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you and I are nobody in the world unless
we‘ve got money-wh h we're never go-
ing to ge on a measly salary. And
‘i. ‘
" ‘night you are.‘ he broke in savasely.
‘In this age of capitalism you have to
knock it rich man in the'head if you-
want to get your share of the good
things of life. We're‘living in an era of
cutthroatismf ‘
““'he-n I heard him talking in that
iitrain I was tickled to death-for I knew
- that I could get him to come in with in
And so I led III) to the Bill)-
to
d to him when I declared that the‘
-Old Man was worth at least a hundred
thousand dollars in toto. This, of course,
coin represented all his
wealth outside of the meager mechan-
'ical equipment of the American .Novelty
Compan . ‘
lose. Jack consented to go in with me.
“NOW as to the plan that I had formu-
lated-lt depended upon two fea-
tures that I want to describe. The nrst
was as follows: Projecting several feet
from the brickwork near the roof of the
Columbia Building was a fifteen or eigh-
teen-inch beam, with a ponderous hook
hanging from the end of it. A ew clays
after I had commenced working for the
American Novelty Company. I had seen
e river below.
had been resorted t on account of the
fact that the hydraulic freight elevator
hml iiroken down at an inopnortune time.
fact. the architect who designed the
old Columbia Building must have placed
that cantilever beam there for just such
‘a purpose-to take care of any emer-
gencies such as stoppage of elevator
serv e. one thing was certain: each
floor had a sliding door which opened Oul
ulireclly- beneath the projecting beam.
And the building itself was built close
to the water‘s edge, there being no dock
wed a man to pass fro
one building to the rear of another along
for Three Generations
Have Made Child-Birth
Easier By sing r
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to IM Beolilut on I
Bradfield Regulator 00., Dept. 29-FA, Atlanta, Ga.
Free To
1Pi'iIle Sufferers
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our one in of long
gunding or rucent dove opment, whether it 1.
chronic or Acute, whether it is occasional or
permlnenl, you should and for this free trial
treatment.
r wlinra you live. no matter what
no or occupation, If you urn troubled with
od c you promptly.
it to those appur-
euily hobolcu cu-an whare n rormu of oint-
menu. 88. and othur local anvlicalionl
have failed. .
1 want you to realize that my method of
treating piles to tho one molt dependable
Irentmen
This liberal offer of free treatment is too
nnponsnt for you to he lect a single any.
Write now. send no money. simply mall inn
coubon. but do this how. TODAY.
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E. II. I'nxoi,
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Please send Iron Irinl of your method to:
feature number two. .
“Each night before closing, several im-
'niense galvanized cans with covers were
tilled with metal scraps from the lathes
and other machinery and sent down on
the elevator to the basement. Here they
were called for punctuliily at 10 o'clock
by a wagon belongingto a ‘West Side
foundry which purchased these scraps.
Before the advent of the Old Man's new
night watchman. these cans had to be
fetched up every morning by one of the
lathe oilers. But ln'my brief remaining
stay with the American Novelty Com-
pany I noticed that since the coming of
the watchman the cans were back in
the lathe room every morning, empty.
In i'iew'o! the fact that the power for
the elevator was supplied all night by a.
small basement power, plant severa
buildings further down the river. it was
quite plain that the Old Man had in-.
structetl his new employe to pull the
elevator cable every night when he heard
the empty cans rolled back on. bring the
elevator to the fourth floor. and roll the
cans of‘! again into the lathe room. He
was not an employer, you see. who would
let a. man sit around doing nothing if
some task could be found that would ex-
pedite some one else
taking into consideration these two fea-
tures that I've described, I made my
plans accordingly.
“Now for the important factor-the
boat. Jack had run a steam launch in
h‘s more nalmy days; he had told me
this himself. And remember. chief, that
in 1895 the gasoline launch was prac-
tically unknown, Furthermore. all along‘
the north shore of the lake, Where the,
swell people lived, there were steam
were usually kept in small outlying boat
houses when not in use. And so we got
our power boat without much trouble.
chief. by the simple method of-well-
stealing it. '
’ “On the night of the 4th of liiay We
went out launch hunting along the north
shore. “'c finally struck a splendid resi-
dence that servants‘
quarters and all.
water’s edge and peered in the window
of the bonilmuse. And there, all painted
white. was just the trim little twenty-
iooter that we were looking for.
