager at Harrisville, requesting the latter to permit Mr.
+Searles and his experts to examine all property and accounts of the
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. for ten years back.
+
+It was also arranged that on Wednesday, at 12 o'clock noon, Mr. Searles
+should see the Harrises off to Europe, then Mr. Searles and his experts
+were to go to Harrisville in Colonel Harris's private car. Later Mr.
+Searles and Colonel Harris were to meet in London, and then, if
+everything was mutually satisfactory, all parties were to affix their
+signatures to the agreement, and the cash payment was to be made at the
+London office of Guerney & Barring.
+
+Wednesday, Colonel Harris rose early as had been his habit from
+childhood. He was exacting in his family, and also as a manager of labor.
+Every morning at six o'clock all the family had to be at the breakfast
+table. Colonel Harris always asked the blessing. Its merit was its
+brevity: sometimes he only said--"Dear Lord, make us grateful and good
+to-day. Amen." Thirty minutes later, summer and winter, his horses and
+carriage stood at his door, and punctually at fifteen minutes of seven
+o'clock he would reach his great mills. His first duty was to walk
+through his works, as his skilled laborers with dinner pails entered the
+broad gates and began the day's work. Devotion like this usually brings
+success.
+
+After breakfast, Mrs. Harris and her daughters walked down Fifth Avenue
+to make a few purchases. Alfonso and Leo hurried off to get their baggage
+to the "Majestic," while Jean busied himself in seeing that a transfer
+was made to the steamer of all the trunks, valises, etc., left at the
+depot and hotel.
+
+At ten o'clock Jean called at the dock to learn if the half-dozen steamer
+chairs and as many warm blankets had arrived, and he found everything in
+readiness. It was 10:30 o'clock when the Waldorf bill was paid, and the
+good-bye given. The young people were jubilant, as the long hoped-for
+pleasure trip to Europe was about to be realized.
+
+The carriages for the steamer could not go fast enough to satisfy the
+old, or the young people. Several schoolmates, artists, business and
+society friends met them on the dock. Many fashionable people had already
+arrived to say "_Bon Voyage_" to the Harrises and to Leo. Hundreds of
+others had come to see their own friends off. It was all excitement among
+the passengers, and carriages kept coming and going.
+
+Not so with the English officers and sailors of the "Majestic." They were
+calm and ready for the homeward passage.
+
+The last mail bag had been put aboard, and the receipts to the government
+hurriedly signed. Mr. Searles had said good-bye, and last of all to
+Colonel Harris. As the colonel went up the gangway, the bell rang and the
+cries "All aboard" were given. For once, Colonel Harris felt a sense of
+great relief to thus cut loose from his business, and take his first long
+vacation, in twenty-five years from hard work.
+
+"Now, I shall have a good time, and a much needed rest," he said. But
+just as he stepped into the steamer's dining-saloon, Mr. Searles, who had
+hastily followed, touched him on the shoulder and said. "Here, Colonel
+Harris, is a telegram for you."
+
+Harris quickly tore it open. It was from Wilson, his manager, and it read
+as follows:--
+
+  Harrisville, June 9, 18--.
+  _Colonel Reuben Harris,
+  Steamer Majestic, New York_.
+
+  Our four thousand men struck this morning for higher wages. What shall
+  we do?
+
+  B.C. Wilson.
+
+Harris was almost paralyzed. His wife and daughters ran to him. The
+steamer's big whistle was sounding. All was now confusion. There was only
+a moment to decide, but Harris proved equal to the situation. He stepped
+to the purser, surrendered his passage ticket, kissed his wife and two
+daughters, saying to his son, "Alfonso, take charge of the party as I go
+back to Harrisville."
+
+Gertrude, insisting, accompanied her father, and remained ashore. On the
+dock stood Colonel Harris, Gertrude, and Mr. Searles, all three waving
+their white handkerchiefs to Mrs. Harris, Lucille, Alfonso, and Leo. What
+a bad send-off!
+
+  The best laid schemes o' mice an' men,
+    Gang aft a-gley,
+  And leave us nought but grief and pain,
+    For promised joy.
+
+The Harrises on the steamer, and the Harrises on the pier had heavy
+hearts, especially Colonel Harris and Gertrude so suddenly disappointed.
+It was soon agreed that the three should start that evening for
+Harrisville.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+ABOARD THE S.S. MAJESTIC
+
+
+Mrs. Harris was naturally a brave woman, but the telegram, and the sudden
+separation perhaps forever from her husband and Gertrude, unnerved her.
+She sank back into an easy chair on the steamer, murmuring, "Why this
+terrible disappointment? Why did I not turn back with my husband? This is
+worse than death. Mr. Harris is in great trouble. Why did I not at once
+sacrifice all and share his misfortunes? How noble in Gertrude to go
+ashore with her father. It is just like the child, for she is never happy
+except when she forgets self, and does for others."
+
+Mrs. Harris sobbed as if her loved ones had been left in the tomb.
+Lucille tenderly held her mother's hand, and spoke comforting words:
+"Cheer up, mother, all will yet be well. Father can now take Mr. Searles
+to Harrisville."
+
+"To see what, child--men misled and on a strike and the mills all closed
+down! It means much trouble, and perhaps disaster for the Harrises."
+
+"Oh, no, mother, all will soon be well. Let us go on the deck."
+
+Alfonso led his mother, and Leo took Lucille up among the passengers.
+
+They were just in time to see the white cloud of fluttering handkerchiefs
+on the pier. Leo said that he could distinguish with his field-glass
+Colonel Harris and Gertrude, and tears again came into Mrs. Harris's
+eyes.
+
+European steamers always leave on time, waiting for neither prince nor
+peasant. A carriage with foaming horses drove in upon the pier as the tug
+pulled the steamer out upon the Hudson. Its single occupant was an
+English government agent bearing a special message from the British
+embassador at Washington to Downing Street, London.
+
+"Now what's to be done?" the British agent sharply inquired.
+
+"Two pounds, sir, and we will put you and your luggage aboard," shouted
+an English sailor.
+
+"Agreed," said the agent, and to the surprise of everybody on the pier,
+two robust sailors pulled as for their lives, and each won a sovereign,
+as they put the belated agent on board the "Majestic."
+
+This race for a passage caught the eye of Mrs. Harris. At first she
+thought that the little boat might contain her husband, but as the
+English agent came up the ship's ladder, she grasped Alfonso's arm, and
+said, "Here, my son, take my hand and help me quickly to the boat; I will
+go back to Mr. Harris."
+
+"No! No!" said Alfonso, "Look, mother, the little boat is already
+returning to the dock." Later the purser brought to Mrs. Harris an
+envelope containing the steamer tickets and a purse of gold, which the
+colonel thoughtfully had sent by the English agent.
+
+Mrs. Harris re-examined the envelope, and found the colonel's personal
+card which contained on the back a few words, hastily scribbled: "Cheer
+up everybody; glad four of our party are on board. Enjoy yourselves.
+Gertrude sends love. Later we will join you in London perhaps. God bless
+you all. R.H."
+
+Sunshine soon came back to Mrs. Harris's face, and she began to notice
+the people about her, and to realize that she was actually on shipboard.
+Foreign travel had been the dream of her life; and she felt comforted to
+have Alfonso and Lucille beside her.
+
+"Mrs. Harris," said Leo, "see the stately blocks that outline Broadway,
+the Western Union Telegraph Building, the Equitable Building, the granite
+offices of the Standard Oil Company, the Post Office, and the imposing
+Produce Exchange with its projecting galley-prows. Above its long series
+of beautiful arches of terra cotta rise a tall campanile and liberty pole
+from which floats the stars and stripes."
+
+Leo's eyes kindled in brilliancy, and his voice quickened with
+patriotism, as he made reference to his adopted flag. "Lucille, behold
+our glorious flag that floats over America's greatest financial and
+commercial city. I love the stars and stripes quite as much as Italy's
+flag.
+
+"Annually over thirty thousand vessels arrive and depart from this
+harbor. New York is America's great gateway for immigrants. In a single
+year nearly a half million land at Castle Garden. Sections of New York
+are known as Germany, Italy, China, Africa, and Judea. The Hebrews alone
+in the city number upwards of one hundred thousand, and have nearly fifty
+synagogues and as many millionaires. The trees, lawns, and promenades
+along the sea-wall, form the Battery Park. The settees are crowded with
+people enjoying the magnificent marine views before them."
+
+Alfonso pointed to the Suspension or Brooklyn Bridge beneath which
+vessels were sailing on the East River. Its enormous cables looked like
+small ropes sustaining a vast traffic of cars, vehicles, and pedestrians.
+
+To the right of the steamer's track on Bedloe's Island stands Bartholdi's
+"Liberty, Enlightening the World," the largest bronze statue on the
+globe. From a small guide book of New York, Lucille read aloud that the
+Bartholdi statue and its pedestal cost one million dollars; that the
+statue was presented by the French people to the people of the United
+States. The head of Liberty is higher than the tall steeple of Trinity
+Church, which is 300 feet high, or twice that of the Colossus of Rhodes,
+one of the seven ancient wonders.
+
+"Look," said Lucille, "at the uplifted right hand holding an electric
+torch. How magnificently the statue stands facing the Narrows, the
+entrance from Europe, and how cordial the welcome to America which
+Liberty extends."
+
+"Yes," said Leo, "if you wish to see Bartholdi's noble mother, observe
+the face of the statue. Bartholdi owed much to his mother's constant
+encouragement."
+
+"How true it is," said Mrs. Harris, "that most great men have had
+splendid mothers."
+
+Many on the deck thought of loved ones at home, of their country, and
+wondered if they would return again to America. This was true of many
+aboard who were now starting on their first ocean voyage, and their
+thoughts no doubt were akin to those that filled the minds of Columbus
+and his crew when they left Palos.
+
+Craft of every kind kept clear of the giant "Majestic" as she plowed down
+the Narrows. Historic but worthless old forts are on either side, and far
+down into the lower bay the pilot guides the wonderful steamer. Sandy
+Hook lighthouse, the low shores, and purple mountains of New Jersey are
+left behind, as the "Majestic" is set on her course at full speed.
+
+The gong for the one o'clock lunch was sounded, and Alfonso, glad of the
+change, as his mother seemed unhappy, led the way below. Colonel Harris,
+when he bought the tickets, had arranged that his family should sit at
+the captain's table. As Alfonso entered the saloon, the steward conducted
+him and his friends to their seats. The captain's seat was unoccupied as
+he was busy on deck. The grand dining-room of the "Majestic" is amidships
+on the main deck. At the three long tables and sixteen short side tables,
+three hundred persons can be accommodated.
+
+The sea was smooth, so every chair was taken. The scene was an animating
+one and interesting to study. A single voyage will not suffice to reveal
+the heart histories and ambitions of three hundred cosmopolitan
+passengers. Everybody was talking at the same time; all had much to say
+about the experiences in reaching and boarding the steamer. Everybody was
+looking at everybody, and each wondered who the others might be.
+
+So many new faces which are to be studies for the voyage, arrested the
+attention of Mrs. Harris. Her appetite was not good, so she ate little,
+but closely watched the exhilarating scenes about her. Many wives had
+their husbands by their sides, and this pained her, but she resolved to
+keep brave and to make the most of her opportunities. Lucille and the
+young men were so interested in the pretty faces all about them, that
+they had little time for an English luncheon, and most of their eating
+was a make-believe.
+
+Amidship the movement of the boat is reduced to a minimum, and in
+fair weather it is difficult to realize that you are out upon the
+ocean. Each passenger at the table is furnished with a revolving chair.
+Choice flowers, the gifts of loving friends left behind, were on every
+table, and their fragrance converted the dining-saloon into a large
+conservatory. The Corinthian columns were fluted and embossed, the walls
+and ceiling were in tints of ivory and gold; the artistic panels abounded
+in groups of Tritons and nymphs; the ports were fitted with stained glass
+shutters, emblazoned with the arms of cities and states in Europe and
+America. Behind the glass were electric lights, so that the designs were
+visible both night and day.
+
+Surmounting this richly appointed saloon was a dome of artistic creation,
+its stained glass of soft tints, which sparkled in the warm sunlight and
+shed a kaleidoscope of color and design over the merry company of
+passengers. Mirrors and the gentle rolling of the steamer multiplied
+and enlarged the gorgeous colorings and perplexing designs.
+
+In the midst of this new life aboard ship, so novel and so beautiful,
+Mrs. Harris's heart would have been happy had her over-worked husband and
+Gertrude sat beside her at the table. Very little of this life is enjoyed
+without the unwelcomed flies that spoil the precious ointment.
+
+After the lunch Alfonso and his friends had time to examine a little
+further the great steamer that was to float them to the Old World. When
+his party hurriedly entered the dining-saloon, the grand staircase was
+entirely overlooked. How wide and roomy it was, and how beautifully
+carved and finished, especially the balustrade and newel posts, the whole
+being built of selected white oak, which mellows with age, and will
+assume a richer hue like the wainscoting in the famous old English abbeys
+and manor houses.
+
+Again the Harris party was on deck, final words hastily written were in
+the steamer's mail bag, and a sailor stood ready to pass it over the
+ship's side to the pilot's little boat, waiting for orders to cut loose
+from the "Majestic."
+
+The engines slacked their speed, the pilot bade the officers good-bye,
+and accompanied the mail bag to his trusted schooner. No. 66 was painted
+in black full length on the pilot's big white sail. All the passenger
+steamers which enter or leave New York must take these brave and alert
+pilots as guides in and out the ever-changing harbor channels.
+
+The gong in the engine-rooms again signaled "full speed" and the live,
+escaping steam was turned through the triple-expansion engines, and
+the "Majestic" gathered her full strength for a powerful effort, a
+record-breaking passage to Queenstown.
+
+The life on board the transatlantic ferry is decidedly English, and Mrs.
+Harris closely studied the courtesies and requirements. She soon came to
+like the ship's discipline and matter-of-fact customs. The young people,
+some newly married, and some new acquaintances like Leo and Lucille, had
+moved their steamer chairs on the deck, that they might watch the return
+of the pilot's boat.
+
+Loving letters were read, the leaves of latest magazines were cut, and
+many words were exchanged before the big "66" disappeared entirely with
+the sun that set in gold and purple over the low New England shores.
+
+Quite apart from the young people sat Mrs. Harris and Alfonso. They
+talked earnestly about the ill-timed strike of the millmen at home. "Why
+did the men strike at the very time when father wanted his mills to glow
+with activity?" queried Mrs. Harris.
+
+"Oh, mother," said Alfonso, "that is part of labor's stock in trade. Some
+labor organizations argue that the 'end justifies the means.' Our men
+were probably kept advised of father's plans, and strikes often are timed
+so as to put capital at the greatest disadvantage, and force, if
+possible, a speedy surrender to labor's demands. 'Like begets like,'
+mother, so the college professor told us when he lectured on Darwin. It
+was Darwin, I think, who emphasized this fundamental principle in nature.
+
+"See, mother, how this labor agitation works. Labor organizations
+multiply and become aggressive, and so capital organizes in self-defense.
+One day our professor told the class that he much preferred citizenship
+in a government controlled by intelligent capital, to the insecurity and
+uncertainty of ignorant labor in power. The professor inclined to think
+that the British form of government rested on a more lasting basis than
+that of republics.
+
+"Usually the more of values a person possesses, the more anxious he is
+for stable government. Labor has little capital, and so often becomes
+venturesome, and is willing to stake all on the throw of a die. But labor
+in the presence of open hungry mouths can ill afford to take such
+chances. Labor with its little or no surplus should act reasonably, and
+on the side of conservatism, or wives and little ones suffer."
+
+Mrs. Harris listened to her son's comments on capital and labor, but the
+independence of her race asserted itself and she said with emphasis,
+"Alfonso, I hope Mr. Harris will insist on his rights at Harrisville."
+
+"Very likely he will, mother, as he is that kind of a man, and the New
+England independence that is born in him is sure to assert itself."
+
+For a few moments neither mother nor son spoke. Suddenly both were
+awakened from their reveries by the call for dinner. The waters were
+still smooth, and the ocean breezes had sharpened appetites, so the grand
+staircase was crowded with a happy throng, most of whom were eager for
+their first dinner aboard ship. The Harrises were delighted to find
+Captain Morgan already at the table.
+
+Long ago Captain Morgan had learned that wealth is power. His own ship
+had cost a million or more, and England's millions enabled his government
+to control the globe. Not only was he keenly alive to the fact that
+capital and brains guided most human events, but naturally he possessed
+the instincts of a gentleman, and besides he was a true Briton. His
+ancestors for generations had followed the sea for a livelihood and fame.
+Some had served conspicuously in the navy, and others like himself had
+spent long lives in the commercial marine.
+
+In Lucille's eyes Captain Morgan was an ideal hero of the sea. He was
+over six feet in height, and robust of form, weighing not less than 250
+pounds. His face was round and bronzed by the exposure of over three
+hundred ocean passages. His closely cropped beard and hair were iron
+gray, and his mild blue eyes and shapely hands told of inbred qualities.
+That he was possessed of rare traits of character, it was easy to
+discover. Loyalty to the great trusts confided to him, was noticeable in
+his every movement. "Safety of ship, passengers, and cargo," were words
+often repeated, whether the skies above him were blue or black.
+
+Captain Morgan addressing Mrs. Harris said, "We shall miss very much your
+husband's presence aboard ship. Nowadays managers of great enterprises
+ashore, involving the use of large amounts of capital, encounter quite as
+many stormy seas as we of the Atlantic."
+
+"Yes," replied Mrs. Harris, "and the causes of financial disturbances are
+fully as difficult to divine or control."
+
+"It was fortunate, however, Mrs. Harris," said the captain, "that
+word reached the steamer in time to intercept the Colonel so that he
+could return at once and assume command of his business. Aboard our
+ship, you must all dismiss every anxiety as to matters at home or on the
+"Majestic." With your permission, Colonel Harris's family shall be mine
+for the passage. Please command my services at all times."
+
+"Thank you," said Alfonso, and the captain's cordial words, like
+sunshine, dispelled the clouds.
+
+"Captain," inquired Leo, "do you think we shall have a pleasant voyage?"
+
+"Yes, I hope so, for the sake of those aboard who are making this their
+first voyage, otherwise we may not have the pleasure of much of their
+company."
+
+"Captain Morgan, then you really promise a smooth passage?" said Lucille.
+
+"Oh no, Miss Harris, we never promise in advance good weather on the
+ocean. Smooth water for us old sailors is irksome indeed, yet I always
+consider it very fortunate for our passengers, if Old Probabilities grant
+us a day or two of fair skies as we leave and enter port. With gentle
+breezes the passengers gradually get possession of their 'sea legs' as
+sailors term it, and later brisk breezes are welcomed."
+
+"Captain, have you a panacea for seasickness?" inquired Mrs. Harris.
+
+"Oh, yes," he replied, "take as vigorous exercise on the ship as is taken
+ashore, eat wisely, observe economy of nerve-force, and be resolved to
+keep on good terms with Old Neptune. Don't fight the steamer's movements
+or eccentricities, but yield gracefully to all the boat's motions. In a
+word, forget entirely that you are aboard ship, and the victory is
+yours."
+
+"This is Wednesday, Captain, and do you really think you will land us in
+the Mersey by Monday evening?" Lucille enquired earnestly.
+
+"Monday or Tuesday if all goes well," the captain answered. Captain
+Morgan drank his coffee, excused himself, and returned to his duty on the
+bridge.
+
+"What a gallant old sea-dog the captain is," said Mrs. Harris. "We shall
+feel perfectly safe in his keeping. How cheery he is away from home."
+
+"How do you know he has a home, mother?"
+
+"Perhaps not, my dear, for he seems really married to his ship."
+
+The Harrises and Leo joined the passengers who had now left the dining
+saloon. The light winds had freshened and the skies were overcast and
+gave promise of showers, if not of a storm. After walking a few times
+around the promenade deck, most of the passengers went below, some to the
+library, some to the smoking room, and some to their staterooms, perhaps
+thinking discretion the better part of valor. The steamer's chairs were
+taken from the deck and only a few persons remained outside. Some of them
+were clad in warm ulsters. They walked the usual half-hour. Most of these
+promenaders were men of business who were required to make frequent ocean
+passages. They were as familiar with moistened decks, cloudy skies, and
+heavy seas as the land-lubbers are with stone pavements and hotel
+corridors.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+DISCOMFITURES AT SEA
+
+
+The green and red lights on the starboard and port sides and the white
+light on the foremast now burned brightly. The boatswain's shrill whistle
+furled the sails snugly to every spar, leaving the sailors little time or
+spirit for their usual song, as barometer-like they too sensed the
+approaching storm. The ship's watch forward was increased as the wind
+grew strong, and the weather ahead had become thick and hazy.
+
+The captain quickly left the table when the steward placed in his hand
+a bit of writing from the first officer, which read, "The barometer is
+falling rapidly." Captain Morgan and an officer paced the bridge with
+eyes alert. Heavy clouds of smoke from the triple stacks revealed that
+a hundred glowing furnaces were being fed with fuel, assistant engineers
+were busily inspecting, and oilers were active in lubricating the
+ponderous engines that every emergency might be promptly met.
+
+Ports were closed and every precaution taken. The anxiety of officers and
+sailors and the increased agitation of the sea was soon noticed by the
+ship's gay company. Before ten o'clock most of the passengers were glad
+of the good-night excuse for retiring. The smoking room, however, was
+crowded with devotees to the weed. Old-timers were busy with cards, or
+forming pools on the first day's run from Sandy Hook, or speculating as
+to the time of arrival at Queenstown.
+
+The atmosphere of the room was as thick as the weather outside. It is
+no wonder that a club man of New York, making his first trip to Europe,
+inquired of his Philadelphia friend, "Why do Americans smoke so
+continually?"
+
+He answered, "It is easier to tell why the English drink tea and why
+Americans drink coffee. But to answer your question, I suppose the
+mixture of races quickens the flow of blood and produces the intense
+activities we witness. Besides, the enlarged opportunities offered in
+a new and growing country present attractive prizes in the commercial,
+political, social, and religious world. To attain these the Anglo-Saxon
+blood rushes through arteries and veins like the heated blood in a
+thoroughbred horse on the last quarter. After these homestretch efforts
+Americans feel the need often of stimulants, or of a soporific, and this
+they try to find in a cigar."
+
+"Your views are wrong, I think. One would naturally infer that the use of
+tobacco shortens life. Let me relate to you an incident.
+
+"I was once in Sandusky, Ohio, and spent an evening at a lecture given by
+Trask, the great anti-tobacconist. In his discourse he had reached the
+climax of his argument, proving as he thought that tobacco shortened
+life, when a well dressed man in the audience rose and said, 'Mr. Trask,
+will you pardon me if I say a few words?'
+
+"'Oh, yes' said the lecturer, 'give us the facts only.'
+
+"'Well, Mr. Trask, there is living to-day in Castalia, southwest of here,
+a man nearly a hundred years old and he has been a constant user of
+tobacco since early childhood.'
+
+"For a moment Mr. Trask stood nonplussed. To gain time for thought
+he fell back upon the Socratic method, and began asking questions.
+'Stranger, won't you stand up again so that the audience can see you?
+Thank you! Evidently you are an intelligent citizen and reliable witness.
+Did you say you knew the man?'
+
+"'O yes, I have known him for over fifty years.'
+
+"'Did you ever know of his favoring schools or churches by gifts or
+otherwise?'
+
+"'No,' said the stranger.
+
+"'There,' said Trask to the audience, 'this man's testimony only
+strengthens what I have been attempting to prove here this evening,
+that tobacco shortens life. This Castalia centenarian is dead to all the
+demands of society and humanity, and his corpse should have been buried
+half a century ago.' So the laugh was on the voluntary witness."
+
+"Hold on, my friend, your Castalia centenarian proves just what I said at
+the outset, that the use of tobacco prolongs life, but I am half inclined
+myself to feel that the less tobacco active Americans use, the better."
+Then throwing his cigar away, he said good-night and left the smoking
+room.
+
+Others stacked their cards, smoked cigarettes, and then sought their
+staterooms, and finally the ship's bell rang out the last patron and
+announced the midnight hour; the steward was left alone. He had been
+unusually busy all the evening furnishing ale, porter, and beer, a few
+only taking wine. The steward was glad to complete his report of sales
+for the first day out, and turn off the lights and seek his berth for
+the night.
+
+The "Majestic" shot past Cape Cod and was plowing her way towards the
+banks of Newfoundland. The strong winds were westerly and fast increasing
+to a moderate gale. The north star was hidden and now failed to confirm
+the accuracy of the ship's compasses.
+
+The first and fourth officers were pacing the bridge. The latter was
+glad that the engines were working at full speed, as every stroke of
+the pistons carried him nearer his pretty cottage in the suburbs of
+Liverpool. Captain Morgan had dropped asleep on the lounge in his cozy
+room just back of the wheel. Most of the passengers and crew off duty
+slept soundly, though some were dreaming of wife and children in far away
+homes, and others of palaces, parks, and castles in foreign countries.
+
+It was difficult for Mrs. Harris to get much rest as the waves dashing
+against the ship often awakened her, and her thoughts would race with the
+Cincinnati Express which was swiftly bearing her husband and Gertrude
+back to Harrisville and perhaps to trouble and poverty. While Mrs. Harris
+knew that her husband was wealthy, she was constantly troubled with fears
+lest she and her family should sometime come to want. Her own father had
+acquired a fortune in Ireland, but changes in the British tariff laws had
+rendered him penniless, and poverty had driven her mother with seven
+other children to America.
+
+A rich uncle in Boston enabled her to get a fair education, and the early
+years of her married life had been full of earnest effort, of economy and
+heroic struggle, that her husband and family might gain a footing in the
+world. The comforts of her early childhood in Ireland had given her a
+keen relish for luxury. The pain inflicted by poverty that followed was
+severely felt, and now, the pleasures of wealth again were all the more
+enjoyed.
+
+Mrs. Harris was not a church member, but woman-like she found her lips
+saying, "God bless the colonel and my precious children." Then putting
+her hand over upon Lucille, and satisfied that she was there by her side
+and asleep, she too became drowsy and finally unconscious. Alfonso and
+Leo occupied the adjoining stateroom, but both were in dreamland;
+Alfonso in the art galleries of Holland and Leo in sunny Italy.
+
+Before morning the storm center was moving rapidly down the St. Lawrence
+Valley, and off the east coast of Maine. Long lines of white-capped waves
+were dashing after each other like swift platoons in a cavalry charge.
+The "Majestic," conscious of an enemy on her flank, sought earnestly to
+outstrip the winds of AEolus. When Captain Morgan reached the bridge, the
+sea and sky were most threatening. The first officer said, "Captain,
+I have never seen the mercury go down so rapidly. We are in for a nasty
+time of it, I fear."
+
+Early the sailors were scrubbing the ship while the spray helped to wash
+the decks, and they tightened the fastenings of the life-boats. The
+firemen too were busy dropping cinders astern. Fires in the cook's
+galley were lighted, and the steerage passengers were aroused for
+breakfast, but few responded.
+
+Mrs. Harris often tried to dress, but every time she fell back into her
+berth, saying, "Stewardess, I shall surely die. Isn't the ship going
+down?"
+
+"No, no, madam," the stewardess replied, "I will return with beef tea,
+and you will soon feel better."
+
+Lucille was helped to put on a dark wrapper; and after repeated efforts
+at a hasty toilet, she took the stewardess's arm and reached an easy
+chair in the library. Alfonso and Leo, who were both members of a yacht
+club in New York, came to the library from a short walk on the deck. It
+required much urging with Lucille before she would attempt an entrance
+into the dining-room. Several men and a few ladies were present.
+
+"Good morning, Miss Harris, how brave you are," were words spoken so
+encouragingly by Captain Morgan that Lucille's face brightened and she
+responded as best she could.
+
+"Thank you, captain, I believe I should much prefer to face a storm of
+bullets on the land than a storm at sea; you courageous sailors really
+deserve all the gold medals."
+
+Leo, who was fond of the ocean, said to Alfonso, "Why can't we all be
+sailors? What say you to this? Let us test who of our party shall lose
+the fewest meals from New York to Queenstown. You and your mother or
+Lucille and I?"
+
+"Agreed," responded Alfonso, thinking it would help to keep the ladies in
+good spirits.
+
+"But what shall count for a meal?" inquired Alfonso.
+
+"Not less than ten minutes at the table, and at dinner, soup at least."
+Lucille thought Leo's idea a capital one. It was agreed that the contest
+should commence with the next lunch, and that Alfonso and Leo should act
+as captains for the two sides.
+
+By this time Lucille had eaten a little toast and had sipped part of her
+chocolate. A tenderloin steak and sweet omelet with French fried potatoes
+were being served, when suddenly the color left her face. Another lurch
+of the steamer sent a glass of ice water up her loose sleeve, and,
+utterly discomfited, she begged to be excused and rushed from the table.
+
+"Oh dear, mother, how terribly I feel; let me lie down. Oh dear! I wish
+I were home with father and Gertrude."
+
+"If the colonel were only here to help," murmured Mrs. Harris.
+"Stewardess, where are you? Why don't you hurry when I ring? Go for the
+doctor at once." It was now blowing a gale and the steamer was rolling
+badly.
+
+It was a long half-hour before the doctor entered the stateroom of Mrs.
+Harris. Dr. Argyle was perfect in physical development and a model of
+gentlemanly qualities. His education had been received in London and
+Vienna, and he had joined the service of the "Majestic" that he might
+enlarge his experiences as practitioner and man of the world. He had
+correctly divined that here he was sure to touch intimately the restless
+and wandering aristocracy of the globe.
+
+While Dr. Argyle was ostensibly the ship's doctor, he was keenly alert
+for an opportunity that would help him on to fame and fortune. Of the
+two he preferred the latter, as he believed that humanity is just as
+lazy as it dares to be. Therefore stateroom No. ---- was entered both
+professionally and inquisitively. The doctor was half glad that the
+Harrises were ill, as he had seen the family at Captain Morgan's table
+and desired to meet them. Captain Morgan had incidentally mentioned to
+the doctor the great wealth of the Harris family, and this also had
+whetted his curiosity. Before him lay mother and daughter, helpless, both
+in utter misery and the picture of despair.
+
+"Beg pardon, ladies," said the doctor as he entered, "you sent for me
+I believe?"
+
+"Yes, yes," replied Mrs. Harris, "we thought you had forgotten us, as the
+half-hour's delay seemed a full week. My daughter, Lucille, and I are
+suffering terribly. How awful the storm! Last night, doctor, I thought
+I should die before morning, and now I greatly fear that the ship will
+go down."
+
+"Do not fear, ladies," the doctor replied, "the wind is only brisk; most
+people suffer a little on the ocean, especially on the first voyage."
+
+"What is the cause of this terrible seasickness, doctor, and what can you
+do for us?"
+
+"Frankly, Mrs. Harris, no two physicians agree as to the cause. Usually
+people suffer most from seasickness who come aboard weary from over-work
+or nervous exhaustion. Most people waste vital forces by too much talking
+or by over-exertion. Americans, especially, overcheck their deposits of
+vitality, and as bankrupts they struggle to transact daily duties. Wise
+management of nerve forces would enable them to accomplish more and enjoy
+life better."
+
+"I am a bankrupt then," said Mrs. Harris, "but how about my daughter
+Lucille?"
+
+"Your child, I fear, is the daughter of bankrupts and doubtless inherits
+their qualities."
+
+"But, doctor, can't you do something now for us?"
+
+"Oh yes, madam, but first let me feel your pulse, please."
+
+"Ninety-eight," he said to himself, but he added to Mrs. Harris, "you
+need the very rest this voyage affords and you must not worry the least
+about the storm or affairs at home. Our vessel is built of steel, and
+Captain Morgan always outrides the storms. Ladies, I want you to take
+this preparation of my own. It is a special remedy for seasickness, the
+result of the study and experience of the medical force of the White Star
+Line."
+
+The faces of mother and daughter brightened. They had faith. This was
+noticed by Dr. Argyle. Faith was the restorative principle upon which the
+young doctor depended, and without it his medicine was worthless. The
+White Star panacea prescribed was harmless, as his powders merely
+inclined the patient to sleep and recovery followed, so faith or nature
+worked the cure. Soon after the door closed behind the doctor, Lucille
+was asleep, and Mrs. Harris passed into dreamland.
+
+The winds veered into the southwest, and, reinforced, were controlled by
+a violent hurricane that had rushed up the Atlantic coast from the West
+Indies. The novice aboard was elated, for he thought that the fiercer the
+wind blew behind the vessel, the faster the steamer would be driven
+forward. How little some of us really know! The cyclone at sea is a
+rotary storm, or hurricane, of extended circuit. Black clouds drive down
+upon the sea and ship with a tiger's fierceness as if to crush all life
+in their pathway.
+
+Officers and crew, in waterproof garments, become as restless as bunched
+cattle in a prairie blizzard. All eyes now roam from prow to stern, from
+deck to top mast. The lightning's blue flame plays with the steel masts,
+and overhead thunders drown the noise of engines and propellers. Thick
+black smoke and red-hot cinders shoot forth from the three black-throated
+smoke-stacks.
+
+The huge steamer, no longer moving with the ease of the leviathan, seems
+a tiny craft and almost helpless in the chopped seas that give to the
+ship a complex motion so difficult, even for old sailors, to anticipate.
+Tidal wave follows tidal wave in rapid succession. Both trough and crest
+are whipped into whitecaps like tents afield, till sea and storm seem
+leagued to deluge the world again.
+
+Captain Morgan, lashed to the bridge, has full confidence in himself, his
+doubled watch ahead, his compasses, and the throbbing engines below.
+Dangers have now aroused the man and his courage grows apace. Moments
+supreme come to every captain at sea, the same as to captains who wage
+wars on the land.
+
+The decks are drenched, great waves pound the forward deck and life-boats
+are broken from their moorings. Battened hatches imprison below a
+regiment of souls, some suffering the torments of stomachs in open
+rebellion, others of heads swollen, while others lose entire control
+of an army of nerves that center near and drive mad the brain.
+
+To the uninitiated, words are powerless to reveal the torments of the
+imprisoned in a modern steel inquisition, rocking and pitching at the
+mercy of mighty torrents in a mid-ocean cyclone. Mephistopheles, seeking
+severest punishment for the damned, displayed tenderness in not adopting
+the super-heated and sooted pits where stokers in storms at sea are
+forced to labor and suffer.
+
+All that terrible second day and night at sea, the Harrises and others
+tossed back and forth in their unstable berths, some suffering with
+chills and others with burning heat. Some, Mrs. Harris and daughter among
+them, lay for hours more dead than alive, their wills and muscles utterly
+powerless to reach needed and much coveted blankets.
+
+The dining saloon was deserted except by a few old sea-travelers. Before
+dinner, Leo ventured above and for a moment put his head outside. The
+gale blowing a hundred miles an hour hit him with the force of a club.
+When he went below to see Alfonso, his face was pale, and his voice
+trembled as he said, "Harris, before morning we shall all sink to the
+bottom of the Atlantic with the 'Majestic' for our tomb." Half undressed,
+Leo dropped again into his berth where he spent a miserable night.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+HALF-AWAKE, HALF-ASLEEP
+
+
+Few persons find life enjoyable in a great storm at sea, for the
+discomfitures of mind and body are many. The ship's officers and crew are
+always concerned about the welfare of the passengers and the safety
+of steamer and cargo.
+
+True, Leo, with the instincts of an artist, had stood for hours on the
+deck, partially sheltered by a smoke-stack, to study wave motions and the
+ever-changing effects of the ocean. Never before had he known its
+sublimity. When the sea was wildest and the deck was wave-swept, he in
+his safe retreat made sketches of waves and their combinations which he
+hoped sometime to reproduce on canvas. At other times, conscious of storm
+dangers in mid-ocean, Leo's conscience troubled him. For a year he had
+been much in love with a pretty Italian girl, daughter of an official,
+long in the service of the Italian government at the port of New York.
+
+Rosie Ricci was fifteen years old when she first met Leo. Dressed in
+white, she entered an exhibition of water colors on W. 10th street with
+her mother one May morning, as Leo had finished hanging a delicate marine
+view sketched down the Narrows.
+
+Glances only between Leo and Rosie were exchanged, but each formed the
+resolution sometime, if possible, to know the other. Rosie's father had
+died when she was only fourteen years old, and existence for Mrs. Ricci
+and her little family had been a struggle. For the last year, a happy
+change had come in their condition. A letter had been received from a
+rich senator by Mrs. Ricci, which was couched in the tenderest language.
+The senator explained in his letter that at a musicale, given on Fifth
+Avenue, he had heard a Rosie Ricci sing a simple song that revived
+memories of an early day. This fact, coupled with Rosie's charming
+simplicity and vivacity of manner, fixed her name in his mind; later he
+was reading the _New York Tribune_, and the name Ricci arrested his
+attention.
+
+The item mentioned the death of Raphael Ricci, ex-consul, and the
+senator's object in writing was to inquire further as to the facts. Did
+he leave a competency? If not, would the family receive such assistance
+as would enable the daughter, if Rosie Ricci was her daughter, to obtain
+a further musical education?
+
+The senator's letter dropped from the mother's hands; she was overcome
+with the good news. Rosie picked it up saying, "Mother dear, what is the
+matter? What terrible news does it contain?"
+
+"Not bad news, child! possibly good news; a letter from a stranger who
+offers aid in our distress, a letter from one holding a high position.
+I wonder what it all means? Has the senator been prompted by the spirit
+of your anxious father, or is there evil in the communication?"
+
+"Tell me, mother, tell me all about it!" But before the mother could
+speak, Rosie was reading the letter aloud. She threw up her hands in
+delight and flew into her mother's arms. "How good the Lord is to us!"
+Rosie exclaimed. She had been eager for a musical education and to win
+fame on the stage.
+
+In June, by appointment, Mrs. Ricci and daughter met the Senator at the
+Fifth Avenue Hotel. It was arranged that Rosie should have the best
+musical education obtainable in Boston, and further that the senator
+should pay her expenses in Boston and New York, and that the mother's
+rent should be included in his liberality. At times, the mother
+questioned the senator's motives, but he always seemed so kind and
+fatherly that she spurned the thought as coming from the Evil One.
+
+The senator as he left, put several bills in Mrs. Ricci's hand, saying,
+"You and Rosie will find need of them for clothes for the daughter and
+for other expenses."
+
+Never was a girl happier than Rosie the morning she and her mother left
+the Grand Central Depot for New England. Rarely, if ever, did a girl work
+harder than Rosie at her studies. Her soul often had burned with ambition
+for fame and for money so that she could assist her mother. The way was
+now open and success was possible. At the sunset hour she often walked
+with a friend among the historic elms on Boston Common and in the
+beautiful flower gardens.
+
+Often young men longed for her acquaintance, but they could never get the
+consent of her pretty eyes. She was petite, her hair black, her eyes dark
+brown, her lips ruby-red, and her nose and chin finely chiselled. She had
+a cameo-like face and complexion of olive tint that told of the land of
+vines and figs in sunny Italy. Her step was elastic, her manner vivacious
+and confiding. Her dress was always tidy and stylish. Usually she carried
+a roll of music in one hand as she left the conservatory, and lovely
+flowers in the other that had been expressed either by the senator or
+Leo.
+
+On the completion of her course in the conservatory, Leo had pressed his
+suit so devotedly that Rosie consented to an engagement without her
+mother's knowledge. The ring of gold contained a single ruby, and Leo had
+had engraved on the inside of the ring, "Et teneo, et teneor." When Rosie
+saw the old Roman motto she said, "I hold, and am held. How appropriate,
+Leo! Your love for me, devotion to the beautiful, and our bright memories
+of artistic Italy shall bind us together forever.
+
+"But Leo, why do you put the ring on the third finger before marriage?"
+
+Leo answered, "Because I have read somewhere that many centuries ago the
+Egyptians believed that the third finger was especially warmed by a small
+artery that proceeded directly from the heart. The Egyptians also
+believed that the third finger is the first that a new born babe is able
+to move, and the last finger over which the dying lose control."
+
+"Nonsense," replied Rosie, "once the wedding ring, studded with precious
+stones, was worn on the forefinger; Christianity moved it to the third
+finger. Its use was originated in this way: the priest first put it on
+the thumb, saying 'In the name of the Father'; on the forefinger, adding,
+'in the name of the Son;' on the second finger, repeating, 'in the name
+of the Holy Ghost;' and on the third finger, ending with 'Amen,' and
+there it staid."
+
+Abelard and Heloise were not happier in their unselfish affection than
+Leo and Rosie in their love. Colors on Leo's canvas now sought each other
+in magic harmony. At single sittings in his studio Leo made Madonna
+faces, and glowing landscapes, that evoked words of warm praise from his
+fellow artists, who were blind to the secret of Leo's remarkable power.
+
+For a Christmas present Leo brought Rosie a picture of his own of Rosie's
+beautiful hand holding lilies of the valley; and while she thanked him in
+sweetest words, he pinned at her throat a Florentine cameo once worn by
+his mother. All these things, and more, came flashing into Leo's mind as
+he struggled on the ship's deck to keep his footing in the storm.
+
+A week before the steamer left New York Leo and Rosie had quarreled.
+Leo's invitation to accompany the Harrises had come to him from Alfonso
+only three days before the "Majestic's" departure, and such was his
+momentary ill-humor toward Rosie that he sailed from New York without
+even advising her of his new plan, or saying good-bye. Leo, alone on the
+sea, often severely rebuked himself that he could have been so unkind to
+the woman to whom he had given his heart and his mother's favorite bit of
+jewelry.
+
+A thousand times he wished he could ask Rosie's forgiveness, for it was
+in a fit of anger that Rosie had snatched the ruby ring off her hand and
+the cameo from her throat, and had thrown them into Leo's lap saying,
+"Take them, Leo, you will easily find another girl to share your family
+name and your poverty as an artist while I have need of wealth." Leo had
+turned from Rosie's home without the power to reply, he was so taken by
+surprise.
+
+Leo was never so happy as when Rosie was present in his studio to
+encourage him by word or song, but now all was changed.
+
+Sometimes Leo in his secret thoughts feared that Rosie's beauty and
+charming manner would command riches, and sometimes he dared to think
+that possibly his talent and fame might command a handsome dowry. Then
+his mind turned to Lucille. She was taller than Rosie, not so vivacious,
+but like Rosie enjoyed a happy time. He even ventured at times to say
+mentally of Lucille that "it is she or none on earth," and then as he
+recalled the ring given to Rosie, the old love would assert itself and he
+would shut his eyes, ashamed of an affection that was false hearted. It
+was fortunate for Leo that he was a good sailor, as it enabled him to do
+many thoughtful things for the Harrises, and thus show his appreciation
+of their great kindness to him.
+
+On the third day out from New York, the storm moderated somewhat and the
+passengers at breakfast visibly increased in number, but before the lunch
+hour was over the fury of the gale returned. The steamer in her course
+had crossed the center of the cyclone where the force of the storm was
+diminished for a short time only. All that afternoon and night the gale
+increased in force till it seemed as if volcanic powers under the sea
+were at work turning the ocean upside down.
+
+Pent up forces in the west were loosed, and Neptune, deity of the ocean,
+with his three-pronged trident stalked abroad. The bombardment of waves
+was terrific, and the twin propellers raced so fiercely that speed was
+reduced to a minimum.
+
+In the morning the terrible cyclone had moved to the north, smoother
+seas were reached by lunch time, and most of the tables were again
+filled. Many of those who were making a first voyage also put in their
+appearance, and they were subjected to much chaffing from the veterans
+of ocean travel. Captain Morgan and Doctor Argyle were the recipients
+of many complimentary words for their skill.
+
+At dinner Leo and Alfonso mustered full forces, and each side scored
+every point, for both Mrs. Harris and Lucille entered the dining room,
+and everybody enjoyed the menu after a three days' fast. Captain Morgan
+spoke of the storm as "the late unpleasantness," and hoped his friends
+would not desert him again. Mrs. Harris was silent, but Alfonso and
+Lucille promised loyalty for the future, and Leo said, "Captain Morgan,
+I believe I haven't missed a meal."
+
+"Bravo, Colonna!" the captain replied, "you really seem to have inherited
+the sailing qualities of your great countryman Columbus, and I sincerely
+hope that you may render the world equally valuable services."
+
+Lucille added, "I am sure he will, captain; during the gale, he rendered
+signal services to suffering humanity."
+
+"To-morrow," continued Captain Morgan, "is the 21st of June, when the day
+and night will be of equal length, the sun rising and setting promptly at
+six o'clock."
+
+"Why not," said Lucille, "set our watches by the steamer's chronometer,
+and have the steward call us at 5:30 o'clock and all test the accuracy of
+the almanac?" Mrs. Harris and several others entered heartily into the
+plan.
+
+The pure sea-air was so fresh and restful that when three bells or 5:30
+o'clock in the morning was heard, the Harris party were easily awakened
+and they hastily prepared to witness at sea the sunrise on June 21st.
+
+Leo and Alfonso were first on deck. Mrs. Harris, Lucille, and the Judge,
+an acquaintance made on the ship, soon joined them. Their watches agreed
+that it was ten minutes to six o 'clock. The decks had been washed and
+put in order, engines were running at full speed, the eastern sky was
+flushed with crimson and golden bands that shot out of the horizon, and
+fan-like in shape faded up in the zenith. With watches in hand, all eyes
+were fixed on a pathway of intensely lighted sea and sky in the east.
+Suddenly, as the sailor rung out "four bells," or 6 o'clock, Lucille
+shouted, "There! See that drop of molten gold floating on the horizon.
+Captain Morgan was right as to time. See, judge, how the gold glows with
+heat and light as the globe turns to receive the sun's blessings!"
+
+"Yes," said the judge who now for the first time since the storm became
+really enthusiastic, "another page of the record book is turned, and the
+good and bad deeds of humanity will be entered by the recording angel.
+The mighty sun, around which we revolve at fabulous speed is, in its
+relations to us mortals, the most important material fact in the
+universe. If I ever change my religion I shall become a sun-worshiper.
+The Turk in his prayers, five times a day, faces the sun."
+
+An early brisk walk on the deck sharpened appetites, and our
+sun-worshipers were among the first at breakfast. Gradually others
+entered, and again the dining room was cheerful with sunny faces. After
+breakfast the decks were astir with pretty women, children, and gentlemen
+lifting their hats. The promenade was as gay as on Fifth Avenue. Doctor
+Argyle gave his arm to Mrs. Harris, Lucille walked between Alfonso and
+Leo, and doctors of divinity and men of repute in other professions kept
+faithful step. Actors and actresses moved as gracefully as before the
+footlights. A famous actor carried on his shoulders a tiny girl who had
+bits of sky for eyes, a fair face, and fleecy hair that floated in the
+sea breeze, making a pretty picture.
+
+Business men with fragrant cigars indulged in the latest story or joke.
+By degrees the promenade disappeared as passengers selected steamer
+chairs, library, or smoking room, and congenial souls formed interesting
+and picturesque groups. At the outset of the voyage you wonder at the
+lack of fine dress, and hastily judge the modest men and women about you
+to be somewhat commonplace, but after days at sea and many acquaintances
+made, you discover your mistake and learn that your companions are
+thoroughly cosmopolitan. In fair weather the decks are playgrounds where
+children at games enliven the scene, and sailors' songs are heard.
+
+When the old clipper ship took from four to six weeks to cross the
+Atlantic, a weekly paper was printed. On some of the swift liners of
+to-day on the fourth day out a paper is issued, when perhaps the steamer
+is "rolling in the Roaring Forties." The sheet is a four-page affair,
+about six inches wide and nine inches long. It gives a description of the
+ship signed by the Captain; the daily runs of the ship follow, the
+distance still to go is stated, and the probable time it will take to
+make port; under "General Information" you learn about seasickness, what
+you have not already experienced, the necessity of exercise aboard ship,
+also much about the handling of luggage in Europe; some of the prose and
+poetry is sure to be good, and is contributed by skilled writers among
+the passengers. A column of "Queries" and a few brief stories and jokes
+brighten the sheet. The price is fifteen cents, and every copy of "The
+Ocean Breeze" is highly prized. On the whole, people at sea enjoy most
+the enforced rest, for they escape newspapers, telegrams, creditors, and
+the tax-gatherer.
+
+At 11 o'clock on the deck, every pleasant day, a large, well-dressed man,
+attended by his valet, generously opened a barrel of fresh oysters for
+the passengers. This benevolent gentleman proved to be a famous Saratoga
+gambler. In this way he made many acquaintances and friends, and each day
+he increased his winnings at cards and in bets on the vessel's run, till
+finally, not he, but the guileless passengers paid for the oysters.
+
+Gambling was the business of the man who advertised by his oysters; with
+the actor, who romped with the pretty child, gambling was a passion. So
+intense was this passion with the actor that he would attempt to match
+silver dollars or gold sovereigns with everybody he met when ashore;
+between acts on the stage he would telegraph his bet to distant cities.
+Crossing parks or walking down Broadway his palm concealed a coin, ready
+for the first possible chance. He would match his coat or his home or
+even his bank account. On ship he matched sovereigns only.
+
+Occasionally the "Majestic" passed in sight of some other ship, or
+"tramp-steamer," and by signal exchanged names and location. Rarely do
+the great passenger steamers meet on the Atlantic, as the course outward
+is quite to the north to avoid collisions. Half-awake, half-asleep, the
+days on shipboard go by as in a dream, and you gladly welcome back
+restored health. Perhaps a sweet or strong face wins your interest
+or heart, as the case may be, and life-long friendships are formed.
+Confidence thus bestowed often begets the same in others, and you are
+thankful for the ocean voyage.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+LIFE AT SEA A KALEIDOSCOPE
+
+
+In a shady retreat on the ship after lunch sat the Harrises, Leo, the
+judge, and Dr. Argyle, the latter reading a French novel. Leo had just
+finished a new novel entitled "A Broken Promise," Alfonso had read
+three hundred pages in one of Dickens's novels that tells so vividly how
+the poor of London exist.
+
+Dr. Argyle said, "Judge, what do you think of novels anyway?"
+
+The matter-of-fact judge gruffly replied, "I never read the modern novel
+because I don't care to waste my time."
+
+Whereupon Alfonso said, "Give me the novel of an idealist that has a
+purpose. Colonel Ingersol spoke the truth in a recent lecture when he
+said that a realist can be no more than an imitator or a copyist. His
+philosophy makes the wax that receives and retains an image of an artist.
+Realism degrades and impoverishes. The real sustains the same relation to
+ideal that a stone does to a statue, or that paint does to a painting."
+
+"No," replied Leo, "a novel proper should be a love story spiced with
+the beauties of nature and exciting adventures. A novel with a purpose,
+Alfonso, should advertise under another name for it is a cheat. It is
+often written with a deliberate attempt to beguile a person into reading
+a story which the writer deliberately planned to be simply the medium of
+conveying useful or useless information. Possibly a social panacea, or
+the theme may include any subject from separating gold from the ocean,
+to proving the validity of the latest theory on electricity."
+
+"Leo, you go too far," said Mrs. Harris, "the modern novel that appears
+in press and magazine, and later in book form, entering all our homes,
+should teach high morality and contain only proper scenes and passages."
+
+"But, mother," said Lucille, "you would thus debar many of the world's
+masterpieces in literature. It seems to me that the morality of character
+and scene has little to do with the artistic value of the book. The
+realist must depict life as it is. 'Art, for art's sake,' is what
+commends a novel to artistic minds."
+
+"The modern novel is too much like modern architecture," said the judge,
+"a combination of classical and subsequent styles thrown together to
+satisfy groups of individuals rather than to conform to well accepted
+rules or ideas of art. Modern novels and modern architecture are sure
+to give way to nobler thoughts that shall practically harmonize the
+useful and the beautiful."
+
+Dr. Argyle, having asked for opinions on the modern novel, obtained them.
+He was an earnest listener as he had wished more knowledge of the Harris
+family, which would enable him the better to lay plans; he hoped to win
+Lucille's favor.
+
+It was now a quarter to six o'clock and many passengers, including the
+Harris group, moved to the port side of the ship to observe if the sun,
+at the expiration of twelve hours, would again touch the water. This
+twenty-first day of the month had been one of Lowell's rare June days.
+It had been ushered in by beautiful cloud coloring.
+
+The ocean was now free from mist, the blue clouds overhead darkened the
+sea to the horizon, and it looked as if the sun would set behind clouds.
+Unexpectedly, however, the clouds near the water separated, and the sun
+again appeared in all his glory, sending a weird light out over the
+water, gilding the "Majestic," flooding the faces of the passengers with
+an unnatural light, and bringing into strong relief a sailing craft
+hovering on the starboard horizon.
+
+"Perfectly beautiful," exclaimed several ladies. "There," said the
+purser, as four bells rang out and the gong for dinner sounded, "the sun
+is kissing the waves." Before any one could answer, the gorgeous sun was
+slowly sinking into the blue waters of the Northern Atlantic. Passengers
+held their watches and in three minutes the sun had said farewell.
+
+The dinner was much enjoyed. After an evening of charming moonlight,
+midnight found all, save those on duty, asleep in the "Majestic," which
+was speeding rapidly towards the safe granite docks at Liverpool.
+
+Moonlight at sea is so bewitching, the wonder is that pleasure-seekers
+ever consent to land except when denied the companionship of the silver
+goddess of night. Whether she races with the clouds, silver tips the
+waves, or with her borrowed light floods the world with fairy-like
+beauty, it is only that her admirers may exchange sorrow for joy and
+conflict for peace.
+
+The sixth day out, the sun illumined a clear sky, and those that loved
+the sea were early on deck for exercise and fresh air. These early risers
+were well repaid, as the steamer was passing through a great school of
+porpoises that sometimes venture long distances from the British Islands.
+Alfonso ran to rap at Lucille's door and she hurried on deck to enjoy the
+sight. Hundreds of acres of the ocean were alive with porpoises or sea
+hogs as sailors often call them.
+
+Porpoises average five feet in length and are the size of a small boy
+and quite as playful. These animals are smooth, and black or gray in
+color, except the under side which is pure white. They are gregarious
+and very sociable in their habits. Porpoises race and play with each
+other and dart out of the sea, performing almost as many antics as the
+circus clown. They feed on mackerel and herring, devouring large
+quantities. Years ago the porpoise was a common and esteemed article of
+food in Great Britain and France, but now the skin and blubber only have
+a commercial value. The skins of a very large species are used for
+leather or boot-thongs.
+
+The early risers were standing on the prow of the steamer where the
+cutwater sent constantly into the air a nodding plume of white spray.
+Suddenly the watch shouted, "Whale ahead, sir!" Officers and sailors
+were astir. Just ahead, and lying in the pathway of the steamer lay a
+whale, fifty feet in length, seemingly asleep, for he was motionless. The
+officer's first thought was that he would slack speed, but presence of
+mind prompted him to order full speed, planning no doubt, if the whale
+was obstinate, to cut him in halves.
+
+Lucille and others, fearful of consequences, turned and ran, but the
+leviathan suddenly dropped down out of sight, his broad tail splashing
+salt water into the faces of the young people who were bold enough to
+await events. With a sense of relief, Leo exclaimed, "Narrow escape,
+that!"
+
+"Narrow escape for whom?" Alfonso inquired.
+
+"For both the steamer and the whale," replied Lucille.
+
+On the way to breakfast, Lucille asked an officer if similar instances
+frequently happened.
+
+"Rarely," he replied, but added, "very likely we may see other whales in
+this vicinity." Sure enough, after breakfast, children ran up and down
+the deck shouting, "Whales! Whales!" and several were seen a mile or two
+north of the ship's course, where they sported and spouted water.
+
+About four o'clock, the temperature having fallen several degrees, the
+passengers sighted to the northeast a huge iceberg in the shape of an
+arch, bearing down on the steamer's course, and had it been night,
+possibly freighted with all the horrors of a ship-wreck. As it was,
+Captain Morgan deemed it wise to lessen the speed as the ship approached
+the iceberg.
+
+"This is wonderful, Leo," said Mrs. Harris; "can you tell us where and
+when icebergs are formed?"
+
+"Oh yes, Mrs. Harris, icebergs that float down the Atlantic are born on
+the west coast of Greenland. Up there great valleys are filled with snow
+and ice from hill-top to hill-top, reaching back up the valleys, in some
+instances from thirty to forty miles. This valley-ice is called a 'Mer
+de Glace,' and has a motion down the valley, like any river, but of
+three feet more or less only per day. If time enough is allowed, vast
+quantities of this valley-ice move into the gulf or sea. When the sea
+is disturbed by a storm the ice wall or precipice is broken off, and
+enormous masses, often a hundred times larger than a big building, fall
+and float away with the report of the firing of a park of artillery, and
+these floating mountains of ice are lighted in their lonely pathways by
+the midnight sun."
+
+Before dinner, came the regular promenade which presented many contrasts.
+A pretty bride from the Blue Grass Region of Kentucky walked with her
+young husband whom she had first met at a New England seaside. She was
+glad to aid in bridging the chasm between north and south. Her traveling
+dress of blue was appropriately trimmed with gray.
+
+The gorgeously dressed gambler walked on the deck alone. Then came two
+modest nuns dressed in gray and white. Alfonso and his mother, the judge
+and Lucille, and a group of little children followed. Dr. Argyle and a
+Philadelphia heiress kept step. Everybody walked, talked, and laughed,
+and the passengers had little need of the ship's doctor now. If the
+weather is fair the decks are always enlivened as a steamer approaches
+land. The next day, by noon at latest, Ireland and Fastnet Rock would
+be sighted, if the ship's reckoning had been correct.
+
+After dinner, Dr. Argyle was walking the deck with Lucille in the
+star-light. He had told her much of his family, of his talented brother
+in the Church, and of another in the army; he had even ventured
+to speak of Lucille's grace of manner, and she feared what might follow.
+The call of Mrs. Harris relieved Lucille of an unpleasant situation.
+
+Secretly, Lucille was pleased to escape from Dr. Argyle. Something in his
+manner told her that he was not sincere; that he was a schemer, perhaps a
+fortune-seeker, and she gladly rejoined her mother.
+
+Mrs. Harris and her children often wondered how matters were progressing
+at home. Alfonso had faith in his father's ability to cope with the
+strike, but Mrs. Harris and Lucille were much worried. "Don't let us
+trouble," said Alfonso, "till we reach Queenstown, as there we shall
+surely get a cablegram from father."
+
+Just then Leo joined the family, and Lucille taking his arm, the two
+walked the deck, and later they found quiet seats in the moonlight. The
+moon's welcome rays revealed fleece-like clouds overhead and changed the
+waters astern into acres of diamonds. Gentle breezes fanned the cheeks
+of two troubled lovers who thus far had kept well their heart secrets.
+Lucille's warm and sensitive nature yearned for some confidant in whom
+she could find consolation. Mrs. Harris never quite understood her
+daughter. Lucille was noble, generous, and true in her affection. Her
+ideal of marriage was that the busy shuttle of life must be of Divine
+guidance, and often she was at a loss to understand some of the deep
+mysteries that had clouded her own life. Of this world's blessings her
+life had been full, except she could not reconcile some of her late
+experiences. Of this, of course, Leo knew nothing. He too had had a cup
+of bliss dashed suddenly to the ground. A moment of anger had destroyed
+his plans for life. The moon's soft light changed Leo's purpose never to
+speak to Lucille of his affection for Rosie Ricci, and he now frankly
+told her the whole story.
+
+At first Lucille did not wish to believe that Leo had ever been in love,
+as her own heart had turned to him in the silent hours of the night when
+the pain in her heart forbade sleep.
+
+Trembling she said, "Leo, you have given Rosie up forever then?"
+
+"Oh no, Miss Harris, it was Rosie who said to me, 'Good-bye, Leo,
+forever.' She accepted my attentions for a year. Alas! Rosie's love for
+the rich man's gold I fear was more powerful than her love for me, a poor
+artist, and so she threw back the ruby ring and my mother's cameo, and
+crushed my heart and hopes. In accepting the kind invitation of your
+brother to accompany your family on this trip, I hoped that the journey
+might heal my suffering soul."
+
+"I am delighted," said Lucille, her voice and hand still trembling a
+little, "that your own vow was not broken."
+
+Leo's olive complexion was softened in the moon's rays, his face was
+saddened by the recital of his deep affliction, and his dark eyes were
+lowered, as he looked out upon the troubled pathway of the steamer. For
+a moment Lucille earnestly gazed at Leo who seemed to her to be handsome
+and noble, but he appeared lost as in a dream. Every man is thought to be
+noble by the woman who loves him. Then she took both his hands in hers in
+pity and said, "Leo, be brave as your ancestors were brave. You will be a
+success in the world because you have remaining your intense love for
+art."
+
+"Yes, Lucille, and I think I shall marry art only."
+
+"Don't be rash, Leo, we frail human beings know little in advance as to
+heaven's plans."
+
+Few forces work truer in nature than the principle that like begets like.
+Leo confided in Lucille, and now Lucille confided in Leo; she slowly told
+in low voice the story of her own great disappointment.
+
+"I too, once had an ideal lover. Our souls were one; the day of wedding
+even had been fixed; orders for an expensive trousseau had been sent to
+Paris; the details of the marriage had been arranged, a long journey
+abroad planned, and the city for our future home was selected. These
+things had become part of my dreams, and the joy of anticipation was
+filling my cup to the brim.
+
+"One evening, in the moonlight, such as now smiles upon us, I asked
+Bernard if he would read a short note which I had just received, and tell
+me if its contents were true. Bernard removed the letter from the
+envelope, looked at the signature, and reading turned pale. The note was
+from a lady who asked if I was aware that he had offered himself to
+another.
+
+"A second time I pressed the question to know if the contents were true,
+and he answered, 'Yes', and added that it was not his fault that he did
+not marry the lady.
+
+"'Then you love her still, Bernard?'
+
+"'Yes, Lucille, but I love you also.'
+
+"In anger and disappointed love I left him. Of course all plans for the
+marriage were cancelled at once. 'First love or none,' was then written
+on my heart, where it still remains."
+
+Lucille wept while Leo sat surprised. He knew not what to say, for her
+heart-story and heart edict, "First love or none," had opened his own
+wounds afresh, and had shut the door to Lucille's heart perhaps forever.
+
+"Come, Lucille," a call of Mrs. Harris, aroused the courage of Leo, and
+he said to Lucille, who with a flushed face looked more beautiful than
+ever, "At least we should be friends." "Yes," she murmured, and Mrs.
+Harris and her daughter retired.
+
+The night before, the second officer had told Lucille that land would
+probably be seen early next day on the port-side. All the morning, Mrs.
+Harris was awaiting anxiously more news about the great strike at
+Harrisville.
+
+"Land, on the port-side, sir!" shouted the forward lookout, just as four
+bells struck the hour of ten o'clock. The officer on duty, pacing the
+bridge, raised his glass and in a moment he answered, "Ay! Ay! The
+Skelligs."
+
+"What do they mean?" inquired Mrs. Harris of a sailor passing. "The
+officer has sighted land, madam. Don't you see the specks of blue low
+down on the horizon to the northeast? That's the Skelligs, three rocky
+islets off the southwest coast of Ireland, near where I was born, and
+where my wife Katy, and the babies live. That's where my dear old mother
+also keeps watch for her Patsie."
+
+"Is your name Patsie?" Alfonso asked.
+
+"Yes, sir, Patsie Fitzgerald, and I'm proud of my name, my family, the
+Emerald Isle, and the fine steamer that's taking us safely home, and may
+God bless all you fine people, and keep my wife and babies and my dear
+old mother!"
+
+"Thank you!" said Alfonso, "here, Patsie, is a little money for the
+babies," and the sailor tipped his hat and bowed his thanks.
+
+The signal officer on Brea Head, Valentia Island, was soon exchanging
+signals with the "Majestic," and five minutes later the sighting of the
+"Majestic" was cabled to the Lloyds of Liverpool and London and back to
+New York, via Valentia Bay, and it was known that evening in Harrisville
+that the Harris family were safely nearing Queenstown.
+
+Travelers experience delightful feelings as the old world is approached
+for the first time. All that has been read or told, and half believed, is
+now felt to be true, and you are delighted that you are so soon to see
+for yourself the "Mother Islands," and Europe which have peopled the
+western world with sons and daughters.
+
+With the precision of the New York and Jersey City ferries the ocean
+steamers enter the harbors of the old and new world. On the southwestern
+coast of Ireland is Bantry Bay, memorable in history as having been twice
+entered by the French navy for the purpose of invading Ireland. In sight
+is Valentia, the British terminus of the first Atlantic cable to North
+America, also the terminus of the cables laid in 1858, 1865, and 1866,
+and of others since laid. The distance is 1635 miles from Valentia Bay
+to St. John, Newfoundland.
+
+From the deck of the steamer, Ireland seems old and worn. Her rocky capes
+and mountainous headlands reach far into the ever encroaching Atlantic
+like the bony fingers of a giant. Fastnet Rock lighthouse on the right,
+telling the mariner of half-sunken rocks, and Cape Clear on the left,
+soon drop behind.
+
+Approaching Queenstown, the green forests and fields and little white
+homes of fishermen and farmers are visible along the receding shore.
+Roach's Point, four miles from Queenstown is reached, where the mails are
+landed and received, if the weather is bad, but Captain Morgan decided
+to steam into Queenstown Harbor, one of the finest bays in the world,
+being a sheltered basin of ten square miles, and the entrance strongly
+fortified. Within the harbor are several islands occupied by barracks,
+ordnance and convict depots, and powder magazines. This deep and
+capacious harbor can float the navies of the world. In beauty it compares
+favorably with the Bay of Naples.
+
+Cove, or Queenstown, as Cove is called, since the visit of Queen Victoria
+in 1849, has a population of less than ten thousand. It is situated on
+the terraced and sheltered south side of Great Island. Here for his
+health came Rev. Charles Wolfe, author of "Not a drum was heard, not a
+funeral note."
+
+In the amphitheatre-shaped town on parallel streets rise tiers of white
+stone houses, relieved by spire and tower. On neighboring highest hills
+are old castles, forts, and a tall white lighthouse.
+
+One or more of Her Majesty's armored warships may always be seen within
+the bay. The "Majestic" dropped anchor in the quiet harbor, and the
+company's lighter came along side with passengers for Liverpool, and to
+take ashore the Queenstown passengers, and the mails which, checked out,
+numbered over 1600 sacks. The transatlantic mail is put aboard the
+express and hurried to Dublin, thence from Kingston to Holyhead, via a
+swift packet across St. George's Channel, and to its destination, thus
+saving valuable hours in its delivery throughout Europe.
+
+Several small boats appeared bringing natives who offered for sale fruit,
+Irish laces, and canes made of black bog oak, with the shamrock carved on
+the handles. Mrs. Harris was much pleased to renew her acquaintance with
+the scenes of her girlhood, having sailed from Queenstown for Boston when
+she was only ten years old.
+
+The baggage was left on the steamer to go forward to Liverpool, and
+Alfonso led the way aboard the lighter, and from the dock to the Queen's
+Hotel. Each carried a small satchel, with change of clothing, till the
+trunks should be overtaken.
+
+At the hotel Alfonso found the longed-for cablegram from his father which
+read as follows:--
+
+  Harrisville,--
+
+  _Mrs. Reuben Harris,
+  Queen's Hotel, Queenstown, Ireland._
+
+  Employees still out. Mills guarded. Will hire new men. Searles visits
+  Australia. All well. Enjoy yourselves. Love.
+
+  Reuben Harris.
+
+"It's too bad that father and Gertrude couldn't be with us," said Mrs.
+Harris.
+
+The lunch ashore of Irish chops, new vegetables, and fruit was a decided
+improvement on the food of the last few days. The Harrises after a stormy
+sea voyage were delighted again to put foot on mother earth, to enjoy the
+green terraces, ivy-clad walls, cottages, and churches, and also to see
+the shamrock, a tiny clover, which St. Patrick held up before the Irish
+people to prove the Holy Trinity. Lucille found the pretty yellow furz,
+the flower which Linnaeus, the famous Swedish botanist, kissed.
+
+Alfonso suggested that they take the part rail and part river route
+of a dozen miles to Cork, the third city of Ireland. En route are seen
+beautiful villas, green park-like fields, rich woods, and a terrace
+that adorns the steep banks of the River Lee. A ruined castle at
+Monkstown is pointed out, which a thrifty woman built, paying the workman
+in goods, on which she cleared enough to pay for the castle, except an
+odd groat, hence the saying, "The castle cost only a groat."
+
+A delightful day was spent at Cork, an ancient city, which pagans and
+Danes once occupied, and which both Cromwell and Marlborough captured.
+Here Rev. Thomas Lee, by his preaching, inclined William Penn, "Father of
+Pennsylvania," to become a Quaker. Here was born Sheridan Knowles, the
+dramatist, and other famous writers.
+
+After visiting the lakes of Killarney and Dublin, the Harris family took
+a hasty trip through England.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+COLONEL HARRIS RETURNS TO HARRISVILLE
+
+
+The strong will of Reuben Harris was to meet its match, in fact its
+defeat. His plans for a well rounded life were nearing a climax when the
+telegram from his manager Wilson changed all his plans, and standing on
+the pier, as his family steamed away, he experienced the horrors of a
+terrible nightmare.
+
+Mechanically he shook his white handkerchief, saw his family carried
+far out to sea as if to another world, and he longed for some yawning
+earthquake to engulf him. He stood transfixed to the dock; the
+perspiration of excitement, now checked, was chilling him when Gertrude
+caught his arm and said, "Father, what is the matter?"
+
+Colonel Harris's strong frame trembled like a ship that had struck a
+hidden rock, and then he rallied as if from a stupor, and taking Mr.
+Searles's arm was helped to a carriage.
+
+He said, "You must pardon me, Mr. Searles, if for a moment I seemed
+unmanned. It is a terrible ordeal to be thus suddenly separated from my
+family."
+
+"Yes, Colonel Harris, I had a similar experience recently on the docks
+in Liverpool when my family bade me adieu, and I came alone to America.
+Separation for a time even from those we love is trying."
+
+The heroic in Colonel Harris soon enabled him to plan well for the
+afternoon. He telegraphed Mr. Wilson of his decision to return, and then
+said, "We will leave New York at 6 o'clock this evening for Harrisville.
+Mr. Searles, we will try to use the afternoon for your pleasure. Driver,
+please take us to the Windsor Hotel, via the Produce Exchange." The
+colonel having left the Waldorf did not wish, under the circumstances,
+again to enter his name on its register.
+
+The ride down West Street, New York, at midday, is anything but
+enjoyable, as few thoroughfares are more crowded with every kind of
+vehicle conveying merchandise from ship to warehouse, and from warehouse
+to ship and cars. However, the ride impressed Searles with the immensity
+of the trade of the metropolis. West Street leads to Battery Park, the
+Produce, and Stock Exchanges, which Colonel Harris desired Mr. Searles
+and his daughter Gertrude to see in the busy part of the day.
+
+Colonel Harris explained that here in Battery Park terminated the
+Metropolitan Elevated Railway. A railway in the air with steam-engines
+and coaches crowded with people interested Mr. Searles greatly.
+
+"In London," he said, "we are hurried about under ground, in foul air,
+and darkness often."
+
+"Here at Battery Park, Mr. Searles, November 25, 1783, Sir Guy Carleton's
+British army embarked. Our New Yorkers still celebrate the date as
+Evacuation Day. Near by at an earlier date Hendrick Christianson, agent
+of a Dutch fur trading company, built four small houses and a redoubt,
+the foundation of America's metropolis. In 1626 Peter Minuit, first
+governor of the New Netherlands, bought for twenty-six dollars all
+Manhattan Island."
+
+Mr. Searles visited the tall Washington Building which occupies the
+ground where formerly stood the headquarters of Lords Cornwallis and
+Howe. He told Gertrude that he had read that, in July, 1776, the people
+came in vast crowds to Battery Park to celebrate the Declaration of
+Independence, and that they knocked over the equestrian statue of George
+III., which was melted into bullets to be used against the British.
+
+"Yes," replied Colonel Harris, "in early days, Americans doubtless lacked
+appreciation of art, but we always gave our cousins across-sea a warm
+reception."
+
+"Colonel Harris," said Mr. Searles, "it has always puzzled me to
+understand why you should have built near Boston the Bunker Hill
+Monument."
+
+"Mr. Searles, because we Americans whipped the British."
+
+"Oh no, Colonel, that fight was a British victory."
+
+"Father," said Gertrude, "Mr. Searles is right; the British troops, under
+General Gage, drove the American forces off both Breed's Hill and Bunker
+Hill. The obelisk of Quincy granite was erected at Charlestown, I think,
+to commemorate the stout resistance which the raw provincial militia made
+against regular British soldiers, confirming the Americans in the belief
+that their liberty could be won."
+
+Mr. Searles thanked Miss Harris for her timely aid and added that a
+patriot is a rebel who succeeds, and a rebel is a patriot who fails. He
+observed also the witty sign over the entrance of a dealer in American
+flags, "Colors warranted not to run."
+
+The party drove to the Produce Exchange, one of the most impressive
+buildings in New York. It is of rich Italian Renaissance architecture.
+Beneath the projecting galley-prows in the main hall, the fierce
+bargaining of excited members reminded Mr. Searles of a pitched battle
+without cavalry or artillery.
+
+Gertrude was anxious to climb the richly decorated campanile that rises
+two hundred and twenty-five feet, which commands an unrivalled bird's-eye
+view of lower New York, the bay, Brooklyn, Long Island, and the mountains
+of New Jersey. All hoped to catch a glimpse of the "Majestic," but she
+was down the Narrows and out of sight.
+
+Mr. Searles desired to see Trinity Church, so he was driven up Broadway
+to the head of Wall Street. Its spire is graceful and two hundred and
+eighty-four feet high. The land on which it stands was granted in 1697
+by the English government. There were also other magnificent endowments.
+Trinity Parish, or Corporation, is the richest single church organization
+in the United States, enjoying revenues of over five hundred thousand
+dollars a year. In Revolutionary times the royalist clergy persisted in
+reading prayers for the king of England till their voices were drowned
+by the drum and fife of patriots marching up the center aisle.
+
+It was now past two o'clock and the Harris party was driven to the Hotel
+Windsor for lunch. Promptly at six o'clock the conductor of the fast
+Western Express shouted, "All aboard," and Colonel Harris, Gertrude, and
+Mr. Searles in their own private car, left busy New York for Harrisville.
+
+The Express creeps slowly along the steel way, under cross-streets,
+through arched tunnels, and over the Harlem River till the Hudson is
+reached, and then this world-famed river is followed 142 miles to
+Albany, the capital of the Empire State. This tide-water ride on the
+American Rhine is unsurpassed. The Express is whirled through tunnels,
+over bridges, past the magnificent summer houses of the magnates of the
+metropolis that adorn the high bluffs, past wooded hill and winding dale,
+grand mountains, and sparkling rivulets. Every object teems with historic
+memories. This ride, in June, is surpassed only when the forests are in a
+blaze of autumnal splendor.
+
+For twenty miles in sight are the battlemented cliffs of the Palisades.
+Mr. Searles was familiar with the facile pen of Washington Irving, and
+from the car caught sight of "Sunny Side" covered with nourishing vines,
+grown from slips, which Irving secured from Sir Walter Scott at
+Abbottsford.
+
+Passing Tarrytown Colonel Harris said, "Here Major Andre was captured,
+and the treachery of Benedict Arnold exposed, otherwise, we might to-day
+have been paying tribute to the crown of Great Britain."
+
+"Yes," replied Mr. Searles, "George Washington, patriot, hung Major
+Andre, the spy. You made Washington president, and we gave Andre a
+monument in Westminster Abbey."
+
+Sing Sing and Peekskill were left behind, and the Express was approaching
+the picturesque Highlands, a source of never failing delight to tourists.
+West Point, the site of the famous United States Military Academy, is on
+the left bank of the Hudson in the very bosom of the Highlands.
+
+The sun set in royal splendor behind the Catskills;
+
+  "And lo! the Catskills print the distant sky,
+  And o'er their airy tops the faint clouds driven
+  So softly blending that the cheated eye
+  Forgets or which is earth, or which is heaven."
+
+"Mr. Searles," said Colonel Harris, "before leaving America you must
+climb the Catskills. Thousands every summer, escaping from the heat and
+worry of life, visit those wind-swept 'hills of the sky.' There they find
+rest and happiness in great forests, shady nooks, lovely walks, and fine
+drives.
+
+"There are several hotels in the vicinity. From one hotel on an
+overhanging cliff you behold stretched out before you a hundred miles of
+the matchless panorama of the Hudson. The Highlands lie to the south, the
+Berkshire Hills and Green Mountains to the east, and the Adirondacks to
+the north. The latter is a paradise for disciples of Nimrod and of Izaak
+Walton, and a blessed sanitarium for Americans, most of whom under skies
+less gray than yours do their daily work with little if any reserve
+vitality."
+
+Gertrude, who had excused herself some minutes before, now returned. She
+had been visiting in an adjoining Pullman a friend of hers, whom she had
+met for a moment in the Grand Central Station before the train started.
+Calling Colonel Harris aside, she said, "Father, Mrs. Nellie Eastlake, my
+classmate at Smith College, is going with friends to the Pacific Coast;
+shall I ask her to dine with us?"
+
+"Certainly, child, invite her, and I am sure, Mr. Searles, that you
+concur in my daughter's plan to increase our party at dinner, do you
+not?"
+
+"Most assuredly, Colonel."
+
+A little later charming Mrs. Eastlake followed Gertrude into the
+"Alfonso," and soon dinner was announced. The steward, thoughtlessly, had
+forgotten in New York to purchase flowers for the table, but they were
+not missed.
+
+There are women in this world whose presence is so enjoyable that they
+rival the charm of both art and flowers. Their voices, their grace of
+manner, their interest in you and your welfare, laden the air with an
+indescribable something that exhilarates. Their presence is like the
+sunshine that warms and perfumes a conservatory; you inhale the odors of
+roses, pinks, and climbing jessamines. Such a woman was Nellie Eastlake.
+She was tall and winning. The marble heart of the Venus of Milo would
+have warmed in her presence. Shakespeare would have said of her eyes,
+"They do mislead the morn."
+
+Mrs. Eastlake was in sympathy with the Harrises in their keen
+disappointments. She possessed the tact to put Mr. Searles in the
+happiest frame of mind, so that he half forgot his mission to America.
+The Colonel also forgot, for the hour, that his family were absent, and
+that his workmen in Harrisville were on a strike.
+
+Mrs. Eastlake in her girlhood had converted all who knew her into ardent
+friends. While at school on the Hudson, she met the rich father of a
+schoolmate. Later she was invited to travel with this friend and her
+father, Mr. Eastlake, a widower, among the Thousand Islands and down the
+St. Lawrence River. She so charmed the millionaire that after graduation
+at Smith College she accepted and married him. She was now journeying to
+her palatial home on the Pacific Coast. She skilfully helped to guide the
+table-talk, avoiding unwelcome topics. The dinner over, a half-hour was
+spent with music and magazines, and the party retired for the night.
+
+Breakfast was served as the Express approached Lake Erie. It was agreed
+that Mr. Searles should accompany Mrs. Eastlake and Gertrude in the car
+"Alfonso," and spend a day or two at Niagara Falls.
+
+Colonel Harris kissed Gertrude, said good-bye to all, and taking a seat
+in a Pullman, continued alone on his journey to Harrisville. Returning
+home he hoped, if possible, to set matters right at the steel mills
+before Mr. Searles arrived.
+
+Left to himself, he now had opportunity for reflection. The time was,
+when he was as proud of his ability to do an honest day's work at the
+forge as he was to-day proud of his great wealth and growing power in the
+manufacturing world. Then he was poor, but he was conscious of forces
+hidden within which if used on the right things and at the right time and
+place he believed would make him a man of influence.
+
+He was able then with his own hands to fashion a bolt, a nail, or
+horseshoe, unsurpassed in the county. He was handy in shaping and
+tempering tools of every kind. When he ate his cold dinner, reheating his
+coffee over the forge coals, he often thought of the dormant fires within
+him, and he wondered if they would ever be fanned to a white heat. For
+years he had toiled hard to pay the rent of his forge and home and his
+monthly bills. His wife was saving and helpful in a thousand ways, but
+life was a hard struggle from sun to sun.
+
+One summer's day when work was slack, there came to his shop a tall
+Englishman to get a small job done. So well was the work performed by
+Harris that the Englishman, whose name was James Ingram, said to Harris,
+"I believe you are the mechanic I have long been looking for. In early
+life I was apprenticed in England to a famous iron-master, and when the
+Bessemer patents for converting iron into steel were issued, it was my
+good fortune to be a foreman where the first experiments were made by
+Henry Bessemer himself, and so I came to have a practical knowledge of
+Bessemer's valuable invention; but my health failed, and for six months
+I have been in your country in search of it, and now being well again,
+I plan to start if possible a Bessemer steel plant in America. Can you
+help me?"
+
+Reuben Harris was quick to see that great profits might be realized from
+Bessemer's patents and Ingram's ideas, and promptly said, "Yes, but I
+must first know more about these patents and their workings." Before a
+week had passed, he had learned much from Ingram concerning the practical
+working of the Bessemer process of converting iron into steel. Bessemer
+claimed that his steel rails would last much longer than the common iron
+rail then in use.
+
+Reuben Harris easily comprehended that the profits would be large. It was
+verbally agreed between Harris and Ingram that they would share equally
+any and all profits realized. Ingram had contributed reliable knowledge,
+Harris was to enlist capital, and both were to make use of all their
+talents, for they were both skilled mechanics.
+
+It was not an easy matter for Harris to secure capital, for capital is
+often lynx-eyed, and usually it is very conservative. It was especially
+cautious of investment in Harris's schemes, as the practical workings of
+the Bessemer process were not yet fully understood in America.
+
+The profits promised by both Harris and Ingram to capitalists were great,
+and this possibly made capital suspicious. Finally enough ready money was
+obtained to make a successful experiment, which so convinced a few rich
+men that more money was immediately advanced, and the steel plant was
+soon furnishing most satisfactory steel rails at greatly reduced cost for
+both the manufacturer and consumer.
+
+Harris's ability to manage kept pace with the rapid growth of the new
+enterprise, while Ingram's knowledge and inventive talents proved that as
+superintendent of the steel plant he was the right man in the right
+place.
+
+At first Harris found great difficulty in convincing railway managers
+that the steel rail would render enough more service to compensate for
+the additional cost. The most anybody could say in favor of the steel
+rail was largely theoretical. The Bessemer steel rail had had only a few
+months of actual service, long enough, however, to demonstrate that at
+the joints it would not batter and splinter like the iron rail. This was,
+indeed, a desideratum and many orders came in. Not only was the steel
+mill kept running day and night, but orders accumulated so rapidly that
+large additions were made to the mills.
+
+Money for all these improvements and the capital necessary to carry on
+the increasing business were matters of vital importance to the success
+of the company. To manage a business with greatest advantage quite as
+much ready cash is needed as is invested in the plant, otherwise the
+banker's discount becomes a heavy lien on the profits, and the
+stockholders grumble at small dividends.
+
+Possibly Reuben Harris overestimated the value of his service in
+financiering the business; at least he came to believe that he earned,
+and ought to have a larger interest than James Ingram. Ingram, became
+so cramped by assessments and money obligations that he was obliged to
+sell to Harris most of his interest in the steel plant. Harris's
+interests increased, till practically he was the owner of the Harrisville
+Iron & Steel Works, and much property besides. He was quoted as a
+millionaire, while James Ingram was superintendent of only a department
+of the steel works, and his income was nominal. Often he felt that great
+injustice had been done him. Several times he had talked the matter over
+with Colonel Harris, but with little satisfaction.
+
+The great wrong done to James Ingram, to whom Harris was so largely
+indebted for the initial and practical knowledge of successfully
+manufacturing steel rails was uppermost in Reuben Harris's mind as
+the express hurried him back to Harrisville.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+CAPITAL AND LABOR IN CONFERENCE
+
+
+Colonel Harris's awakened conscience was considering seriously the
+question, "How can I right this wrong done to Ingram?" when the Express
+stopped at a station thirty miles out of Harrisville, and into his car
+came the son of James Ingram, George Ingram who was now superintendent of
+the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co.'s plant. Somebody, perhaps Gertrude, had
+telegraphed from Buffalo to the superintendent to tell him on which train
+Colonel Harris expected to return.
+
+George Ingram was visibly affected as he took the proffered hand of
+Reuben Harris, and inquired about his health and the whereabouts and
+welfare of his family. Harris implored young Ingram to tell him all about
+the strike, its latest phases, and what the municipal authorities were
+doing for the protection of his property. George Ingram gave him a brief
+history of the troubles up to the time of his leaving Harrisville. He
+told how the manager aided by the company's general counsel, Mr. Webster,
+had used every possible argument with the workingmen's committee; that a
+statement even had been submitted, showing that very small or practically
+no profits had resulted from recent contracts, which were now being
+completed by the company. The effort to arrive at a satisfactory
+adjustment with the employees was thus far absolutely fruitless. Since
+daylight the four thousand men had been parading the streets with music
+and clubs, forcing employees of other establishments to quit work, and
+threatening to destroy the steel plant.
+
+The color in Colonel Harris's face came and went as he listened, showing
+a white heat of indignation. Ingram sat facing his employer, watching the
+emotions of a strong man, and not then daring to offer any suggestion,
+for he felt strongly in behalf of the employees, who always looked upon
+him as their friend.
+
+Colonel Harris was a man of powerful build, wide forehead, overhanging
+brows, broad chest and shoulders, short thick neck, and strong arms
+developed at the anvil. His superintendent from boyhood had studied him,
+but never before had he seen the lion in his employer so aroused.
+
+Arriving at Harrisville the wealthy iron-master, accompanied by his
+superintendent, stepped into his own private carriage, and immediately
+drove to the general offices of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. The
+directors of the company were in special session to devise means of
+protecting their threatened property and of crushing the strike.
+
+B.C. Wilson, the manager, rose to greet Colonel Harris, who shook hands
+with him and the directors, and then the meeting was resumed, Harris
+acting as chairman of the board. Colonel Harris soon grasped the
+situation, and he approved of all that his directors and manager had
+done.
+
+Rising to his feet, in a firm tone, he made a vigorous talk to his board:
+"Gentlemen, my views as to the best method of dealing with the important
+question before us are known to some of you. Four years ago a similar
+trouble perplexed our company, and our failure then to act decisively
+resulted in prolonging the discontent among our employees. Their purposes
+are as apparent to-day as then, viz., to rule or ruin our gigantic
+enterprise. Capital and labor should be the best of friends.
+Unfortunately, trusts and labor organizations are alike avaricious and
+selfish.
+
+"Centuries ago, in Belgium, weavers dictated terms to capital, and hurled
+rich men from balconies to death upon spears below. This unnatural
+revolution lasted for a short time only; brains and wealth again acquired
+control, and they always will control. To yield to our employees the
+privilege of fixing their own wages, and a voice in directing the affairs
+of our company is to cloud or mortgage our capital. This is a most
+unreasonable demand. Why should they expect us to share with them our
+property, title to which the United States has guaranteed?
+
+"If our state, or national government cannot or will not defend us in the
+title to our property, on which they yearly levy taxes, then we will
+place our interests beneath a flag that can and will give ample
+protection. This terrible uncertainty as to titles and values in the
+United States will yet wreck the republic."
+
+It was natural that the directors should heartily approve Colonel
+Harris's utterances, as he was the owner of five-sixths of the stock of
+the company. He then asked Mr. Webster their general counsel, to read
+to the board the position which the company proposed to take before the
+public.
+
+Mr. Webster was a tall, elderly man, who had served five years on the
+supreme bench of his state, an attorney of few words, but well versed in
+the laws of his country, especially in corporation laws. Holding a sheet
+of paper in his hands he read, "The Harrisville Iron & Steel Company
+claims the fundamental right to manage its own business in its own way,
+in accordance with and under the protection of the laws of the land."
+
+The board voted its approval of the attorney's position, and also voted
+that a petition be drawn and immediately sent to the mayor of the city
+asking protection for their property. The board then adjourned.
+
+Colonel Harris, his manager, and Mr. Webster entered a carriage, and
+drove rapidly to the mayor's office, while superintendent George Ingram
+drove back to the steel works to execute his orders, though he did not
+believe in harsh measures. Harris presented the petition to the mayor,
+who hastily examined it. Bands of music were now audible on the street,
+and a long procession of workingmen, bearing national banners, was seen
+marching towards the city hall. Citizens on the streets held their
+breath, and policemen feared the outcome.
+
+Colonel Harris rose to go, but the Mayor seized his arm and said,
+"No! you and your friends must stay here and meet a committee of your
+employees who have an appointment with me at three o'clock.
+
+"Already I have said to the same committee, who called at ten o'clock
+this morning, that I should expect them to influence your employees to
+keep the peace, to aid in protecting your property, to disperse quietly
+and remain in their homes. Colonel Harris, please be seated, you and your
+friends must remain."
+
+"Well, Mr. Mayor, since you insist, we will remain, but our company
+demands the protection of all our property, and the preservation of peace
+and lives in our midst. You are the city's executive officer. The payment
+annually by our corporation of thousands in taxes, calls for an
+equivalent, therefore we ask that you maintain the dignity of the city
+and her laws."
+
+The mayor stepped to the telephone and called Major Strong, the chief of
+police. "Send at once a captain and twenty-five policemen in patrol
+wagons to the city hall. Hold fifty more men in readiness."
+
+A great throng of people occupied the sidewalks and the windows of
+adjoining buildings. Thousands of workmen crowded the pavement from curb
+to curb. The vast crowd below, though impressive was not new to Colonel
+Harris nor did it alarm him.
+
+Four years before, his employees were out on a strike for several months.
+Then the issue was, "Will the company recognize the demands of the
+Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of America?" The reply
+of the company was, "No!" The struggle then was severe, but the strike
+failed. The present issue was, "Will the company pay an increase of
+wages?"
+
+The committee of five of the employees soon entered the mayor's office.
+They were much surprised to find that Colonel Harris had returned to the
+city; it was believed that he had actually set sail for Europe. The
+committee unfortunately was a radical one, and did not represent the
+average thoughtful and conservative type of workingmen. Evidently the
+committee had been selected for the purpose of intimidating capital, as
+their manner did not indicate a conciliatory policy.
+
+Mr. Burns, acting as spokesman, said, "Mr. Mayor, it is 3 o'clock, and we
+are back again promptly, as you requested, and you see that our committee
+is increased by several thousand workingmen on the street below who have
+come to demand bread of a soulless corporation. Mayor Duty, what do you
+advise us to do?"