"We broke the glass. crawled in, and
looked her over by match light. Her en-
gine and boiler was at the stern, nicely
painted, but evidently muc tinkered
with by some one who didn'i..fully un-
derstand it. for in several places .it was
wired together with fine steel wire. But
her little coal box.was full. There was
sm
"While Jackbuiit a fire and got the
engine chugging merrily-but somewhat
bumpily-I was busy painting out the
less than twenty minutes we were spin-,1.
nlng northward over the surfnctt'iof‘the
water. Jack tinkering around the engine
like a. girl with a new doll,>and myself
lolling back on the leather cushions at
the bow; wondering how our plan would
work out the following night: for we had
intended to pull off the stunt the night
following the one on, which we got pos-
session of a launch. '
“Vi'el, we drew up about 11 o'clock
that night in a little cove off Fortieth
street. on the south shore. There we
beached her carefully and went home to
h greelnpain
Altho he did all this I learned afterward
that it was time wasted. for several days
elapsed before the owners returned 0
Chicago and inserted an advertisement in
the ‘lost’ columns of the newspapers.
". nd while Jack was watching the
launch that morning, I took 2. North Side
commence the slow, tedious
drilling of holes that would cut away the >
combination lock.
“ FT!-In locating this tumbledown
dwelling I made the long, pain-
ful ride from the north city limits back
to the city proper. In a big downtown
mill supply house I made 8 purchase
that swallowed. up practically nil of my
scant savings. I bought 3 huge pair of
triple blocks and three hundred feet of
stout hemp tackle. The two packages
were so heavy that I had to hire it. nor-
ter to help me on the South Side street
car. After I arrived at Thirty-Ninth
street I left the tackle In an old worri-
an’s back yard until such time that I
could send Jack Durant back to get it.
Then, Iugglni; the blocks only. I started
down for the beach where we had left
the steam liiunch. ,
boat’. “She was green as grass
-and almost dry. So I sent Jack back
to Thirty-Ninth street to-fetch the coil
of tackle. And after he arrived. sweat-
‘ ' staggering
e sandand took a
t 3 o'clock in'the afternoon
we threadedthe rope. thru the two
blocks and stowed it away'in the-bob
tom of the launch. 'l‘lien.we weniled
our way up around Thirty-ninth street,
where we had s. good meal and several
drinks d.riow to , . you, chief.
how our plan worked: absolute] ,.'per-
fact-except for jhe finish.
week I myself never even knew What
the actua.l'termination-of our project
was. , . .. a >, : ‘>
, At 1,o’clock that.'night;we.sh
the launch out into ' the W3 er ’
there.was a. quarter moon“tha.t
‘eek;
the sky. was just cloudy. enough, to hide -.
‘it completely. So iiighted the-little
coal oil searchlight and Jack built a hot
fire under‘ the ,boilei'. Soon awe
coal g
steaming - northward. ‘ Oddly
. were
enough, I wasn't nervous at a.ll,'f0i“ it’.
looked to me.-as..tho the ,vyhoIe'sch'eme.
must go thru .without-'a.'hitc
50: ‘ "Somewhat before 9 o'clock we ‘reached
the mouth of the Chicago River. This
was max-kedby a light on one end of
the Government Pier, which lay to the
north of us and some distance out from
mped.
the dark hall passage that ran mist the
freight elevator. I struck a m
looked into one of the scrap cans-and
found it full of metal curlings. So far,
Back I went to the dock.