+
+The Mayor was nervous as he replied, "Mr. Burns and members of the
+committee, I confess that so many thousands of honest and upturned faces
+of workingmen move my heart. If I were able it would give me pleasure
+first to ask you all to partake of a good meal, for more satisfactory
+business is usually accomplished after people are well fed. You ask my
+advice. Here, gentlemen of the committee, is Colonel Harris, your
+employer, let him speak to you."
+
+Memories of a wife and three babies at home, dependent for bread upon his
+own earnings at the forge, flashing upon the mind of Colonel Harris,
+sweetened his spirit and softened his voice, so that he spoke briefly and
+kindly to the committee, repeating, however, what his manager had told
+the committee at ten o'clock, viz., "that the present bad condition of
+the steel market would not permit the company to grant the advance of
+wages they asked."
+
+The committee, aware of the large profits of former years, sullenly
+retired, and after the company's decision had been communicated to the
+anxious thousands below, the employees of the Harrisville Iron & Steel
+Co. slowly returned to their homes. The mayor ordered his chief of
+police to dispatch immediately in patrol wagons fifty men to the steel
+works, to guard the property and keep the peace.
+
+After the committee retired, the mayor said, "Well, Colonel Harris, what
+will be the outcome?"
+
+"Mr. Mayor, we cannot foretell anything. You never know what workingmen
+in their lodges will do. There, as a rule, the 'Walking delegate' and a
+few agitators rule with despotic power. If a workman, whose large family
+forces him to take conservative views, dares in his lodge to suggest
+peaceful measures, an agitator rises at once in indignation and demands
+that traitors to the cause of labor be expelled. This throttles freedom
+of action in many labor unions, so that often what appears on the surface
+to be the unanimous action of the members of workingmen's leagues, is but
+the exercise of despotic power by a few men who have nothing to lose, and
+whose salary is paid from the slim purses of honest labor.
+
+"Usually those who talk much and loudly think little and unwisely, and
+the opposite to their advice is safest to follow. The greatest need
+to-day in most of our labor organizations is wise leadership, and this
+will result when the best element in the labor lodges asserts itself.
+
+"The despotism of ill-advised labor is to be dreaded by civilization more
+than the reign of intelligent capital. This is especially true in the
+United States, where under wise laws, wealth cannot be entailed, and
+where most large fortunes soon disappear among the heirs.
+
+"A simple pair of shears illustrates perfectly the relationship that
+capital and labor should sustain each to the other. Capital is one blade
+of the shears, and labor is the other blade; either blade without the
+other is useless, and the two blades are useless unless the rivet is in
+place. Confidence is to capital and labor what the rivet is to the two
+blades. The desideratum to-day in the business world is full and abiding
+confidence between capital and labor." Thus speaking Colonel Harris and
+his friends left the mayor and returned to their homes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+After a visit to Niagara Falls, Mr. Searles and his party went on to
+Harrisville, where Mrs. Eastlake rejoined some friends and continued her
+long journey to the Pacific Coast. Colonel Harris met his daughter and
+Mr. Hugh Searles at the station, the latter, under the circumstances,
+being the last person he cared to see. The carriage was driven at once to
+Reuben Harris's beautiful home that overlooked Harrisville and blue Lake
+Erie.
+
+After dinner Colonel Harris explained to Mr. Searles all about the
+inopportune strike; also that it was impossible to say when the steel
+plant would be started again. Mr. Searles decided next morning that after
+a short ride through Harrisville he would continue his journey through
+the States to California, and possibly to Australia, where he had another
+important interest to attend to in behalf of a London client.
+
+It was further arranged that he would return to London via Harrisville in
+about six months, if so desired by Colonel Harris, otherwise he would
+complete the journey around the world, returning to England by way of the
+Suez Canal.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
+
+
+The Ingrams lived not far from the steel mills in one of two wooden
+houses, each two stories in height, which Reuben Harris and James Ingram
+had built for their families, when they began in a modest way to
+manufacture steel. As Reuben Harris grew rich he moved his family into
+a beautiful home in the fashionable part of the city, and good society
+accepted them as their equals.
+
+The large family and small income of James Ingram forced him to continue
+his residence in the same brown house near the steel mills. The Ingram
+family kept much to their English ways and knew little or nothing of
+society. The English and Germans cling tenaciously to their old habits
+and customs which they carry across seas and over mountains. Generations
+must elapse before it will be safe to predict what the national type of
+an American citizen will be. One discovers on the British Isles the
+mixture of centuries of European blood which has developed a virility of
+body and brain that dominates the globe. "More honor to be a British
+subject to-day than to have been a Roman in Rome's palmiest days," thought
+James Ingram, who was proud of his race and his family blood.
+
+James Ingram came from a well-bred English household. His environment now
+hedged him in. In England ill-health, and now, in America, ill-treatment
+made him miss golden opportunities. Except good qualities are inbred, it
+is almost as impossible for a person in one stratum of society to be
+lifted up into another as it is for the geological strata of the earth to
+change positions.
+
+The grandmother of James Ingram had good blood in her veins; she came
+from a family that had performed valiant deeds in war and in peace. James
+Ingram's father had erred in judgment, and a large estate, partially
+inherited, had been swept away as by a flood. He died, leaving James the
+eldest son to aid in supporting his mother and several children.
+
+James Ingram was now over fifty years of age. Could he, or his children,
+retrieve their family prestige was a question he often asked himself. He
+still had energy, unconquerable determination, and faith in himself.
+These are some of the essential elements in a successful character; but
+the fates thus far had decreed adversely. His early education was not of
+the best, but by carefully devoting not less than two hours a day to good
+reading, he had not only kept pace with current history, but had also
+acquired a helpful knowledge of the sciences.
+
+When his oldest son George was born, he planned to give his children the
+best education possible. Two of his three daughters were teaching in the
+public schools; May Ingram taught music. Two of his sons worked in the
+mills, one as chemist and one as an electrician; a third son was
+conductor on a passenger train, and a fourth was studying to be a
+physician.
+
+The father and his son, George, after the day's work at the mills
+was over, spent much time over a problem which, if solved, would
+revolutionize many things. Twice they thought they were on the eve of a
+solution of the subject, but unforeseen obstacles were encountered, and
+still they struggled on.
+
+It is no wonder that the father was proud of George, now chemist of the
+vast steel works, for he was manly and respected by all the employees.
+When a boy, George worked nights, Saturdays, and during his vacations in
+the mills, and the men came to know and love his genial ways and fair
+methods, and thus he gained a good knowledge of steel-making.
+
+His father was urgent that his son should not miss a single day in his
+schooling. At length he graduated at the high school with the esteem of
+his teachers and his class. During the twelve years spent in public
+schools he had acquired a fine discipline of mind, a love of the
+sciences, and enough of Latin and Greek to aid him in determining the
+derivation and exact meaning of words. Co-education too had refined his
+nature, and enabled him to estimate correctly his own abilities, but best
+of all he had come to know at the high school the second daughter of
+Reuben Harris, Gertrude, who graduated in his own class. During the
+senior year he had frequently walked and talked with her, and came to
+know somewhat of her plans.
+
+Gertrude's parents, especially Mrs. Harris, were anxious that both their
+daughters should go to private schools, and Lucille was easily persuaded
+to attend a young ladies' seminary, where aesthetic accomplishments were
+emphasized and considered essentials and a passport into good society.
+But Gertrude decided in favor of a public school education.
+
+Lucille and Gertrude as sisters were fond of each other, but Lucille
+lived more for self, while Gertrude preferred others to self. Gertrude
+had learned early how by a smile or bow to retain an old friend or to
+win a new one. She spent very little time thinking about her own needs,
+preferring to take flowers or fruit, even when given her, to some sick or
+aged person. Nothing pleased her more than to visit the Old Ladies' Home
+with a few gifts and read the Bible or comforting stories to the inmates.
+
+Mrs. Harris when east chanced to spend a June day at Wellesley College
+near Boston. By early moonlight several hundred Wellesley girls and
+thousands of spectators had assembled on the banks of Lake Waban to enjoy
+the "Float." Gaily uniformed crews in their college flotilla formed
+a star-shaped group near the shore for their annual concert. Chinese
+lanterns, like giant fire-flies, swung in the trees and on many graceful
+boats. The silver notes of the bugle and the chant of youthful voices
+changed the college-world into a fairyland.
+
+Both mother and daughter were charmed and Lucille gladly decided to enter
+Wellesley. Hard study, however, and the daily forty-five minutes of
+domestic work then required, did not agree with her nature, and after a
+few weeks she decided upon a change, and continued her education at one
+of the private schools on the Back-Bay in Boston.
+
+Gertrude, possessing a more active mind and ambition, resolved to obtain
+an education as good as her brother Alfonso had had at Harvard. She had
+read of a prominent benefactor who believed that woman had the same right
+as man to intellectual culture and development, and who in 1861 had
+founded on the Hudson, midway between Albany and New York, an institution
+which he hoped would accomplish for women what colleges were doing for
+men.
+
+So Gertrude applied for enrollment and was admitted to Vassar College.
+Rooms were assigned her in Strong Hall. She liked Vassar's sensible way
+of hazing, a cordial reception being given to freshmen by the sophomores.
+She was glad to be under both men and women professors, for this in part
+fulfilled her idea of the education that women should receive.
+
+At Vassar were several girls from Harrisville whom Gertrude knew, but no
+boys. She wrote her mother that she would be better pleased if Vassar had
+less Greek and more boys. She could not understand why co-education at
+the high school in Harrisville, that worked perfectly, should stop at the
+threshold of Vassar, or other women's and men's colleges.
+
+The two following years on the beautiful Hudson were happy years for
+Gertrude. She conquered mathematics, stood well in Latin, and was
+enthusiastic in the study of psychology, the science of mind, which
+teaches the intimate relation of mental phenomena to the physical
+organism. German was an elective study with Gertrude, which she had
+studied at the high school, but at Vassar she learned to write and talk
+the language with accuracy and freedom, which is not usual, unless one
+lives in a German family.
+
+Gertrude was already planning to study history and some of the sciences
+in original German text-books, if occasion offered. She cared little
+for music, though she was extremely fond of poetry and now and then
+contributed verses for publication. Her essay on architecture at the
+close of the second year elicited applause from the students and praise
+in red ink across the first page of the composition.
+
+Self-government of the Vassar girls develops self-respect and
+self-control. A Vassar girl is bound on her honor to retire every night
+at ten o'clock, with three exceptions a month, to exercise in the
+gymnasium three hours a week, and to take at least one hour of outdoor
+exercise daily. Regular exercise, regular meals, nine hours of sleep, and
+plenty of mental work were rapidly preparing Gertrude to fill some noble
+position in the world.
+
+At Vassar other sources of mental rest and physical strength are,
+tennis-court tournaments, basket ball, rowing and skating on the lake,
+bicycling, or five-mile tramps, studying birds, photographing scenery, or
+gathering wild flowers. The Vassar girl is also enthusiastic over the
+"Tree and Trig Ceremonies" and amateur dramatic entertainments.
+
+Gertrude closed her second and last year at Vassar with regret. The
+farewell "fudge" party was for Gertrude, and given in her own room by a
+score of her warm personal friends. The rule for "fudge-making" is, two
+cups of sugar, milk, two rolls of butter melted with chocolate in a
+copper kettle over a gas stove. The fused compound is poured into paper
+plates and cut into tiny squares. So eager is the Vassar girl for "fudge"
+that the struggle is earnest for the first taste, and for the cleaning of
+the big spoon and kettle. The Vassar girl has a sweet tooth, and "fudge"
+parties always evolve love stories and fun in abundance.
+
+After a pleasant vacation in the Adirondacks with friends, Gertrude
+resolved to complete her education at Smith College on the lovely
+Connecticut River, which winds through western Massachusetts. To educate
+a whole family of boys and girls at the "dear old alma mater" is now an
+exploded fancy. A better plan is to educate the half dozen brothers and
+sisters at a half dozen good colleges. What faculty of educators can lay
+claim to all the best methods of evolving characters?
+
+The industry and economy of James Ingram had enabled him to send his son
+George for two years to the Polytechnic Institute at Troy. Suddenly
+financial troubles made it impossible for him longer to assist his son.
+Mrs. Harris, very likely by Gertrude's suggestion, offered to provide
+funds for the third and last year at the institute, and George was
+delighted to complete his course.
+
+By invitation, George had spent the last days of his vacation with
+Gertrude in the Adirondacks, and he had accompanied Mrs. Harris and her
+daughters back to Albany, while the mother continued the journey leaving
+Gertrude at Smith College, Northampton, and Lucille at Boston. Mrs.
+Harris was justly proud of her girls. Their figure and dress often caused
+people to stop in their conversation or reading, as mother and daughters
+entered a car or a hotel.
+
+George Ingram returned to the institute with high hopes. A few of his
+plans were revealed to Gertrude on the last night of his vacation. He
+told her some things he never dared mention before to any one. They were
+on Saranac Lake and the moon seemed to change the water to silver. Their
+birch canoe drifted along the shore and George, dropping his oars,
+reversed his seat and faced the girl he loved as he told her much of his
+plan for life. Gertrude dipped her oars lightly in the water, George
+guiding the canoe beneath the forest overhanging the pebbly shore.
+
+Thus far his education had been a struggle. Time which his mates employed
+in recreation he had used in the steel mill. Thus he gained a trade and a
+knowledge of the value of time. Early he had learned that knowledge is
+power and that intellect and wealth rule the world. He told Gertrude that
+she had kindled within him the spark of ambition, and that he proposed to
+make life a success. "Gertrude, you must be my friend in this struggle,"
+he added.
+
+"Yes, George, always your friend," she replied.
+
+He felt that Gertrude meant all she said. Long ago her sincerity had
+captured his heart. Her sympathy, her unselfishness, and her words of
+helpfulness had been the light by which he was shaping his course.
+
+Another school year went by swiftly, and both Lucille and Gertrude were
+present in June at Troy to see George Ingram graduate. It was a pity that
+his own father and mother, who had sacrificed so much for him, could not
+attend. How often his noble mother had prayed for her first-born son, and
+Gertrude had prayed too, but George did not know this.
+
+At times he was conscious of a strong force within, impelling him
+forward, whose source he could not divine, neither could he free himself
+from it. Fortunate person whose sails are filled with breezes from
+heaven, for craft of this kind go forward guided rightly, almost without
+the rudder's aid!
+
+George pursued at the institute a three years' course, leading up to the
+degree of Bachelor of Science. After the first two years he took less
+higher mathematics and more natural history, chemistry, and geology. The
+institute is within easy access of engineering works and manufacturing
+plants of great diversity, which afforded young Ingram opportunities for
+valuable investigation and observation. His graduating thesis was
+entitled, "A Design for an Electrical Steel Plant with Working Details,
+Capacity One Thousand Tons per Diem." It was much complimented,
+especially the detail drawings for the plant.
+
+His books and clothes had been packed and shipped to Harrisville.
+Reluctant good-byes were given to all the professors, class-mates, and
+many townspeople, who were fond of him. Life in Troy had been a constant
+inspiration, for he was in touch with young men from cultivated families
+which in itself is an education. George had the usual experience of the
+student world, for to him all the professors were very learned men.
+
+After George had locked the door of his old study-room to go to the
+train, he stopped in the hallway in serious thought, then turning back
+he unlocked the door and again entered the dear old rooms. He reseated
+himself at the desk, where he had so often studied far into the night.
+He took another look into the bedroom, into the little store-room, and
+pleasant memories crowded his mind, as for the last time he gazed from
+the window towards the Berkshire Hills, beyond which Gertrude was
+being educated, and then as he finally re-locked the door, he recalled
+his afternoon engagement to meet Gertrude and Lucille at 4:30 o'clock at
+the Albany station to take the Boston & Chicago Special for Harrisville.
+
+George had entered the institute with a light heart and much zest,
+because three years of progressive work were marked out for him. His
+mental journey had now ended and his heart was heavy. No road opened
+before him except the one that led back to the dingy old Harrisville
+mills. In the last three years his sky had lifted a little, but the
+intelligence gained only made him all the more conscious of the small
+world in which he and his family lived. How was he ever to earn a living
+for two, if Gertrude should possibly say "yes?"
+
+Just as he put his foot on the platform of the railway station a letter
+was placed in his hand by a fellow classmate. The envelope bore the
+printed address of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. George, thinking the
+letter was from his father, instantly tore it open and began reading. At
+first his face flushed and then it was lit with joy.
+
+"Good tidings, I hope," said Gertrude, as she with her sister approached.
+
+"Yes, Gertrude, read for yourself. A friend at court is a friend indeed."
+
+The two sisters were delighted and heartily congratulated George. "Of
+course, you will accept the position?" inquired Gertrude.
+
+"Your father, Gertrude, is very kind to me, and I believe I could fill
+satisfactorily the position of chemist now offered by the steel company.
+Later, Gertrude, we can talk this matter over." Three happy young people
+bought tickets for home and took seats in a Pullman car.
+
+After a week's rest, George Ingram assumed the duties of assistant
+chemist for the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. Two weeks' initiation by the
+old chemist, whose health was failing, sufficed to give young Ingram
+efficiency and confidence in his desirable position.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+IN TOUCH WITH NATURE
+
+
+The school vacation of the Harris young ladies came and went on wings.
+The mother was too ill to leave her home; she stood in her door-way, and
+gave her farewell, "God keep and bless you, children!" The father had
+gone to Chicago, so George Ingram saw the daughters off touching
+Gertrude's hand, with a hearty good-bye as she stood in the car door.
+
+As George returned slowly to his task at the steel mills, he resolved to
+use his evenings in post-graduate work. The more he studied iron ores and
+steel-making, the more he felt that he must conquer the whole intricate
+subject, if he would be of greatest service to his employers. The intense
+competition in the trade demanded it.
+
+The Empire State Express, the fastest train in the world, carried
+Gertrude and Lucille through New York state with speed and ease to
+delightful New England. Secretly Gertrude loved George, and she
+resolved to study chemistry and electricity and keep pace with his
+studies, and if ever asked to become his wife, to aid him in every
+possible way. She thought that she discovered in him the material for
+a noble man, a statue which she hoped to chisel. Too often marriageable
+young women and their anxious mothers demand the complete statue at the
+outset, and are not content to accept and chisel granite.
+
+At Smith College the months sped rapidly, as earnest study and bright
+expectations occupied Gertrude's time and satisfied her heart. Every week
+brought a letter and a reply was promptly sent. George wanted to write
+twice a week, but Gertrude checked him, saying that both needed their
+time, and that too frequent correspondence, like too much intimacy, often
+brings disfavor.
+
+"More details of the doings at the steel mills," wrote Gertrude. She
+cared more about the welfare of her father's employees and their families
+and George Ingram's plans than to know the latest fad in society. George
+was equally anxious to keep her informed, and to learn of her
+intellectual advancement, what books she read, and her views on the
+leading topics of the day.
+
+Her first letter began, "My Coatless Friend," a reference to the loss of
+a linen coat or duster, when the last ride at Harrisville was taken. The
+second letter began "Friend George," and the third, "My dear Friend."
+Gertrude and George never addressed each other twice alike in their
+whole correspondence. The weekly letters were always torn open by each in
+haste, and both noticed a gradual increase of warmth in these addresses.
+The fact that Gertrude was an heiress neither hindered nor helped his
+devotion. His heart was attracted by her many charms.
+
+At Smith College Gertrude occupied rooms in the Morris Cottage among the
+apple tree blossoms. Much of her spare time was spent in the scientific
+library and laboratory of Lilly Hall, or with the professor and his
+telescope in the observatory.
+
+On clear nights, aided by the telescope, Gertrude gazed into the
+immensity of space, whispering sometimes to her own soul, "How grand this
+vast world-making, this frightful velocity of the giant dynamos in their
+elliptical pathways through space!"
+
+Often unable to sleep, she continued her thoughts and wondered if space
+were not interlaced with electrical currents that move the earth, the
+sister planets, and the myriads of suns and their planets. She thought
+she saw, as never before, the necessity for an eternal existence of the
+mind, if God is to be studied and known in his infinite variety.
+
+Four years in college had developed Gertrude into a beautiful character.
+Regular work in the gymnasium, much outdoor exercise, and care as to
+ventilation in her rooms, especially at night, had kept her in perfect
+physical health. Her intimates shared her glow of vitality, for her
+presence at "Lawn, or Character Teas," at tennis-courts, or at
+basket-ball always brought sunshine and enthusiasm.
+
+The Saturday before commencement, her mother and Lucille came to enjoy
+the charming festivities of Smith College. A representation of Racine's
+"Athalie," with Mendelssohn's music, was the evening attraction at the
+Academy of Music, which the class had rented for the occasion.
+
+Groups of ushers, with white satin wands, conducted students in tasteful
+dresses, and invited guests to their seats. When the curtain rose it was
+difficult to decide which one most admired, the stage with its artistic
+setting, its young faces, sweet voices, and graceful movements, or the
+sympathetic audience of students and their friends. The stage and press
+of the future guided in part by college-bred men and women will preach,
+it is hoped, purity, truth, and the beautiful.
+
+Mrs. Harris and Lucille were very happy that Gertrude was to graduate,
+and Lucille who had just finished her education in Boston, half regretted
+that she too had not entered a woman's college. Gertrude never looked
+more beautiful than she did in the white-robed procession, as, on
+Baccalaureate Sunday, the several classes passed down the aisles of the
+church.
+
+George Ingram had hurried to Northampton to see Gertrude graduate. She
+met him at the station, and took his hand warmly in both of hers. George
+had brought from New York a box of white roses for her room, and a big
+bunch of the star-flower, the pretty English blue forget-me-not. He also
+had in his valise a tiny case of which he made no mention to anybody.
+
+Hundreds of young women in white walked across the campus and were massed
+on the college steps for their Ivy Exercise. Never before was George so
+proud of Gertrude. She and Nellie Nelson, afterwards Mrs. Eastlake, had
+been chosen by the class for their beauty and sweet ways to head the
+procession of the white-gowned graduates. The evening of Class-day is a
+fitting close of the gay festivities at Smith College.
+
+At the evening reception, George was introduced to many of Gertrude's
+class-mates, and some of her intimate friends whispered, "Mr. Ingram and
+Gertrude must be engaged! What a handsome pair they will make." George
+offered his arm to Gertrude, and they walked about the campus under the
+classical trees that glowed with hundreds of colored paper lanterns;
+everywhere a throng of pretty happy girls with their relatives and
+friends. Music by the glee clubs on the college steps, and refreshments,
+closed pleasantly Gertrude's last night of college life on the beautiful
+Connecticut.
+
+She went to bed tired, but very happy. That evening her mother and sister
+had left for New York, and in the morning she and George were to spend
+the day at Mt. Holyoke. Twice in the night, Gertrude awoke, looked at her
+watch, and longed for daylight, and then went back to dream of flowers
+and music.
+
+While she slept, warm southern breezes spread a coverlet of silver gray
+mist over the homes of energy and thrift up and down the Connecticut
+Valley. In the morning when Gertrude opened the blinds, and saw the fog
+against the window panes and over the valley, she exclaimed, "It is too
+bad, I so wanted George to drive to Mt. Holyoke to-day, and see nature at
+her best! I hoped this would be the happiest day of my life."
+
+It was a quarter to 8 o'clock when a pair of spirited black roadsters,
+hitched to a buckboard, were driven in front of the hotel for George
+Ingram. As he appeared on the porch he looked every inch a gentleman.
+He was twenty-five years old, had received a practical education, and was
+filling acceptably the important position of assistant chemist of the
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., to which, six months before, he had been
+promoted. He had fine physique, dark hair and eyes, and a military
+bearing that made him the natural commander of men. His firmness,
+tempered with great kindness of heart, always won for him the respect
+of both men and women.
+
+He handled the team with skill for he was a member of the driving club at
+home. At a college window sat Gertrude who was eagerly watching for him,
+and now she ran down the gravel walk with a sunny face, greeting her
+manly lover with such sweet voice and grace, that a college girl in
+passing whispered to her companion. "Look, Bessie, there are true and
+handsome lovers such as we read about in novels, but seldom meet."
+
+Gertrude insisted, since the fog was lifting, that George should hitch
+his horses and for five minutes go with her up on the college tower. As
+they looked out, Gertrude said, "Here, George, on the west are our half
+dozen cozy college houses; on the smooth green lawn below you see our
+tennis-courts, and an abundance of shade.
+
+"Now, George, turn to the east and see how kindly the sun has removed the
+mist and made for us a glorious day. How bright the colors in our flag
+that floats over the high school yonder! There stands the Soldiers'
+Memorial Hall, the Edwards Church with graceful spire, and across the
+green meadows, with its winding stream of silver, rise the ranges of Mt.
+Tom and Mt. Holyoke, outlined in curves against the blue sky."
+
+"Beautiful!" responded George, "and yet, Gertrude, nothing in nature is
+half so lovely as your own dear self." Without warning he kissed her rosy
+cheek, her whole face changing to crimson as she said, "George, we must
+be going."
+
+Two happy young souls drove away from Smith College out under the Gothic
+elms, where the birds were mating and building their nests. The plan for
+the day was to drive to the mountain, and follow the mother and sister on
+the evening express to New York. The hotel clerk had pointed out the best
+road to Mt. Holyoke, and following his directions they drove southeast,
+leaving behind them shady Northampton, Smith College, and delightful
+memories of Jonathan Edwards, George Bancroft, and others.
+
+A single white parasol was quite enough to protect two lovers from the
+sun's rays. Circular shadows, photographs of the sun, frolicked with each
+other in the roadway as gentle breezes swayed the overhanging boughs.
+
+Milk wagons with noisy cans were returning home, herds of black and white
+Holstein-Friesian cattle, famous for their yield of milk, were cropping
+sweet grasses in the pastures. Farmers were guiding their cultivators and
+mowing machines, while wives and daughters were shelling June peas,
+hulling strawberries, and preparing for dinner. The large white houses,
+with roomy barns in the shade of big elms, were the happy homes of
+freemen. Gertrude wanted the horses to walk more, but George was
+unwilling to take the dust of wagons returning from the market, so
+he kept the horses moving at a brisk pace.
+
+At length the Hockanum Ferry with its odd device was reached. George got
+out and led the horses into the middle of the small river craft. Then the
+boat was pushed off and a strong man and boy pulled at the wire rope. The
+ferryman's shanty, the willows, and tangled driftwood on the shore, fast
+receded, and soon the middle of the Connecticut River was reached, where
+the current is swiftest. In sight were several canoes with light sails,
+scudding before the wind. It seemed as if the tiny rope of the ferry
+would break, but the rope is of steel wire and the boat moved slowly till
+the opposite bank was reached. Gertrude held the lines, the sun shining
+full in her face, and talked to the boatman, to George, and the horses,
+but George said little as he was busy quieting the excited animals and
+studying the primitive rope-ferry.
+
+To the regular ferrage, Gertrude added a dime for Tim, the helper, who
+watered the horses. As George was about to start his team, a twelve-year
+old farm boy ran aboard the boat with a string of fine speckled trout
+strung on a willow twig. All the spring the boy's anticipations for
+"a day off" had now been fully realized. Since daylight the little fellow
+had tramped up and down the brook, his feet were bruised and sore, and
+his face and hands were bitten by mosquitos. But what of that? He had
+caught a string of fine fish and was happy. Gertrude, for a silver
+dollar, bought the trout, and the boy danced with joy.
+
+It was half past eleven before the Half-way Station up the mountain was
+reached, and the steep ascent to Prospect House on the top of Mt. Holyoke
+was made by the car on the inclined railway. The morning ride and the
+thought of a dinner of brook trout on the mountain had sharpened the
+appetites of the lovers. George and Gertrude needed but a single
+announcement of dinner from the clerk to make them hasten for seats at so
+inviting a meal. They sat near an open window, and never did they enjoy a
+dinner more. College work was now over, and on the threshold of life,
+apart from the busy world in sight below, two souls could plan and
+confide in each other. As the two walked the broad porch, a panorama
+unfolded before them of almost unsurpassed beauty.
+
+Charles Sumner who, in 1847, stood on Mt. Holyoke, said, "I have never
+seen anything so unsurpassingly lovely as this." He had traveled through
+the Highlands of Scotland, up and down the Rhine, had ascended Mont
+Blanc, and stood on the Campagna in Rome. Gertrude with her college mates
+had often climbed Mt. Holyoke, and she was very familiar with this
+masterpiece of nature in western Massachusetts. So she described the
+grand landscape to her lover who sat enchanted with the scene before him.
+
+"This alluvial basin," she said, "is twenty miles in length and fifteen
+in width, and is enclosed by the Mt. Holyoke and Mt. Tom ranges, and the
+abrupt cones of Toby and Sugar Loaf, while the Green Mountains lie to the
+north, whence the rich soils have been brought by thousands of vernal
+floods. Grove-like masses of elms mark well the townships of Northampton,
+Easthampton, Southampton and Westhampton, Hatfield, Williamsburg and
+Whately, Hadley, Amherst, Leverett and Sunderland.
+
+"In twelve miles, the Connecticut River turns four times to the east and
+three times to the west, forming the famous 'Ox-Bow.'
+
+"This beautiful river receives its life from springs in adjacent forests
+and mountains, and, forcing a passage between Mt. Holyoke and Mt.
+Nonotuck, flows far south into Long Island Sound. Its banks are fringed
+with a tanglewood of willows, shrubs, trees, and clambering vines.
+Bordering on the Connecticut River and near thrifty towns are thousands
+of acres of rich meadows and arable lands, without fence, which are
+interspersed with lofty trees and orchards and covered with exquisite
+verdure.
+
+"These countless farms seen from this mountain top resemble garden plots,
+distinguishable from each other by vegetation varying in tints from the
+dark green of the maize to the brilliant gold of barley, rye, and oats.
+Over the billowy grain, cloud shadows chase each other as if in play.
+Grazing herds are on every hillside and in all the valleys."
+
+Gertrude's words were music to George's ear. Her voice and the
+magnificent landscape charmed him. When released from the spell he said,
+"Yes, dear, you have this day hung a never-to-be-forgotten picture in my
+memory. I shall always remember the arching elms, white gables, college
+towers, and spires pointing heavenward that mark the towns in this
+historic and lovely intervale. I seem to hear far off sounds of busy
+people, thrifty mills, and successful railways. These reveal the secret
+of New England's power at home and abroad. The greatness of this people
+springs from their respect for, and practice of, the virtues so long
+taught in their schools and churches; viz., honesty, industry, economy,
+love of liberty, and belief in God. Here can be found inspirations for
+poet, painter, and sculptor."
+
+How glorious the picture as the two young lovers looked out upon the
+world of promise! It was well thus, for much too soon in life, humanity
+experiences the same old story of unsatisfied ambitions and weary
+struggles after the unattainable.
+
+Thus a happy summer afternoon was enjoyed till the sun hid his face
+behind the western hills. Clouds floated low on the horizon, revealing
+behind the gold and purple to ambitious souls the indistinct outlines
+of a gorgeous temple of fame; and birds of rich plumage among the
+mountain foliage were lulled to sleep by their own sweet songs.
+
+"Life without Gertrude," thought George, "would prove a failure." Then
+taking her white hand in his, he whispered, "I love you, dearest, with
+all my heart, and you must be my wife."
+
+"George," she replied, "in a thousand ways you have shown it. I have
+known your heart ever since we studied together at the high school. My
+own life has been ennobled by contact with yours." Her voice and hand
+trembled as she added, "Yes, George, my life and happiness I gladly
+place in your sacred keeping, and I promise purity and loyalty for
+eternity."
+
+Then George opened the little case which he had brought from New York,
+and gave Gertrude a ring containing two diamonds and a ruby, which
+surprised and delighted her. She placed it on her first finger, saying,
+"George, we will advance this crystal pledge to the third finger just
+as soon as we get the consent of father and mother."
+
+Gertrude had found on a former trip some purple crystals on the
+mountainside, and had had two unique emblems of their love made in New
+York City. George pinned upon Gertrude a gold star set with a purple
+amethyst, a tiny cross and a guard chain being attached, and she gave
+George a gold cross set with an amethyst, the guard pin being a tiny star
+and chain. Before midnight the two happy lovers had joined the mother and
+Lucille in New York, and at the close of the week all had returned to
+Harrisville.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+THE STRIKE AT HARRISVILLE
+
+
+Labor strikes are terribly disagreeable things to encounter whether in
+the daily routine of steel mills and railways, or in the kitchen before
+breakfast on blue Monday. Especially inconvenient are strikes in steel
+mills when the order books are full as were those of the Harrisville Iron
+& Steel Co. That the company had large orders could not possibly be
+concealed. Vast quantities of ore, limestone, and coke were being
+delivered daily at the mills. Never were more men on the pay-roll, and
+all the machinery of the gigantic plant was crowded to its utmost night
+and day. That business had improved was evident to everybody.
+
+In love and war all things are fair, and the same principle, or lack of
+it, seems to control most modern strikes. No doubt what young Alfonso
+Harris told his mother on the steamer was true, that the labor agitators
+were advised of Reuben Harris's plan to sell the steel plant to an
+English syndicate. Souls of corporations decrease as the distance between
+labor and capital increases, and naturally American employees oppose
+foreign control of every kind.
+
+For more than a year the employees had accepted reduced wages with the
+understanding that the old scale should be restored by the company as
+soon as times improved and the business warranted. That the employees had
+timed their strike at an opportune moment was apparent even to stubborn
+Reuben Harris. It was galling indeed to his sensitive nature and proud
+spirit that his project of selling the steel plant for millions should
+have failed.
+
+As he kissed his wife good-bye on the steamer in New York, her last
+words were, "Reuben, stand up for your rights." Her avaricious spirit
+had always dominated him.
+
+Before Reuben Harris left his city office for his home he had arranged,
+in addition to the precaution taken by the mayor, to dispatch to the
+mills and homes of his employees twenty-five special detectives in
+citizens' clothes, who were to keep him fully advised as to the doings
+of his employees about the mills and in their public and private
+meetings. He had given his men no concessions in a previous strike which
+lasted for months. He would neither recognize their unions nor their
+demand for shorter hours.
+
+It was true he had risen to be a millionaire from the humble position of
+a blacksmith, but he was always severe in his own shop. Every horse must
+be shod, and every tire set in his own way. He heated, hammered, and
+tempered steel just as he liked, and if anybody objected he replied, "Go
+elsewhere then." To have one's own way in life is often an expensive
+luxury. In his first great mill strike Colonel Harris lost most of his
+skilled labor and the profits of half a year. His own hands and those of
+James Ingram became callous in breaking in new employees.
+
+Gertrude had arrived on the evening of the third day of the strike, and
+had busied herself in unpacking her trunk. She knew her father too well
+to talk much to him about the strike. While waiting in the drawing-room
+for her father, knowing that George was too busy to come to her, she had
+written to her lover as follows:--
+
+  At Home
+
+  _My Darling George_,--
+
+  I wish you were here safe by my side. How I hate strikes, they are so
+  like a family quarrel on the front porch. Everybody looks on in pity,
+  husband and wife calling each other names, and breaking the furniture,
+  and innocent little children fleeing to the neighbors for protection.
+  Strikes are simply horrid. Can't you stop it? Labor and capital are
+  like bears in a pit with sharpened teeth tearing each other's flesh. Of
+  what use is our so-called civilization if it permits such brutal
+  scenes? George, the lion in father is again aroused. There is no
+  telling what he will do this time.
+
+  It was cruel of the employees to stop his sale to the English
+  syndicate. Something terrible is going to happen. I feel it. I dreamed
+  about it last night before I left Niagara. You must counsel moderation.
+  I am so glad mother is not here to counsel severity. In the morning I
+  shall put my hand on father's arm, and say, "Father, I have been
+  praying for God to help you."
+
+  I read in the _Evening Dispatch_ that the employees claimed an increase
+  of their pay because promised by the company when times improved; that
+  the company now flatly refused to restore the old wages; that the mayor
+  of the city had sent fifty policemen to guard the mills, and that the
+  4000 employees in an enthusiastic public meeting had resolved to
+  continue the strike.
+
+  George, you are in a very trying position. The company of course
+  depends on your loyalty, and the employees also have great confidence
+  in your fairness. What can you do? If disloyal to the Company, you lose
+  your position. What more can I do, except to pray!
+
+  Above all, my dear, be loyal to your conscience and do right. Be just.
+  Come and see me at your earliest possible moment.
+
+  Your own loving
+
+  Gertrude.
+
+Gertrude's brave letter reached George before ten o'clock the next
+morning, and greatly cheered him. He was never more occupied, but he
+snatched a moment to say in reply:
+
+  Office of The Harrisville Iron & Steel Co.
+
+  _Dearest Peacemaker_,--
+
+  Glad for your heroic letter. It sings the peace-song of the angels.
+  I shall be guarded in my words and actions. Good things, I hope, will
+  result from all this terrible commotion. I confess I see only darkness
+  ahead, save as it is pierced by the light of your love.
+
+  We have a thousand men this morning building a fence eight feet high
+  around our works. It looks like war to the knife under the present
+  policy. Of course I can't say much till my opportunity comes, if it
+  ever does.
+
+  Believe me, darling Gertrude,
+
+  Wholly yours,
+
+  George.
+
+The note was dispatched by special messenger. Its receipt and contents
+gave comfort to Gertrude.
+
+Colonel Harris left his breakfast table almost abruptly. One egg, a piece
+of toast, and a cup of coffee were all he ate. It was an earlier meal
+than usual which the Swiss cook had prepared, and by half past six
+Colonel Harris started from home to his office, Gertrude from her chamber
+window kissing her hand to him, saying, "Keep cool, father!"
+
+By seven o'clock he and his capable manager were busily using the two
+office telephones. Before nine o'clock, all the teams of several lumber
+firms were engaged in hauling fence posts, two by four scantling, and
+sufficient sixteen foot boards to construct a fence eight feet high about
+the entire premises of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co.'s plant.
+
+This early action of the company for a time confused the strike managers,
+as they could not divine whether Colonel Harris in a fit of despair
+planned to fence in and close down his mills, or, perhaps, once getting
+his plant enclosed, purposed to eject all members of labor organizations,
+and again as in a former strike, attempt to start his plant with
+non-union labor.
+
+The leader of the strike was a brawny man with full beard, unkempt hair,
+and a face far from attractive. "Captain O'Connor," as the labor lodges
+knew him, was the recognized leader of the strike. He was not an employee
+at the steel mills, but an expert manager of strikes, receiving a good
+salary, and employed by the officers of the central union. At 2:30
+o'clock a secret meeting of the officers of the several labor lodges and
+Captain O'Connor was held behind closed doors. All were silent, when
+suddenly O'Connor rose and began to denounce capital, charging it with
+the robbery of honest labor.
+
+"Behold labor," he said, "stripped to the waist, perspiring at every pore
+in the blinding heat of molten iron, shooting out hissing sparks.
+Pleasures for you laborers are banished; your wives and children are
+dressed in cheap calicoes; no linen or good food on your tables, and most
+of you are in debt."
+
+This and more Captain O'Connor said in excited language. Finally he
+shouted, "Slaves, will you tamely submit to all this indignity and not
+resent it? The managers of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. are tyrants
+of the worst sort. They are fencing you out to-day from the only field on
+which you can gain bread for your starving wives and children.
+
+"Reuben Harris cares more for his gold than for your souls. Since you
+refuse him your labor on his own terms, he purposes by aid of the high
+fence and bayonets to forbid every one of you union men from earning an
+honest living."
+
+The strike committee decided to call a public meeting of all the
+employees of the steel works on the base-ball grounds at 7 o'clock
+the next morning. All the saloons that night were crowded, and loud
+denunciation of capital was indulged in by the strike leaders. Early the
+next morning a band of music marched up and down the streets where the
+employees resided, and by 7 o'clock nearly four thousand men had
+gathered.
+
+The chief spokesman was Captain O'Connor whose words evoked great
+cheering. He said, "Friends, we meet this morning to strike for our
+freedom. How do you like being fenced out from your work? What will your
+families do for a roof when the snows come and you have no bread for your
+children? We are assembled here not for talk, but for action. I hold in
+my hand a resolution which we must pass. Let me read it: 'Resolved, that
+we, the employees of The Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., having been driven
+out of our positions by a soulless corporation which promised a return to
+former wages when the times improved, will not re-engage our services to
+the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. till the promised restoration of wages
+is granted." This resolution was unanimously carried, with hurrahs and
+beating of the drums.
+
+"Bravo men! Here is another resolution for your action," and Captain
+O'Connor read it as follows: "American citizens! In the spirit of
+brotherly love we appeal to you citizens and taxpayers of Harrisville
+for fair play. Four years ago the employees of the Harrisville Iron &
+Steel Co. bowed before the law, and we should continue to do so had we
+not discovered that the law, the judges, and the government seem to be
+for the rich alone. But we prefer liberty to slavery, and war to
+starvation. Again we lay down our tools and seek to arouse public
+sympathy in our behalf. Again we plead the righteousness of our cause,
+and may the God of the poor help us."
+
+This resolution was carried with shouts and the throwing up of hats. The
+band began playing, and the procession headed by Captain O'Connor and his
+assistants moved forward.
+
+A third of the sober-minded of the employees soon dropped out of the
+procession, while three thousand or more, many of them foreigners, were
+only too glad to escape the everyday serfdom of a steel plant. All were
+armed with clubs and stones. When O'Connor from the hill-top looked back
+upon the mob that filled the street down into the valley and far up the
+opposite hill, his courage for a moment failed him.
+
+"What shall I do with this vast army?" he said to himself. Just then
+the employees made a rush for the company's furnaces by the riverside,
+filling the yards and approaches, shouting "Bank the fires! Down with
+capital!"
+
+The big engines were stopped and the furnaces were left to cool.
+Frightened faces of women and children filled the door-ways and windows
+of the many little brown houses on the hillside. Success emboldened the
+strikers whose numbers were now greatly augmented. Again the band played
+and the strike managers shouted, "Forward!"
+
+The route taken was along an aristocratic avenue where the wealthy
+resided. Windows and doors were suddenly closed, and the terrified
+occupants forgot their riches, their diamonds, and their fine dress,
+and thought only of safety. Vulcans of the steel works, each armed with
+a club, occupied the avenue for two miles. Evidences of hunger and
+vengeance were in their faces and sadly worn garments were on their
+backs.
+
+Prominent citizens now hurried to the mayor's office, where the chief
+executive was found in conference with some of the labor leaders. The
+mayor was told that unless he acted promptly in restoring peace and
+protecting property, a citizens' committee of safety would be organized,
+that he would be placed under arrest, and the mob driven back. At once
+the mayor sent one hundred policemen in patrol wagons in pursuit of the
+rioters. The latter had already battered down the great doors of the
+screw-works, and hundreds of employees, men, women, and children, were
+driven out of the factory. The president of the company was beaten into
+insensibility. Adjacent nail works were ordered to close and all
+employees were driven into the streets. Finally, near night, the strikers
+were subdued by platoons of police and forced to return to their homes.
+
+The mayor issued his riot act, which was printed in all the evening
+papers and read as follows:
+
+  TO THE CITIZENS OF HARRISVILLE AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.
+
+  In the name of the people of the State of Ohio, I, David A. Duty, Mayor
+  of the City of Harrisville, do hereby require all persons within the
+  limits of the City to refrain from unnecessary assemblies in the
+  streets, squares, or in public places of the City during its present
+  disturbed condition, and until quiet is restored, and I hereby give
+  notice that the police have been ordered, and the militia requested to
+  disperse any unlawful assemblies. I exhort all persons to assist in the
+  observance of this request.
+
+  David A. Duty.
+
+  _Mayor._
+
+The mayor telegraphed to the governor for troops. The governor responded
+promptly, and ordered the First Brigade to be in readiness, and to report
+at 5 A.M. next morning in Harrisville, with rifles, cannon, Gatling and
+Hotchkiss guns and ammunition. Orderlies went flying through the city
+with summons that must be obeyed. The signal corps flashed their green
+and red lights from the tower to distant armories. Ambulance corps
+hastened their preparation, packing saws, knives, lint, and bandages.
+
+Imperative orders from general to colonels, to majors, to captains, to
+corporals tracked the militia men to their homes, and to their places
+of amusement. By midnight every military organization in Harrisville was
+under arms. The general with his staff was at his headquarters and ready
+for action.
+
+Before sunset Colonel Harris had his steel mills enclosed by a high
+fortress-fence; many agents were dispatched to other cities to advertise
+for, and contract with, skilled labor for his mills. On his way home, he
+called again on the mayor, also at brigade headquarters, and satisfied
+himself that his property would be protected. In forty-eight hours five
+hundred new workmen had arrived, and in squads of from twenty-five to
+fifty they were coming in on every train.
+
+Colonel Harris, experienced in strikes, knew just what to do. A great
+warehouse in the board enclosure was converted into barracks and supplied
+with beds, and kitchens, and an old army quartermaster was placed in
+charge. The new men on arrival were taken under escort of the soldiers
+to the barracks, and were rapidly set to work under loyal foremen.
+
+In a single week Colonel Harris had secured over fifteen hundred new men.
+Smoke-stacks were again pouring forth huge volumes of smoke. The renewed
+and familiar hum of machinery was audible beyond the high board fence.
+This activity in the mills was to the old employees like a red flag
+flaunted before an enraged bull. Inflammatory speeches were the order
+of the hour. It was three o'clock on the eighth day of the strike, when
+three thousand of the old employees left their halls and marched directly
+to the steel mills. Hundreds of women and children joined the long
+procession.
+
+The strike leaders in advance carried the American flag, and their band
+played the "Star Spangled Banner." Most of the men, and some of the
+women, carried clubs and stones. Radicals concealed red flags and pistols
+within their coats. Detectives reported by telephone the threatening
+attitude of the strikers to Colonel Harris at his home, to Manager Thomas
+at the mills, and to the mayor who ordered more police in patrol wagons
+to proceed immediately to the steel works. Following the police rode the
+Harrisville Troop, one hundred strong. Gertrude would not let her father
+go to the steel plant, so he sat by the telephone in his own house.
+
+Captain Crager in charge of the fifty police on guard in and around the
+steel plant at once concentrated his force at the great gateway leading
+into the fenced enclosure. His men were formed in three platoons, the
+reserve platoon being stationed fifty feet in the rear. Captain Crager
+himself took position in the center of the first line. He had time only
+for a few words to his men. "The city expects each policeman to do his
+duty. No one is to use his revolver till he sees me use mine. Stand
+shoulder to shoulder, use your clubs, and defend the gateway."
+
+Probably not one of his fifty men had ever read of the 300 Spartan heroes
+at Thermopylae, who for three days held at bay the Persian army of five
+millions. To pit fifty policemen against three thousand enraged strikers
+was too great odds. Captain Crager's orders were "to defend the
+property of the steel company." The reserve police force and troops en
+route might or might not reach him in time. The strikers purposed driving
+out of the mills all the non-union men, and taking possession. Nearer
+came the mob, determined to rule or ruin, O'Connor in the lead holding
+the Stars and Stripes. The last fifty feet of approach to the gateway,
+the mob planned to cover by a rush. On they came swinging their clubs
+and filling the air with stones.
+
+Captain Crager and his platoons used their short iron-wood clubs
+vigorously. The strikers' flag was captured. O'Connor fell bleeding.
+Right and left, heads and limbs were broken. Women screamed and strong
+men turned pale. The whole mob was soon stampeded and the rioters fled
+like animals before a prairie fire. Those strikers who looked back saw
+the approach of more patrol wagons loaded with police, heard the clatter
+of horses' hoofs, and the heavy rumbling of artillery, and they knew that
+the city's reserve forces had arrived. A battery of Gatling guns at once
+wheeled into a strategic position. The police and troop occupied points
+of advantage, and soon the victory was complete.
+
+Within thirty days over four thousand employees, mostly new men, were at
+work in the steel mills. Policemen and detectives, however, were still
+kept on duty. Colonel Harris was frequently congratulated on his second
+triumph, and orders for steel rails were again being rapidly filled.
+
+Most of the strike leaders left the city, some threatening dire revenge.
+Many of the employees, who had lost their situations, were already
+searching for work elsewhere. All who were behind in their payments of
+rents due the company, were served with notices of evictment, as the
+tenements were needed for the new employees. Wives and children were
+crying for bread. In sixty days labor had lost by the strike over two
+hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and capital even more.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+It was in August. The moon had set beyond the blue lake, and the myriad
+lights of heaven were hung out, as George and Gertrude alighted from
+their carriage in front of Colonel Harris's residence. They had been to
+the Grand Opera House, where they had witnessed Shakespeare's "Midsummer
+Night's Dream," beautifully played by Julia Marlowe and her company.
+Between the acts, George and Gertrude talked much of the strike, of labor
+troubles in general, and earnestly discussed the possible remedies.
+
+Reuben Harris, who had awaited their return, hearing the carriage drive
+up, extended a cordial welcome. His hand was on the knob of the front
+door, which stood half open, when the sky above the steel mills suddenly
+became illuminated and deafening reports of explosions followed. The
+door, held by Harris, was slammed by the concussion against the wall, the
+glass in the windows rattled on the floor, the ground trembled, Harris
+seized George's arm for support, and Gertrude's face was blanched with
+fear. Fire and smoke in great volumes were now seen rising above the
+steel plant.
+
+George ran to the telephone, but before he could shout "Exchange," a call
+came for Colonel Harris from his night superintendent, who announced that
+the engines and batteries of boilers had been blown up, and that all the
+mills were on fire. The chief of police telephoned that he had sent one
+hundred more police to the mills; the chief of the fire department
+telephoned that ten steamers had been dispatched. George dropped the
+telephone, kissed Gertrude, and on the back of her Kentucky saddle horse
+flew into the darkness to direct matters at the mills as best he could.
+
+The next morning's _Dispatch_ contained two full pages, headed,
+
+  "The Deadly Dynamite!
+
+  Frightful Loss of Life,
+          and
+  Destruction of Property
+          at
+  The Harrisville Iron & Steel Plant.
+
+  "One hundred employees were killed outright, and hundreds more were
+  wounded. All the mills were either burned or wrecked. Many women and
+  children were also injured. Five hundred tenement houses were damaged,
+  and the windows of most of the buildings within a half mile of the
+  mills were badly broken."
+
+Next morning the citizens of Harrisville were wild with excitement.
+Ringing editorials appeared in all the morning and evening journals
+declaring that "Lawlessness is anarchy," and that "Law and order must
+prevail."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII
+
+TRIAL OF ANARCHY AND RESULTS
+
+
+George Ingram had scarcely disappeared in the darkness, when Colonel
+Harris fully comprehending the terrible situation at his works telephoned
+the exchange to summon at once to his mills every physician and ambulance
+in the city.
+
+The Colonel then ordered his carriage, and taking Gertrude, rapidly
+drove to the scene of the disaster. Great crowds had gathered, but the
+policemen, and the Harrisville Troop, already had established lines about
+the burning steel mills, beyond which the people were not permitted to
+pass. The police and fire departments were doing all in their power to
+save life and property.
+
+Colonel Harris drove directly towards his office at the mills, but this
+he could not reach as policemen guarded every approach. The two story
+brick office had been completely wrecked by a huge piece of one of the
+fly-wheels, that had fallen through the roof.
+
+The night watchman whose duty it was to enter the office hourly was
+killed, and his bleeding body was now being moved to a temporary morgue,
+which had been established in an adjoining old town-hall. Already over
+fifty mangled forms had been brought in and laid in rows on the floor,
+and more dead workmen were arriving every moment.
+
+The mayor and Colonel Harris were everywhere directing what to do. Scores
+of the wounded were hurried in ambulances to a large Catholic Church, an
+improvised hospital. Here were sent physicians, volunteer nurses, beds,
+and blankets. Fortunately the seats in the church, being movable, were
+quickly carried into the streets, and on beds and blankets the suffering
+men were placed, and an examination of each wounded person was being
+made. Names and addresses were taken by the reporters, and ambulances
+began to remove the severely injured to the city hospitals.
+
+Colonel Harris left Gertrude to minister to the wounded in the church,
+and sought out Wilson his manager, and George Ingram. Everybody worked
+till daylight. Many wounded and dead men, and women and children were
+brought up to the morgue and hospitals from the wrecked tenements that
+stood near the exploded mills. Several bodies of the dead workmen, and
+the wounded who could not escape from the burning works were consumed.
+When the sun rose on that dreadful scene, thousands of workmen and their
+families and tens of thousands of sympathizers witnessed in silence the
+awful work of anarchists. At daylight Colonel Harris rode with George and
+Gertrude home to breakfast.
+
+In the evening press a call for a public meeting at 8 o'clock next
+morning of the prominent citizens resulted in the forming of an emergency
+committee of one hundred earnest men and women to furnish aid to the
+afflicted and needy work-people. The most influential people of
+Harrisville were enrolled on this committee, which to be more thoroughly
+effective was subdivided. Every house occupied by the mill-people was
+visited, and every injured person was cared for.
+
+The women on the committee visited the hospitals and for a time became
+nurses ministering to every want. Money and abundance of food were also
+contributed, and such kindness on the part of the rich the work-people
+had never known before.
+
+The evening papers gave the authoritative statement that the total
+number of those killed outright by the explosions at the steel mills was
+one hundred and twenty-seven. Of this number eighty-six were workmen,
+fourteen were men who lived in the vicinity, but were not employed in the
+mills, ten were women, and seventeen were children. The total number of
+wounded was sixty-eight.
+
+A public funeral was decided upon by the committee. The Harrisville Iron
+& Steel Co. sent their check for $5000 to the committee and many others
+contributed money. The time fixed for the public services was Sunday at 2
+o'clock. Ten separate platforms for the clergy and church choirs of the
+city had been erected on the same open fields where the great strike
+meetings had so often been held. By 1 o'clock people began to assemble.
+Workmen came from all parts of the city, till over fifty thousand
+laborers with their wives were on the ground. Most wore black crepe on
+their arm.
+
+Fifteen minutes before 2 o'clock solemn band music gave notice to the
+crowd of the approach of an imposing procession. Platoons of police led
+the column who were followed in carriages by the mayor, his cabinet, and
+the city council; then another platoon of police, followed by a long line
+of hearses, the black plumes of which seemed to wave in unison with the
+solemn tread of over a thousand workmen, acting as pall-bearers, walking
+in double file on either side of their dead comrades.
+
+It was some moments before the speaking could begin. By concerted action
+all the clergy preached on the "Brotherhood of Mankind," the text used
+being, John XV.-12. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as
+I have loved you." The speakers were moved by the Holy Spirit. The
+services closed with the hymn, "Nearer my God to Thee."
+
+The funeral procession was several miles in length. Public and private
+buildings along the route to the cemetery were draped with the emblems of
+mourning. Twenty-five of the bodies were given private burial. Over one
+hundred of the victims of the dynamite disaster were buried in one common
+grave. Together they had died, and together they were buried. The mantle
+of charity covered them.
+
+Soon after the funeral, the press contained an account of a great meeting
+held by the surviving workmen of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., and of
+resolutions that were unanimously adopted:--
+
+"Resolved, That we, the surviving workmen of the Harrisville
+Iron & Steel Co., hereby desire to express our deep sympathy with the
+bereaved families of our late comrades in toil.
+
+"That further we desire to contribute from the pay-roll due us the wages
+received for two days' services, the same to be paid to the emergency
+committee, one-half the proceeds of which is to apply to the relief of
+the bereaved workmen's families, the balance to be used for the purpose
+of erecting suitable monuments over the graves of our unfortunate
+comrades.
+
+"Resolved, That we, employees of the Harrisville Iron & Steel
+Co., extend our sympathy to the company in their great financial loss.
+
+"That we hereby declare ourselves as law-abiding citizens, and that we
+neither directly, nor indirectly, were connected in any manner with the
+late dynamite explosions and fires which destroyed the plant of The
+Harrisville Iron & Steel Co., and we denounce those acts as dastardly
+and inimical to the best interest of labor and civilization."
+
+Following the resolutions were appended the signatures of over four
+thousand workmen. It was also voted that the resolutions, and names
+attached, should be printed in the press of the city, and that a copy
+should be delivered to the president of the steel company. This action
+freed the atmosphere of distrust, and business in Harrisville returned
+to its accustomed ways.
+
+At a meeting of the directors of the Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. it
+was voted "Not to rebuild our mills at present." Manager Wilson was
+instructed at once to so advise the employees, also to dispose of all the
+manufactured stock and raw material on hand, and to clean up the grounds
+of the old mill site.
+
+Colonel Harris remembered the action of Herr Krupp of Germany when a
+letter once reached him, threatening to destroy with dynamite his vast
+works at Essing. Herr Krupp immediately called a meeting of his tens of
+thousands of workmen, and read the letter to them, and then said,
+"Workmen, if this threat is executed, I shall never rebuild." This
+settled the matter.
+
+The city council of Harrisville and the county commissioners offered
+rewards for the arrest and conviction of the dynamiters. The sum was
+increased to $10,000 by the steel company, and notices of these rewards
+were mailed far and wide.
+
+By aid of an informer of the band of conspirators, Mike O'Connor and
+his confederates were arrested as they were about to embark for South
+America. In the hotly contested trial it was disclosed that O'Connor had
+directed the placing of dynamite beneath engines and boilers before the
+high board fence was constructed about the works, that electric wires to
+ignite the dynamite had been laid underground from the mills to an old
+unused barn, nearly half a mile distant, and that O'Connor was seen to
+come from the barn just after the explosion. Within two months after the
+arrest, the whole band were convicted and sentenced for life to hard
+labor in the penitentiary.
+
+It was decided that Colonel Harris and Gertrude should soon sail to
+rejoin Mrs. Harris and party in England, and notice of this decision was
+cabled next day to them at London. The colonel was busy examining
+carefully George Ingram's detailed drawings of a new, enlarged, and
+much improved plan for a huge steel plant. The improvements were to be up
+to date, and his plans involved an entirely new process of converting
+ores into steel. It was agreed that George and his father, James Ingram,
+should perfect their inventions on which both for a long time had been
+zealously at work, and that later George and the colonel should make a
+tour of observation of leading iron and steel works in Europe.
+
+Gertrude was now very happy. The selled together, concerning the proper
+relations of capital and labor, and since the explosion they studied the
+question more earnestly than ever. Their scheme involved not only
+improved works in a new location, but also a plan to harmonize, if
+possible, capital and labor, which they hoped might work great good to
+humanity. Gertrude told George Ingram that his golden opportunity had
+come, and she resolved to render him all the assistance possible.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV
+
+COLONEL HARRIS FOLLOWS HIS FAMILY ABROAD
+
+
+Gertrude's receipt for growing oranges in a northern climate was as
+follows: Let a child hold a large and a small orange in her hands, and
+give away the large orange, and the smaller will begin to grow until,
+when eaten, it will look bigger and taste sweeter than the large fruit
+given away. "Try it!" Gertrude often said.
+
+That was the principle by which Gertrude Harris was always acting. If she
+had flowers, fruit, books, pretty gifts, or money, her first thought
+always was, "How can I make somebody happy?" With such a generous soul,
+part nature's gift and part acquired by self-sacrifice, the life of
+Gertrude was as buoyant and happy as the birds in a flower garden.
+
+The decision of Gertrude's father to take her and meet his family in
+Europe was not known in Harrisville except to a few. Most of the
+colonel's friends supposed that he was busy planning some new business
+adventure, in which he might employ his surplus capital and his undoubted
+business abilities. Because of the recent calamity, and the hardships of
+the employees in connection with their strike, he thought it unwise to
+make public mention of his future projects.
+
+The more Gertrude meditated upon her father's plan, the more dissatisfied
+with herself she became. The idea of going to Europe and leaving George
+behind was unendurable. He needed rest more than she. True, he was to
+follow later, but she wanted him to cross the ocean on the same steamer,
+and she earnestly desired that the one she loved best should share all of
+her enjoyments. It was, perhaps, a test of her love that she constantly
+longed to lose herself in him, or better, possibly, to find herself in
+him.
+
+Two days before the date fixed for their sailing, as George left the
+Harris home, Gertrude was urging him to accompany her and her father,
+when he ventured to say, "Gertrude, this is what would please me
+immensely, take my sister May with you. I will gladly pay her expenses.
+And when your summer's travel is over, I want May to study music abroad."
+
+"Capital!" said Gertrude. "Both you and your sister May shall join our
+party. Please don't say another word on the subject, nor tell father,
+till we meet tomorrow evening," and she kissed him an affectionate
+good-night.
+
+The next evening before the stars shone; Gertrude sat on the piazza
+anxiously awaiting him, for she had good news for her lover. Gertrude's
+white handkerchief told him that she recognized his coming, though he was
+still two blocks away. How light and swift the steps of a lover; though
+miles intervene, they seem but a step. An evening in Gertrude's presence
+was for George but a moment. The touch of her hand, the rustle of her
+dress, and the music of her voice, all, like invisible silken cords, held
+him a willing prisoner. The love he gave and the love he received was
+like the mating of birds; like the meeting of long separated and finally
+united souls.
+
+"George, this is your birthday and the silver crescent moon is filled to
+the brim with happiness for you and May. Yesterday I had a long talk with
+father, and I asked him to let me stay at home and to take your sister
+May to Europe. What do you think he said, George? Never did my father so
+correctly read my heart. He drew me closely to him, and while I sat upon
+his knee, said: 'Daughter, I have decided that it is wise, even in the
+interests of my business, to take George with us.' He also said that I
+might invite your sister May to go, and that he would pay all the
+expenses. Oh, how I kissed him! I never loved my father so much before.
+Here, George, is a kiss for you. Aren't you glad now, that you, and your
+sister May are going with us? No excuses, for you are both going surely."
+
+"If it is settled, Gertrude, then it is settled, I suppose, but how do
+you think May and I can get ready in so short a time to go to Europe?"
+
+"Well, George, you can wear your new business suit, and in the morning, I
+will go with May and buy for her a suitable travelling dress and hat. In
+Europe we can procure more clothes as they are needed."
+
+Gertrude was now very happy. The dream of her life was to be realized.
+She wanted George near her as she traveled, so each could say to
+the other, "Isn't it beautiful?" That is half of the pleasure of
+sight-seeing. The small orange kept by Gertrude had doubled in size,
+and she never before retired with so sweet a joy in her soul. That night
+she slept, and her dreams were of smooth seas, her mother, Lucille, and
+George.
+
+It is needless to say that May Ingram was overjoyed. She had been fond of
+music from her childhood, and had given promise of rare talents. She had
+taken lessons for two years in vocal and instrumental music in the best
+conservatories in Boston, George paying most of her expenses. For six
+years May had been the soprano singer in the highest paid quartette in
+Harrisville. Though she occasionally hoped for a musical education
+abroad, yet these hopes had all flown away. Her parents could not aid
+her, and she had resolved not to accept further assistance from her
+generous brother. At first she could not believe what George told her,
+but when the reality of her good fortune dawned upon her, taking George's
+hand in both of hers, she pressed it to her lips and fell upon his
+shoulder, her eyes flooding with tears.
+
+"Well, May," said George, as he kissed her, "can you get ready by noon
+tomorrow?"
+
+"Ready by noon? Ready by daylight, George, if necessary."
+
+That night was a busy, happy time for the Ingrams. So much of ill-luck
+had come to the father, and so much of household drudging to the faithful
+mother, that work and sacrifice for the children had ploughed deep
+furrows across the faces of both Mr. and Mrs. Ingram. Opportunities for
+advancement now opening for their children, both parents found the heavy
+burdens growing lighter.
+
+Before sunrise George and May had packed two small trunks, by ten o'clock
+Gertrude and May had made necessary purchases, and the two o'clock
+express quickly bore the second contingent of the Harris family towards
+New York, which was reached the night before their steamer's date of
+sailing.
+
+For some reason, perhaps because the elements of superstition still
+lurked in the mind of Colonel Harris, he decided not to stop any more at
+the Hotel Waldorf. It had brought him ill-luck, so his party was driven
+to the tall Hotel Plazza which overlooks the Central Park.
+
+Fortunately George had inherited a talent for untiring investigation
+and the power of close observation. His reasoning faculties also were
+excellent. Besides his education, gained in a practical school at Troy,
+George, with, his father, James Ingram, had made many experiments,
+mostly after business hours; each experiment was numbered and the various
+results had been carefully noted. Before leaving Harrisville his
+investigations were all drifting towards great possible changes in the
+production of iron and steel. He was glad to take this trip to Europe,
+as it might afford him opportunity to verify or change some of his
+conclusions. He resolved to use every moment for the enlargement of his
+powers.
+
+After bidding May and Gertrude good-night, he told the colonel that he
+should now take the Elevated Railway for the steamer "Campania," as he
+wished to observe at midnight the firing of the great battery of boilers
+of the steamer; and that he would return in time for breakfast with the
+party. "Let eight o'clock then be the hour, George," and the capitalist
+and his trusted superintendent separated for the night.
+
+The elevated railway was not swift enough to carry George Ingram to Pier
+No. 40, so anxious was he to see the midnight fires started in the
+hundred furnaces of one of the two largest steamers afloat. It was
+fifteen minutes to twelve o'clock when he reached the dock, and provided
+with a letter of introduction to the chief engineer, he hurried as fast
+as possible to the officer's cabin.
+
+The young engineer's night ashore had been spent at the opera, and,
+advised of George Ingram's visit, he had promptly returned to the
+steamer. Mr. Carl Siemens, engineer, was a relative of Siemens Brothers
+& Co., Limited, the great electrical and telegraph engineers of London.
+His education had been thorough, and he was very proud of his steamer the
+"Campania," especially of the motive power, which he helped to design. He
+gave young Ingram a cordial greeting.
+
+For two hours they examined and talked of mechanism for ships and mills,
+and they even ventured to guess what the earth's motive power might be.
+It was now five minutes of midnight. The chief furnished Ingram an
+oversuit and the young engineers dropped through manholes and down
+vertical and spiral ladders into the cellar of the steamer, the bottom of
+which was thirty feet below the water level.
+
+"The 'Campania,'" said Siemens, "has a strong double bottom that
+forms a series of water-tight compartments which, filled with water,
+furnish ballast when necessary. On the second steel or false bottom
+of the steamer, fore and aft, are located the boilers, furnaces,
+and coal-bunkers. We have fourteen double-ended boilers, fitted
+longitudinally in two groups, in two water-tight compartments, and
+separated by huge coal-bunkers. Each boiler is eighteen feet in diameter
+and seventeen feet long. The thickness of the steel boilerplate is
+1-17/32 inches. Above each group of boilers rises 130 feet in height a
+funnel nineteen feet in diameter, which, if a tunnel, would easily admit
+the passage of two railway trains abreast."
+
+George saw the fires lighted, and when the furnaces required more coal,
+suddenly a whistle brought fifty stokers or firemen, the automatic
+furnace doors flew open, and a gleam of light flooded everything. Long
+lances made draft-holes in the banks of burning coal, through which the
+air was sucked with increasing roar. The round, red mouths of the hundred
+craters snapped their jaws for coal, which was fed them by brawny men
+whose faces were streaked with grimy perspiration, and their bodies
+almost overcome by heat. The hundred furnaces are kept at almost white
+heat from New York to Liverpool.
+
+"Four hours on, and four hours off, and the best quality of food are some
+of the recent improvements," said Siemens.
+
+George Ingram shook his head, and his heart ached as he witnessed the
+stokers, and resolved to do his utmost to mitigate the hardships of
+labor. "What are the duties of the stokers?" inquired George.
+
+"Our stokers," replied Siemens, "must be men of strength and skill, for
+they both feed and rake the fires. The ashes and slag must be hoisted and
+dumped into the ocean, and twice an hour, as the gauges indicate, fresh
+water is let into the boilers. Daily the boilers convert into steam over
+a hundred tons of water, which, condensed, is used over and over again."
+
+"What quantity of coal do you use?"
+
+"About three hundred tons per day, or an average of nearly two thousand
+tons per voyage. The coal carrying capacity of the "Campania," however,
+when needed as an armed cruiser, can be greatly increased."
+
+Siemens led Ingram to see the gigantic cranks, and propeller shafts. Each
+of the several cranks is twenty-six inches in diameter and weighs 110
+tons; the shafts made of toughest steel are each twenty-four inches in
+diameter, and each weighs over 150 tons. The propellers are made of steel
+and bronze, and each of the six blades of the two screws weighs eight
+tons. It was now past two o'clock and George thanked Mr. Siemens and said
+he should be pleased to examine further his department when at sea. It
+was past three o'clock when George turned off his gas at the hotel.
+
+At eight o'clock the next morning the Harrises met promptly at breakfast.
+Promptness was one of Reuben Harris's virtues, and fortunately all his
+party were agreed as to its absolute necessity, especially when several
+journey together, if the happiness of all is considered.
+
+"George's eyes look like burnt holes," whispered May to Gertrude.
+
+Overhearing his sister's remark, George added: "Yes, May, and they feel
+worse after my two hours last night in the stokehole of the 'Campania.'"
+
+"We thought after our long railway ride and the concert yesterday, that
+you would gladly welcome a little sleep," said Gertrude.
+
+"I did sleep four hours, Gertrude, but my owl-visit to the steamer was
+highly instructive, and when we get to sea, you all will be delighted to
+help me complete the study of the marine engines on the 'Campania.'"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+A SAFE PASSAGE AND A HAPPY REUNION
+
+
+Gertrude and May never knew what happiness was before. One maiden had her
+lover, and the heart of the other was pledged to music. George too was
+happy in Gertrude's happiness and joyous in his own thoughts that perhaps
+he had already entered upon his life work, the development of plans which
+would bless humanity. Colonel Harris's chief joy was that he had earned a
+rest, was soon to see the absent members of his family, and to behold the
+work of men in Europe.
+
+People crowded the gangway, the same as on a previous occasion when duty
+forced him suddenly to leave the "Majestic." It was almost two o'clock;
+visitors were no longer admitted to the steamer, except messengers with
+belated telegrams, mail, packages, and flowers for the travelers. On
+the bridge of the "Campania" stood the uniformed captain and junior
+officers. The chief officer was at the bow, the second officer aft. The
+captain, notified that all was ready, gave the command, "Let go!" and the
+cables were unfastened. The engineer started the baby-engine, which
+partially opens the great throttle-valves, the twin-screws began to
+revolve, and the "Campania," like an awakened leviathan slowly moved into
+the Hudson River. Hundreds on both the pier and steamer fluttered their
+handkerchiefs, and through a mist of tears good-byes were exchanged,
+till the increasing distance separated the dearest of friends.
+
+For twenty-four hours George Ingram was seen but little on deck. Most of
+his time he spent with Carl Siemen, the engineer. The colonel took great
+delight as the escort of two appreciative young ladies. Before the voyage
+ended every available part of the "Campania" was explored.
+
+Gertrude was surprised to find an engineer so cultivated a gentleman. He
+was surrounded in his oak-furnished office by soft couches, easy chairs,
+works of art, burnished indicators and dials. Mr. Siemen received his
+orders from the captain or officer on the bridge by telegraph.
+
+"It's mere child's play," said May, "and as easy as touching the keys of
+a great organ."
+
+Mr. Siemen now conducted his friends into the engine-room. "It is not
+easy to imagine the tremendous force of the two swiftly turning screws or
+propellers exerted against the surging waters of the Atlantic," he said.
+"Our 30,000 horse power engines, a horse power is equal to six men, equal
+180,000 strong men pulling at the oars, or twice the number of men that
+fought at Gettysburg to perpetuate the American Union."
+
+"Wonderful!" said Colonel Harris.
+
+"Steam guided by command of the officer on the bridge, with slightest
+effort, also steers our immense steamer."
+
+"Mr. Siemen, tell us please how the steamer is lighted?" said George.
+
+"We have fifty miles of insulated wire in the "Campania" for the electric
+current generated by our two dynamos, which give us 1350 sixteen-candle
+power lights, equal to a total of 22,000 candle power, absorbing 135
+horse-power. We also use large electric reflectors and search lights to
+pick up buoys on a dark night. All our machinery is in duplicate.
+
+"At night when the broad clean decks of hardwood are illuminated with
+electric lights and filled with gay promenaders, you easily imagine that
+you are strolling along Broadway."
+
+The accommodations and appointments of staterooms, of all the large
+public rooms, and especially the dining-room, are perfect. A week on the
+Atlantic, with the joyous bracing sea-air of the summer months, and
+surrounded as you are by a cosmopolitan group of people, passes as
+delightfully as a brief stay at the ocean side.
+
+The passage of the "Campania" from Sandy Hook Light to Queenstown was
+made in less than five and one-half days, 5 days, 10 hours, and 47
+minutes, or at an average speed of 21.82 knots per hour, the highest
+day's run being 548 knots. At Queenstown Colonel Harris received
+telegrams and letters from his family saying that they would meet him at
+Leamington, and that Alfonso would meet his father at Liverpool.
+
+Reuben Harris wired his wife when his party expected to arrive. It was
+ten o'clock in the morning when the S.S. "Campania" arrived in the Mersey
+off Alexandra dock, and the company's tender promptly delivered the
+passengers on the Liverpool Landing Stage.
+
+Gertrude was first to single out Alfonso, whose handkerchief waved a
+brother's welcome to the old world. Alfonso was the first to cross the
+gangway to the tender, and rushed to his friends. The greeting was
+mutually cordial. The father embraced his boy, for he loved him much and
+still cherished a secret hope that his only son might yet turn his mind
+to business. Alfonso seemed specially pleased that George and his sister
+May had come, for he had frequently met May Ingram and her singing had
+often charmed him.
+
+May was about his own age. As Alfonso helped her down the gangway to the
+deck, he thought he had never seen her look so pretty. She was about the
+size of his sister Lucille; slender, erect, and in her movements she was
+as graceful as the swaying willows. May's face was oval like that of
+her English mother. She had an abundance of brown hair, her eyes were
+brilliant, and her complexion, bronzed by the sea-breezes, had a pink
+under-coloring that increased her beauty. If Alfonso's eyes were fixed on
+her a moment longer than custom allows, perhaps he was excusable, for
+portrait painting was his hobby, and he fancied that he knew a beautiful
+face.
+
+Alfonso was all attention to his friends in clearing the baggage through
+the customs and getting checks for Leamington. After lunch, at the fine
+railway hotel, the two o'clock express from Lime Street station was
+taken, and Colonel Harris and party became loud in their praises of John
+Bull's Island, as they sped on, via Coventry with her three tall spires,
+to the fashionable Spa, where the Harris family were again to be
+reunited. It was six o'clock when Alfonso alighted on the platform.
+"Here they are, mother, I have brought them all; father, Gertrude,
+George, and May."
+
+The Leamington meeting was a happy one. The sorrow of separation is often
+compensated by the joys of reunion. Mrs. Harris embraced her husband as
+if he had returned a hero from the wars. In fact, he had emerged from a
+conflict that brought neither peace nor honor to capital or labor.
+
+Lucille too was enthusiastic. She, who was haughty, rarely responsive,
+and often proud of her father's wealth, for the time assumed another
+character and warmly welcomed her sister Gertrude and Gertrude's intended
+husband as "brother George." Leo too was glad to make new acquaintances.
+Eight joyous people attracted the attention of many at the station.
+
+Fortunately, the next day was Sunday, which gave time for rest, for
+review of the past few exciting weeks, and for the development of future
+plans of travel. Much was told of the Harris trip through Ireland and of
+the last week spent in the south of England.
+
+Lucille described to Gertrude and May Stonehenge, hanging stones,--the
+wonder of Salisbury Plain, where stand the ruins of the Druid
+temple--three circles of upright moss-grown stones with flat slabs across
+their tops, in which it is supposed the sun was worshiped with human
+sacrifices. Many burial mounds are scattered about. A broad driveway, a
+mile in extent, surrounds the temple, where possibly great processions
+came to witness the gorgeous displays. In early Britain the Druid priests
+held absolute sway over the destinies of souls. These priests were
+finally overpowered by the Romans, and some of them burned upon their own
+altars.
+
+"But, Lucille, you wrote that you planned to visit Osborne House."
+
+"Yes, dear, we did go to the Isle of Wight, and saw Osborne House, Queen
+Victoria's home by the sea, as Balmoral is her summer home among the
+mountains of Scotland. Her Majesty's palace is surrounded by terraced
+gardens, nearly five thousand acres of forests, pastures, and fertile
+meadows. Osborne House is furnished with much magnificence, mosaic
+flooring, costly marbles, statuary, paintings, books, and art souvenirs.
+
+"There the queen and Prince Albert painted, sang, and read together.
+Those were happy days indeed for the young rulers of a kingdom. Each of
+their children had a garden. The Prince of Wales worked in a carpenter's
+shop, and the royal princesses learned housework in a kitchen and dairy
+prepared for them." This was a revelation to Lucille, who had been reared
+with little or nothing to do.
+
+Lucille told Gertrude and May that she had just been reading the early
+life of the queen, who said, "If one's home is happy, then trials and
+vexations are comparatively nothing." The queen also said, "Children
+should be brought up simply and learn to put the greatest confidence
+in their parents." Lucille continued, "The queen often visited her
+people, bringing toys for the children--a promise to a child she never
+forgets--and gifts of warm clothing for the aged, to their great
+delight."
+
+At a conference of the Harris family, it was decided to go to London
+after spending Monday in a carriage drive to Warwick and Kenilworth
+castles and Stratford-on-Avon. So Monday promptly at eight o'clock
+two carriages stood waiting at the hotel. Colonel Harris took Mrs.
+Harris, May Ingram, and Alfonso with him, and George Ingram took
+Gertrude, Lucille, and Leo in the second carriage.
+
+There are few, if any, more magnificent drives in England than the one
+through the beautiful Stratford district. It is recorded that two
+Englishmen once laid a wager as to the finest walk in England.
+One named the walk from Coventry to Stratford, the other from Stratford
+to Coventry.
+
+It was a delightful day and both the colonel and George entirely forgot
+business in their enjoyment of the loveliest country they had ever seen.
+A drive of two miles, from Leamington and along the banks of the historic
+Avon, brought them to Warwick Castle which Scott calls "The fairest
+monument of ancient and chivalrous splendor uninjured by the tooth of
+time." It is said that Warwick Castle was never taken by any foe in days
+gone by.
+
+Our visitors drove over the draw-bridge through a gateway covered with
+ivy, and still guarded as of old, by an ancient portcullis. In the hall
+of the castle, pannelled with richly carved oak, are religiously guarded
+the helmet of Cromwell, the armor of the Black Prince, and many historic
+relics and art treasures. The drawing-room is finished in cedar. In
+former days guests were summoned to the great banqueting hall by a blare
+of trumpets. In the gardens is seen the celebrated white marble Warwick
+vase from Adrian's villa. Interwoven vines form the handles, and leaves
+and grapes adorn the margin of the vase. Superb views were had from the
+castle towers. In the Beauchamp chapel in the old town of Warwick repose
+the remains of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, one of Queen Elizabeth's
+favorites. She gave Leicester beautiful Kenilworth Castle, which is five
+miles distant.
+
+As the carriages drove over the smooth road, beneath the venerable elms
+and sycamores, artists along the way were sketching. Both Alfonso and Leo
+tipped their hats, as members of a guild that recognizes art for art's
+sake, a society that takes cognizance of neither nationality nor sect.
+
+Gertrude and George had read Scott's novel in which he tells of the
+ancient glories of Kenilworth, which dates back to the twelfth century,
+and to-day is considered the most beautiful ruin in the world. Ivy mantles
+the lofty ruined walls; the sun tinges in silver the gray old towers, and
+sends a flood of golden light through the deep windows of the once
+magnificent banqueting hall.
+
+For years Kenilworth Castle was a royal residence, and later it was
+the scene of bloody conflicts between kings and nobles. Today sheep
+peacefully graze within the ruins and about the grounds. Visitors from
+all parts of the world look in wonder upon the decay of glories that once
+dazzled all Europe. Here the earl of Leicester entertained his virgin
+queen hoping to marry her. As Elizabeth crossed the draw-bridge a song in
+her praise was sung by a Lady of the Lake on an island floating in the
+moat. Story writers have never tired of telling of the magnificence of
+these entertainments that cost the ambitious earl $20,000 per day for
+nineteen days.
+
+Returning, Warwick Arms Hotel was reached for lunch, after which the
+party drove eight miles to Stratford-on-Avon, a model town on the classic
+Avon. Here in Henley Street, in a half-timbered house recently carefully
+restored, Shakespeare was born. The walls and window panes are covered
+with the names of visitors, while inside are kept albums for the
+autographs of kings, queens, of Scott, Byron, Irving, and others. One
+of the three rooms below is an ancient kitchen, where by the big open
+chimney the poet often sat. Climbing a winding, wooden stairway,
+George and Gertrude in the lead, our Harrisville friends entered the
+old-fashioned chamber, where, it is said, on St. George's Day, April 19,
+1564, William Shakespeare was born. A bust of the poet stands on the
+table.
+
+"We know little of his mother," said Gertrude, "except that she had a
+beautiful name, Mary Arden. If it is true, as a rule, that all great men
+have had great mothers, Mary Arden must have been a very superior woman."
+
+"The reverse, Gertrude, must be equally true," said George, "that all
+great women must have had great fathers."
+
+Gertrude who had made a special study of Shakespeare and his works did
+much of the talking. She said, "All that is definitely known of the life
+of the great poet can be put on half a page. It is thought that William
+was the son of a well-to-do farmer who lost his property. William, not
+above work, assisted his father as butcher, then taught school, and later
+served as a lawyer's clerk. When he was eighteen, like most young people,
+he fell in love."
+
+Saying this, Gertrude led to the street, and the party drove to Shottery,
+a pretty village a mile away, where is Ann Hathaway's thatched cottage.
+"Here the beardless William often came," said Gertrude, "and told his
+love to the English maiden. Ann Hathaway was older than William, she was
+twenty-six, but they were married, and had three children.
+
+"When Shakespeare was twenty-five he was part owner of the Blackfriar's
+Theatre in London. There he spent his literary life, and there he was
+actor, dramatist, and manager. He became rich and returned occasionally
+to Stratford where he bought lands and built houses.
+
+"If we can trust statues and paintings and writers, William Shakespeare
+had a kingly physique, light hazel eyes and auburn hair."
+
+"What about his death?" inquired Colonel Harris.
+
+"Of his death," said Gertrude, "we know little, save that the Vicar of
+Stratford wrote that Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Johnson had a merry
+meeting, possibly drank too much, and that Shakespeare died of a fever
+then contracted, on the anniversary of his birth, when he was fifty-two
+years old."
+
+"And where was he buried?" inquired Lucille.
+
+"In the Stratford church," answered Gertrude, and the carriages were
+driven up an avenue of arching lime trees. The old church, with its tall
+and graceful spire, reflected in the waters of the Avon, is a restful
+place for the body that contains the mightiest voice in literature. Near
+by also lie buried his wife and their children. A plain slab in the floor
+covers his remains.
+
+Recently a new grave was dug near Shakespeare's and the intervening wall
+fell in. A workman ventured to hold a lighted taper in death's chamber,
+which revealed that the ashes of the immortal Shakespeare could be held
+in the palm of the hand. The Harris party drove back to Leamington to
+spend the night.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+A SEARCH FOR IDEAS
+
+
+Later on the Harrises spent considerable time in London staying at the
+Grand Hotel which occupies the site of the old Northumberland House on
+Trafalgar Square. They soon learned that the English matrons are devoted
+mothers, that they take long walks, dress their children simply, and that
+their daughters have fair complexions, are modest in manner, and are the
+pictures of health.
+
+Many of the English women find time to study national questions, to
+organize "Primrose" and "Liberal Leagues," and to vote on municipal
+affairs. Miss Helen Taylor and other cultivated women have been elected
+members of the London school board, and aided in temperance reform.
+
+While Alfonso, Leo, Lucille, and May were absent studying the artistic
+life of the metropolis, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Gertrude, and George spent
+most of the day planning for the future. Reuben Harris and his wife had
+repeatedly talked over the Harrisville affair, and their trips in London
+where so many generations had lived and passed away had given both
+clearer ideas of life.
+
+"At best," thought the colonel, "life seems short indeed." More than once
+he admitted to his wife that his early privations had made his life in
+Harrisville selfish and inconsiderate, that the questions of higher
+civilization were involved in the vigorous efforts of humanity for a
+closer brotherhood, and that if God permitted him he would lend a helping
+hand.
+
+Mrs. Harris, naturally proud, was slow to respond to the colonel's new
+ideas, but he felt that under Gertrude's generous influences his wife
+would prove a help rather than a hindrance. Mrs. Harris knew that
+Gertrude and George, who had received a broad education, were ambitious
+to do good, and besides she trusted and loved them both.
+
+It was clear to George and Gertrude that little or no hindrance would be
+offered to wise plans of usefulness. It was finally agreed that Colonel
+Harris and George should spend a week or two visiting some of the great
+industrial centers of Europe, and that Alfonso and Leo should accompany
+the ladies to Paris, and then visit the haunts of the old portrait
+painters of the Netherlands.
+
+It was also decided by George and Gertrude that they would be married in
+Paris. This made the two lovers happy; for soon the two diamonds and ruby
+would be advanced to the ring finger, as promised by Gertrude on Mt.
+Holyoke. Each felt that an inexpensive marriage in Paris would be a
+fortunate escape from possible criticisms at home. Colonel Harris had
+promised Gertrude a special gift of a thousand dollars for the
+approaching nuptials, she to do what she desired with the money. So she
+decided to use only one-fourth of the gift for herself, to send one-half
+of it to the Relief Society, and the balance to two ladies' benevolent
+societies of Harrisville.
+
+The discussion of these plans made the last night in London a happy one.
+Happiness comes when we warm the hearts near us. When selfishness leaves
+the heart, the dove of peace enters. Early next morning at the Victoria
+Station, Colonel Harris and George saw their friends off for Paris. The
+route taken was the one via the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, an
+hour's run to Dover, thence in the twin steamer "Calais-Dover," an hour
+and a half's ride across the English Channel to Calais, and from Calais
+via railway to Paris, capital of the French Republic.
+
+Then Reuben Harris and George Ingram left Victoria Station to pay their
+respects to Henry Bessemer, civil engineer, who lived at Denmark Hill
+south of London. They desired to study the conditions which make the
+British people powerful. Both were aware that England was richly stored
+with the most serviceable of all minerals, coal and iron, in convenient
+proximity; that her large flocks of sheep supplied both wool and leather;
+that Ireland had been encouraged in the cultivation of flax; that the
+convenience of intercourse between mother country and her neighbors,
+especially America, had enabled England to engage largely in the
+manufacture of the three textile staples, wool, flax, and cotton. But
+material resources are only one element in great industrial successes.
+Both labor and capital are equally essential.
+
+Englishmen have strength and skill. In delicate and artistic
+manipulation, however, the Englishman may be surpassed, but he possesses
+in a rare degree great capacity for physical application to work, also
+tremendous mental energy and perseverance. Most of the world's valuable
+and great inventions, as successfully applied to the leading industries,
+were made by the English.
+
+Though England has neither gold nor silver mines, yet for centuries she
+has commanded vast capital. Her trading enterprise, which has made the
+Englishman conspicuous round the world, existed long before the Norman
+conquest. Helpful and consistent legislation has also favored British
+industries. Besides, England enjoyed a good start in the race with
+foreigners. Surplus English capital of late has been employed in
+promoting foreign industry, and the interests of England as a rival
+may suffer.
+
+Reaching the station at Denmark Hill, the colonel and George drove at
+once to Bessemer's home. It is doubtful if England has forty acres, owned
+by a private citizen, more tastefully laid out and adorned, with forests,
+lawns, and flowers.
+
+Henry Bessemer was tall and well formed, and looked the ideal Englishman,
+as he gave cordial welcome, in his large drawing room, to Colonel Harris
+and George Ingram. Evidences of his constructive skill and exquisite
+taste were seen on every hand, notably in his billiard room,
+conservatory, and astronomical observatory. The last contained a
+reflector telescope of his own design, that rivals the world-famed
+telescope of Lord Rosse. Both were soon charmed with Bessemer's manners
+and conversation.
+
+George had read of this wonderful man who was born in 1813; between 1838
+and 1875 he had taken out 113 patents, and the drawings of his own work
+made seven thick volumes. This record of Bessemer indicates an almost
+unrivalled degree of mental activity and versatility as keen observer,
+original thinker, and clever inventor.
+
+His drawings showed patents in connection with improvements in engines,
+cars, wheels, axles, tires, brakes, and rails. Fifteen patents for
+improvements in sugar manufacture, patents for motors and hydraulic
+apparatus, for the manufacture of iron and steel, the shaping, embossing,
+shearing, and cutting of metals, for marine artillery, ordnance,
+projectiles, ammunition, armor plates, screw propellers, anchors,
+silvering glass, casting of type, patents for bronze powder, gold paint,
+oils, varnishes, asphalt pavements, waterproof fabrics, lenses, etc.
+
+Mr. Bessemer's greatest invention, announced to the British Association
+at Cheltenham, in 1856, is his method of the manufacture of iron and
+steel without fuel, which started a new era in the iron trade. His name
+will be forever associated with the rapid conversion of pig iron into
+malleable iron and steel. By this process the price of steel per ton has
+been reduced from $160 to $25, a price less than was formerly paid for
+iron. Mr. Bessemer received the Telford and Albert gold medals and honors
+from sovereigns and societies round the world.
+
+George said to Mr. Bessemer that he thought Lord Palmerston's definition,
+"dirt was matter out of place," was especially applicable to the
+undesirable elements in ores.
+
+"Very true," replied Mr. Bessemer, "and the man who can clean the dirt
+from our ores, and produce the most desirable steel, at the least cost,
+is a great benefactor of humanity."
+
+Mr. Bessemer's own story of his most important invention was very
+interesting. Practical iron men had said that it was an impossible feat
+to convert molten pig iron in a few minutes into fluid malleable iron,
+and then into available steel, and all this without additional fuel. But
+the genius and perseverance of Mr. Bessemer, aided by his practical
+knowledge of chemistry and mechanics, did it. It had long been known
+that, if a horseshoe nail were tied to a cord and the point heated to
+whiteness, the iron nail could be made to burn in common air by being
+whirled in a circle. The ring of sparks proved a combustion. Mr. Bessemer
+was the first however to show that if air was forced, not upon the
+surface, but into and amongst the particles of molten iron, the same
+sort of combustion took place.
+
+Pig iron, which is highly carbonized iron from the blast furnace, was
+laboriously converted into malleable iron by the old process of the
+puddling furnace. Bessemer conceived the process of forcing air among the
+particles of molten iron, and by a single operation, combining the use of
+air in the double purpose of increasing temperature, and removing the
+carbon. The carbon of the iron has a greater affinity for the oxygen of
+the air than for the iron. When all the carbon is removed, then exactly
+enough carbon is added by introducing molten spiegeleisen to produce
+steel of any desired temper with the utmost certainty.
+
+With the ordinary kinds of pig iron early in use, Bessemer's process
+was powerless. The old puddling process was more capable of removing
+phosphorus and sulphur. But with pig iron produced from the red hematite
+ores, practically free from phosphorus, Bessemer's process was a
+surprising success.