Jack then tossed me up a tiny hand line
with which I drew up
tackle arrangement.
back in the hallway and threw behind
an old wooden partition. Then I sat
down myself‘ behindvthe ;pai-tition- and
began the',tedious,w,nit:for the arrival
of the man who alwayspalledgfo he
metal scraps. . - .’ . 1" . -t .. ‘
“At 10 o‘clock I heard him come shuf-
fling in. I'heard,him roll each can out
- Rn(Llitler roll-it'baa-k- onto the ‘elevator
platform-empty. d. so. while he was
out on South ;Water.'street timing. the
last can Into his wagon I dropped Zthe
.blocks and trickle into gone of-.the
empties, replaced the cover, Jumped into
.ai‘1other empty can,‘ brought back, its
loose cover pver.my headnand got.out
my long. blue-steel rev’olver.which I ‘had
in my coat pocket-all along; And
slipped over my eyes it mask made from
one of my old socks. -" " i -
G
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‘him rolling the
. “Presently I .heard
-' last"can ‘i'7I'lIfIIl.9.81t"8t0I' platform. Then
‘I heard him holler up: ‘All ready. II'ist
away, you on the top floor.’ Andas his
footsteps died.out, I could feel the ele-
vator rising .slowly, '-in'‘
course.
tion of the cable. Finally she stopped.
, And I swear. chief, that in, uint one'-sec-
.‘ond I had. a" lump n my’t.hro:lt',tllat
Ielt as tho it '.Would‘ch’ol(ertne'. " .
"Sl'eil,.th‘e‘ minute I heard the watch-
man ‘start to roll one of the cans off the
‘ elevator I knew without any doubt that
both of his hands were occupied and
hat myown revolver would be master
of the situation. I stood up quickly,
throwing off the cover with a clang.
‘And chief. his law
as
air as tho they were fastened to two
invisible balloons.
"It appears that I had him dead to
rights-for his own gun was in his coat
pocket and he’d‘removed his coat, you
see. in order to roll off the cans. So in
three seconds I had him backed into the
stree
"Wlthout>uslng up any more time I
jerked oil't the block and tackle contri-
vance. By standing on the sill of one
or the windows, I managed to hang the
immense iron hook of one of the blocks
in the corresponding hook of the I-beam
which projected a short. ways from the
brickwork. I stepped down on
the floor again and drew out the re-
maining block for ten or twenty feet.
And all this time, chiefhthe watchman
never let out a peep. for I had threat.
-ened to send a bullet at him thru the
Danels of the door if he so much as
whisperc .
"I walked into the shop and got a
long piece of heavy iron chain that was
kept always in one certain spot.
wound around the safe in a sort of slip-
hoose fashion and hooked it on the free
0
tossed :2. burning match out in the air.
This had been agreed upon by Jack and
me as n signal for him to pull away
from the Columbia Building in case any.
thing should break or slip. In a few
BECDIIIIR I saw the glow of his engine
moving downstream several rods.
"So I drew own on my fall line unul
the blocks were taut. Then I rolled the
safe clear to the edge of the floonwhere
one push with foot would send it
swinging free ot the building from the
end of he I-beam. Again drew me
ropes taut. For a friction brake I took
that . rope, We .
Jiulleys groancd
ntii last ‘slowly thru
‘ oved '
Altho ;
-to: the surface of the l-iV'er for
gfor easy -lowei-in g. An
.r
weight on the line.
scales ‘at
.1 had tipped the
e it was plain that bymy
weight alone I should be able to sup-
port at leasrsix times one hundred and
severity pounds-or over half a. ton.
“There was nothing left to do but
give the safe a shove-and trust to the
good old laws of-simple mechanics. This
I did. As it slid off the floor and sworn:
clear of the.buildlng,
a 17
strain easily. So I let the rope pass
my -fingers. around the
doubleturn on the cross-bar, and back
and forth thru the blocks. After what
seemed an interminable time I heard ti
sharp whistle from Jack.
'other.signal”we had agreed upon as
s
wlng‘that the safe was near enough
bring the launch up beneath it. '
I,hung on,.sweating profusely.
see the dull glow of the firebox
.to a. point directly below me. Again .1
double .whistle from. Jack-the signal
finally as the
passecrslowly from my han
felt an immediate easing up the
strain. At the same instant. three
sharp whistles from-Jack told me that
the Old Man's strongbox was safe on
the bottom of the launch and that it.
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