+
+At once exploration began to open vast fields of hematite ores in the
+counties of Cumberland and Lancashire of England, in Spain, in the Lake
+Superior regions of North America, and in other countries. Bessemer
+wisely made his royalty very low, five dollars per ton; capital rapidly
+flowed into this new industry, and Bessemer won a fortune. Mushroom towns
+and cities sprung up everywhere and fortunes were made by many.
+
+Mr. Bessemer himself vividly described his process in action: "When the
+molten pig iron is poured into mortar-like converters, supported on
+trunions like a cannon, the process is brought into full activity. The
+blast is admitted through holes in the bottom, when small powerful jets
+of air spring upward through the boiling fluid mass, and the whole
+apparatus trembles violently. Suddenly a volcano-like eruption of flames
+and red-hot cinders or sparks occurs. The roaring flames, rushing from
+the mouth of the converter, changes its violet color to orange and
+finally to pure white. The large sparks change to hissing points, which
+gradually become specks of soft, bluish light as the state of malleable
+iron is approached."
+
+This very brilliant process, which includes the introduction and mixture
+of the spiegeleisen, may occupy fifteen minutes, when the moulds are
+filled, and the steel ingots can be hammered or rolled the same as blooms
+from a puddling furnace.
+
+Mr. Bessemer explained many things, and offered many valuable
+suggestions. A remark of Mr. Bessemer to George Ingram led the latter
+to tell Bessemer a story which he heard in the smoking-room of the S.S.
+"Campania."
+
+"Two Irishmen once tried to sleep, but could not for Jersey mosquitoes
+had entered their bedroom. Earnest effort drove the mosquitoes out, and
+the light was again extinguished. Soon Mike saw a luminous insect, a big
+fire-fly approaching. Quickly he roused his companion saying, 'Pat, wake
+up! Quick! Let's be going! It's no use trying to get more sleep here,
+there comes another Jersey mosquito hunting us with a lantern.'"
+
+Mr. Bessemer was amused, and he ventured the assertion that when
+electricity could be as cheaply produced directly from coal as the light
+by the fire-fly, and successfully delivered in our great cities, the
+smoke nuisance would be effectually abated, all freight charges on coal
+would be saved, and coal operators could utilize all their slack at the
+mines.
+
+"Do you think this possible?" inquired Colonel Harris.
+
+"Oh, yes, quite possible," answered Bessemer, "our necessities beget our
+inventions and discoveries. Thorough investigation in the near future on
+this and kindred lines must be fruitful of astonishing results in the
+interests of a higher civilization." The colonel and George took their
+leave. Truly the fire-fly, like the whirling hot nail, is suggestive of
+great possibilities, thought George.
+
+That evening it was planned to visit on the morrow the extensive
+telegraphic works of Siemens Brothers & Co., Limited. George retired to
+sleep, but his mind was never more active. On warm summer evenings he had
+often held in his hand glow-worms and studied them as they emitted bright
+phosphorescent light. He had learned that this faculty was confined to
+the female which has no wings, and that the light is supposed to serve
+as a beacon to attract and guide the male. The light proceeds from the
+abdomen, and its intensity seems to vary at will. He had also read of
+a winged, luminous insect of South America, which emits very brilliant
+light from various parts of its body.
+
+When George reflected that under even the most favorable conditions there
+was realized in mechanical work of the energy stored in coal only 10%, he
+was convinced that the extravagant waste of 90% of energy was in itself
+sufficient argument against the present method as being the best
+possible. Ever since his graduation, he had believed that the greatest of
+all technical problems was the production of cheaper power. That it was
+the great desideratum in cities in the production of food, and in food
+transportation from farms to trunk lines, on railways and on the ocean.
+
+While in America he had discussed the matter of cheaper power with
+Edison, Thompson, Tesla, and others.
+
+George and his father, James Ingram, experimenting with chemical energy,
+had already discovered a galvanic element which enabled them to furnish
+electrical energy direct from coal and the oxygen of the air, but this
+important discovery was kept a secret. The chief object of George
+Ingram's visit abroad was to follow the footsteps of other great
+scientists and manufacturers to the edge or frontier of their discoveries
+and practical workings.
+
+It was two o'clock that night before George could close his eyes, but
+promptly at 6:30 o'clock next morning he was ready for his bath and
+shave, and later he and the colonel ate the usual European breakfast
+of eggs, rolls, and coffee. The eight o'clock train was taken for the
+great works of Siemens Brothers & Co., Limited, which are located at
+Woolwich, down the Thames.
+
+This firm, the pioneers of ship lighting by electricity, has already
+fitted out hundreds of vessels with electric lights. They also
+manufacture submarine and land telegraphs in vast quantities, having
+aided largely in enclosing the globe in a network of cables. All the
+Siemens brothers have shown much ability. Charles William was born at
+Lenthe, Hanover, in 1823, and has received high scientific honors. The
+world recognizes the valuable services that Dr. Siemens has rendered to
+the iron and steel trade by his important investigations and inventions.
+
+Dr. Siemens, like Mr. Bessemer, labored to make iron and steel direct
+from the ores. By the invention of his regenerative gas furnace, which
+makes the high grade and uniform steel so desirable in the construction
+of ships, boilers, and all kinds of machines, Dr. Siemens has rendered
+signal service. This visit at Siemens Brothers & Co.'s works was of great
+interest, and many valuable ideas were gained.
+
+Several days were next spent in Birmingham, and at the centers of steel
+making in northwest England. Birmingham is called the "Toy Shop of the
+World" for there almost everything is manufactured from a cambric needle
+to a cannon.
+
+Colonel Harris and George Ingram studied the workings of the English
+"Saturday half-holiday," which employees earn by working an extra
+half-hour on the five previous days. A visit was made to the Tangye Bros.
+Engine Works at Soho, near Birmingham, which absorbed the engine works of
+Boulton and Watt. It was Boulton who said to Lord Palmerston visiting
+Soho, "Sir, we have here for sale what subjects of his Majesty most
+seek, viz., Power."
+
+The Tangyes employ thousands of men, manufacturing engines and other
+products. Steam engines of all sizes, in enormous quantities are stored,
+ready at a moment's notice to be shipped broadcast. It was the invention
+of the powerful Tangye jack-screw that finally enabled the famous
+engineer Brunel to launch his "Great Eastern" steamship which he had
+built on the Thames, and which had settled on her keel.
+
+Today the Tangye Brothers are fond of saying, "We launched the 'Great
+Eastern,' and the 'Great Eastern' launched us." One of the Tangye
+Brothers took the two Americans through James Watt's old home, and into
+his famous garret, where Watt invented the parallel motion and other
+parts of the steam engine. So important were Watt's engine inventions
+that he alone should have the honor of inventing the modern engine which
+has so elevated the race.
+
+George was greatly interested in what the Tangye Brothers were doing for
+their employees. Instructive lectures by capable men were given weekly to
+their workmen, while they ate their dinners. Medical aid was furnished
+free, and in many ways practical assistance was rendered their working
+force.
+
+After a most interesting journey among the steel firms, including Bocklow
+& Vaughn of Middleborough, John Brown at Sheffield, and others, Reuben
+Harris and George crossed over into busy Belgium, and thence they
+journeyed via historic Cologne to Westphalia, Germany. Here are some of
+the most productive coal measures on the earth, which extend eastward
+from the Rhine for over thirty miles, and here one wonders at the dense
+network of railways and manufacturing establishments, unparalleled in
+Germany.
+
+At Essen are the far-famed Krupp Works, one of the greatest manufacturing
+firms on the globe. These works are the outgrowth of a small old forge,
+driven by water power, and established in 1810 by Frederick Krupp. His
+short life was a hard struggle, but he discovered the secret of making
+cast-steel, and died in 1828. Before his death, however, he revealed his
+valuable secret to his son Alfred, then only 14 years of age. After many
+years of severe application, Alfred Krupp's first great triumph came in
+1851 at the London World's Fair, where he received the highest medal. At
+the Paris Exposition of 1855, as well as at Munich the year before, he
+also won gold medals.
+
+Abundant orders now flowed in for his breech-loading, cast-steel cannons.
+In severe tests which followed, the famous Woolwich guns were driven from
+the field. The Krupp guns won great victories over the French cannon at
+Sedan, which was an artillery duel. At Gravelotte and Metz the Krupp guns
+surpassed all others in range, accuracy, and penetrating power, and Herr
+Alfred Krupp became the "Cannon King" of Europe. Americans remember well
+his gigantic steel breech-loading guns at the expositions held in
+Philadelphia, and Chicago.
+
+Alfred Krupp, however, delighted more in improving the condition of his
+army of employees. He provided for them miles of roomy, healthful homes.
+He formed a commissariat, where his employees could secure at cost price
+all the necessaries of life. He also established schools where the
+children of his employees could receive education if desired in
+technical, industrial, commercial, and mechanical pursuits, and in
+special and classical courses as well. He devised a "Sick and Pension
+Fund," for disabled workmen, which scheme Emperor William II. has made a
+law of the German Empire. He likewise created life insurance companies,
+and widow and orphan funds. The golden rule has been Alfred Krupp's
+guiding star. He was always kind and considerate, and never dictatorial.
+
+When asked to accept a title, he answered, "No, I want no title further
+than the name of Krupp." Alfred Krupp died July 14, 1887, in the 75th
+year of his age. His request was that his funeral should take place, not
+from his palatial mansion, but in the little cottage within the works,
+where he was born, which is to-day an object of great reverence to the
+25,000 workmen who earn their daily bread in the vast Krupp foundries.
+
+Alfred Krupp lived to see Essen, his native village, grow from a
+population of 4,000 to a busy city of 70,000, where annually hundreds
+of engines and steam hammers produce thousands of tons of steel castings
+and forgings. Alfred Krupp built his own monument in the vast mills and
+benevolences of Essen, a monument more useful and enduring than marble
+or bronze. His son Frederick Alfred Krupp, his successor, married the
+beautiful Baroness Margarette von Ende. Colonel Harris and George visited
+other great works in Europe, and finally started to rejoin their friends
+in Paris.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+THE HARRIS PARTY VISITS PARIS
+
+
+The distance is two hours from London to Dover. Half-way is Gad's Hill,
+famous as the residence of the late Charles Dickens. Further on is
+Canterbury, which is celebrated as the stronghold of Kentishmen and the
+first English Christian city. Its prime attraction of course is its fine
+cathedral, which in 1170 was the scene of Becket's murder.
+
+Dover on the English Channel lies in a deep valley surrounded by high
+chalk hills. On one of these, which is strongly fortified, may be seen
+evidences of Norman, Saxon, and Roman works.
+
+Every morning and evening the royal mail steamers leave Dover for Calais.
+The channel ride of twenty-one miles was made by the Harrises without the
+dreaded _mal de mer_. In the railway restaurant at Calais, Lucille
+volunteered to order for the party, but she soon learned, much to the
+amusement of her friends, that the French learned in Boston is not
+successful at first in France.
+
+The express to Paris is through Boulogne, an important sea town of
+fifty-thousand inhabitants, which combines much English comfort with
+French taste. From there hundreds of fishing boats extend their voyages
+every season to the Scotch coast and even to far-off Iceland.
+
+The scenery in the fertile valley of the Somme is beautiful. The route
+lies through Amiens, a large city of textile industries, thence across
+the Arve; the Harrises reached the station of the Northern Railway,
+in the Place Roubaix, in northern Paris as the sun faded in the west.
+
+Carriages were taken for the Grand Hotel, Boulevard des Capucines, near
+the new opera house, which is centrally located, and offers to travelers
+every comfort. The carriages enter a court, made inviting by fountains,
+flowers, and electric light.
+
+The first day or evening in Paris is bewildering. Early in the morning
+the Harrises drove along the inner and the outer boulevards that encircle
+Paris. Many miles of fine boulevards were built under Napoleon III. Most
+from the Madeleine to the July Column are flanked with massive limestone
+buildings, palatial mansions, and glittering shops, the architecture of
+which is often uniform, and balconies are frequently built with each
+story. Early every morning the asphalt and other pavements are washed.
+At midday a busy throng crowds all the main streets.
+
+Parisians favor residence in flats, and they enjoy immensely their
+outdoor methods of living. At sundown the wide walks in front of
+brilliant cafes are crowded with well dressed men and women, who seek
+rest and refreshment in sipping coffee, wine, or absynthe, scanning the
+papers for bits of social or political news, and discussing the latest
+fad or sensation of the day. The English hurry but the French rarely.
+
+Paris under electric light is indeed a fairyland. The boulevards are
+brilliant and the scenes most animating. Everybody is courteous, and
+all seen bent on a pleasurable time. Cafes, shops, and places of
+entertainment are very inviting, and you easily forget to note the
+passage of time. Midnight even overtakes you before you are aware of
+the lateness of the hour. This is true, if you chance to visit, as did
+the Harris party, some characteristic phases of Parisian life.
+
+Near the east end of the Champs-Elysees, under the gas light and beneath
+the trees, they found open-air theaters, concerts, crowded cafes, and
+pretty booths supplied with sweets and drinks. Every afternoon if the
+weather is favorable, tastefully dressed children appear in charge of
+nursemaids in white caps and aprons, and together they make picturesque
+groups in the shade of elm and lime trees.
+
+At breakfast, Leo proposed a study of Paris, as seen from the Arc de
+Triomphe de l'Etoile, so named from the star formed by a dozen avenues
+which radiate from it. The location is at the west end of the Avenue des
+Champs-Elysees. This monument is one of the finest ever built by any
+nation for its defenders. It is 160 feet in height, 145 in width, was
+begun in 1806 by Napoleon and completed thirty years afterwards by Louis
+Philippe. Figures and reliefs on the arch represent important events in
+Napoleon's campaigns. Arriving at the arch, Leo led the way up a spiral
+staircase, 261 steps to the platform above which commands fine views of
+Paris.
+
+The Champs-Elysees, a boulevard one thousand feet in width, extends east
+over a mile from the monument of the Place de la Concord. Handsome
+buildings flank the sides, and much of the open space is shaded with elm
+and lime trees. Grand statues, fountains, and flowers add their charm.
+Between three and five o'clock every pleasant afternoon this magnificent
+avenue becomes the most fashionable promenade in the world. Here you will
+behold the elite in attendance at Vanity Fair; many are riding in elegant
+equipages, many on horseback, and almost countless numbers on foot.
+
+The popular drive is out the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 320 feet in
+width, to the Bois de Boulogne, a beautiful park of 2250 acres,
+containing several lakes and fringed on the west side by the River
+Seine. In the southwest part of this park is located the Hippodrome de
+Longchamp, which is the principal race-course near Paris, where races
+attract vast crowds, especially when the French Derby or the Grand Prix
+of twenty thousand dollars is competed for early in June.
+
+The Harrises standing on the monument, looked eastward, and Leo pointed
+out the River Seine shooting beneath more than a score of beautiful stone
+and iron bridges, and making a bold curve of seven miles through Paris.
+Then the Seine flows like a ribbon of silver in a northwesterly direction
+into the English Channel. On the right bank is seen the Palais du
+Trocadero of oriental style, which was used for the International
+Exposition of 1878. On the left bank stands the Palais du Luxembourg,
+rich in modern French art, the Hotel des Invalides, where rests Napoleon,
+and the Church of St. Genevieve, or the Pantheon, where Victor Hugo is
+buried.
+
+Beyond the Place de la Concord are the Royal Gardens of the Tuileries,
+where Josephine and Eugenie walked among classic statues, vases,
+fountains and flowers; the Louvre filled with priceless art treasures,
+the beautiful Hotel de Ville or city-hall, majestic Notre Dame, and
+the graceful Column of July. Paris is truly an earthly Paradise. For
+centuries it has been the residence of French rulers, and the mecca of
+her pleasure loving citizens. Fire, famine, foreign invasion, civil war,
+and pestilence have often swept over this, the fairest of cities, yet
+from each affliction, Phoenix-like, Paris has risen brighter and
+gayer than ever.
+
+Gertrude, May, and Lucille were charmed with the fair vision before them,
+and were anxious to leave the Arch of Triumph and become a part of the
+gay city. The carriages drove back to the Place de la Concord, one of the
+finest open places in Europe. Around this place the chief cities of
+France are represented by eight large stone figures. That of Strasburg
+the French keep in mourning. In the center stands the Obelisk of Luxor,
+of reddish granite, which was brought at great expense from Egypt and
+tells of Rameses II. and his successor. Other ornaments are twenty
+rostral columns, bearing twin burners. On grand occasions this place
+and the avenue are illuminated by thirty thousand gas lights.
+
+In the Place de la Concord the guillotine did its terrible work in the
+months between January 21st, 1793, and May 3rd, 1795, when thousands of
+Royalists and Republicans perished. Two enormous fountains adorned with
+Tritons, Nereids, and Dolphins beautify the court. No wonder the
+brilliant writer Chateaubriand objected to the erection here of these
+fountains, observing that all the water in the world could not remove
+the blood stains which sullied the spot.
+
+How beautiful the vista up the broad and short Rue Royale, which conducts
+to the classic Madeleine! Alfonso was entranced with the beauty of this
+rare temple, which was begun and finally dedicated as a church, though
+Napoleon earnestly hoped to complete it as a temple of glory for his old
+soldiers. Its cost was nearly three million dollars. A colonnade of
+fifty-two huge fluted Corinthian columns and above them a rich frieze
+surround the church. The approach is by a score and more of stone steps
+and through enormous bronze doors on which the Ten Commandments are
+illustrated.
+
+Entering the Madeleine, one sees an interior richly adorned, floors of
+marble, and lofty columns supporting a three-domed roof, through which
+light enters. On either side are six confessionals of oak and gilt,
+where prince and peasant alike confess their sins. Beyond is the altar
+of spotless marble. How beautiful the group of white figures, which
+represents Madeleine forgiven, and borne above on angels' wings! This
+artistic group cost thirty thousand dollars.
+
+On Sunday morning Leo and his friends came to the Madeleine which is the
+metropolitan church of Paris. Here every Sunday exquisite music is
+rendered, and here come the elite to worship and to add liberal gifts. It
+is a broad policy that no Catholic Church on the globe, not even splendid
+St. Peter's of Rome, is considered too good for rich and poor of all
+nationalities to occupy together for the worship of the Master.
+
+All the Parisian churches are crowded on Sunday mornings, but Sunday
+afternoons are used as holidays, and all kinds of vehicles and trains are
+burdened with well dressed people in pursuit of pleasure.
+
+Traveling by omnibus and tramway in Paris is made as convenient to the
+public as possible; nobody is permitted to ride without a seat, and there
+are frequent waiting stations under cover. This is as it should be.
+Nearly a hundred lines of omnibuses and tramways in Paris intersect
+each other in every direction. Inside the fares are six cents, outside
+three cents. A single fare allows of a transfer from one line to another.
+Railways surround Paris, thus enabling the public to reach easily the
+many pretty suburbs and villages.
+
+Both Mrs. Harris and Gertrude on their return to the Grand Hotel were
+glad to find letters from the men they loved. George wrote Gertrude that
+he was amazed at the enormous capacity of the manufacturing plants which
+he and Colonel Harris were visiting; that both labor and capital were
+much cheaper than in America. His closing words were, "Learn all you can,
+darling, I shall soon come to claim you."
+
+Gertrude had read of the laundries on the Seine, so she left the hotel
+early with her mother and Alfonso to see them, while Leo, Lucille, and
+May went to study contemporaneous French masterpieces in the Luxembourg
+palace and gallery. The public wash houses on the Seine are large
+floating structures with glass roofs, steaming boilers, and rows of tubs
+foaming with suds. Hard at work, stand hundreds of strong and bare armed
+women, who scrub and wring their linen, while they sing and reply to the
+banter of passing bargee or canotier.
+
+If the sun is shining and the water is clear, the blue cotton dresses
+of the women contrast prettily with white linen and bare arms busily
+employed. Though they earn but a pittance, about five cents an hour, yet
+they are very independent; mutual assistance is their controlling creed,
+and few, if any, honor more loyally the republican principle of liberty,
+equality and fraternity. The women seemed to do all the hard work, while
+the men in snowy shirts and blue cotton trousers, with scarlet girdles
+about their waists, pushed deftly to and fro the hot flat or box irons
+over white starched linen.
+
+Each ironer has a bit of wax, which he passes over the hot iron when he
+comes to the front, the collar, or the wrist-bands, and he boasts that he
+can goffer a frill or "bring up" a pattern of lace better than a
+Chinaman.
+
+Alfonso and his party drove along the handsome Rue de Rivoli, with its
+half-mile of arcades, attractive shops, and hotels of high grade, and
+up the Rue Castiglione, which leads to the Place Vendome. Here in one
+of a hundred open places in Paris rises the Column Vendome in imitation
+of Trajan's column in Rome. The inscription records that it is to
+commemorate Napoleon's victories in 1805 over the Austrians and Russians.
+On the pedestal are reliefs which represent the uniforms and weapons
+of the conquered armies. The memorable scenes, from the breaking of camp
+at Boulogne down to the Battle of Austerlitz, are shown on a broad bronze
+band that winds spirally up to the capital, and the shaft is surmounted
+by a bronze statue of Napoleon in his imperial robes.
+
+Fortunately Alfonso's carriage overtook Leo's party, and they visited
+together the pretty arcades and gardens of the Palais Royal. In the open
+courts are trees, flowers, fountains, and statues, and on the four sides
+are inviting cafes and shops which display tempting jewelry and other
+beautiful articles. On summer evenings a military band plays here.
+Returning, the ladies stepped into the Grand Magasin du Louvre. At a
+buffet, refreshments were gratis, and everywhere were crowds, who
+evidently appreciated the great variety of materials for ladies' dresses,
+the fine cloths, latest novelties, exquisite laces, etc. The ladies
+planned to return here, and to make a visit to the famous Au Bon Marche,
+where cheap prices always prevail. Most of the afternoon was spent in the
+Louvre, a vast palace of art, and the evening at the Theatre Francais,
+the ceiling of which represents France, bestowing laurels upon her three
+great children, Moliere, Corneille, and Racine. The Theatre Francais
+occupies the highest rank. Its plays are usually of a high class, and the
+acting is admirable. The government grants this theatre an annual subsidy
+of about fifty thousand dollars.
+
+Early next morning, the Harrises took carriages to the Halles Centrales,
+or union markets. These markets consist of ten pavilions intersected by
+streets. There are twenty-five hundred stalls which cover twenty-two
+acres, and cost fifteen million dollars. Under the markets are twelve
+hundred cellars for storage. The sales to wholesale dealers are made by
+auction early in the day, and they average about a hundred thousand
+dollars. Then the retail traffic begins. The supplies, some of which
+come from great distances along the Mediterranean, include meat, fish,
+poultry, game, oysters, vegetables, fruit, flowers, butters, cream
+cheese, etc. Great throngs of people, mostly in blue dresses and blouses,
+with baskets and bundles constantly surge past you. The whole scene is
+enjoyable. Everything they offer is fresh, and the prices usually are
+reasonable. When you make a purchase, you are made to feel that you
+have conferred a favor and are repeatedly thanked for it.
+
+The few days that followed in Paris were days of rest, or were spent
+in planning for the future. The art galleries and the shops on the
+boulevards were repeatedly visited, theaters and rides were enjoyed,
+and on Friday morning, the ladies went to the railway station to take
+leave of Alfonso and Leo, who left Paris for the study of art in the
+Netherlands. Colonel Harris and George Ingram were expected to arrive
+in Paris on Saturday evening.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+IN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND
+
+
+Reluctantly Alfonso and Leo left Lucille and May in Paris. Both were well
+educated and beautiful women. It is possible that Alfonso might have
+loved May Ingram had he been thrown more into her company, and so known
+her better in early life, but the Harrises and Ingrams rarely met each
+other in society. As for Leo, he loved Lucille, but she had erected an
+impassable barrier in her utterance on the steamer, "First love or none."
+
+Leo in a thousand ways had been kind to her, because he hoped eventually
+to win her favor, and possibly because he fully appreciated the value of
+money. Fortunes in Europe are not so easily made, but once won, the rich
+of the old world as a rule husband their resources better then they of
+the new world. On the whole Alfonso and Leo were glad to cut loose from
+society obligations and be free to absorb what generations of art
+development in the Netherlands had to offer.
+
+Leaving Paris they took the express via Rheims for Brussels. Entering
+this beautiful capital of the Belgians in the northern part of the city,
+they took a cab that drove past the Botanic Garden down the Rue Royale to
+the Hotel Bellevue which is near the Royal Palace and overlooks a park,
+embellished with sculptures, trees, flowers, and smooth lawns. One of the
+most enjoyable and profitable things for tourists to do in their travels
+is to climb at least one tower or height, as the views and correct
+information thus obtained will cling longest to the memory.
+
+Brussels is Paris in miniature. The royal palace and park may be compared
+to the Tuileries. The beautiful drive down the Boulevard de Waterloo and
+up Avenue Louise leads directly to the Bois de la Cambre, a lovely forest
+of four hundred and fifty acres, which resembles the Bois de Boulogne of
+Paris. Nearly six miles of old and new boulevards encircle Brussels,
+passing through the upper and lower portions of the city. The pleasing
+variety of some of the more handsome buildings is due to the competition
+for large premiums offered for the finest facades. The resemblance of
+Brussels to Paris is perhaps more apparent in the cafes, shops, and
+public amusements along the busy boulevards. West of the Royal Palace is
+the picture gallery owned by the state, and by judicious and repeated
+purchases, the collection of pictures is considered superior to that of
+the famous gallery in Antwerp. In this gallery the two young artists
+spent several pleasant half-days comparing the early Flemish and Dutch
+schools. Especially did they study portrait work by Rubens, Frans Hals,
+and Van der Helst. All the work by the blacksmith artist Quinten Matsys
+in color or iron proved of great interest to the young Americans.
+
+Finally Leo, who knew much of the old masters of Europe, took Alfonso to
+see the Musee Wiertz, which contains all the works of a highly gifted and
+eccentric master. In a kind of distemper Wiertz painted Napoleon in the
+Infernal Region, Vision of a Beheaded Man, A Suicide, The Last Cannon,
+Curiosity, and Contest of Good and Evil, Hunger, Madness and Crime, etc.
+As Brussels is located near the center of Belgium, the city is very
+convenient to several cities that contain many works attractive to
+painters and architects.
+
+On arrival at Antwerp Alfonso and Leo rode to one of the stately
+cathedrals, near which a military band was playing. Before the church
+stood a bronze statue of Peter Paul Rubens. The scrolls and books,
+which lie on the pedestal, with brush, palette, and hat, are allusions
+to the varied pursuits of Rubens as diplomatist, statesman, and painter.
+The two young artists hastened into the cathedral to see Rubens's famous
+pictures, The Descent from the Cross, and The Assumption. His conception
+and arrangement were admirable, his drawing carefully done, and his
+coloring harmonious and masterly.
+
+Rubens, the prince of Flemish painters, was knighted. He was handsome and
+amiable, and his celebrity as an artist procured for him the friendship
+and patronage of princes and men of distinction throughout Europe.
+
+Not far from the cathedral the young artists came to the museum, in
+front of which rises a statue to Van Dyck, pupil of Rubens. "Here,
+Alfonso," said Leo, "is encouragement for you, for Van Dyck like yourself
+was the son of a wealthy man or merchant of Antwerp. He was educated in
+Italy, where he executed several fine portraits which I saw in Genoa as
+I journeyed to Paris." Charles I. of England appointed Van Dyck
+court-painter and knighted him. Van Dyck's ambition was to excel in
+historical works, but the demand upon him for portraits never left him
+much leisure for other subjects. How often "man proposes, but God
+disposes."
+
+Alfonso and Leo reached Dort or Dordrecht, which in the middle ages was
+the most powerful and wealthy commercial city in Holland. Huge rafts
+float down from the German forests, and at Dordrecht the logs are sawed
+by the many windmills. The Dutch province of Zealand is formed by nine
+large islands on the coast of the North Sea, and it has for its heraldic
+emblem a swimming lion with a motto _Luctor et Emergo_.
+
+Most of the province, which is created by the alluvial deposits of the
+Scheldt, is below the sea-level, and is protected against the
+encroachments of the sea by vast embankments of an aggregate length of
+300 miles. Willows are planted along the dykes, the annual repairs of
+which cost $425,000. An old proverb says, "God made the land, we Dutch
+made the sea."
+
+This fertile soil produces abundant crops of wheat and other grain. Near
+Dort is a vast reed-forest, covering more than 100 islands, which is also
+called, "Verdronken land," drowned land. This area of forty square miles,
+once a smiling agricultural tract, was totally inundated on the 18th of
+November, 1421. Seventy-two thriving market towns and villages were
+destroyed, and 100,000 persons perished. Leo made a sketch of the tower
+of Huis Merwede, the solitary and only relic of this desolate scene.
+
+The two artists visited Rotterdam, the second commercial city in Holland,
+which is fourteen miles from the North Sea and on the right bank of the
+Maas. An attractive quay a mile in length is the arriving and starting
+point for over 100 steamboats that connect Rotterdam with Dutch towns,
+the Rhine, England, France, Russia, and the Mediterranean.
+
+Alfonso and Leo studied the collection of portraits at Boyman's Museum,
+and sketched in the River Park the happy people who were grouped under
+trees, by the fish ponds, and along the grassy expanses. Alfonso bought a
+photograph of the illustrious Erasmus. It is about ten miles to Delft,
+once celebrated for its pottery and porcelain, a city to-day of 25,000
+inhabitants. Here on the 10th of July, 1584, William of Orange, Founder
+of Dutch independence, was shot by an assassin to secure the price set on
+William's head by Farnese.
+
+Our two artists visited a church in Delft to see the marble monument to
+the memory of the Prince of Orange, which was inscribed "Prince William,
+the Father of the Fatherland." Not far is Delft Haven which Americans
+love to visit, and where the pious John Robinson blessed a brave little
+band as it set sail to plant in a new world the tree of Liberty.
+
+At length the artists reached The Hague, which for centuries has been the
+favorite residence of the Dutch princes, and to-day is occupied by the
+court, nobles, and diplomatists. No town in Holland possesses so many
+broad and handsome streets, lofty and substantial blocks, and spacious
+squares as The Hague.
+
+Alfonso and Leo hastened to Scheveningen, three miles west of The Hague,
+on the breezy and sandy shores of the North Sea, a clean fishing village
+of neat brick houses sheltered from the sea by a lofty sand dune. Here
+bathing wagons are drawn by a strong horse into the ocean, where the
+bather can take his cool plunge. Scheveningen possesses a hundred fishing
+boats. The fishermen have an independent spirit and wear quaint dress. A
+public crier announces the arrival of their cargoes, which are sold at
+auction on the beach, often affording picturesque and amusing scenes,
+sketches of which were made. The luminous appearance of the sea caused by
+innumerable mollusca affords great pleasure to visitors, twenty thousand
+of whom every year frequent this fashionable sea-bathing resort.
+
+The second evening after the artists' arrival at Scheveningen, as they
+sauntered along on the brick-paved terrace in sight of white sails and
+setting sun, Alfonso was agreeably surprised to meet in company with her
+mother, Christine de Ruyter, a young artist, whose acquaintance he had
+made in the Louvre at Paris.
+
+Christine's father, prominent for a long time in the vessel trade, had
+recently died, leaving a fortune to his wife and two daughters, one of
+whom, Fredrika was already married. They were descended from the famous
+Admiral de Ruyter, who in 1673 defeated the united fleets of France and
+England off the coast of Scheveningen, which fact added much of interest
+to their annual visit to this resort. While Leo talked with the mother,
+Alfonso listened to Christine, as she told much about the historic family
+with which she was connected, and in return she learned somewhat of young
+Harris's family and their visit to Europe.
+
+Christine, who was about Alfonso's age, had fair complexion, light hair,
+and soft blue eyes. Her beauty added refinement that education and wide
+travel usually furnish.
+
+It was seen in Alfonso's face and in his marked deference that Christine
+filled his ideal of a beautiful woman. Christine and her mother and the
+young artists were registered at the Hotel de Orange, so of necessity
+they were thrown into each other's company. They drove to The Hague,
+compared the statues of William of Orange with each other; rode along
+the elegant streets, south through the Zoological and Botanical Gardens,
+through the park, and to the drill grounds. A half-day was spent in
+visiting the "House in the Woods," a Royal Villa, one and one-half
+miles northeast of The Hague. This palace is beautifully decorated,
+particularly the Orange Salon, which was painted by artists of the school
+of Rubens.
+
+Alfonso and Leo enjoyed their visits to the celebrated picture gallery,
+which contains among many Dutch paintings the famous pictures by Paul
+Potter and Rembrandt. Paul Potter's Bull is deservedly popular. This
+picture was once carried off to Paris, and there ranked high in the
+Louvre, and later the Dutch offered 60,000 florins to Napoleon for its
+restoration.
+
+Christine, who was well conversant with art matters, knew the location
+and artistic value of each painting and guided the young Americans to
+works by Van Dyck, Rubens, the Tenniers, Holbein, and others. She was
+proud of a terra-cotta head of her ancestor, Admiral de Ruyter. The party
+soon reached Rembrandt's celebrated "School of Anatomy," originally
+painted for the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons. Tulp is in black coat with
+lace collar and broad-brimmed soft hat, dissecting a sinew of the arm of
+the corpse before him. He is explaining, with gesture of his left hand,
+his theory to a group of Amsterdam surgeons. No painter ever before
+succeeded in so riveting the attention of spectators in the presence of
+death. The listeners appear altogether unconscious of the pallid corpse
+that lies before them on the dissecting table.
+
+Invited by Christine's mother, the young artists accompanied the De
+Ruyters to Amsterdam, the commercial capital of Holland, with 300,000
+inhabitants. They live on ninety islands formed by intersecting canals,
+which are crossed by three hundred bridges. The buildings rest on
+foundations of piles, or trees, which fact gave rise to Erasmus's jest,
+that he knew a city where the people dwelt on tops of trees, like rooks.
+
+Alfonso took Leo into the suburbs to see diamond polishing. The machinery
+is run by steam, and the work is done largely by Portuguese Jews. These
+precious stones are cut or sawed through by means of wires covered with
+diamond dust, and the gems are polished by holding them against rapidly
+revolving iron disks moistened with a mixture of diamond dust and oil.
+
+Christine's people lived in a red brick mansion, the gable of which
+contained a portrait in relief of Admiral de Ruyter, and fronted a shaded
+street on a canal. Here the American artists were handsomely entertained.
+They were driven to the picture galleries and the palace or town-hall in
+the Dam Square, where Louis Napoleon and Hortense once resided. From the
+tower which terminates in a gilded ship the artists obtained fine views
+of Northern Holland. Christine pointed out the Exchange and other objects
+of interest in the city, which abounds in narrow streets and broad
+canals, the latter lined with fine shade trees. Many of the tall,
+narrow houses have red tile roofs, quaint fork-chimneys, and they stand
+with gables to the canals. The docks show a forest of masts.
+
+The environs of the city are covered with gardens; trees adorn the roads,
+while poplars and willows cross or divide the fields, which are studded
+with windmills and distant spires, and everywhere are seen fertile corps,
+black and white cattle, and little boats creeping slowly along the
+canals.
+
+A Hollander's wealth is often estimated by his windmills. If asked, "How
+rich?" The reply comes, "Oh, he is worth ten or twelve windmills."
+Holland seems alive with immense windmills. They grind corn, they saw
+wood, they pulverize rocks, and they are yoked to the inconstant winds
+and forced to contend with the water, the great enemy of the Dutch. They
+constantly pump water from the marshes into canals, and so prevent the
+inundation of the inhabitants. The Hollander furnishes good illustration
+of the practical value of Emerson's words, "Borrow the strength of the
+elements. Hitch your wagon to a star, and see the chores done by the gods
+themselves."
+
+To the west are seen the church spires of Haarlem, and its long canal,
+which like a silver thread ties it to Amsterdam. To the east the towers
+of Utrecht are visible, and to the north glitter in the morning sun the
+red roofs of Zaandam and Alkmaar.
+
+Far away stretched the waters of the Zuider Zee, which Holland plans to
+reclaim by an enbankment from the extreme cape of North Holland, to the
+Friesland coast, so as to shut out the ocean, and thereby acquire 750,000
+square miles of new land; a whole province. At present 3,000 persons
+and 15,000 vessels are employed in the Zuider Zee fisheries, the revenues
+of which average $850,000 a year. It is proposed to furnish equivalents
+to satisfy these fishermen. It is estimated that this wonderful
+engineering feat will extend over 33 years and cost $131,250,000.
+
+Christine now conducted her artist friends out of the Palace and over to
+the Rijks Museum to see Rembrandt's largest and best work, his "Night
+Watch." It is on the right as you enter, covering the side of the room.
+It represents a company of arquebusiers, energetically emerging from
+their Guild House on the Singel. The light and shade of the Night Watch
+is so treated as to form a most effective dramatic scene, which, since
+its creation, in 1642, has been enthusiastically admired by all art
+connoisseurs.
+
+Rembrandt was the son of a miller, and his studio was in his father's
+wind-mill, where light came in at a single narrow window. By close
+observation he became master of light and shade, and excelled in vigor
+and realism. At $50 a year he taught pupils who flocked to him from all
+parts of Europe, but, like too many possessed of fine genius, he died in
+poverty. Later, London paid $25,000 for a single one of his six hundred
+and forty paintings. The Dutch painters put on canvas the everyday
+home-life and manners of their people, while the Flemish represented more
+the religious life of the lower Netherlands.
+
+These journeys in Belgium gave Alfonso and Leo enlarged ideas as to the
+possibilities of portrait painting. In Alma Tadema, of Dutch descent, and
+Millais they saw modern examples of wonderful success, which made clear
+to them that the high art of portrait painting once acquired, both fame
+and fortune are sure to follow.
+
+Christine de Ruyter had taken lessons of the best masters in Holland,
+Italy, and France. Few, if any women artists of her age, equalled or
+excelled her. Her conversations on art in the Netherlands charmed her
+two artist friends. She said, "The works of art of the fifteenth and
+seventeenth centuries in the Netherlands seemed to grow out of the very
+soil of the low countries. Our old artists revelled in the varied
+costumes and manifold types that thronged the cities of the Hanseatic
+League. The artist's imagination was fascinated by the wealth of color he
+saw on sturdy laborers, on weather-beaten mariners, burly citizens, and
+sagacious traders.
+
+"Rubens delighted often in a concentrated light, and was master of
+artistic material along the whole range. He painted well portraits,
+landscapes, battles of heroes, gallant love-making of the noble, and the
+coarse pleasures of the vulgar. Nearly a thousand pictures bear the name
+of Rubens.
+
+"The artistic labor of Frans Hals of Haarlem extended over half a
+century. He possessed the utmost vivacity of conception, purity of color,
+and breadth of execution, as shown in his latest works, and so well did
+he handle his brush that drawing seems almost lost in a maze of color
+tone. The throng of genre painters, who have secured for Dutch art its
+greatest triumph, are well nigh innumerable."
+
+Christine was very fond of flower-pieces, and had painted lovely
+marguerites on Gertrude's white dress, in Alfonso's full length picture
+of his sister, which he was soon to carry to Paris as his wedding
+present.
+
+Leo and Alfonso much wished to extend their journey north to Copenhagen
+and Stockholm, the "Venice of the North," but letters urging a speedy
+return to the marriage of George and Gertrude in Paris, forced the two
+artists to shorten their journey, say good-bye to their kind friends of
+Amsterdam, and hasten back to Paris, taking portraits of their own skill
+as wedding gifts.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+PARIS AND THE WEDDING
+
+
+Friday morning, Alfonso and Leo were missed at the table, and during the
+day as guides. Early every day while in Paris, Alfonso had bouquets of
+fresh flowers sent to the rooms of his mother, sisters, and May Ingram.
+After his departure the flowers did not come, so Gertrude and May before
+breakfast walked down the boulevard to the flower show, near the
+Madeleine, where twice a week are gathered many flower carts in charge of
+courteous peasant women. The flowers of Paris are usually cheap. A franc,
+eighteen cents, buys a bunch of pansies, or roses in bud or full bloom,
+or marguerites. The latter are similar to the English ox-eyed daisy, a
+favorite flower with the French, also with Gertrude, who often pinned a
+bunch on May Ingram. In mid-winter Parisian gardeners delight in forcing
+thousands of white lilac blossoms, which are sold in European capitals
+for holiday gifts.
+
+Gertrude and May hurried back to the hotel as happy as the birds in the
+trees of the boulevard. When Gertrude reached her mother, a telegram was
+given her from George which read:
+
+  City of Brussels.
+
+  _Gertrude_,--
+
+  We expect to arrive in Paris Saturday evening 6 o'clock. Alfonso and
+  Leo here. All well. Grand trip. Love to all.
+
+  George.
+
+Mrs. Harris and her young ladies planned to give most of the day to the
+purchase of Gertrude's trousseau and other needed articles. May Ingram
+thought it was "just lovely" to be with Gertrude in Paris, and help her
+select the wedding outfit. Earlier than usual on Friday morning the
+Harrises left the hotel. All four women were somewhat excited, as Mrs.
+Harris and Gertrude led the way, Lucille and May following, to M. Worth's
+establishment, located at Rue de la Paix 7.
+
+Lucille said, "It is strange indeed that, in view of the French ridicule
+made of the English on account of their lack of taste in dress, the best
+dressmakers in Paris should be Englishmen."
+
+Chief among all the Parisian dressmakers is Charles Frederick Worth, who
+was born in 1825, at Bourne, Lincolnshire. He came to Paris in 1858, and
+opened business with fifty employees combining the selling of fine dress
+material and the making of it. Worth now employs twelve hundred persons,
+and turns out annually over six thousand dresses and nearly four thousand
+cloaks; his sons ably assist him.
+
+Rare fabrics and designs in silk and other choice material are woven, and
+artistic ornaments are made especially for M. Worth. Paris, as the center
+of fashion, is greatly indebted to him, who gained in his line world-wide
+fame, and for nearly half a century he has been universally recognized by
+his competitors and the fair sex as master of his art. Kingdoms, empires,
+republics, and cabinets in swift succession followed each other, but the
+establishment of M. Worth maintained its proud position against all
+changes and rivals. He was helped to the highest pedestal of dictator
+of fashions by Mme. de Pourtales and Princess Pauline Metternich, both
+of whom possessed a keen sense of the fitness of texture, color, and
+cut, and with delicate hands could tone and modify till perfection was
+reached. The former introduced M. Worth to Empress Eugenie, for whom,
+and for the ladies of whose court, he designed state, dinner, and fancy
+costumes.
+
+That M. Worth possessed rare artistic taste aside from dressmaking is
+evidenced in the beauty of his rural home at Suresnes on the Seine, seven
+and a half miles from Paris. It is a superb work of harmony and is like
+a charming mosaic, every piece fitting into every other piece. He was
+his own architect, designer, upholsterer, and gardener. His villa lies
+beneath Mt. Valerien, one of the finest sites near Paris, and the outlook
+on the Seine, the Bois de Boulogne, and Paris, is a dream of beauty.
+
+Hurriedly passing down the Rue de la Paix, the stately Column Vendome in
+the vista, the Harris party entered M. Worth's establishment, to which
+women, from actress to empress, make pilgrimages from the end of the
+world.
+
+What a medley of people were already assembled! English duchesses,
+Russian princesses, Austrians, Spanish and Levantine aristocracy; wives
+and daughters of American railroad kings, of oil magnates, and of coal
+barons; brunette beauties from India, Japan, South America, and even
+fair Australians, all unconsciously assuming an air of ecstasy as they
+revelled in the fabric and fashion of dress; and stalking among them,
+that presiding genius, M. Worth, who in his mitre-shaped cap of black
+velvet, and half mantle or robe, strikingly resembled the great painter
+Hogarth.
+
+Mrs. Harris sent forward her letter of introduction from her husband's
+New York banker, and soon she and her friends were ushered into the
+presence of M. Worth himself. He seemed very gracious, asking about
+several good friends of his in America, and added, "Americans are my best
+clients, though we dispatch dresses to all parts of the world."
+
+Gertrude inquired as to the origin of fashion. M. Worth answered
+cautiously, "When new fabrics or designs of material are invented, some
+require a severe style, and some are adapted for draperies, puffings,
+etc., and then the stage has great influence over fashion."
+
+May Ingram said, "Mr. Worth, how do you arrange designs?" He answered,
+"All my models are first made in black and white muslin, and then copied
+in the material and coloring which I select. In a studio our models are
+photographed for future reference."
+
+Saying this, he excused himself to welcome new arrivals, first having
+placed the Harrises in charge of a competent assistant. M. Worth's many
+rooms were plainly furnished with counters for measuring materials. The
+floors were covered with a gray and black carpet, in imitation of a
+tiger's skin, with a scarlet border. Several young women dressed in the
+latest style of morning, visiting, dinner, and reception toilets, passed
+up and down before clients to enable them to judge of effects. Mrs.
+Harris explained that one daughter desired, at an early date, a wedding
+dress and that the other members of her party wanted gowns.
+
+Friday and Saturday were occupied at Worth's in selecting dresses, and
+elsewhere in search of gloves and other essentials. A delightful hour was
+spent among the many makers of artificial flowers. Skilled fingers make
+from wire and silk stems and stamens and dies, shape leaves and petals
+which are darkened by a camel's hair pencil, or lightened by a drop of
+water. Capable botanists and chemists are employed, and nature herself is
+rivaled in delicate construction and fragrance even.
+
+In their round of shopping, the Harrises saw an ideal robe being made for
+an American belle. It was composed entirely of flowers, a skirt of roses
+of different tints, with a waist of lovely rose buds, and over all a veil
+with crystal drops in imitation of the morning dew. "A gem of a dress for
+some fairy," thought Lucille.
+
+Promptly at six o'clock Gertrude and Lucille drove to the railway
+station, and welcomed back George and Colonel Harris, and after dinner
+all went to the opera. Between the acts Gertrude and George told much
+of their late experiences. George said that Colonel Harris had become
+greatly interested in their scheme to build in America an ideal plant and
+town, and that he was anxious to return home as he felt that one's work
+must be done early, as life was short at best.
+
+Gertrude explained to George all that had been done in preparing for the
+wedding, and said that she would be ready soon, that her mother and
+Lucille approved of their wedding trip of two weeks in Switzerland, and
+then Gertrude added, "I shall be ready, George, when you are, to return
+to America and to aid you all I can."
+
+Colonel Harris suggested a ride to Versailles, and Monday morning at nine
+o'clock Gaze's coach and four drove to the Grand Hotel, and six outside
+seats which had been reserved for the Harris party were filled. The
+coachman drove down the Avenue de l'Opera and into the Place du
+Carrousel, stopping a moment that all might admire the artistic pavilions
+of the Louvre, and the statue to the memory of Leon Gambetta, "Father of
+the Republic." Thence they rode out of the Court of the Tuileries, across
+the Place de la Concord, and down the charming Champs Elysees. On the
+left stands the Palais de l'Industrie, where the salon or annual
+exhibition of modern paintings and sculptures occurs in May and June. On
+the right is the Palais de l'Elysee, the official residence of the French
+president.
+
+George recalled that in these gardens of Paris, in 1814, Emperors
+Alexander and Francis, King Frederick III., and others sang a _Te Deum_,
+in thanksgiving for their great victory over Napoleon I.; that here
+the English, Prussian, and Russian troops bivouacked, and that in the
+spring of 1871, Emperor William and his brilliant staff led the German
+troops beneath the Arc de Triomphe, while the German bands played "Die
+Wacht am Rhine."
+
+The coach passed through the Bois de Boulogne, in sight of lovely lakes,
+quaint old windmills, and across famous Longchamps, where after the
+Franco-German War under a bright sky, in the presence of the French
+president, his cabinet, the senate and chamber of deputies, in full
+dress, and a million of enthusiastic citizens, Grevy and Gambetta
+presented several hundred silk banners to the French army. Thence the
+drive was along the left bank of the river till the ruins of St. Cloud
+were reached, where Napoleon III. Unwittingly signed his abdication when
+he declared war against Prussia.
+
+Climbing the hills through fine old forests after fourteen miles of
+travel southwest of Paris, the coach reached Versailles. Here that
+magnificent monarch, Louis XIV. lavished hundreds of millions on
+palaces, parks, fountains, and statues, and here the Harrises studied the
+brilliant pictorial history of France. In the Grand Gallery, which
+commands beautiful views of garden and water, are effective paintings
+in the ceiling, which represent the splendid achievements of Louis XIV.
+In this same Hall of Glass, beneath Le Brun's color history of the defeat
+of the Germans by the French, occurred in 1871 a bit of fine poetic
+justice, when King William of Prussia, with the consent of the German
+States, was saluted as Emperor of reunited Germany. After visiting the
+Grand Trianon the home of Madame de Maintenon, the coach returned via
+Sevres, famous for its wonderful porcelain, and reached Paris at sunset.
+The day was one long to be remembered.
+
+The Paris mornings were spent either in visits to the Louvre or in
+driving. George and Gertrude walked much in Paris. Monday morning all
+resolved to enjoy on foot the Boulevards from the Grand Hotel to the
+Place de la Republique. It was a field-day for the women, for every shop
+had its strong temptation, and the world seemed on dress-parade.
+Boulevard des Italiens in Paris is the most frequented and fashionable.
+Here are located handsome hotels and cafes, and many of the choicest and
+most expensive shops. Several of these were visited, and many presents
+were sent back to the hotel for friends at home.
+
+At noon the Harrises took a simple lunch at one of the popular Duval
+restaurants. While the ladies continued their purchases, Colonel Harris
+and George visited the Bourse, or exchange, a noble building. Business at
+this stock exchange opens at twelve o'clock and closes at three o'clock.
+The loud vociferations of brokers, the quick gestures of excited
+speculators, and the babel of tongues produced a deafening noise, like
+that heard at the stock exchange in New York.
+
+By appointment the ladies called at the exchange, and a coach took the
+party to the Place de la Republique, where stands a superb statue of the
+Republic, surrounded with seated figures of Liberty, Fraternity, and
+Equality. Colonel Harris had often noticed these remarkable words cut
+into many of the public buildings of Paris, and he remarked that the
+lesson taught by them was as injurious as that taught in the Declaration
+of Independence, which declares, that "all men are created equal."
+
+Along the broadest parts of some boulevards and in public parks many
+chairs are placed for hire. On all the boulevards are numerous pillars,
+and small glass stalls, called kiosques, where newspapers are sold. The
+pillars and kiosques are covered with attractive advertisements. In these
+kiosques are sold, usually by women and children, many of the 750 papers
+and periodicals of Paris. Fifty of these papers are political. The
+_Gazette_ is two hundred and sixty-four years old, established in 1631.
+_Le Temps_, "The Times," an evening paper, is English-like, and widely
+known. _Le Journal des Debats_, "The Journal of Debate," appears in
+correct and elegant language, and it usually discusses questions of
+foreign as well as of home politics. Papers called _Petite_, or "Little,"
+have an immense circulation. Over a half million copies of _Le Petite
+Journal_ are sold daily. Frenchmen at home or abroad are not happy
+without their _Figaro_, which is read for its news of amusements, spicy
+gossip, and the odor of the boulevards. The sensitive and powerful press
+of Paris has often provoked political changes and revolutions.
+
+To study better the important revolution for liberty which occurred on
+the ever memorable 14th of July, 1789, the Harrises drove along the
+boulevard till they approached the Bastille, formerly the site of a
+castle, or stronghold, used for a long time as a state prison for the
+confinement of persons who fell victims to the caprice of the government.
+
+The graceful bronze July Column is 154 feet in height, and it
+commemorates the destruction of the Bastille, symbol of despotism. A
+strong desire for independence raised the cry "Down with the Bastille,"
+and the advancing tide of revolution overcame the moats, the walls, the
+guns, and the garrison, and freedom was victorious. On the column the
+names of the fallen "July Heroes" are emblazoned in gilded letters. In
+large vaults beneath are buried the heroes of 1789, with the victims of
+the later revolution of 1848. The capital of the column is crowned with
+an artistic Genius of Liberty standing on a globe, and holding in one
+hand the broken chains of slavery, and in the other the torch of
+enlightenment.
+
+All the boulevards were crowded with artisans in blue blouses, hurrying
+to their homes, as the Harrises drove along the quays to Notre Dame. They
+were in time to witness the sun burnish with his golden rays the graceful
+spire, the majestic tower, and elegant facade, and to enjoy the harmony
+of its grand organ within. To know Notre Dame, founded seven centuries
+ago, is to learn well the history of Paris, and to study the monuments of
+Paris alone, is to acquire the history of France.
+
+Every day some of the Harris party visited the vast Louvre, the most
+important public building of Paris, both architecturally and on account
+of its wonderful art treasures which are the most extensive and valuable
+in the world. Thus two weeks went swiftly by in sight-seeing, and in
+preparation for the marriage.
+
+The private parlors, banquet hall, and several rooms for guests of the
+Grand Hotel had been secured for Gertrude's wedding, which was to take
+place on George's birthday. Though superstition for ages had placed
+birthdays under a ban, yet Gertrude herself preferred this day, and all
+concurred. Beautiful presents had already arrived from America, and
+letters from schoolmates and friends, several of whom, however, had sent
+their presents to Harrisville. Nearly a thousand invitations in all,
+mostly to friends in America, had been mailed, including a hundred to
+friends traveling on the British Isles, and on the continent. May Ingram
+had met in London Claude Searles, son of Hugh Searles, and a graduate of
+Oxford University. She had an invitation mailed to Claude, and he
+promised to come.
+
+Alfonso and Leo arrived from Holland the night before, and each brought
+paintings of their own skill as presents. Alfonso had done an exquisite
+full-length portrait of Gertrude in white, the dress, the same that she
+wore at Smith College graduation. All wondered about Leo's gift. Gertrude
+herself cut the strings, and pushed back the paper, while her sister
+Lucille looked first at her own beautiful likeness and then at Leo. Her
+face grew crimson, as she said, "Leo, this is just what I most wanted for
+Gertrude. Thank you! Thank you!" and she came near kissing the handsome
+artist.
+
+The mother had bought a plentiful supply of those things which daughters
+most need. The father's gift was the promised check for $1000, and a
+mysterious long blue envelope sealed, with the name "Mrs. Gertrude
+Ingram" written on the outside. Underneath her name were the tantalizing
+words, "To be opened when she reaches New York."
+
+"Oh, I so wonder what is inside," said Gertrude.
+
+May Ingram's gift was unique; a mahogany box, inlaid with the rare
+edelweiss, encasing a Swiss phonograph, that was adjusted to play "Elsa's
+Dream Song" from Lohengrin on Gertrude's marriage anniversary, till her
+golden wedding should occur.
+
+Next morning after the sun had gilded the domes and spires of Paris, the
+Harrises sat at breakfast in a private room, fragrant with fresh cut
+flowers. Gertrude wore at her throat her lover's gift, and she never
+looked prettier or happier. All the morning till 11 o'clock everybody was
+busy, when the ushers and friends began to arrive. Soon came the American
+ambassador, his wife and children. At 11:45 a bishop of New York City,
+Claude Searles of London, and intimate friends of the Harrises and George
+Ingram followed, till the private parlors were full.
+
+The orchestra of twenty pieces of Grand Opera House, stationed in the
+reception hall, played the "Largo" of Handel. In the third parlor from
+the ceiling were suspended ropes or garlands of smilax and bride's roses,
+which formed a dainty canopy. White satin ribbons festooned on two rows
+of potted marguerites made a bridal pathway direct from the foot of the
+stairway to the dais beneath the canopy.
+
+On the low platform stood the bishop and the manly bridegroom expectant,
+when a voice at the foot of the stairway, accompanied by three
+instruments, sang the Elsa's Dream Song. The wedding party came
+downstairs as the orchestra played Wagner's Wedding March. The bride was
+dressed in duchess satin of soft ivory tone, the bodice high and long
+sleeves, with trimming of jewelled point lace. The bridesmaids wore pale
+yellow cloth, with reveres and cuffs of daffodil yellow satin and white
+Venetian point. Mrs. Harris wore a gown of heliotrope brocaded silk,
+trimmed with rich lace and a bodice of velvet.
+
+The wedding party took their places and Mme. Melba accompanied by piano,
+harp, and violin sang Gounod's "Ave Maria."
+
+The bishop addressed a few earnest words to the couple before him, spoke
+of responsibilities and obligations, and then the formal questions of
+marriage, in distinct voice, were put to George and Gertrude.
+
+Mr. and Mrs. George Ingram received hearty congratulations. The guests
+retired to the banquet hall where breakfast was served. One table with
+marguerites was reserved for bride and bridegroom, ushers, and
+bridesmaids. Before the breakfast was ended the bride and bridegroom had
+escaped, but soon returned, the bride in a traveling gown of blue cloth.
+Volleys of rice followed the bridal pair, and more rice pelted the
+windows of the coach as it drove to the express train which was to convey
+the happy pair to Fontainebleau for a day, and thence into Switzerland.
+In the evening Colonel Harris entertained a large party of friends at the
+new opera house. The Harrises next morning left for southern France.
+
+Before the marriage day George and Gertrude had carefully provided in
+Paris for the welfare of May Ingram whom both loved. And well they might,
+for May had a noble nature, and her music teachers in Boston, who had
+exerted their best efforts in her behalf, believed that she possessed
+rare talents, which, if properly developed, would some day make her
+conspicuous in the American galaxy of primadonnas.
+
+They had secured for May sunny rooms at a pension in the Boulevard
+Haussmann, where a motherly French woman resided with her two daughters.
+In beautiful Paris, May Ingram was to live and study, hoping to realize
+the dreams of her childhood, a first rank in grand opera.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+ABOARD THE YACHT "HALLENA"
+
+
+Before leaving Paris Colonel Harris was solicitous that his son Alfonso
+should accompany him to Rome, and Leo urged the artistic advantage of a
+trip to Italy, but Alfonso had attractions in Holland of which the father
+knew not. Leo, of course, had his suspicion, but did not wish to betray
+his friend, and so Alfonso returned to the Netherlands ostensibly to
+study art.
+
+Before leaving New York it was frequently stated by Leo that when he
+reached Rome he hoped to be able to even up favors with Alfonso by a
+series of visits among his relatives, the famous Colonna family. While
+Leo regretted seriously to lose this opportunity, he was quick to see
+that the change of plans would leave him much in Lucille's company, the
+thing that gave him most pleasure. Lucille before leaving Harrisville had
+a severe attack of the grip, and Mrs. Harris hoped the journey abroad
+would prove beneficial to her health.
+
+The ocean voyage had brought the roses back to her cheeks, but the
+railway trips, the over-work of sight-seeing, and especially the
+excitement of the Paris wedding, had renewed frequent complaints of heart
+difficulty, and at night Lucille was restless and failed to secure
+satisfactory sleep. Of course the mother was anxious, and was glad when
+the express arrived at Nice, on the Mediterranean. Fortunately this was
+not the fashionable season, so quiet quarters were secured overlooking
+the terraced promenade, the small harbor open to the southeast, and the
+smooth sea beyond. Here Mrs. Harris hoped that her daughter would
+speedily recover her health.
+
+Nice is charmingly situated in a small plain near the French frontier at
+the foot of the triple-ridged mountains, which shelter the city on the
+north and east against northern winds, while the river Paglion bounds
+Nice on the west. Far beyond stretch the snow-clad peaks of the Maritime
+Alps.
+
+In the cold season thousands of foreigners, especially the English, visit
+this winter paradise. On the high background are Roman ruins and an old
+castle enclosed by bastioned walls; leading to two squares, one of which
+is surrounded with porticoes, are streets embellished with theater,
+public library, baths, and handsome homes that are frescoed externally.
+In Nice the patriot Garibaldi first saw the light, and just above the
+town on a sunny hillside lies buried the illustrious Gambetta.
+
+Lucille was soon able to sit on the portico and watch the vessels in the
+harbor come and go, also parties of excursionists in pleasure boats, and
+well dressed people in the shade of the great palms on the adjacent
+promenade. Thus hours went pleasantly by while Leo often played
+delightfully on his guitar.
+
+Few if any places in the world are like the Riviera where in winter
+months royalty and aristocracy gather. Here come the gay world of fashion
+and the delicate in health to beg of death a respite of a few more days.
+The physician in attendance upon Lucille advised much outdoor air, and
+frequent coach rides along the shore were taken to Cannes, to Monaco, and
+Mentone.
+
+In the seaport town of Cannes, a bright gem set in groves of olives and
+oranges, Napoleon landed from Elba on the first of March, 1815. The
+tri-color of France was again thrown to the breeze, and en route to Paris
+Napoleon received on every hand the renewed allegiance of officers and
+garrisons. The French were wild with excitement, but Europe was filled
+with amazement. Again France was conquered without the shedding of blood,
+a victory unparalleled in history.
+
+Lucille particularly enjoyed the ride of eight miles east along the
+peaceful Mediterranean, also the visit to Monaco, capital of the
+principality of its own name, with an area of about 34,000 acres. Monaco
+is beautifully situated on a promontory in the sea, and has an attractive
+palace and cultivated terraces. The ruling prince resides here six months
+and at Paris the other six months.
+
+Monte Carlo is a veritable bit of paradise so far as nature and art can
+work wonders. Around this famous gambling resort grow aloes, orange
+trees, and tufted palms. Within the handsome casino weak humanity of all
+nationalities is allured by glittering promises of wealth. No wonder
+a dozen or more suicides occur every month.
+
+It was three o'clock on the sixth day of the stay at Nice, when Colonel
+Harris sitting on the porch of the hotel and using a marine glass,
+discovered to the southwest a tiny craft rapidly approaching Nice. For
+three days he had been anxiously watching and waiting for the arrival of
+the "Hallena," built at Harrisville for the son of his special friend Mr.
+Harry Hall.
+
+Before leaving Paris, Harry Hall Jr. had invited the colonel's family to
+coast along the Mediterranean in his new yacht. It was arranged that the
+"Hallena" should touch at Nice and take aboard the colonel's family.
+Young Mr. Hall was to rejoin his yacht at Gibraltar, and doubtless he was
+now aboard.
+
+The colonel grew nervous as he observed the approach of the little boat.
+It had been agreed between Harris and Hall that the yacht would fly the
+Union Jack at the bow, the national banner at the flag-staff, and a
+streamer bearing the yacht's name at the mast-head.
+
+As the colonel again wiped the dust from his glasses, Lucille said,
+"Father, please let me try the glass, perhaps my eyes are better." While
+Lucille eagerly looked toward the yacht, Leo watched every motion, as the
+mention of young Hall's name in connection with his great wealth had
+awakened jealousy in his heart.
+
+Suddenly Lucille shouted, "There she is! I can see the stars and stripes;
+how welcome is the dear old flag, we see it abroad so rarely!"
+
+"Hasten, Leo," said the colonel, "and ask the hotel proprietor to raise
+the stars and stripes over his hotel."
+
+Colonel Harris had promised Mr. Hall to do this, and so advise him where
+the Harris family were stopping. No sooner was the red, white, and blue
+given to the breeze above the hotel, than a puff of white smoke was seen
+on the yacht, and then came the report of a gun in response to Harris's
+flag signal. Bills were paid at once, and the Harrises took carriage down
+to the landing. As the "Hallena" glided in between the piers, she was as
+graceful as a swan, or as Leo expressed it, "as pretty as a pirate."
+
+Harris himself when at home saw the yacht launched, and he was as proud
+of her behavior then as were the officers of the Harrisville Ship
+Building Company.
+
+The yacht had now approached so near that Colonel Harris and Harry Hall
+saluted each other, and in five minutes the Harris and Hall parties were
+exchanging cordial greetings on the deck of the "Hallena." "Captain
+Hall," as Harry was known at sea, was very cordial to all. Colonel Harris
+was glad again to meet some of his old Harrisville business friends.
+
+Luke Henley and wife were of the Hall party. He was stout, resolute, and
+ambitious; his wife womanly and well dressed. Henley early learned that
+money was power. Combining what he fell heir to with his wife's fortune,
+and what he had made by bold ventures in the steel, ore, and coal trade,
+he was enabled to live in a fine villa, overlooking the water, and to
+carry on an immense business on the inland lakes.
+
+His business, however, was used as a cover to his real designs in life.
+Influential in the local politics of Harrisville he had experienced the
+keen pleasure of wielding the silver sceptre of power, and he longed not
+only to be the "power behind the throne," but to sit on the throne itself
+and guide the Ship of State.
+
+Major Williams also was one of the "Hallena" party. He was young,
+slender, and had a cheerful smile for everybody. He had climbed to the
+presidency of the Harrisville Bank which had thousands of depositors, and
+which wielded a gigantic financial power.
+
+It was decided not to start for Genoa till the next morning. Dinner was
+soon announced and Captain Hall offered his arm to Lucille, whom he
+placed at his right hand, and Mrs. Harris at his left. The dinner hour
+and part of the evening were spent in pleasant reminiscences of what
+each had seen since leaving Harrisville. The marriage of George Ingram
+and Gertrude was also a suggestive topic, and many agreeable things were
+spoken. Captain Hall was present at the Paris wedding, and it was the
+stately beauty of Lucille more than all else that prompted him to invite
+the Harrises to take the Mediterranean cruise.
+
+Some of the mothers of fine daughters in Harrisville had exhausted their
+wits in trying to entrap Harry Hall, who was impartially attentive to
+all, but was never known to pay marked attention to any young lady. That
+Captain Hall should overlook the other women on the yacht, and place
+Lucille at his right hand was so marked that Major Williams after dinner,
+lighting his cigar, said, "Henley, why wouldn't Harry and Lucille make a
+good match?" "Lucille is a beautiful girl," was all Henley said, and as
+the lights of Nice disappeared, the "Hallena" party retired for the
+night.
+
+An early breakfast was ordered as everybody wished to be early on deck to
+witness the yacht's departure for Genoa. As the "Hallena" responded to
+her helm, the United States consul at Nice hoisted and lowered the flag
+thrice, as a _bon voyage_ to the American yacht, and the consul queried
+whether the American statesman was yet born who was wise enough to
+introduce and maintain such a national policy as would multiply his
+country's commerce and flag on the sea. Patriotic Americans stopping at
+Monaco also responded with flag and gun, as the "Hallena" steamed swiftly
+away.
+
+The sun had reached the zenith, when Captain Hall sighted Genoa, and he
+called Lucille to stand with him on the bridge. "Superb Genoa! Worthy
+birthplace of our Columbus," said Lucille.
+
+"Yes," said Harry, "Genoa is older than Borne; she was the rival of
+Venice, and the mother of colonies."
+
+As the "Hallena" approached this strongly fortified city of northern
+Italy, the capacious harbor was a forest of masts, and a crazy-quilt of
+foreign flags, but not one ship was flying the stars and stripes, a fact
+which saddened the hearts of the tourists. The "Hallena" steamed past the
+lighthouse and moles that protect the harbor, and all the guests of
+Captain Hall stood on the forward deck admiring the city with its
+palaces, churches, white blocks, and picturesque villas that occupy land
+which gradually rises and recedes from the bay.
+
+On landing, the officials were very courteous, and gave Captain Hall and
+his party no trouble when it was learned that that "Hallena" brought
+travelers only. The Genoese are very proud of their city and its past
+history, and they are courteous to Americans, especially so since the
+Columbian World's Fair.
+
+The tourists found the streets in the older part of Genoa narrow, seldom
+more than ten feet wide, with lofty buildings on either side. But in the
+new portions, especially on the wide Strada Nuova and the Strada Balbi,
+the palaces and edifices present fine architecture.
+
+Nearly a day was spent in driving about Genoa with its flower-crowned
+terraces. It was after five o'clock when the party stood before the noble
+statue of Columbus recently dedicated in a prominent square filled with
+palms and flowering shrubs, and near the principal railway station. Here
+the statue welcomes the coming and speeds the parting guest. Its design
+is admirable. Surmounting a short shaft is Columbus leaning upon an
+anchor, and pointing with his right hand to the figure of America; below
+him are discerned encircling the shaft ornaments symbolic of Columbus's
+little fleet, while other statues represent science, religion, courage,
+and geography; between them are scenes in bass-relief of his adventurous
+career.
+
+Dinner was taken aboard the yacht as it steamed away from Genoa. The
+flowers that Harry had bought for Lucille's stateroom she thoughtfully
+placed on the table, and with the porcelain they added artistic effect.
+The day's experiences were reviewed, and, as the appetizing courses
+were served, the conversation drifted back to the World's Columbian Fair
+which all had attended. Many of the wonders of the "White City" were
+recounted, and Henley in his off-hand manner repeated a compliment
+which was paid by a cultivated Parisian who visited the Fair. The
+Frenchman said that at the last Paris Exposition, he saw immense and
+unsightly structures, such as one might expect to find in far-off
+Chicago, but that at the Columbian World's Fair, he beheld buildings
+such as his own artistic Paris and France should have furnished; that the
+Columbian Fair was an artistic triumph that had never been paralleled
+except in the days of imperial Rome by her grand temples, palaces,
+arches, bridges, and statues.
+
+"The Parisian is right, and he pays America a most deserved compliment.
+Never was so elegant a panorama enrolled as at Chicago," responded
+Colonel Harris.
+
+"You are correct, Colonel," said Captain Hall, "the triumph of our
+Exposition was largely due to the masterly supervision which evoked
+uniformity of design and harmonious groupings by employing only those
+of our architects, sculptors, painters, and landscape gardeners, who
+possessed the highest skill."
+
+Leo ventured to add that the "White City" seemed to him dream-like and
+that under the magical influence of Columbus, as patron-saint, all
+nationality, creed, and sex, were harmoniously blended in ideal beauty
+and grandeur.
+
+Lucille, who had just sipped the last of her chocolate, also bore
+testimony, and Harry watched her admiringly as she said, "At times,
+especially in the evening, when thousands of incandescent lights outlined
+the Court of Honor with its golden Goddess of the Republic and the
+facades, turrets, and domes, it seemed to some of us as if we had stepped
+out upon a neighboring planet, where civilization and art had been
+purified, or that the veil was lifted and we were gazing upon the
+glories of the New Jerusalem."
+
+The ladies now sought the deck of the "Hallena," and were soon followed
+by the gentlemen, who smoked their fragrant Havanas, enjoying every
+moment's vacation from business anxieties at home. The yacht, like a
+slender greyhound, in charge of the first officer was swiftly running
+towards the Isle of Elba, en route to Naples. The stars never shone more
+brilliantly in the Italian sky, and land breezes were mingling their rich
+odors with the salt sea air.
+
+The spell of Columbus's great discovery stirred the soul of Harry Hall.
+Holding his half-smoked cigar, he repeated the familiar couplet,
+
+  "Man's inhumanity to man
+   Makes countless thousands mourn."
+
+"Strange that four centuries go by before even Genoa erects his monument,
+which we have admired to-day; though monuments to the memory of Columbus
+have been erected in many cities, yet, how tardy the world was to
+appreciate the value of Columbus's discovery, a third of the land of the
+globe. How pitiful the last days of Columbus, who, old and ill, returning
+in 1504 from his fourth voyage to the new world, found his patroness
+Isabella dying, and Ferdinand heartless. With no money to pay his bills,
+Columbus died May 20th, 1505, in poor quarters at Valladolid, his last
+words being, 'Into thy hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit.' It is now
+natural perhaps that many cities should claim his birth and his bones."
+
+"Yes," said Lucille, "how encouraging some of the world's kind epitaphs
+would be if they were only spoken before death came. Two hemispheres now
+eagerly study the inspiring story of Columbus's faith, courage,
+perseverance, and success."
+
+Henley said, "Captain Hall, you are young yet, but by the time you reach
+my age you will have little use for the sentiment young people so often
+indulge in. When New York tries her hand with expositions she will
+doubtless deal with facts. The truth is, Columbus was human like the
+rest of us, and followed in the wake of others for his own personal
+aggrandizement. He was not the first man to discover America. The
+Norsemen antedated him by five centuries."
+
+"What if the Norsemen did first discover America?" said Colonel Harris.
+"The discoveries of the vikings were not utilized by civilization. It is
+held by the courts that a patent is valid only in the name of the
+inventor who first gives the invention a useful introduction. Columbus's
+discovery was fortunately made at a time when civilization was able with
+men and money to follow up and appropriate its advantages."
+
+"The true discoverer of America," said Henley, "I believe to be Jean
+Cousin, a sea captain of Dieppe, France, who crossed the Atlantic and
+sailed into the Amazon River in 1488, four years before Columbus reached
+San Salvador. Then Spain, Portugal, the States of the Church, Ferdinand,
+Isabella, and Columbus attempted to rob Cousin of his bold adventure. In
+brief these are the facts: Jean Cousin was an able and scientific
+navigator. In 1487 his skill so contributed in securing a naval victory
+for the French over the English that the reward for his personal valor
+was the gift of an armed ship from the merchants of Dieppe, who expected
+him to go forth in search of new discoveries.[A]
+
+[Footnote A: _The True Discovery of America._ Captain R.N. Gambier.
+_Fortnightly Review_, January 1, 1894.]
+
+"In January, 1488, Cousin sailed west out into the Atlantic, and south,
+for two months with Vincent Pinzon a practical sailor, second in command.
+He sailed up the Amazon River, secured strange birds, feathers, spices,
+and unknown woods, and returned to the coast of Africa for a cargo of
+ivory, oil, skins, and gold dust. Pinzon quarreled with the natives,
+fired upon them, and seized some of their goods, so that they fled and
+would not come back to him. He thus lost a valuable return cargo. At
+Dieppe the merchants were enraged; Pinzon was tried by court martial for
+imperilling the trade of Africa, and banished from French soil. He
+thirsted for revenge and went back to Palos to tell his brothers Alonzo
+and Martin, shipowners, of the mighty Amazon; often they speculated as to
+the vast lands which the Amazon drained.
+
+"Columbus, discouraged, ridiculed, and begging his way, started out to
+meet at Huelva his brother-in-law and secure promised help, so that he
+could visit France. Suddenly he changed his route, stopped at the little
+convent La Rabida, met Juan Perez, who knew Queen Isabella, and Fernandez
+the priest, the latter a close friend of the three Pinzon brothers.
+Columbus got what he wanted at court, returned to Palos, and with the
+Pinzon brothers sailed west, with Vincent Pinzon, Cousin's shipmate, as
+pilot. The conclusion that Jean Cousin, and not Columbus first discovered
+America, seems irresistible. Pope Alexander VI., by Papal bull, had
+already divided all the new discoveries made, between Catholic Spain and
+Portugal. Dieppe and France were in the Pope's black books. What chance
+of recognition had Cousin against Columbus, the protege of this Pope?"
+
+"You seem to win your case," said Major Williams, "what romance in
+history will be left us? William Tell is now a myth, and Washington's
+little hatchet story is no more."
+
+Lucille quieted Leo with a smile, cigars were thrown overboard, the light
+on the Isle of Elba was visible, and all retired for the night, while the
+alert yacht, like a whirring night-hawk, flew on towards Naples.
+
+On the yacht "Hallena" early to bed and early to rise was an unwritten
+law. By six o'clock next morning, breakfast had been served, and the
+tourists were on deck with glasses, each anxious to discover objects of
+interest. During the night busy Leghorn on the coast, and Pisa, and
+Florence up the Arno, were left behind. Leo was proud of sunny and
+artistic Italy and he much desired that Lucille should see at Pisa the
+famous white marble leaning tower, with its beautiful spiral colonnades;
+its noble cathedral and baptistry, the latter famous for its wonderful
+echo, and the celebrated cemetery made of earth brought from the Holy
+Land. At Florence she should see the stupendous Duomo, with the
+Brunelleschi dome that excited the emulation of Michael Angelo; the
+bronze gates of Ghiberti, "worthy to be the gates of paradise," and the
+choice collections of art in the Pitti Palace and the Uffizi Gallery
+connected by Porte Vecchio. But Leo contented himself with the thought
+that when the yacht episode was over, and Harry Hall had passed out of
+sight, he could then take Lucille over Italy to enjoy a thousand-and-one
+works of art, including masterpieces by such artists as Michael Angelo,
+Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Guido, and others.
+
+Lucille had studied art in Boston, and she was fond of Leo because he
+passionately loved art and could assist her. She began to comprehend what
+Aristotle meant when he defined art as "the reason of the thing, without
+the matter," or Emerson, "the conscious utterance of thought, by speech,
+or action, to any end."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+TWO UNANSWERED LETTERS
+
+
+During the night the yacht "Hallena" had steamed down through the Channel
+Piombino, and the Tuscan Archipelago, studded with islands, and had
+passed Rome, the Eternal City.
+
+"Naples cannot be far off," thought Leo, for to the southeast is seen the
+smoking torch of Mt. Vesuvius, southwest is the island of Ischia with its
+extinct volcano, and beyond is Cape Miseno. The "Hallena" cautiously felt
+her way among the luxuriant islands that guard the broad and beautiful
+Bay of Naples and the Siren City. Her passengers had ample opportunity
+to study the attractions of this justly celebrated locality.
+
+Vesuvius, reflected in the smooth waters of the bay, lifts high her peak,
+the ascending smoke coloring the white clouds above. At her feet lies
+ancient Hurculaneum, submerged on the 24th of August, A.D. 79, by a flood
+of molten lava.
+
+Nearer the bay and only five miles from the volcano, is ancient Pompeii,
+which was overwhelmed by the same eruption of Vesuvius. Pompeii was
+buried, not with lava, but with tufa, ashes and scoriae, and since 1755
+has thus been the more easily and extensively uncovered. This ancient
+Roman city was enclosed by walls and entered by several gates. Its
+numerous streets were paved with lava. The traveler of to-day beholds
+uncovered the one story and terraced houses, shops, mansions, the market
+place, temples, theatres, and baths. In some of the houses were found
+furniture, statues, paintings, books, medals, urns, jewels, utensils,
+manuscripts, etc., all less injured than one would suppose.
+
+Today more modern towns are located about the curved shore of this
+unrivaled bay. The sparkling waters, the winding shore, the bold cliffs,
+the threatening lava cone, the buried cities, all combine under the
+bluest skies to make the Bay of Naples a Mecca for worshipers of the
+beautiful.
+
+On the deck of the "Hallena" stood the group of American tourists,
+enchanted with the picturesque environment of historic Naples. The city
+is built along the shore and up the sides of adjacent mountains. A mole,
+with lighthouse, projects into the bay and forms a small harbor.
+
+The sun had climbed towards the zenith, and shone full upon this fair
+city, as the yacht entered the harbor. Many of the buildings are white,
+five or six stories in height, with flat roofs covered with plants and
+shrubbery. If the weather is favorable the inmates resort at sunset to
+their roof-gardens to enjoy lovely views and the cool breezes from the
+bay.
+
+The Spiaggia, a popular thoroughfare, is adorned with statues, and
+extends along the shore to the Tomb of Virgil, and the mole. It is
+crowded every evening with Neapolitans in equipages, some elegant, and
+some grotesque.
+
+Two or three days were spent in studying the palaces and art galleries of
+Naples. Of special interest is the national Museo Borbonico, which is
+remarkable for its collection of antiquities. In the palmy days of Borne,
+Naples was a luxurious retreat for emperors and wealthy citizens of the
+great empire. Naples was the scene of a most disgraceful outrage in May,
+1848, when it was plundered by the Lazzaroni, or Begging Community, and
+fifteen hundred lives were lost.
+
+When the sight-seeing in Naples was completed Captain Hall offered to
+take the Harrises in his yacht back to Rome, but his offer was declined.
+Good-byes were cordially exchanged and the "Hallena" steamed south to
+Palermo, en route to Athens and other Levantine cities, while the
+Harrises took the express for Rome.
+
+Leo was glad to see the "Hallena" steam away, and to be with Lucille
+aboard a train moving towards Rome. When the station in the eastern part
+of the city was reached, a carriage conveyed the Harrises along the Corso
+which at the hour of their driving was enlivened by many vehicles and
+foot-passengers.
+
+Leo told Lucille of the popular festivals at Rome, especially of the
+Carnival that extends over several days, which consists of daily
+processions in the Corso, accompanied by the throwing of bouquets and
+comfits; the whole concluding with a horse race from the Piazza del
+Popolo to Piazza di Venezia, upwards of a mile. On the last, or the
+Moccoli evening, tapers are lighted immediately after sunset. Balconies
+most suitable for observing these animated scenes are expensive, but
+always in great demand, especially by tourists.
+
+Colonel Harris took his family and Leo to an excellent hotel on the
+Piazza de Popolo. The weather being uncomfortably warm, it was decided
+to spend only a few days in the city, and go as soon as possible to the
+country. Leo was very familiar with Rome, ancient and modern, and he
+felt that weeks were absolutely necessary to study and comprehend the
+grandeur of a city that for so many centuries had been mistress of the
+world. He agreed with Niebuhr, "As the streams lose themselves in the
+mightier ocean, so the history of the people once distributed along the
+Mediterranean shores is absorbed in that of the mighty mistress of the
+world."
+
+Leo back again in Rome was in an ecstasy of joy. Here Greece had laid at
+the feet of Rome her conqueror, the accumulated art treasures of ages.
+Here Leo could have keenest delight, where he moved among the noblest
+examples of antique sculpture, which filled the galleries and chambers of
+the Vatican and Capitol. Most of the night he lay awake, planning how he
+could in so short a time exhibit to his American friends Rome and her
+wealth of art. At breakfast he said, "A whole day is needed to inspect
+the Forum Romanum, a day each, for the Capitoline Hill, the Appian Way,
+and many other historic localities in this seven-hilled city."
+
+Leo, acting as guide, took his party to the Pincian Hill near the
+northern wall, a fashionable resort with fine boulevards and frequent
+band music. From the summit, he pointed out the yellow Tiber, which winds
+for seventeen miles to the sea. The larger part of modern Rome lies on
+the left bank of the Tiber, and covers three historic hills. Towering
+above the tops of the buildings are the domes and spires of nearly four
+hundred churches of which the dome of St. Peter's is the most imposing.
+In sight beyond are the Capitol, the ruins of the Colosseum, and ancient
+tombs along the Appian Way. To the west on the Palatine Hill are the
+ruins of the palace of the Caesars, and outside the walls, on the broad
+Campagna, are the remains of several aqueducts converging on the city,
+some of which, restored, are in use to-day.
+
+The day's ride included a visit to Agrippa's Pantheon, now denuded of its
+bronze roofing and marble exterior. A circular opening in the huge dome
+admits both light and rain. Leo standing with Lucille by the tomb of
+Raphael in one of the recesses, for a moment was silent. Then he said,
+"Lucille, it is impossible to fully appreciate the many and beautiful
+works of this 'prince of painters.' He was born on Good Friday, 1483, and
+lived exactly thirty-seven years. He was of slight build, sallow, and had
+brown eyes. Over nine hundred prints of his works are known. Besides his
+works in fresco at the Vatican, for a time he had charge of the
+construction of St. Peter's, and he also painted masterpieces now at
+Bologna, Dresden, Madrid, Hampton Court, and executed numerous
+commissions for Leo X.; and Madonnas, holy families, portraits, etc.,
+for others. Raphael stands unrivaled, chiefly in his power to portray
+lofty sentiments which persons of all nationalities can feel, but few
+can describe. He also excelled in invention, composition, simplicity
+and grandeur. For moral force in allegory and history, and for fidelity
+in portrait, Raphael was unsurpassed. His last and most celebrated oil
+picture, the transfiguration, unfinished, stood at his head as his body
+lay in state."
+
+Colonel Harris was interested in the restored Triumphal Arch of Titus
+erected to commemorate the defeat of the Jews A.D. 70, also in the
+beautiful Arch to Severus. At the end of the Rostra, or Orators' Tribune
+was the Umbilicus Urbis Romae, or ideal center of Rome and the Roman
+Empire. True it was that all roads led to Rome. Leo and Lucille visited
+by moonlight the ruins of the great Colosseum, and the lights and shadows
+in the huge old stone and brick amphitheater, made it look all the more
+imposing and picturesque.
+
+On the morning of the second day Leo Colonna guided his friends down the
+Via di Ripetta, stopping at the Mausoleum of Augustus, which in the
+middle ages was used by the Colonnas as a fortress. Then continuing down
+the left bank of the Tiber, the Ponte S. Angelo was reached. This ancient
+bridge of five arches leads directly to the Castello S. Angelo, the
+citadel of Rome, which originally was a tomb erected by Hadrian for
+himself and successor. The tomb is 240 feet in diameter, and must have
+been very beautiful, as it was once encrusted with marble. Statues stood
+around the margin of the top, and above all a colossal statue of Hadrian
+himself. Later the Goths, veritable iconoclasts, converted this tomb of
+the emperors into a fortress, hurling the marble statues down on the
+besiegers. For centuries this castle-tomb was used as a stronghold by
+the party in power to maintain their sway over the people. In 1822 Pius
+IX. refortified the castle. In it was seen the gloomy dungeon where
+Beatrice Cenci and others were incarcerated.
+
+The Harrises drove down the Borgo Nuovo to the church of St. Peter. Its
+approach is through a magnificent piazza ornamented on the right and left
+by two semicircular porticoes of 284 columns, which are surmounted by an
+entablature, and 192 statues, each eleven feet in height. It is claimed
+that the origin of the Cathedral of St. Peter is due to the impulse
+given by Pope Julius II. who decided to erect a grand monument for
+himself in his life-time, and the new edifice was needed to shield it.
+St. Peter's was begun in 1506 and dedicated in 1626.
+
+Bramante's wonderful plans were accepted, and both Michael Angelo and
+Raphael aided in its construction. From a Greek cross rises a gigantic
+dome, which is one of the boldest and most wonderful efforts of
+architecture. Lucille recalled Byron's description,
+
+  "The vast and wondrous dome,
+   To which Diana's marvel was a cell."
+
+Entering this mighty cathedral, Colonel Harris was bewildered with its
+grand and harmonious interior. The height from the pavement to the cross
+rivals the height of the Washington monument. The nave is 607 feet in
+length, and the transept is 445 feet. St. Paul's at London covers only
+two acres, St. Peter's five acres. The cost of the former was $3,750,000,
+the cost of the latter from $60,000,000 to $80,000,000.
+
+The Harrises visited St. John Lateran, the mother-church of the Eternal
+City, where Popes were crowned, and where on Ascension Day, from one of
+its balconies, the Pope's benediction to the people is pronounced.
+
+They also visited the restored St. Paul's Church outside the walls. Its
+interior is of vast dimensions. It was built of valuable materials, and
+the whole is very imposing. Especially was Lucille impressed with the
+long series of portrait medallions of all the Popes from St. Peter to Leo
+X. worked in mosaic above the polished columns.
+
+Many monuments in St. Peter's were erected to the memory of several of
+the famous Popes. The Vatican, the largest palace in Europe, is where the
+Popes came to reside after their return from Avignon, France, in 1377,
+for here they felt much security in the vicinity of the Castle S. Angelo,
+with which it communicated by a covered gallery. For a time the Popes
+vied with each other in enlarging and embellishing the Vatican, which
+covers an immense space, and is a collection of separate buildings; the
+length is 1150 feet, and the breath 767 feet. The Vatican is said to
+contain 20 courts, and 11,000 halls, chapels, salons, and private
+apartments, most of which are occupied by collections and show-rooms,
+while only a small part is set apart for the papal court.
+
+The Harrises visited the most celebrated portions of the Vatican; the
+Scala Regia, covered with frescoes of events in Papal history, the
+Sistine Chapel, adorned with fine frescoes by Michael Angelo, including
+the Last Judgment. Here the Cardinals meet to elect the Pope, and here
+many of the most gorgeous ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church are
+performed.
+
+Equally enthusiastic were Leo and Lucille over Raphael's superb frescoes
+in the Loggie, and in the chambers adjoining. The few pictures in the
+gallery are scarcely surpassed. The museum contains some of the noblest
+treasures of art, including the Laocoon, and Apollo Belvidere. The
+library is very valuable. The superb palace of the Quirinal has beautiful
+gardens.
+
+Besides the several elegant public palaces in Rome, there are in and near
+the city over sixty private palaces or villas; the finest of which is the
+Barberini Palace. Several of the villas are located above terraces amid
+orange and citron groves, and they are ornamented with statues and
+fountains. Leo with pride took his friends to see the Colonna Palace,
+which contained many old portraits of his family.
+
+After dinner a drive was taken outside the Porta del Popolo to the
+magnificent Villa Borghese and the Pincian Hill. It was planned to visit
+on the morrow the gallery Borghese, next to the Vatican, the most
+important in Rome. It was dark as Leo returned with his party to the
+hotel. The landlord handed him a gentleman's card which read,
+
+  Mr. Ferdinand Francisco Colonna.
+  Piazza Colonna, Rome.
+
+The landlord said that this gentleman was waiting for Leo in the
+reception-room. Leo at once recognized the card as that of his cousin,
+who was an attorney in Rome, and he hurried to meet his relative. They
+grasped hands warmly, and soon were in earnest conversation.
+
+Ferdinand, taking a large official envelope from his pocket, opened it
+and began reading what he called a very important paper. It was a copy
+of the will of their rich uncle, who had just died, while inspecting
+his possession in Sicily. Leo Colonna bore the name of this uncle, his
+father's oldest brother, who was fond of art, and who was never married.
+He had always been attached to Leo, his nephew, and in his will Leo was
+made his sole heir. Great was Leo's surprise to learn that he was now not
+only the owner of a fine palace southeast of Rome, but of large
+possessions in Rome, Sicily, and South America.
+
+Leo leaned back in his chair, his eyes closed, his face changed color
+and the muscles of his hands and face twitched as if he were in pain.
+Suddenly he recovered possession of himself and said, "Ferdinand, you
+almost paralyze me by the news you bring. Am I dreaming, or not?"
+
+"No, no, Leo. This is a copy of the will of our uncle. The original will
+is in my safe. By this same will I am to have 100,000 lira for assisting
+you. I am now at your service."
+
+"Ferdinand, you bring sad and glorious news. What is your advice?"
+
+"That we file the original will at once in the proper court, and that you
+proceed with me immediately to Marino to take possession there of your
+palace and property."
+
+"Agreed, Ferdinand. We will leave Rome for Marino at noon tomorrow.
+Meet me here, as I may have friends to join us."
+
+Leo hastened at once to tell the good news to the Harrises, who were
+nearly as much elated as himself, and it was agreed that all would join
+Leo in his proposed trip. It was late that night when Leo and Lucille
+separated in the parlor below. Each had dreamed of castles in Spain, but
+now it looked as if Leo and possibly Lucille, might actually possess
+castles in Italy.
+
+That night Leo told Lucille much about the princely Colonna family of
+Italy, which originated in the 11th century. Pope Martin V., several
+others who took part in the contest between the Guelphs and the
+Ghibellines, and many others of the Colonna family had attained to
+historical and literary distinction.
+
+Lucille was interested in the story of the great naval battle of Lepanto
+in which Marc Antonio Colonna aided Don Juan of Austria to gain a
+world-renowned victory for Christianity against the Turks, the first
+effective triumph of the cross over the crescent. Leo recited the story
+of the life of the illustrious Vittoria Colonna, pictures of a bust of
+whom Lucille had seen that day in Rome.
+
+Vittoria, and the son of the Marquis of Pescara, when children four years
+old, were affianced, and in their seventeenth year they were married. The
+young bride bravely sent her husband to the wars with a pavilion, an
+embroidered standard, and palm leaves, expressing the hope that he
+would return with honors, for she was proud of the Colonna name.
+
+Vittoria full of genius and grace, idealized her young showy cavalier,
+who was gallant and chivalrous. Her brave knight Pescara, among other
+victories, won the battle of Pavia, and finally died of his wounds in
+Milan before she could reach his side. Vittoria Colonna buried her love
+in Pescara's grave at Naples. Her widowhood was a period of sorrow, song,
+friendship, and saintly life. She was tall, stately, and dignified; of
+gracious manners, and united much charm with her culture and virtue. She
+is considered the fairest and noblest lady of the Italian Renaissance.
+
+Vittoria Colonna was on intimate terms with the great men and women of
+her day, and in close sympathy with the Italian reformers. Michael Angelo
+was warmly her friend. His strong verses full of feeling to Vittoria were
+replied to in gentle, graceful strains. She died as the sun sank in the
+Mediterranean on the afternoon of February 25, 1547, Michael Angelo
+regretting as he saw her, lying on her death-bed, that he had not kissed
+her forehead and face as he had kissed her hand.
+
+As Lucille retired that night she felt the force of Vittoria's noble
+life, and longed to emulate one so related to her friend Leo. She felt
+her own heart drawing nearer to Leo's, and in the silent hours of the
+night, she sometimes wondered if she should ever bear the honored name of
+Colonna.
+
+Next day at 12 o'clock promptly, Leo's cousin came, and the Harrises and
+Leo took the Rome and Naples line for Marino, located sixteen miles
+southeast of Rome, where Vittoria Colonna had lived, and where Leo
+expected to find and take possession of his own palace and property.
+
+The Roman tombs of the Via Appia on the right were soon left behind.
+A dozen miles out and Frascate a summer resort was conspicuous with
+its many lovely villas. Later the party left the train and enjoyed a
+beautiful drive of three miles to Marino, a small town famous for its
+wine, and located on the Alban Mountains. In the middle ages, the Orsini
+defended themselves here in a stronghold against their enemies the
+Colonna, but the latter under Martin V. captured Marino, which with the
+surrounding country has remained a fief of the Colonna family to the
+present day.
+
+Ferdinand had already attended to much of the detail at Marino, so that
+Leo, as owner of the vast Colonna estate, was loyally received by the
+villagers, the tenants, and the old servants. Leo made his friends, the
+Harrises, most welcome at his unexpected and palatial home. The Harrises
+were delighted at what they saw. Leo and Lucille took several drives
+together over the large estate. Once they drove along the shady roads,
+commanding extensive views, through the beautiful park of Colonna, and
+down a well wooded valley to the clear waters of the Alban Lake. Often
+Leo wished that Alfonso had accompanied him.
+
+For some time before leaving Rome, Lucille had complained of a dull
+headache and chills at night. In France Mrs. Harris was fearful that the
+summer trip to Italy was not wise, but Leo and her family thought the
+yacht voyage to Naples would be charming. On the morning of the third
+day at Marino, Lucille was unable to leave her bed. Leo hastily called a
+physician who found her pulse very low. She experienced great thirst and
+nausea, and the heat of her body was much increased. When the doctor
+learned that Colonel Harris's daughter had slept in Rome with the window
+open, he at once declared to the family that Lucille had Roman fever,
+that dreaded malaria which is engendered in summer months near the
+marshes of Italy. Leo summoned to Marino the ablest physicians of Rome,
+who were in constant attendance, and heroic treatment was adopted.
+
+Both Mr. and Mrs. Harris were half crazed with the fear of losing
+their beautiful daughter, and Leo himself was nearly frantic. Lucille
+grew rapidly worse. Her strength and courage failed her, she became
+unconscious, and as the tall white lily in the midday sun loses its
+beauty and life, so Lucille passed from earth, her agonizing mother
+holding the dead daughter's slender white hands.
+
+Leo fell insensible and was removed from the death-chamber by his
+servants. Womanly courage returned to the mother after a few moments of
+intense grief, and aided by others the necessary preparations were made
+for the removal of Lucille to America.
+
+Captain Harry Hall with his yacht en route to Athens had called at
+Brindisi to get a reply from a most important letter of his mailed to
+Lucille at Palermo. As he stepped ashore a telegram was handed him
+announcing the sudden death of the woman he loved. He was so shocked that
+his friends were alarmed. After a short conference Harry wired Colonel
+Harris the use of his yacht to carry back to America the remains of
+beautiful Lucille.
+
+While Colonel Harris was writing an acceptance of Captain Hall's
+services, a second telegram came announcing the death, by drowning, of
+his only son Alfonso in the Zuider Zee at Amsterdam. How true that
+misfortunes never come singly!
+
+Beneath the pillow on which Lucille died, were found two unanswered
+letters, proposals of marriage, one from Leo and one from Captain Hall.
+The broken hearted mother took charge of these letters, and before the
+metallic coffin was sealed, the unanswered letters were placed in
+Lucille's white hand, over the heart that could not now decide.
+
+Later the casket was put on board the yacht "Hallena" at Rome, and
+Captain Hall with his flag at half-mast steamed towards America with the
+woman, who could never on earth accept the tribute of his heart. Leo, now
+Marquis Colonna, true chevalier that he was, insisted that he be
+permitted to accompany Colonel Harris to Amsterdam in search of his son
+Alfonso.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+COLONEL HARRIS'S BIG BLUE ENVELOPE
+
+
+The honeymoon of George and Gertrude included not only the two delightful
+weeks in Switzerland, but also the ten or twelve days on a slow steamer
+returning to New York. The weather at sea was all that could be desired.
+The longer a smooth sea-voyage, the better lovers are pleased. Return
+ocean passages usually furnish the much needed rest after a so-called
+vacation abroad. Overworked Americans need, not so much an entire
+cessation of activities, as a change of occupation, which usually, brings
+the desired results.
+
+George and Gertrude made but few acquaintances on the steamer. The
+thought that each possessed the other was enjoyment that satisfied, and
+both were happy. Each lived as in dreamland, and scarcely observed even
+the daily runs made by the steamer. The death by accident of a sailor,
+and his strange burial at sea, served only for a brief time to arrest a
+happiness made complete by each other's voice and presence. The two weeks
+on the ocean came and went as softly as flowers unfold and disappear.
+Thus far, married life had been ideal.
+
+It was after eleven o'clock, and anxious passengers were pacing the
+decks, hoping to sight native land before retiring. Suddenly the officer
+on the bridge discerned the dim Fire Island Light, bearing north by west,
+twenty miles distant. Ten minutes later, five points on the port bow, a
+pilot boat was sighted. Her mast-head light was visible, also the torch,
+which soaked in turpentine, burnt brightly at intervals.
+
+The steamer signals, "We want a pilot," by burning a blue light on the
+bridge, and bears down on the pilot schooner. The moon reveals enormous
+figures, with a heavy dot beneath, on the mainsail of the schooner. Over
+the rail goes the yawl, followed by the oarsman and pilot, whose turn
+it is to go ashore. The pilot carries a lantern, which in the egg-shaped
+yawl dances on the white wave crests up and down like a fire-fly. The
+yawl is soon under the steamer's lee, and a line from the big ship pulls
+the little boat to the ladder, and the pilot nimbly climbs to the
+steamer's bridge, bringing the latest papers. The schooner drifts under
+the steamer's stern, takes in the yawl, and again sails to the eastward
+in search of another liner.
+
+The entrance to the port of New York is patrolled night and day by a
+pilot-fleet of thirty boats, which cost from $10,000 to $20,000 each.
+They are staunch and seaworthy, the fastest schooners afloat. Often,
+knocked down by heavy seas, for a moment they tremble, like a frightened
+bird, then shaking the water off their decks, they rise, heave to,
+perhaps under double reefed foresail, and with everything made snug,
+outride the storm, and are at their work again. Pilots earn good pay, and
+this they deserve, as they often risk their lives in behalf of others.
+
+Sandy Hook Light was now in sight, and long before the sun began his
+journey across the heavens, the steamer lay at anchor at quarantine,
+waiting for a certificate from the health officer. As the steamer proudly
+sped through "The Narrows," a jubilant crowd of passengers on the
+promenade deck sang,
+
+  "My country 'tis of thee
+   Sweet Land of Liberty,
+   Of thee I sing;
+   Land where my fathers died;
+   Land of the pilgrim's pride;
+   From ev'ry mountain side
+   Let freedom ring."
+
+The hymn was sung to the tune of "God Save the Queen," and several
+enthusiastic Englishmen joined with their kith and kin.
+
+On Bedloe's Island Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty waved her torch, outward
+bound steamers exchanged salutes, the Brooklyn Bridge and all the ferries
+were thronged with people hurrying to the labor marts of the metropolis,
+as the steamer with George and Gertrude aboard moved up the harbor and
+was safely docked on the North River.
+
+In the lead down the gangway Gertrude hastened George to secure a
+carriage for their hotel, so anxious was she to reach rooms on American
+soil, where she might honorably break the seal of her father's mysterious
+big blue envelope. It had rarely been out of her mind since the day of
+her wedding in Paris.
+
+After breakfast, served in true American style, the Ingrams glanced at
+the big morning papers crowded with American news, and wondered why
+European papers printed so little about the States. Then they retired to
+their rooms to break the seal of the blue envelope.
+
+George was all attention as his young wife with the flush of health and
+excitement in her cheeks tore apart the envelope, and stepping to the
+window for better light, she began to read Reuben Harris's letter.
+
+  Paris--
+
+  _Dear George and Gertrude_,--
+
+  The accumulation of my fortune, now largely invested in prime
+  securities, has been a surprise and often a burden to me, and with it
+  came, as I now clearly see, great responsibilities.
+
+  Money is power, and most people zealously seek it. Many fail to get it,
+  and often those who do succeed, fail to keep it. Wealth unsought comes
+  only to a few, while others, with perhaps hereditary financial
+  instincts, pursue with certainty of success the golden fleece.
+
+  My early experiences with poverty, and now with wealth, and my late
+  extensive observations have impressed upon me, as never before, the
+  common brotherhood of mankind. The great problem of our age is the
+  proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may
+  still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relations. What
+  shall be the laws of accumulation and distribution? To decide this
+  wisely the discretion of our present and future legislators will be
+  heavily burdened.
+
+  The condition of many races is better to-day on the foundations on
+  which society is built, than on the old ones tried and abandoned. What
+  were yesterday's luxuries are to-day's necessities. The poor enjoy
+  to-day what yesterday even the rich could not afford. Mankind always
+  has exhibited great irregularities. In every race some are born with an
+  energy and ability to produce wealth, others not. Invention and
+  discovery have replaced scarcity and dearness with abundance and
+  cheapness. The law of competition seems to cheapen comforts and
+  luxuries.
+
+  Both labor and capital are organizing, concentrating, competing. The
+  idealist may dream of what is attainable in the future, but our duty is
+  plainly with what is practicable now. My prayer is for wisdom and
+  ability to administer wisely our wealth, during my life-time. I am
+  therefore resolved to act as follows:--
+
+  1st. To retain for my family only what will provide modestly for them
+  all. I do not wish to leave much property for my relatives to use
+  prodigally, or to quarrel over.
+
+  2nd. I plan not to wait till I die and then leave behind for public
+  purposes money which I cannot take with me. I shall consider myself as
+  an agent, or trustee, in charge of certain surplus funds to be expended
+  in behalf of my poorer brethren.
+
+  On our return to America, Mrs. Harris and I will make our wills in
+  accordance with the above. It is our desire that, when you reach home,
+  you both enter at once upon the development of your plans, of a
+  cooperative manufacturing corporation, in accordance with the views
+  which you have so frequently mentioned. In the execution of these
+  plans, you may use, if necessary, five millions. With best wishes for
+  your happiness.
+
+  Your father,
+
+  Reuben Harris.
+
+The writing of this letter gave Colonel Harris more pleasure than any act
+of his life; in fact it was for him the beginning of a new life; a life
+for others.
+
+The reading of the letter also gave George and Gertrude much happiness,
+for it furnished them abundant means for the execution of their
+beneficent plans, which had been thoroughly considered by the Harris
+family. This important letter was returned to the blue envelope and given
+to Gertrude for safe keeping, and it was agreed to leave for Harrisville
+next day at 1 o'clock on the Chicago Special.
+
+Among the personals in the Harrisville Sunday paper appeared the
+following:
+
+  Arrived from Europe Saturday morning, Mr. and Mrs. George Ingram. It is
+  needless to say that their many friends will give them cordial welcome.
+  Colonel and Mrs. Reuben Harris, their son and daughter, Alfonso and
+  Lucille, will remain in Europe for several weeks.
+
+This notice, though brief, was of much interest to rich and poor in
+Harrisville. Society, of course, was interested in the marriage of
+Gertrude, business men in the return of so skilled a manufacturer as
+George Ingram, and many workmen, still unemployed, hoped that their old
+superintendent whom they loved would find or make positions for them.
+
+The continued absence of Colonel Harris the financier aided George Ingram
+in certain important negotiations which he proceeded quietly to make,
+viz., the purchase in the suburbs of Harrisville, in fifty parcels, of
+4,000 acres of contiguous land, that had both a river and a lake front.
+While these purchases were being made, agents were dispatched into
+several Ohio counties, and more than 20,000 acres of well tested coal
+lands were secured. When it was learned that all these lands were bought
+in the name of George Ingram, and paid for in cash, the wisacres of the
+city began to say, "I told you so; these monopolists having visited
+England have adopted foreign ideas, and now they have returned to buy and
+hold our valuable lands." George Ingram was reticent, as most successful
+business men are, for he gave attention to business. "Talkers are no
+great doers," wrote Shakespeare.
+
+The offices of the old Harrisville Iron & Steel Co. had been rented to
+other parties, so a suite of rooms near by was occupied by George Ingram
+and his five assistants. It had leaked out, however, that Ingram had
+given orders for twenty millions of brick and a large quantity of
+structural iron and copper tubes, all to be delivered within four months.
+The order for copper tubes puzzled even the wisest in Harrisville. Later,
+when a thousand laborers were set at work on the river front of
+his purchase, building extensive foundations, it dawned upon the
+expectant that a gigantic plant for some purpose was to be erected near
+Harrisville. Newspaper reporters found it difficult to reach George
+Ingram, even with a card, which would be returned with the reply "Busy
+to-day. Please excuse me."
+
+In the meantime Harrisville agreed to create a more available harbor, and
+to establish dock lines, not less than 500 feet apart, and in three years
+to dredge the river to a depth of 25 feet for five miles back from the
+lake.
+
+George Ingram in his own mind had settled three vital points; that
+Harrisville was one of the most favorable producing and distributing
+centers in America; that he would so design and build a manufacturing
+plant as to minimize the cost of production; that he would attempt to
+harmonize capital and labor. Important provisions of the Company's
+charter were:
+
+  ARTICLE III
+
+  The capital stock of this Corporation shall be Five Million Dollars
+  ($5,000,000) to be divided into Five Hundred Thousand Shares at Ten
+  Dollars each, fully paid, and non-assessable.
+
+  ARTICLE VI
+
+  The private property of stockholders shall be exempt from any and all
+  debts of this Corporation.
+
+Two thousand of the four thousand acres purchased were set apart for
+manufacturing purposes. Most of the land sloped gradually, and the
+surface-water naturally drained into the river. George Ingram's plans for
+an enormous steel-plant had been most carefully worked out in detail.
+Night and day the construction went forward. In eight months the plant
+was in full operation. He had obtained the latest important labor-saving
+devices and improved facilities in use throughout America and Europe. The
+whole was supplemented by the inventions already perfected by his father
+and himself.
+
+The Harris-Ingram Steel Co. was provided with every modern device that
+could in any manner contribute economy and rapidity from the time the
+ores left the ship, till the finished product was loaded for market. All
+ores and limestone were delivered on a tableland of the same height, and
+adjacent to a series of several enormous blast-furnaces. The melted iron
+from the blast-furnaces was tapped into ladles mounted on iron cars, and
+provided with mechanism for tipping the ladles. The molten iron of the
+cars was next transferred to improved converters in an adjoining
+building, constructed entirely of iron. Nearby were the spiegel cupolas.
+The greatest possible accuracy was thus attainable in delivering definite
+quantities of molten iron into the converter for a given blow, also of
+spiegeleisen. This was easily accomplished by standing the ladle cars
+upon scales.
+
+The metal was cast into ingot moulds, standing upon cars, and then
+transferred to the mould stripper; afterwards the ingots were weighed
+and sent to the soaking-pit furnaces. After a "wash heat" the ingots,
+or blooms, entered the rolls, and were drawn and sized in shape to fill
+orders from every part of the world.
+
+The marvel at the Harris-Ingram Steel Co.'s mills was that electricity,
+developed in vast quantities at the coal mines and conveyed on patented
+copper tubes, furnished all the power, heat, and light used in the entire
+plant. Electricity hoisted and melted all the ores; it worked Sturtevant
+fans and blowing engines, which supplied necessary air for cupolas and
+converters. Electricity furnished all the power requisite to handle
+innumerable cranes and cars. As easily as a magnet picks up tacks,
+electricity also handled ingots or finished steel. Five thousand tons of
+finished steel per day were made and the labor and fuel account had been
+reduced over one-half.
+
+While the huge steel plant at Harrisville was being constructed, a large
+force of men were building a conduit to protect copper tubes, from the
+steel plant to the coal fields. At the mines hundreds of miners were set
+at work, several shafts were sunk, and tunnels, levels, and winzes were
+developed.
+
+George Ingram believed that all the force in the world available for
+man's use was derived from the sun; so he heroically resolved to hitch
+his wagon, if not to a star, to the mighty sun. With this purpose in
+view, he had bought the 20,000 acres of coal land. Half of this area was
+located in Jefferson, Harrison, and Belmont counties on the Ohio River,
+and thus title was secured to vast quantities of fossil power in the
+upper coal measures, which ignites quickly and burns with a hot fire. The
+other 10,000 acres were valuable because nearer to Harrisville. This coal
+came from lower measures or seams.
+
+George Ingram had made a thorough study of coal, or fossil fuel, its
+formation and value. The coal of the carboniferous age is derived almost
+entirely from the family of plants called _Lycopods_, or club mosses, and
+the ferns, which back in high antiquity attained gigantic size. The
+microscope has clearly developed this vegetable origin of coal. The great
+Appalachian and other coal fields are without doubt, the long continued
+and vigorous forest growths, and subsequent fossilization of the same in
+the marginal swamps of ancient gulfs or seas.
+
+The agency of transfer for solar energy is the vegetable kingdom. The
+vegetable cell has the surprising property through the sun's agency of
+being able to live and multiply itself on air alone. The carbon of
+carbonic acid, a constituent of the atmosphere, is so liberated and
+appropriated, as to become fixed in the forming tissues of plants. Thus
+the plant is a storer of light and heat, a reservoir of force. It
+mediates between the sun's energy and the animal life of the world. Thus
+coal seams are the accumulations of the sun's energy for thousands of
+centuries, requiring the patient growth and slow decay of hundreds of
+immense forests. One secret of the unprecedented late growth of cities is
+discovered in the steam engine, or the coal which feeds it.
+
+A pound of good coal, used in a good engine, stands for the work of six
+horses for an hour; a ton of coal for the work of thirteen hundred horses
+for a day of ten hours; ten thousand tons of coal, used in a day by
+single lines of railways, stand for the work of thirteen million horses,
+working ten hours a day. In 1894 the English mines produced 188,277,525
+tons of coal. In Great Britain alone, coal does the work of more than a
+hundred millions of men, and adds proportionately to the fabulously
+increasing wealth of those fortunate islands.
+
+The Ingrams had solved two important problems, and on their practicable
+application depended the success of the great Harris-Ingram experiment.
+The more important of the two was the unlocking of the sun's stored
+energy, electricity, at the coal mines. The second was a device for
+conveying this energy from the mines to the steel plant, and it had been
+patented to protect it.
+
+Since electricity possibly travels on the surface of wires or metals, the
+Ingrams patented a valuable device of small corrugated copper tubes,
+strengthened in the center by steel wires, and thus the carrying capacity
+of electricity was greatly increased, and the amount of costly copper
+much decreased. These corrugated tubes enclosed in cheap glass, and
+surrounded with oil, were laid in properly prepared conduits of vitrified
+fire-clay sewer pipes. Without the intervention of the steam engine, by
+a surprisingly simple process, electrical force was liberated chemically
+at the mines and transferred for multiple uses at the steel plant.
+Expensive coal-freights were thus saved. All the slack coal was utilized,
+and instead of the waste of nine-tenths of the stored energy of the coal,
+only one tenth was now lost. To husband properly the fruits of so great a
+discovery, it was decided not to patent this latter invention, which if
+disclosed would give too great publicity to the details.
+
+The electrical works at the mines were constructed of safe-steel walls
+and roof, and so built that the operations of generating electricity
+directly from coal were conducted in secret in several separate
+apartments, so that no single operator without the knowledge of all the
+initiated employees would be able to successfully work the inventions.
+The dozen initiated employees had made life long contracts with the
+company in consideration of liberal and satisfactory rewards. The
+Harris-Ingram Steel Co. thus equipped began operations.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+"GOLD MARRIES GOLD"
+
+
+Alfonso Harris was content to leave his friends to continue their
+journey, as they were willing that he should return to the Netherlands,
+or to Amsterdam, where lived the beautiful woman who had won his heart.
+
+Christine de Ruyter cordially welcomed Alfonso back to study art as he
+expressed it to her on the first evening after his arrival. Alfonso was
+much in Christine's society, at art exhibits, in carriage drives, and on
+pleasure boat excursions down the bay. Weeks went by before he could
+summon courage enough to ask Christine's hand in marriage.
+
+In the game of hearts Alfonso thought himself an able combatant. He had
+studied Christine in action and in repose, in society, and when alone
+under his protection at Scheveningen, and at home, and he prided himself
+that he knew at least one woman thoroughly. She loved art, flowers,
+music, and fine dress, and was very ambitious. The latter trait was
+doubtless inbred from her distinguished naval relatives.
+
+Christine had many acquaintances among the best families of Holland. Her
+beauty, coupled with the fact that she was an heiress, made her the
+object of much attention from artists and members of clubs, but possibly
+her love, or affection for art, might have sprung from the desire to gain
+more knowledge of how to make herself attractive in dress, manner, and
+conversation. Christine was not offensively vain, but she was
+passionately fond of admiration. Alfonso had never dreamed that Christine
+was not genuine at heart. She appeared to him to make much of her
+American acquaintance, introducing him to her many friends, young ladies
+as well as young gentlemen, and always seemed to prefer his company to
+others.
+
+She manifested even tenderness for him, expressed her strong liking for
+America, and Alfonso believed that Christine was truly fond of him. No
+arguments or persuasions could have convinced him otherwise. The contrary
+wishes of his own family, the eloquence of a Webster, winds from the
+poles, all combined, could not have cooled his ardor. Alfonso had firmly
+resolved to wed Christine, come what would.
+
+He had often dreamed of her smiles, her pretty blue eyes, and her fleecy
+hair floating in the breezes of the Zuider Zee. He had also dreamed of a
+brilliant wedding in Holland, of a large reception at Harrisville, and
+had even heard the plaudits of his fellow artists in New York, as they
+lauded his master piece "Admiral De Ruyter's Great Naval Victory."
+
+Fortified with these proofs of Christine's devotion, he sought the
+company of his blond sweetheart on a balcony that overlooked the moon-lit
+harbor of Amsterdam.
+
+Here Alfonso offered his hand and heart--to a coquette--who rejected him.
+He was astonished, almost stunned. Recovering from his dazed condition,
+she again chilled his heart by the utterance, "You have not learned in
+this practical world of ours that gold marries gold; that society plays
+for equivalents. You once admitted to me that your father wanted you at
+the head of his large business, and disapproved of your choice of a
+profession. As an artist you seek fame. How can you divide it with me? In
+asking my hand you seek to divide my gold, thus securing both fame and
+gold. Alfonso we have enjoyed each other's company as friends."
+
+"Yes, Christine, though you have been cruel we can separate as friends.
+Sometime I may be able to match gold with gold. Till then, adieu."
+
+Saying this Alfonso left the De Ruyter mansion all the more resolved,
+however, to win Christine. For a moment her deceptive heart rebuked her
+as she watched Alfonso's departure. In the papers of the following
+evening an announcement frightened Christine. The head lines read: "Mr.
+Alfonso Harris, a young American artist, drowned this morning in the
+harbor."
+
+Later the police brought to the De Ruyter home detailed news. Christine
+gave instructions to use every possible effort to recover Alfonso's body,
+and at once sent her servant with a telegram for Colonel Reuben Harris,
+Grand Hotel, Paris, the only address she knew.
+
+The next day, with her mother, she accompanied the police to Alfonso's
+room, where she gathered up several of her love letters. A new suit of
+clothes hung in the closet, a package of returned laundry lay on the
+table, also pen, ink and paper. Evidently Alfonso expected to return soon
+to the hotel. His clothes, watch, and money had been found in the boat
+that drifted ashore.
+
+Christine concluded that Alfonso had gone for a boat-ride and swim, as
+was his custom; very likely this time to free his mind, if possible, from
+recent trouble, and was seized with cramp and drowned before aid could
+reach him. Vigorous search in the harbor and along the shore instituted
+by the police department and the American consul failed to locate his
+body or to furnish further facts to Christine as to the cause of the
+accident.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Alfonso Harris meant all he said to Christine in his last words,
+"Sometime I may be able to match gold with gold." He might be blind in
+love matters, but his mind after a storm always righted itself. That
+night when Alfonso reached his hotel, he planned to leave the impression
+on Christine's mind that he was dead. To make the deception complete,
+his trunk and all effects in his room were left as found by Christine.
+Even his watch, pocket book and clothes were left behind in the little
+pleasure boat, while he donned an extra suit. A Norwegian captain, who
+was about leaving Amsterdam with a cargo for Canada, agreed for fifty
+dollars to pick up Alfonso down the harbor and to land him in Quebec.
+
+Fine family, beauty, and gold were powerful incentives to effort to an
+ambitious young man like Alfonso, and he was resolved, incognito, to
+explore the Great West in search of riches, and once found, he would lay
+all at Christine's feet, and again claim her hand.
+
+Jans Jansen, the Norwegian captain, was a jolly good ship-master, and the
+fair weather voyage across the Atlantic proved enjoyable. Alfonso always
+took his meals with the captain. Jans Jansen's wife and children lived in
+Christiania, and his constant talk was that he hoped some day to get rich
+and quit the sea. Alfonso made a warm friend of Captain Jansen, who
+pledged secrecy as to his escape from Amsterdam.
+
+The captain was robust and his big flowing red beard, blue eyes, and
+bravery made him a worthy successor of the ancient vikings of the
+Norseland. Jans Jansen enjoyed his pipe, and with his good stories whiled
+away many an hour for Alfonso, so that when the ship, under full sail,
+entered the Strait of Belle Isle and sailed across the Gulf towards the
+River St. Lawrence, both the captain and young Harris regretted that
+their sea-voyage was so soon to close.
+
+The entrance of the St. Lawrence River is so broad that the navies of the
+world abreast might enter the river undiscovered from either bank. Two
+hundred miles up the river, Trinity House, an association of over three
+hundred pilots, put aboard a pilot, and at noon next day Captain Jansen
+docked his vessel at Quebec.
+
+This old French city is located on a high promontory on the left bank
+of the St. Lawrence. Its citadel, one of the strongest fortresses in
+America, commands a varied and picturesque beauty. Alfonso walked up to
+the obelisk, which stands in one of the squares of the Upper Town, in
+joint memory of the brave generals Wolfe and Montgomery.
+
+Next morning he was off on the Canadian Pacific Railway for Duluth, the
+zenith city. Thence the journey west was through. Dakota in sight of
+occasional tepees, where the brave Sioux patiently waits his call to join
+the buffalo in the happy hunting grounds. Alfonso did not agree with the
+popular sentiment, "The best Indian is a dead Indian," for the Sioux
+seemed to him to belong to a noble race of red men.
+
+Alfonso's enthusiasm for mining was greatly quickened by a fellow
+traveler, who was the owner of a large block of stock in the famous
+Homestake Mining Co. of Lead City, Black Hills, So. Dakota. This company
+possesses one of the largest gold mines and mills in the world. The ore
+bodies show a working face from two to four hundred feet in width, and
+sink to a seemingly inexhaustible depth. The Homestake has produced over
+$25,000,000 in bullion, and has divided over six millions in dividends to
+stockholders.
+
+Three days' journey brought young Harris to Montana, an inland empire
+state, which lies on both sides of the Rocky Mountains. The Pacific
+Express was laden with a motley crowd of men and women in search of fame
+and fortune. Alfonso soon caught their enthusiasm, and visions of castles
+with gilded domes floated in his imagination.
+
+It was 1:35 P.M. when No. 1, the Pacific Express, pulled into thrifty
+Helena, capital of Montana, a commercial metropolis metamorphosed from
+a rude mining camp of twenty-five years ago.
+
+The electric cars carried Alfonso to the Hotel Helena on Grand St.,
+which he thought quite as good as any in his own city. Here he was
+fortunate in meeting Mr. Davidson, a gentleman of large experience
+as owner, organizer, and locator of some of the best gold and silver
+properties in Montana and adjoining states. Irrigating canals and
+water-rights were a special branch of Mr. Davidson's business. He never
+failed to make the round of the leading hotels after the arrival of the
+Overland. In this way he met Alfonso Harris. Davidson knew when to tell a
+good story, and when to be serious. He took Alfonso to the Club, located
+in elegant quarters, and the secretary gave him a complimentary visitor's
+card. Davidson quickly discerned that Harris needed a week's rest, and so
+took him on the motor line two miles out to the Hotel Broadwater and
+Natatorium. No wonder the citizens of Helena take pride in their fine
+health resort, the Helena Hot Springs.
+
+Mr. Davidson introduced Alfonso to Colonel Broadwater, who extended the
+hospitalities of his hotel on which he had expended a fortune. The
+verandas were long and wide, the park was dotted with fountains, and the
+interior of the hotel was luxurious in all its furnishings. The mammoth
+plunge bath was the largest in the world under a single cover. Curative
+mineral waters, steaming hot, flowed in abundantly from the grotto. In
+the natatorium fun-loving men and women slid down the toboggan planks, or
+jumped from the spring boards, while spectators in the gallery enjoyed
+the aquatic sports. Elegantly appointed bathrooms in the hotel offered at
+one's pleasure the double spray plunge, vapor, and needle baths.
+
+Alfonso was not prepared to find in the mountains elegance surpassing
+what he had seen abroad. Here he luxuriated for a week, and recovered his
+health, which had been somewhat impaired by the unfortunate experiences
+in Amsterdam, and the long journey from Holland.
+
+Davidson visited Harris every day. At first he only sought to entertain
+and awaken enthusiasm. He recited the familiar story of the Last Chance
+Gulch, how in 1864, four half-starved and disheartened miners, on their
+homeward journey from a prospecting tour among the gulches of the
+Blackfoot country in search of the precious dust, had settled down to
+work their last chance to make a stake, and had found gold in abundance.
+
+Davidson said, "Here, where to-day runs the main street of Helena, was the
+'Last Chance Gulch,' and the output of its placers was not less than
+fifteen millions. From 300 feet square, where now stands the Montana
+Central Railway depot, two miners took out over $330,000." Davidson told
+of the great successes at the "Jay Gould," and "Big Ox Mine," and, that
+in five years the output of the Drum Lummon Mine was six millions.
+
+All this pleased young Harris, and whetted his appetite for mining
+investments. Finally, as a result of several trips to examine prospects
+and mines, Alfonso bought two prospects one hundred miles west of Helena
+at a place called Granite.
+
+At Drummond west of Helena, a line branches south of the Northern Pacific
+to Rumsey. From Rumsey, Alfonso rode four miles to Granite, which was
+located high up among huge granite boulders. Here, for a year he isolated
+himself and labored hard for silver that was to be exchanged into gold
+and laid at the feet of Christine. His mines had been named "Hidden
+Treasure" and "Monte Christo." Possibly these mystical names influenced
+Alfonso to make the purchase, and no doubt they often renewed his
+courage.
+
+The United States patents for his two lode mining claims finally came,
+and were examined by legal experts, who pronounced them perfect. In the
+purchase of the properties and in the development work, Alfonso and his
+two associates expended $50,000. On the showing, which the development
+made, together with the Annual Report of the adjacent Granite Mountain
+Mining Company, young Harris hoped to form a syndicate and profitably
+work his mines.
+
+The facts in the report which Alfonso emphasized, were that the Granite
+Mining Co. had paid dividends as follows:
+
+Twelve dividends ending
+July 31st, 1889                 $1,900,000
+
+Total of fifty-five dividends,
+an aggregate of,                $6,700,000
+
+In eight years these mines
+had produced and sold
+of pure silver                  10,989,858 ozs.
+
+Of pure gold                         6,521 ozs.
+
+Realizing a gross sum          $10,988,800
+Total gross expenditures       $ 4,092,512
+
+Alfonso felt free to use the facts of the Granite Reports, as his
+property was supposed to be a continuation of the same lode or metallic
+vein. His syndicate was finally organized, and with the money thus made
+available, all possible work was done for the next twelve months, on
+shaft, levels, cross-cuts, drifts, winzes, and raises. For two long years
+he pursued underground promising indications of wealth, which like the
+will-with-the-wisp evaded him, until every prospect of silver and gold in
+the "Hidden Treasure," and "Monte Christo" disappeared, and the mines
+were abandoned.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+THE MAGIC BAND OF BEATEN GOLD
+
+
+The demonetization of silver by the government in 1873, and its great
+production, had reduced the value of the white metal one-half, so young
+Harris resolved to seek for gold, and began a search, which proved to be
+a most romantic success.
+
+At first he hesitated to leave Montana, as its quartz veins and sluice
+boxes in twenty-five years had poured out $400,000,000, and its mineral
+resources were yet almost wholly unknown. The area of this single
+mountainous state could not be blanketed by the six New England States,
+and New York, or covered by England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
+combined.
+
+Finally Alfonso determined to follow the great mineral belt in a
+southwesterly direction even to the Sierra Nevada Range if need be. At
+Livingston he went south by railway through a gateway of the mountains,
+and up the fertile Paradise Valley, following the cool green waters of
+the Yellowstone alive with trout and equally gamesome graylings.
+
+At Cinnabar Alfonso joined a merry party of tourists, who mounted a
+Concord coach, and the four grays were urged to a brisk pace over a
+smooth government road towards the great National Park. How exhilarating
+this six miles' ride, and how imposing the scenery, as the coach enters
+this Geologist's Paradise!
+
+The Yellowstone or National Park contains 2,288,000 acres, and is fifty
+times the size of France's greatest park at Fontainebleau. Its altitude
+is a half mile higher than the summit of Mt. Washington, and the whole
+park is encircled by snow-clad peaks and majestic domes from three to
+five thousand feet high. This reservation by Congress in 1872, of 3575
+square miles of public domain in perpetuity for the pleasure of the
+people, was a most creditable act.
+
+Alfonso found that the park abounded in wild gorges, grand canyons,
+dancing cascades, majestic falls and mountains, picturesque lakes,
+curious hot springs, and awe-inspiring geysers. He and his party pushed
+through the Golden Gate, marveled at the wonders of the Norris and
+Firehole Basins, stood entranced before the mighty Canyon then bathed in
+the transparent Yellowstone Lake, and by nine o'clock were lulled to
+sleep in the shade of fragrant pines.
+
+After breakfast next morning, while Alfonso and the hotel guests sat on
+the porch, a retired army captain, who had served in the Seventh U.S.
+Cavalry, said he wished a party could be organized to visit General
+Custer's monument east of the National Park on the Little Big Horn River.
+There the Government had marked the historic battleground, where on the
+morning of the 24th of June, 1876, two hundred of the famous Seventh
+Cavalry and their brave leader, were overwhelmed and slaughtered by 2,500
+Indians under the famous chief, Sitting Bull. Custer was tall and
+slender, with blue eyes and long light hair. He had fought at Bull Run
+and Gettysburg, and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was
+promoted to brigadier general when he was twenty-three years old, and
+became major general when he was twenty-five. Eleven horses were shot
+under him. Once he saved the flag by tearing it from its staff and
+concealing it in his bosom. What Napoleon said of Ney is also true of
+Custer, "He was the bravest of the brave."
+
+The recital of Custer's deeds nerved Alfonso to renewed efforts to win
+Christine's hand. He declined with thanks to join the captain's excursion
+party, and early next day rode south into the upper basin of the Park,
+which contains over 400 springs and geysers; many of the springs in their
+peculiar shapes, translucent waters, and variety and richness of color,
+are of exquisite beauty. Alfonso visited emerald and sapphire springs,
+where it is said nymphs, elfs, and fairies came to bathe, and don their
+dainty dress of flowers and jewelled dew drops.
+
+Many bronzed tourists had assembled, and their faces showed amazement as
+they watched giant geysers in action. Suddenly the solid earth is
+tremulous with rumbling vibrations, like those that herald earthquakes.
+Frightful gurgling sounds are audible in the geyser's throat. Sputtering
+steam is visible above the cone, the water below boils like a cauldron,
+and scalding hot, the eruption becomes terribly violent, belching forth
+clouds of smoke-like steam, and hurling rocks into the air as though
+a mortar of some feudal stronghold had been discharged. The stupendous
+column of hot water is veiled in spray as it mounts towards heaven.
+Boiling water is flowing in brooks to the Firehole River, which is soon
+swollen to a foaming torrent washing away the bridges below. The valley
+is filled with dense vapors, and the air is laden with sulphurous fumes,
+while the hoarse rumblings and subterranean tremors chill the heart.
+Beneath your feet are positive evidences of eternal fires, and all about
+you the might of God. Alfonso was glad to leave this region of the
+supernatural.
+
+He hastened across the Snake River, which winds through Idaho, and pushed
+on towards the Teton Range, one of many that form the Rocky Mts. In sight
+are snow-touched sentinel peaks kissed by earliest and latest sun. The
+Rocky Mts. or Great Continental Divide is a continuation of the famous
+Andes of South America, and jointly they form the longest and most
+uniform chain of mountains on the globe. Amid the gorges of this system
+of mountains, over 3000 miles in length, America's largest rivers have
+their birth, and find their outlet into the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific
+Oceans.
+
+These mountains are vast vaults that will hold in trust for centuries to
+come untold supplies of precious metal for the American nations. This
+general fact did not concern Alfonso. He was ambitious to unlock for his
+own use only a single box of the huge vault. He was familiar with the
+wonderful story of Mackay, Fair, Flood, and O'Brien, Kings of the
+Comstock Lode, and owners of the Big Bonanza, who paid their 600 miners
+five dollars per day in gold, for eight hours' labor a third of a mile
+below the earth's surface. The Comstock Lode yielded over $5,000,000 per
+month, or a total output of silver and gold of over $250,000,000.
+
+For six long weary months Alfonso and his companion searched for gold
+down the Green River and along the river bottom of the Grand Canyon of
+the Colorado, till they reached the Needles on the A. & P. Railway.
+Thence they rode west to Kern River. This stream they followed on
+horseback into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, all the time searching for
+precious metals, especially gold. The mountains were crossed over to
+Owen's Lake, and a river traced north. Alfonso was prospecting in new
+fields, but his search thus far was fruitless. His companion sickened and
+died, but Alfonso bravely climbed among the mountains hoping to cross the
+crest and reach the cabins of friendly government officials on duty in
+the park of the big trees in Mariposa County.
+
+It was late in the fall, grasses and leaves had browned, Alfonso's horse
+had grown thin, and being too weak and lame to go forward, finally died.
+His provisions had given out; his own strength and courage had failed; he
+needed water for his parched tongue and lips, but none was at hand; fever
+quickened his pulse. Sitting alone in the shadow of a giant boulder that
+afforded partial protection from the gathering storm, his mind reverted
+to his home at Harrisville where abundance could be had, to his family
+that thought him dead, and to Christine across the sea, whom he had
+vowed to win with gold. All seemed lost. Alfonso's head reeled, he fell
+back upon the ground, and the early snows seemed to form for him a
+shroud.
+
+Good fortune guided this way a party of Yosemite Indians, who were
+returning from an extended hunt for deer and elk. They had also slain a
+few bears and a couple of mountain lions. The dead horse first arrested
+their attention, and then the exhausted miner was found asleep covered
+with snow. The Indians wrapped the sick man at once in a grizzly bear
+skin, fastened him to a pony, and carried him to their camp near the big
+trees. It was morning before Alfonso was conscious of his surroundings.
+Standing by him was a shy Indian maiden with a dish of hot soup. His bed,
+he discovered was in a burned-out cavity of one of the big trees. Near by
+were several tepees, the tops of which emitted smoke. Straight,
+black-haired Indians in bright blankets moved slowly from tent to tent.
+
+Alfonso scarcely conscious had strange dreams. Sometimes he thought he
+was in the Hodoo Region, or Goblin Land, the abode of evil spirits, where
+he saw every kind of fantastic beast, bird, and reptile, and no end of
+spectral shapes in the winding passages of a weird labyrinth on a far-off
+island. Then his dreams were of rare beauty. Green foliage was changed to
+pure white, the trees became laden with sparkling crystals, roadways and
+streams were laid in shining silver, and geyser-craters enlarged in
+strange forms resembled huge white thrones in gorgeous judgment halls.
+Such fleeting beauty suggested to Alfonso's feverish brain the
+supernatural, the abode perhaps of spirit beings. For days the medicine
+man and Mariposa, daughter of the Indian chief, watched and cared for
+Alfonso, whose life hovered over the grave.
+
+Mariposa, Spanish for butterfly, was a fit name for the pretty Indian
+maiden. She paid great deference not only to her tall father, Red Cloud,
+but to the pale faces whenever in their presence. For four years
+Mariposa, unusually bright, attended the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.;
+when she returned to her wild home in the forest she was able to speak
+and read the language of the pale face, and beside she loved history and
+poetry.
+
+One day, Alfonso's health having slowly improved, Mariposa put in his
+hands a small pine cone, the size of a hen's egg, and said, "Three years
+go by from the budding to the ripening of the seed of the sequoias, or
+big trees."
+
+Alfonso did not know, till Mariposa told him that the big trees were
+called sequoia in honor of a Cherokee chief, Sequoyah, who invented
+letters for his people. She also told Alfonso that there were at least
+ten groves of big trees on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada range;
+that some of the trees were thirty feet in diameter, and 325 feet in
+height; that sixteen Yosemite braves on their ponies had taken refuge
+from a terrible storm in the hollow of a single sequoia. Alfonso prized
+highly a cane, fashioned by the Indian maiden from a fallen Big Tree. The
+wood had a pale red tint, and was beautifully marked and polished.
+
+Part of the Indian hunting party went forward with the game, while
+Mariposa, Red Cloud, and three Yosemite braves with their ponies, waited
+for the handsome pale face to recover partially. Then they rode with
+Alfonso among the Big Trees, past Wawona, toiling up long valleys,
+stopping now and then to cook simple food. The Indians followed a
+familiar trail up dark gulches, along steep grades, through heavy timber,
+skirting edges of cliffs and precipitous mountains, the ruggedness
+constantly increasing, till suddenly Mariposa conducted Alfonso to a high
+point where his soul was filled with enthusiasm. Mariposa, pointing to
+the gorge or canyon of extraordinary depth, which was floored with forest
+trees and adorned with waterfalls, said, "Here in the Yosemite (grizzly)
+Valley is the home of my people. Here we wish to take you until you are
+well. Will you go?"
+
+Alfonso, still weak and pale, but trusting the Indian girl, replied
+"Yes." The young artist-miner had never seen such stupendous masonry; the
+granite walls that surrounded the valley were a succession of peaks and
+domes, from three thousand to four thousand feet high, all eloquent in
+thought and design. Alfonso began sketching, but Mariposa motioned him
+to put his paper aside, and the six Indian ponies with their burdens
+carefully picked their way into the paradise below.
+
+Red Cloud, Mariposa, Alfonso, and the braves were received with
+expressions of joy unusual for the stolid red men, and Alfonso was given
+a tent to himself near the chief's big tepee, close by a broad clear
+stream, and in the shadow of large old oaks. Here for several days
+Alfonso tarried, grew stronger, and often walked with pretty Mariposa.
+She taught him a novel method of trapping trout which thronged the river.
+She had him sketch the reflection in Mirror Lake of cathedral spires and
+domes, of overhanging granite rocks, and tall peaks of wildest grandeur.
+
+He also sketched several waterfalls fed by melting snow. Mariposa's
+favorite falls at the entrance to the valley made a single leap of
+hundreds of feet, and when the white spray was caught by the breezes and
+the sun, the lace-like mist, sparkling like diamonds, swayed gracefully
+in the winds like a royal bridal veil. "The highest of a series of
+cascades," Mariposa said, "was called 'The Yosemite Falls.'"
+
+Here eagles soar above the Cap of Liberty and other granite peaks.
+Robins, larks, and humming birds swarm in the warm valley, and abundance
+of grass grows in the meadows for the Indian ponies.
+
+As Alfonso's strength increased, he walked more frequently with Mariposa
+along the banks of the river, by the thickets of young spruce, cedar, and
+manzanita with its oddly contorted red stems. At times, each vied with
+the other in bringing back echoes from the lofty granite walls of the
+valley.
+
+One sunset, as Alfonso and Mariposa sat by the river bank, Alfonso
+holding the light redwood cane, the gift of the maiden, he took the
+shapely hand of Mariposa in his own and said, "Mariposa, I owe my life to
+you, and if I am ever rich I will come back and reward you."
+
+"I shall miss you," said the maiden shyly, "I want no money; I am happy
+because you are well again."
+
+"Mariposa, I have long searched for gold," said Alfonso, "but finally
+I lost courage, became sick, and you know the rest. You have a ring of
+beaten gold on your finger, did it come from near here?"
+
+"My father gave it to me," was all that Mariposa would say about the ring
+as they separated for the night.
+
+It was past midnight when Alfonso felt someone pulling at his shoulder.
+There in the moonlight stood Mariposa beckoning him to come. Quickly
+dressing, Alfonso left his tent without speaking as the maiden put her
+fingers to her lips, and quietly following Mariposa they walked by the
+silver stream into a wild gorge. Graceful pines afforded cover for
+Mariposa and Alfonso, as swift of foot, they scaled high cliffs, till the
+Indian girl held aloft her hand, and above in a cleft of white quartz the
+yellow gold shone brightly in the moon's rays.
+
+When the time came for Alfonso to leave the Yosemite Valley, one of
+nature's masterpieces, tears filled the eyes of lovely Mariposa. He
+earnestly thanked Red Cloud and his daughter, and, saying good-bye,
+mounted his pony, a gift from Mariposa, when the girl ran to him and
+whispered, "Here, Alfonso, is the ring; bring it back to me when you are
+rich, but you will forget Mariposa."
+
+"No! no!" replied Alfonso, "I will bring back the ring, and you shall
+give it to the one who makes you his bride." Then the Indian girl turned
+her face toward the Bridal Veil Falls, and Alfonso rode sadly out of the
+valley.
+
+After several years, still wearing the magic band of beaten gold, having
+developed the Mariposa Gold Mines into property worth millions, Alfonso
+left the far west to seek beautiful Christine.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+WORKINGS OF THE HARRIS-INGRAM PLAN
+
+
+A telegram received at Liverpool by Reuben Harris from Marquis Leo
+Colonna, who at the Colonel's request went on to Amsterdam, verified the
+facts as to Alfonso's death by drowning. Colonel and Mrs. Harris's
+journey back to America under leaden and unsympathetic skies was sad
+indeed.
+
+George and Gertrude met them on the pier at New York. The next day at
+noon, in deep mourning, they received the remains of Lucille from the
+yacht "Hallena."
+
+Ten days with Lucille on the pitiless ocean, and unable to exchange
+with her a word of love, had sunk deeply the iron of affliction into
+the soul of Harry Hall. He often wished that he had never been born. He
+dreaded every new sunset, as the darkness that gathered about his
+catafalque-yacht whispered to him of cruel fates, of rest in the deep
+sea, and of angels' songs. Like the silent vigils of certain watchful
+plants, Captain Hall carefully observed his compasses, studied the
+weather, and often wished that he too might cross over and rejoin
+Lucille.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Ten days went by before Colonel Harris visited the offices of the
+Harris-Ingram Steel Co. Then followed several meetings of the directors,
+at which it was finally decided to issue the following circular:
+
+  Official Notice, No. 27.
+  Offices of The Harris-Ingram Steel Co.,
+  400 to 410 Brough Building,
+  Harrisville, O.--
+
+  _To Whom, it may Concern_,--
+
+  For the purpose of better promoting the harmonious workings of capital
+  and labor, The Harris-Ingram Steel Co., Limited, has been organized,
+  and its scope of co-operation has been planned on the following
+  basis.
+
+  Capital Stock of the Harris-Ingram Steel Company  $5,000,000
+  Total number of shares                               500,000
+  Par value each share                                     $10
+
+  The liability of each stockholder is limited to the amount of stock
+  held. Half of the entire stock of the corporation shall be owned by
+  so-called "capital," and half by the employees of the company, or
+  so-called "labor." The stock issued shall represent the actual cash
+  expended upon the plant, and employed as a working capital. It is the
+  wish of the management that each employee in the steel company shall
+  own at least ten shares of the stock, and more, if he so desires.
+
+  All the stock bought is to be paid for in cash. A loan at 4% interest,
+  equal to the par value of the stock, can be made by employees, when
+  necessary, to purchase a limited amount of the stock. Ten per cent of
+  the wages of all such employees will be retained as needed, which, with
+  dividends actually earned by the stock, will be applied on the amounts
+  due for the purchase of stock and real estate for a home. The new model
+  town will be known as Harris-Ingram.
+
+  Two thousand acres of land near the mills will be properly allotted and
+  improved by the company for homes for the employees, and practical
+  architects have been secured. It is further the wish of the steel
+  company that each employee shall own a good home. The size of each lot
+  is 50 ft. x 200 ft. and the price per lot is $50 which is in proportion
+  to the original cost and improvement of the allotment, so that the
+  employees in advance will thus secure all the profits that result from
+  any increased value of the lots. This is only just.
+
+  A Stock and Building Bureau will be established, and money, at 4%, will
+  be furnished the employees to build comfortable homes. This bureau
+  created and officered by the employees will attend to the purchase and
+  sale of stock, lots, the construction of homes, and the payment for the
+  same. When for any reason, an employee desires to sever his connection
+  with the steel company, his stock in the company and his home, if sold,
+  must first be offered at a fair price to the Stock and Building Bureau.
+
+  By this scheme capital and labor will have equal interests in the
+  Harris-Ingram Steel Co., also an equal voice in the management of the
+  steel company's welfare. Should capital and labor disagree, then the
+  matter in dispute, with all the facts, and before any strike on the
+  part of labor shall occur, shall at once be submitted to arbitration,
+  and the decision of the arbitrators shall be final.
+
+  Signed by
+  George Ingram,
+  _President of The Harris-Ingram Steel Co_.
+
+In eight months George Ingram had spent of the five millions at his
+disposal three million dollars on the steel plant. A working capital of
+$500,000 was deposited in four banks, and the balance of one and a half
+millions was invested in call loans, and so held ready to loan in small
+amounts at 4%, to aid employees in securing their quota of stock, a lot
+and house.
+
+In twelve months, the $2,500,000 stock of the company, allotted to
+labor, had been subscribed for by the employees, over a thousand pretty
+cottages, costing from $1,000 to $2,500 each, were built or in process of
+construction, and nearly three thousand lots had been bought by the
+workmen.
+
+A Co-operative Supply Bureau was organized and managed in the interests
+of the workmen, to furnish food, clothing, and all the necessary comforts
+of life at about cost prices. The profits of the bureau, if any, were to
+be divided annually among purchasers, in proportion to purchases made.
+
+Women in Harris-Ingram voted on several matters the same as the men.
+Saloons, all forms of gambling, and corruption in politics were
+tabooed. Sewerage was scientifically treated by the use of chemicals
+and machinery. Storm water only was sent to the lake. The valuable
+portions of the sewerage were utilized on adjacent vegetable farms. At
+Harris-Ingram electrical energy supplied water free for streets, lawns,
+and gardens, and filtered water was delivered free for family purposes.
+All the public buildings and homes were heated and lighted by
+electricity.
+
+A Transportation Bureau was organized to manage the electric railways in
+the interests of the people, and the fare was reduced to two cents.
+Everybody rode, and the receipts were astonishingly large and quite
+sufficient to meet expenses and leave a profit, which went into the town
+treasury. Thus the people received large benefits from the electric
+railway, conduits for wires, gas privileges, and other franchises.
+
+Electricity also propelled the pleasure launches and fishing boats. The
+smoke nuisance was a vexatious trouble of the past. Life for the laborer
+and his family ceased to be a burden. Eight hours were given to
+conscientious labor, eight hours to physical, mental, and moral
+improvements, and eight hours to rest.
+
+By the Harris beneficences all the employees became personally interested
+in the profitable workings of the steel plant. The profits of the
+business also were greatly increased by the valuable inventions of
+the Ingrams.
+
+The money advanced to the employees was rapidly returned through the
+company's treasurer to Colonel Harris, and by him, and later by his
+heirs, was again invested in other lines of practical benevolence.
+The act which gave Colonel Harris most comfort was his righting the great
+wrong done James Ingram, his early joint-partner, and father of George,
+his son-in-law. Colonel Harris held $2,500,000 of the steel company's
+stock. He disposed of this stock as follows:--
+
+To George and Gertrude, each $250,000 or   $500,000
+To James Ingram, early partner            1,000,000
+Retaining for himself only                1,000,000
+                                         ----------
+Total                                    $2,500,000
+
+
+Since his return Reuben Harris had aged rapidly, his hair having
+whitened, caused probably by the loss of his only son and lovely
+daughter. His joy on account of the success of the Co-operative Steel
+Mills could not banish his intense grief. He had performed his life work,
+and the cares and burdens of the new enterprise he had placed upon George
+Ingram in whom he had full confidence. He had seen much in his travels
+abroad; and now he had learned a most valuable lesson, taught by the
+Savior himself, that it is more blessed to give than to receive.
+
+At the close of a long summer day, as the golden sun dropped into blue
+Lake Erie, the life of Reuben Harris passed from sight. It was a strange
+coincidence that the papers Monday morning should contain parallel
+obituary notices of both Reuben Harris and James Ingram. Together
+they had labored earnestly for humanity, each in his own way, and now
+reconciled, together they entered,--
+
+  "The undiscovered country from whose bourne
+    No traveller returns."
+
+The four thousand employees, in a body, attended the double funeral. Each
+man had been the recipient of tangible assistance from both Harris and
+Ingram, and each laborer felt that he had lost a personal friend. It was
+a touching scene as the four regiments of employees, each wearing
+evidence of mourning on his arm, filed past the two open caskets. Each
+employee left a rose on the caskets till both were hidden from sight. The
+thousands of roses were more eloquent than marble or bronze. During the
+week, the employees each contributed the wages of two days for bronze
+statues of their late employers.
+
+George and Gertrude felt keenly the loss of their fathers. They also
+become conscious of increased responsibilities, but each had courage, and
+good cheer was imparted if either faltered or stood beneath gray skies.
+Their home life was delightful. Each possessed the art of controlling
+trifles; thus troubles were minimized and joys were magnified.
+
+Later twins, a boy and girl, entered their home, and the mother said, "If
+you call our son George Ingram, Jr., I shall call our daughter Gertrude
+Ingram, Jr.," and so there lived under the same roof George I. and George
+II., Gertrude I. And Gertrude II.
+
+Gertrude proved a model wife and mother. The mystery of woman's love and
+purity is no longer a secret when we watch the mother in touch with
+innocent children. Gertrude gave home duties prominence over all others,
+with the blessed result that George found more attractions in his own
+home than in clubs or in the homes of his friends.
+
+To do daily some little favor for his wife, as in lover days, gave him
+much pleasure. Every night George came home with a new book, rare
+flowers, or fruit, the first of the season, or some novel plaything for
+his "Two G's" as he often called the little twins. Gertrude occasionally
+rebuked her husband for spending the money foolishly, as she said, but
+then remembrance of his family when down town gratified her. Wives miss
+and long for appreciation more than for better dress or money. If, on
+return to tea, the bread is good, the thoughtful husband speaks of it. If
+the table-cloth is white or if the arrangement of the meal is artistic,
+he speaks of it. A single word of honest approval makes the wife happy.
+
+Sometimes Gertrude wondered why the marriage ceremony so often untied
+lovers' knots, and why after marriage love and esteem did not increase.
+She never forgot the advice of an old lady, too poor to make her a
+wedding present, who told her that if she wished to be happy in marriage
+she must always keep two bears in her home, bear and forbear.
+
+George and his wife were human, and not unlike other people. Now and then
+George would say to his intimate friends. "The Ingrams like most New
+Englanders did not come over in the Mayflower as the passenger list was
+full, neither do the Ingrams belong to that very large number of families
+who feel the necessity of saying, 'We have never had an unkind word
+in our home.' Gertrude and I both have strong wills, and we often differ
+in opinions, but as often we agree to disagree. In this manner we avoid
+sunken rocks that might wreck our ship."
+
+One day, Irene, George's youngest sister, asked Gertrude for a painting
+of herself and of George. "Too expensive, Irene," replied Gertrude,
+"couldn't think of it for a moment."
+
+"No, Gertrude, I want only a tiny picture of your thumb and George's."
+
+"What in the world do you want of our thumbs?"
+
+"Because, Gertrude, George tells me privately that he has you completely
+under his thumb, and you always act as if you thought you had George
+under your thumb."
+
+Gertrude and George were strong and helpful, both educated, unselfish
+and ambitious; why should they not succeed? Gertrude had learned that
+good and great people are also sometimes selfish. When a little girl,
+she was present with her father who was invited to take dinner with a
+distinguished divine. The good doctor of divinity did the carving, and
+adroitly managed to keep for his own plate the tenderest piece of steak.
+Colonel Harris observed the fact, and enjoying a joke, casually observed,
+"Doctor, how well you carve!" The good man saw his breach of hospitality
+and blushed, remarking, "Colonel, you must forgive me for I believe I was
+born with a delicate stomach."
+
+Business cares were locked up in the office desk down town, and Gertrude
+forgot home annoyances as soon as George was seen coming up the lawn, and
+she and the twins ran to meet "papa." He always brought home the latest
+literary and scientific magazines and journals, while the reviews of
+America and London kept the family up-to-date on the latest books and
+leading topics. George's vacations were sometimes taken with his own
+employees, all of whom in the heated months, had two weeks off, some
+camping along the shores of the lake, others taking boat excursions to
+neighboring groves, or enjoying the outdoor band concerts which were
+furnished every other evening on the public park.
+
+What concerned his employees, concerned him. When any of his workmen
+were injured or sick, the company at once sent a surgeon or physician.
+Rightly, he thought it more important that an employee should be kept
+in good working order than even his best piece of machinery.
+
+George Ingram was once heard to say that eleven letters covered a large
+part of his religion, and that he wished he could write across the blue
+dome in letters of gold the word "Helpfulness." To assist an unfortunate
+individual permanently to help himself, is preaching a gospel that
+betters the world.
+
+The community of Harris-Ingram had little or no poverty. Everybody had
+money in the savings bank, or accumulations going into pretty homes, and
+mill stock, and all respected law and order, hence few if any policemen
+were ever seen on the streets. Everybody was well dressed, courteous, and
+daily growing more intelligent. Taxes were light, and general
+improvements were economically and promptly made.
+
+Both George and Gertrude believed that the tendency of the age was
+towards more practical education for the people. London publishes
+millions of penny books, penny histories and biographies, penny
+arithmetics, astronomies and dictionaries, and penny books to teach good
+behavior, honor, and patriotism. In London and elsewhere, the people were
+organizing workmen's clubs, colleges, and institute unions, for mutual
+improvement, and glimpses were already caught of Morris's "Earthly
+Paradise that is to be."
+
+  "Then a man shall work and bethink him, and rejoice in the deeds of his
+     hand,
+   Nor yet come home in the even too faint and weary to stand.
+   Men in that time a-coming shall work and have no fear
+   For to-morrow's lack of earning and the hungry-wolf a-near.
+   Oh, strange, new, wonderful justice! But for whom shall we gather the
+     gain?
+   For ourselves and for each of our fellows, and no hand shall labor in
+     vain."
+
+Free night schools over the country, for the child of eight to the man of
+eighty, will go a long way in solving the troublesome socialistic
+problem.
+
+George was familiar with the generous gifts and deeds of the Pratts of
+Baltimore, and of Brooklyn, of Carnegie, of Lorillard & Co., of Warner
+Brothers of Connecticut, and of the Messrs. Tangye of Birmingham,
+England. The latter firm provides for its thousands of workmen a library,
+evening classes, and twice a week, while the employees are at dinner in a
+great hall, a twenty minutes crisp talk by capable persons on some live
+topic.
+
+George Ingram organized an Educational Bureau for the improvement of his
+employees and others by evening schools and public entertainments. As
+requisite for the success of such a bureau as he planned, he published
+the conditions as follows:--
+
+  1. Several study rooms and good teachers.
+
+  2. A large and cheerful hall, church or opera house for lectures, that
+  the prices may be low, the audience must be large.
+
+  3. A capable committee or manager, enthusiasm, good temper, fertility
+  of resource and sympathy with the people. Common sense coupled with
+  determined perseverance works wonders.
+
+  4. Variety and quality in the entertainment, with no wearying pauses
+  between the parts. The movement must be swift and sure.
+
+  5. Punctuality and business-like thoroughness in the management. Begin
+  and end on the minute. Give exactly what you promise; or, if that be
+  impossible, what will be recognized as a full equivalent. Ideas, not
+  words, old or new on every helpful subject in the universe, spoken or
+  illustrated. Music that rests or inspires, and is understood.
+
+  6. Sell 5,000 season tickets at $1.00 in advance to secure a guarantee
+  fund; this is sound business, as success is then assured, and it will
+  not depend upon the weather.
+
+  7. Have prominent citizens preside at each entertainment, but pledge
+  them to crisp introduction. High grade entertainments wisely managed,
+  prove themselves of benign influence, and an agency more potent than
+  many laws in the preservation of peace and the reform of public morals.
+
+When Colonel Harris's will was probated, two-thirds of the balance of
+his fortune was left in trust with Mrs. Harris, George, and Gertrude,
+to be used for the public welfare, as they deemed wisest. The trustees
+used $100,000 to build for the Workmen's Club a large and attractive
+Central Hall, that had steep double galleries, and five thousand opera
+chairs.
+
+Several necessary committees were organized and George Ingram's gospel of
+Helpfulness found another practical expression. The Educational Bureau
+was not a gratuity in any of its departments, as small fees were charged
+in all the evening classes, which were crowded with old and young. For
+twenty consecutive Saturday evenings in the winter season, a four-fold
+intellectual treat was furnished at $1.00 for tickets for the entire
+course.
+
+By 7:30 o'clock in the evening the Central Hall was packed to the walls,
+no reserved seats were sold, and the rule was observed "First come, first
+served," which brought promptly the audience. Season ticket-holders had
+the exclusive right to the hall till 7:25 o'clock, when a limited number
+of single admission tickets were sold. A large force of polite ushers
+assisted in seating the people, and in keeping order. At 7:30 all the
+entrance doors were closed, so that late comers never disturbed the
+audience.
+
+The musical prelude, or orchestra concert of thirty minutes closed at
+7:30 with a grand chorus by the audience standing; following this,
+precisely at 7:30 was the half-hour lecture-prelude on some scientific
+or practical subject. Among the topics treated were "Wrongs of
+Workingmen, and How to Right Them," "The Terminal Glacier," "Sewerage and
+Ventilation," "The Pyramids," "Wonders of the House we Live in,"
+"Architecture Illustrated," etc.
+
+From 8:00 to 8:15 followed the popular Singing School, in which five
+thousand persons heartily joined, aided by an enthusiastic precentor, and
+orchestra, in singing national hymns and other music. During the singing
+school everybody stood, and with windows lowered, fresh air and music
+swept through the hall and the hearts of the audience.
+
+From 8:15 to 9:30 was given the principal attraction of the evening, a
+popular lecture, dramatic reading, debate on some burning question, or a
+professional concert. The entertainments always closed promptly at 9:30,
+as many electric cars were in waiting. During the season, free lectures
+on "The Art of Cooking," "How to Dress," "The Care of Children,"
+"Housekeeping in General," "The Culture of Flowers," etc., etc., were
+given at 3 P.M. in the great hall to the wives and friends of all the
+ticket holders.
+
+The circulation of useful literature was another important feature of the
+Educational Bureau work. At each entertainment five thousand little books
+of forty pages each, a wagon-load, were given to the owners of course
+tickets, as they entered the hall. These pamphlets included "A Short
+History of France," or "History of the United States," "Story of the
+Steam Engine," "A Brief History of Science," an "Essay on Early Man,"
+"Great Artists," "Secrets of Success," etc. Each little book contained
+the evening's programme, the words and music of at least two national
+hymns, and "Owl Talks," a single page of crisp thoughts, to whet one's
+wits. At the close of each season the twenty pamphlets, continuously
+paged, were bound for fifty cents in two volumes with covers of red
+cloth. Thus the people got much for little, and they were benefited and
+pleased with their bargain. Encores and the discourtesy of stamping the
+feet and leaving the hall before the performance was concluded were
+abolished. Palms and fragrant flowers were always on the platform.
+Everybody listened attentively to the kindly words of teacher, orator,
+or poet; new impulses were received, and all rejoiced in the supply and
+satisfaction of their deepest and best wants. Feelings of a common
+brotherhood made hearts happier and lives better.
+
+Workmen went home sober with their week's earnings in their pockets, as
+there were no saloons in the town, a bright book to read, and a home of
+their own for shelter and rest. Thus also an improved citizenship was
+obtained and the nation was made stronger.
+
+George Ingram thought that all our cities should have large, cheerful
+halls, people's forums, where clear and simple truths on important
+questions should be taught. He believed that it would prove an antidote
+to various forms of anarchy and communism, which under the aegis of
+liberty are being advocated in our cities.
+
+The trustees of the Harris estate set aside $250,000, to be known as "The
+Reuben Harris Fund," to assist in providing regular courses of free
+public lectures upon the most important branches of natural and moral
+science, also free instruction to mechanics and artisans in drawing, and
+in practical designing, in patterns for prints, silks, paper hangings,
+carpets, furniture, etc. Free courses of lectures were given to advanced
+students in art, also lectures in physics, geology, botany, physiology,
+and the like for teachers, and the public.
+
+Gertrude felt that the perpetuity and usefulness of such a fund or
+monument dedicated to her father would outrival the pyramids. She greatly
+encouraged among the wives of the workmen the growth of kindergartens for
+children, and the cultivation of flowers, in and out of their homes,
+offering valuable prizes at annual flower shows. Harrisville voted to
+annex the village of Harris-Ingram, hoping that the gospel of helpfulness
+that had worked such wonders might leaven their whole city.
+
+George Ingram was now forty years of age. His great ability and practical
+good sense had arrested the attention and admiration of not only his own
+employees, but of the citizens of Harrisville, who demanded that he
+should be chosen mayor of the city.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+UNEXPECTED MEETINGS
+
+
+Christine De Ruyter had long contemplated a visit to the new world.
+She was familiar with the history of the Dutch West India Company, a
+political movement organized under cover of finding a passage to Cathay,
+to destroy the results of Spanish conquest in America.
+
+No doubt, love of discovery and of trade also stimulated the Dutch in
+making explorations. In the vessel "Half Moon" they sailed up the Hudson,
+and after building several forts, they finally established themselves in
+New Netherlands. Peter Minuit for a trifle bought from the Indians the
+whole of Manhattan Island. In locating on Manhattan Island, the Dutch
+secretly believed that they had secured the oyster while the English
+settlements further north and south were the two shells only. The
+development of almost three centuries and the supremacy of New York
+to-day, as the new world metropolis, verifies the sound sense of the
+Dutch.
+
+Christine was alive to the important part which her countrymen had early
+played across the Atlantic. Her mother had died, and Christine still
+unmarried, controlled both her time and a goodly inheritance. She
+resolved to visit her sister Fredrika, whose husband was agent in New
+York of a famous German line of vessels.
+
+En route from Holland to New York she spent two weeks with friends in
+London, and on Regent Street replenished her wardrobe, enjoyed Irving
+and Terry in their latest play, attended an exciting Cambridge-Oxford
+boat-race on the Thames, and with a great crowd went wild with delight
+at the English races at Epsom Downs.
+
+Saturday at 9:40 A.M. at the Waterloo Station several friends saw
+Christine off for America on the special train, the Eagle Express, of the
+South Western Railway, which makes the journey of 79 miles to Southampton
+in one hour and forty minutes.
+
+At Southampton the passengers were transferred on the new express dock,
+direct from the train to the steamers, which are berthed alongside. By
+this route passengers escape exposure to weather on tenders and landing
+stage, and avoid all delays at ports of call, and waiting for the tides
+to cross the bar.
+
+Promptly at 12 o'clock, hawsers and gangways vanishing, the great steamer
+moved down the bay, the fertile Isle of Wight in sight. Officers made
+note of the time as the Needles were passed, as the runs of the steamers
+are taken between the Needles and Sandy Hook. It was a bright breezy
+afternoon and after lunch the passengers lounged on the decks, or in
+the smoke room; some inspected their rooms, some read the latest French
+or English novel, and others in groups gossiped, or walked the decks to
+sharpen appetite.
+
+The second steward, of necessity a born diplomat, had succeeded in
+convincing most who were at lunch that he had given them favored seats,
+if not all at the Captain's table, then at the table of the first
+officer, a handsome man, or at the table with the witty doctor.
+
+Christine did not appear at lunch, as she was busy in her stateroom. She
+had given careful instructions that one of her trunks should be sent at
+once to her room. An hour before dinner there appeared on the promenade
+deck a beautiful young woman dressed in black, who attracted attention
+and no little comment. She wore a dress of Henrietta cloth, and cape
+trimmed with black crepe and grosgrained ribbons in bows with long ends.
+Her tiny hat with narrow band of white crepe was of the Marie Stuart
+style; her gloves were undressed kid, her handkerchief had black border,
+and her silk parasol was draped in black.
+
+Hers was the same pretty face and blue eyes that had won Alfonso's heart.
+She supposed him dead; her dress of mourning was not for him, but for her
+mother, whom she idolized. At first Christine hesitated about wearing
+black on the journey, but she soon learned that it increased her charms,
+and that it gave protection from annoyance. Many supposed she was a young
+widow. So thought a handsome naval officer whom she had met in London.
+When Christine returned to her room, she found that a messenger boy had
+brought her his card, with compliments, and a request that she occupy a
+seat at his table for the voyage. With a black jacket on her arm,
+Christine was conducted to her seat at dinner by the chief steward. She
+wore a plain black skirt and waist of black and white, with black belt
+and jet buckle.
+
+An up-to-date liner is a sumptuous hotel afloat. The safety, speed, and
+comfort of the modern steamer does not destroy but rather enhances the
+romance of ocean voyage. The handsome young officer and pretty Christine,
+as they promenaded the decks, added effect to the passing show. Her
+mourning costume gradually yielded to outing suits of violet tints with
+white collar and cuffs, and a simple black sailor's cap with white cord
+for band.
+
+Artist that Christine was, and lover of the ocean, she and the officer
+watched the sea change from a transient green to a light blue and back
+again, then to a deep blue when the sun was hidden in a cloud, then, when
+the fogs were encountered, to a cold grey.
+
+Christine took great interest in the easy navigation of the steamer; she
+watched the officers take observations, and verify the ship's run.
+Frequently she was seen with the young officer on the bridge, he pointing
+out the lighthouse on the dangerous Scilly Islands, the last sight of old
+England off Land's End, she enjoying the long swell and white crested
+billows, as the shelter of the British coast was left behind.
+
+A charming first night aboard ship it was, the moon full, the sky
+picturesque, the sea dark, except where the steamer and her screws
+churned it white; at the bow, showers and spray of phosphorus, and
+at the stern, rippling eddies and a long path of phosphorus and white
+foam.
+
+Christine wished she could transfer to canvas the swift steamer, as she
+felt it in her soul, powerful as a giant and graceful as a woman; at the
+mast-head an electric star, red and green lights on either side, long rows
+of tremulous bulbs of light from numerous portholes; the officers on the
+bridge with night glass in hand, walking to and fro, dark figures of
+sailors at the bow and in the crow's nest, all eyes and ears. "All's
+well" lulls to sleep the after-dinner loungers in chairs along the deck,
+while brave men and fair women keep step to entrancing music.
+
+With a week of favorable weather, and unprecedented speed the record out
+was won; officers, sailors, passengers, all were jubilant. On Pier 14,
+North River, Fredrika and her husband met Christine, and drove to their
+fine home overlooking the Central Park.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Alfonso Harris had come on to New York to spend a week of pleasure;
+already he had secured his ticket for Amsterdam via Antwerp by the Red
+Star Line. He was prepared to keep his promise to Christine. "To match
+gold with gold!"
+
+In his rounds among the artists he happened to step into the Art
+Student's League, and there learned that his old artist-chum, Leo, was
+in New York, and stopping at the Plaza Hotel. At once he took cab, and,
+surely enough, there on the hotel register was the name Leo Colonna,
+Rome. Alfonso sent up his card, and the waiter soon returned with the
+reply, "The marquis will see Mr. Harris at once in his rooms." It is
+needless to say that the marquis was both shocked and delighted to see
+alive a friend whom he supposed long ago dead.
+
+After dinner Alfonso and Leo drove to their old club, and as ever talked
+and confided in each other. Alfonso told the marquis the romantic story
+of his life, of his pecuniary success, and that he should sail in a few
+days to wed Christine, if possible.
+
+The marquis hesitated in his reply, as if in doubt whether to proceed or
+not. Observing this, Alfonso said, "Speak freely, tell me what you were
+thinking about."
+
+"Nothing, Alfonso, only a report I heard at the club last night."
+
+"What report, marquis?"
+
+"A report or story concerning a beautiful widow, who had just arrived
+from Amsterdam. From the minute description given--she had fair face,
+blue eyes, fleecy hair and loved art--I suspected that the woman in black
+might be Christine De Ruyter."
+
+"You surprise me, Leo, but what was the report?"
+
+"Alfonso, pardon me, I have said too much already."
+
+"No, go on and tell me all."
+
+"Alfonso, since the report is concerning a woman's character, my lips
+should be sealed, and would be, except you my friend are the most
+interested party. The club story is that a handsome young officer, who
+left his newly wedded wife in Bristol, England, was so much enamored of
+the charming widow aboard ship that suspicions were aroused, and in fact
+confirmed, by an additional report that valuable diamonds had been sent
+by the same officer from Tiffany's to the lady, who is stopping somewhere
+on Central Park. There, Alfonso, I have given you the story and the whole
+may be true or false."
+
+It was now Alfonso's turn to be shocked; he could not believe what the
+marquis had told him. Next day he visited the office of the American
+Line, found that Christine De Ruyter was a passenger on the last steamer,
+and the purser gave him her New York address. Then the marquis
+volunteered to call, in Alfonso's interests, upon Miss De Ruyter who
+seemed glad to see him, and was amazed with the story which he had to
+tell, not only of himself, and his good fortune, but that of Alfonso.
+That the latter was alive and wealthy was news almost too good to
+believe.
+
+The marquis reported to Alfonso that Christine was overjoyed to have a
+bygone mystery so fortunately cleared up, and that she sent him an urgent
+invitation to call at once.
+
+Christine congratulated herself over her good luck at the very threshold
+of the new world. "Strange romance, indeed, it would be," she mused to
+herself, "if, after having refused the poor artist, he having gained
+riches should prove loyal, and lay his heart and fortune at my feet!
+Would I reject him? No, indeed! He has gold now." Thus musing to herself
+before the mirror, she gave final touches to her toilet, and stepped down
+into her sister's sumptuous parlor to wait for a lover, restored from the
+depths of the sea.
+
+Promptly at 9 o'clock Alfonso was ushered into Fredrika's parlor. For a
+second, Christine stood fixed and pale, for Alfonso it really was, and
+she had believed him dead; then extending her hand she gave him greeting.
+For a full hour Alfonso and Christine talked, each telling much of what
+had transpired in the intervening years. Alfonso said he was quite as
+much surprised to find that she was still unmarried, as she seemed
+surprised that he was still alive.
+
+"Alfonso, I have waited long for you," Christine replied.
+
+"Ah, yes, Christine, but have you been true all these years?"
+
+As Alfonso spoke these words, he sat with Christine's hand in his own,
+looking inquiringly into her blue eyes for her answer. Her face flushed
+and she was speechless.
+
+Alfonso, dropping her hand, said in a kindly voice, "For years I have
+kept pure and sought to be worthy of you, and fortune has smiled upon me;
+I could now match gold with gold, but when I demand purity for purity
+your silence and your blushes condemn you, and I must bid you a final
+farewell."
+
+Christine could not answer, and as Alfonso left the house, she fell
+weeping upon the sofa, where her sister Fredrika found her, long past
+midnight. The terrible sorrow of that evening remained forever a mystery
+to Fredrika.
+
+It was 10 o'clock next morning when the marquis called upon Alfonso
+Harris at the Hotel Holland. He found him busy answering important
+letters from the coast. The marquis was not long in detecting that
+Alfonso lacked his usual buoyancy of spirits, and so rightly concluded
+that the meeting with Christine the night before had resulted
+unfavorably.
+
+Alfonso explained all that transpired, and the two artists, who had
+flattered themselves that they knew women well, admitted to each other
+their keen disappointment in Christine's character. Both lighted cigars,
+and for a moment or two unconsciously smoked vigorously, as if still in
+doubt as to their unsatisfactory conclusions.
+
+Soon Alfonso said, "Leo, how about your own former love, Rosie Ricci? To
+meet Rosie again was possibly the motive that prompted you to leave your
+estate in Italy."
+
+"Yes, Alfonso, I loved Rosie, as I once frankly stated to your sister on
+the ocean, but in a moment of peevishness she returned the engagement
+tokens, and the lovers' quarrel resulted in separation. But after the
+death of Lucille I found the smouldering fires of the old love for Rosie
+again easily fanned into a flame, so I crossed the sea in search of my
+dear country-woman."
+
+"And did you find her!"
+
+"Yes, Alfonso, that is, all that was left of the vivacious, happy
+songster, as we once knew her. Her new world surroundings proved
+disastrous."
+
+"How so?"
+
+"Look, here is a picture in water color, that tells the story." Saying
+this the Marquis slowly removed a white paper from a small sketch which
+he had made the week before. It was a picture in the morgue on the East
+River, with its half hundred corpses, waiting recognition or burial in
+the Potter's Field. Upon a cold marble slab lay the body of a young girl,
+her shapely hands across her breast. Alfonso recognized Rosie's sweet
+face and golden tresses that artists had raved over.
+
+The marquis in sad tones added a few words of explanation. "The senator
+who educated Rosie proved a villain. When she acted as Juliet at the
+Capitol, fashionable society gave hearty approval of her rare abilities.
+Rosie's genius, like a shooting star, flashed across the sky and then
+shot into oblivion."
+
+A few days afterwards, Alfonso on the pier with his white handkerchief
+waved adieu to Leo who had resolved to wed art in sunny Italy. Sad
+memories decided Alfonso to leave New York at once. For a short time he
+was inclined to give up a new purpose, and return to his own family at
+Harrisville, but the law of equity controlled his heart, he journeyed
+back to the Pacific Coast, and again approached the Yosemite Valley.
+
+Seated again on Inspiration Point, he gazed long and earnestly into the
+gorge below. He could discern neither smoke nor moving forms. All had
+changed; not the peaks, or domes, or wonderful waterfalls; all these
+remained the same. But where were Red Cloud and kind-hearted Mariposa?
+Alfonso's own race now occupied the valley for pleasure and for gain.
+
+Mariposa might not be of his own race, but she had a noble heart.
+Education had put her in touch with civilization, and she was as pure
+as the snow of the Sierras. He wondered if she ever thought of him. He
+remembered that, when he rode away, her face was turned toward the Bridal
+Veil Falls. Did she thus intend to say, "I love you?"
+
+At midnight, as the moon rose above the forest, the tall pines whispered
+of Mariposa, of wild flowers she was wont to gather, of journeys made to
+highest peaks, of weeks of watching and waiting, and of the burial of Red
+Cloud at the foot of an ancient sequoia; then the language of the breezes
+among the pines became indistinct, and Alfonso, half-asleep, half-awake,
+saw approaching a white figure. Two dark eyes full of tears, gazed into
+his face, at first with a startled look, and then with a gleam of joy and
+trust.
+
+Alfonso exclaimed, "Mariposa!" He sought to clasp her in his arms, but
+the graceful figure vanished, and the pines seemed to whisper, "Alfonso,
+I go to join the braves in the happy hunting grounds beyond the setting
+sun. You will wed the fairest of your people. Adieu."
+
+When Alfonso awoke, the ring of beaten gold was gone, where, he knew not.
+The tourist-coach was rumbling down the mountain road, and he joined it.
+After an inspection of his mines, he sadly left the Sierras for San
+Francisco.
+
+The prophetic words of Mariposa, whispered among the pines, proved true.
+Alfonso again met Gertrude's best friend, beautiful Mrs. Eastlake, now a
+young widow, and later he married her, making their home on Knob Hill,
+the most fashionable quarter of the city by the Golden Gate.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+THE CRISIS
+
+
+What is of more value to civilization, or what commands a greater premium
+in the world than successful leadership? Successful leaders are few, and
+the masses follow. Honor, fame, power, and wealth are some of the rewards
+of great leadership. The confidences bestowed and the responsibilities
+assumed are often very great. A betrayal of important trusts, or a
+failure to discharge responsibilities, usually brings swift and terrible
+punishment, poverty, prison, disgrace, and dishonor to descendants.
+
+George Ingram had proved himself a successful leader, and those who knew
+him best, by study of his methods and his works, saw his capacity for
+leadership. Hence the popular demand for him to stand as candidate for
+mayor of Harrisville. His practical intelligence, and his acuteness in
+observation of character, had served him well in organizing, developing,
+and controlling the greatest model steel-plant of his generation, which
+for quality, quantity, and minimum cost of products had attracted the
+attention of manufacturers and scientists. Politicians soon discovered in
+George Ingram natural prudence and tact in behavior. The strong religious
+element of the city conceded that he possessed, as a certain doctor of
+divinity said, "a nice sense of what is right, just and true, with a
+course of life corresponding thereto."
+
+The alert women of the city were in hearty approval of conferring the
+honor of Mayor upon George Ingram. They knew that the completeness of his
+character resulted in no small degree from the influence of his gifted
+wife. The practical business men of the city saw that the proposed
+candidate for mayor had good common sense. So all party spirit was laid
+aside, as it should be in local politics, and George Ingram was nominated
+and elected unanimously as the mayor of Harrisville. His cabinet,
+composed of the heads of several departments, was filled with able men,
+who with zest took up their portfolios not with the thought of personal
+gain but with the lofty purpose of securing the utmost good to every
+citizen.
+
+Fortunately the city had adopted the just principle of paying its
+servants liberally for all services rendered. By the so-called "Federal
+Plan" the number of members of the Cabinet, of the Board of Control, of
+the Council, and of the School Board, has been so reduced that at their
+meetings speeches and angry discussions were tabooed; each associate
+member was respected, if not on his own account, then on behalf of his
+constituency, and all business was discussed and consummated with
+the same courtesy and efficiency, as at a well regulated board of bank
+directors.
+
+Never before were streets so well paved, cleaned and sprinkled; never
+were city improvements so promptly made without increase of debt, and
+never did public schools prosper better. Men of experience on all lines
+were drafted on special committees and commissions, and vigorous work
+toward practical ends went forward on river, harbor, and other
+improvements.
+
+Electricity, supplied by the city, furnished power, heat, and light. High
+pressure water relegated the steam fire-engine to the Historical Society,
+and low pressure water, at minimum cost, was supplied to the people in
+such abundance that during the summer season, before sunrise, all paved
+streets were cleansed by running water and brush brooms. All sewerage and
+garbage were promptly removed, and used to enrich the suburban
+market-gardens.
+
+Every country road leading into the city had its electric railway with
+combination passenger and freight cars, and farm products for the people
+were delivered in better condition, earlier at the markets, and at much
+reduced prices. The advantages enjoyed by rich and poor in Harrisville
+were soon noised abroad, and the influx of new comers constantly
+increased the growth of the city. Mayor Ingram had been given a
+re-election. Prosperity in his own business had brought great returns,
+and the mayor's chief concern was, what to do with his accumulations.
+
+One day the County Commissioners, the City Government, the Chamber of
+Commerce, and the Board of Education were equally surprised to receive
+from George Ingram the announcement that he would build for the people at
+his own expense a court house, a city hall, a public library, and public
+baths. He had often wondered how it was possible that other millionaires
+could overlook and miss such opportunities to distribute surplus funds
+among the people. Gertrude early observed the city's needs, and had
+pointed out the opportunity to George, urging that part of her father's
+money should be united with their own increasing wealth to supply funds
+for the execution of their plans.
+
+The four committees appointed by city and county acted speedily in the
+consideration of details. It was decided to construct a group of
+buildings on the park. The architecture adopted for all four structures
+was Romanesque in style; granite was used for wall work, and darker stone
+for ornamentation. The plans accepted exhibited less massiveness than the
+original Romanesque, and showed a tendency towards the lightness and
+delicacy of finish which modern culture demands.
+
+The new court house located on the park enabled the architect to connect
+it by an historical "Bridge of Sighs" with the prison and old court house
+across the street. The city hall was properly made the most prominent of
+the group of buildings. Its first floor and basement were combined in a
+great assembly hall, capable of seating 10,000 people with an abundance
+of light, fresh air, and eight broad entrances for exit. As the belfry or
+tower was a leading feature of most mediaeval town-halls, so the artistic
+feature of the Harrisville city hall was its lofty tower, containing
+chimes, above which was to be placed an appropriate bronze statue. The
+library and the baths were built on the park.
+
+The Romanesque style of all the buildings gave fine opportunity to
+introduce elaborate carvings about the entrance arches, and across the
+facades to chisel quaint faces above the windows, and grotesque heads out
+of corbels at the eaves.
+
+The group of public buildings was finally completed and dedicated with
+much formality. The city government unanimously adopted resolutions as
+follows:--
+
+"Resolved,--That the City of Harrisville accepts, with profound
+gratitude, from Mayor George Ingram, the munificent gift of buildings for
+a City Hall and Public Library as stated in his letters of ----; That
+the City accepts the three noble gifts upon the conditions in said
+letter, which it will faithfully and gladly observe, as a sacred trust in
+accordance with his desire.
+
+"Resolved,--That in gratefully accepting these gifts, the City
+tenders to Mayor George Ingram its heartfelt thanks, and desires to
+express its deep sense of obligation for the elegant buildings, for years
+of wise counsel and unselfish service, and for the free use of valuable
+patents. The City recognizes the Christian faith, generosity, and public
+spirit that have prompted him to supply the long felt wants by these
+gifts of great and permanent usefulness."
+
+Similar resolutions were adopted by the county commissioners.
+
+Nearly three millions were thus disposed of by the mayor and his wife.
+Close attention to business, and the severe labors in behalf of the city,
+undermined the health of George Ingram, and his physical and mental
+strength failed him at the wrong time, for his ship was now approaching
+a cyclone on the financial sea.
+
+Tariff matters had been drifting from bad to worse, politicians were
+seeking to secure advantages for their constituents by changes in the
+tariff schedule, speculation was running wild in the stock exchanges of
+the country, cautious business men and bankers in the larger cities
+discovered an ominous black cloud rising out of the horizon. Bank rates
+of interest increased, more frequent renewals were made, deposits
+dwindled, country bankers weakened, and financiers in the metropolis
+were calling loans made to the interior. With the financial cyclone at
+its height, the demands were so great upon The Harris-Ingram Steel Co.
+that creditors threatened to close the steel plant.
+
+The cry for help went up from the Harris-Ingram mills, but their trusted
+leader was powerless. George Ingram lay insensible at death's door, the
+victim of pneumonia. For a week, the directors of the steel company
+struggled night and day with their difficulties. Gertrude could neither
+leave the bedside of her dying husband, nor would she give her consent to
+have the Harris-Ingram Experiment wrecked. She had already pledged as
+collateral for the creditors of the steel company all their stock and
+personal property, and had telephoned the directors to keep the company
+afloat another day, if in their power.
+
+The ablest physicians of the city were standing at George Ingram's
+bedside in despair, as all hope of his recovery had vanished. Gertrude
+stepped aside into her library, and was in the very agony of prayer for
+help, when in rushed her brother Alfonso, whom the family believed dead.
+He had come from California with his wife, and stopping at the company's
+office, had learned of the terrible trouble of his family.
+
+Lifting up his broken-hearted sister, who for a moment thought that
+she had met her brother on the threshold of the other world, he kissed
+Gertrude and said, "Be brave, go back to your husband, and trust your
+brother to look after the steel company's matters."
+
+Alfonso learned that one million dollars were needed at once to tide over
+the company's affairs; he drew two checks, for five hundred thousand
+dollars each, upon his banks in San Francisco and requested the creditors
+to wire to the coast. Before two o'clock replies came that Alfonso
+Harris's cheeks were good, and the only son of Reuben Harris had saved
+the "Harris-Ingram Experiment." Mariposa's band of beaten gold had worked
+its magic.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A public funeral was given George Ingram. He was a man the city could ill
+afford to lose, and every citizen felt he had lost a personal friend. All
+business was suspended, and the mills were shut down. For two days the
+body of the dead mayor lay in state in the city hall he had built and
+given to the people. The long line of citizens that filed past the coffin
+continued through the night till dawn, and even then, great throngs stood
+in the rain with flowers for his casket.
+
+As a token of their high regard the people voted to change the name of
+the city of Harrisville to Harris-Ingram, the suburb which was annexed,
+and to place a bronze statue of George Ingram on the tower above the city
+hall, which now became his fitting monument. Labor and capital united in
+electing for the head of the great Harris-Ingram Steel Company, Alfonso,
+the millionaire and artist-son of Reuben Harris.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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