Life — August 19, 1909 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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As I alighted at the twenty-ninth floor I fully ex- pected to see the same old wooden tables and desks, the rickety old chairs, the old fireplace and the same old bookcases with their freight of musty law books and a seared and yellow leaf or two which adorned the office of “Ye Olden Time.” But I was rapidly awakened from my day dream. As I entered the outer office, young men with pale, thin faces encased in large spectactes suitable to be used by automobilists to assist them in their work of depopulation, hurried to and fro. Immediately on my right a large iron cage, such as are seen in banks, occupied a space sufficiently large for several ordinary of- fices. Behind the bars many clerks were to be seen, all working diligently, some writing in large ledgers, others counting money which stood in huge heaps in front of them, some separating specie from coin and some handling the checks received by that day’s mail. I standing in a large square, gorgeously carpeted and fur- nished with all the appointments usually seen in losses. Depends for its virtues not upon strong oils, carbolic or other irritating disinfec tants, but upon the presence of OXYGEN (peroxide)—Nature’s purifier. Ask your dentist—he knows, SAMPLE AND BOOKLET FREE ON REQUEST. McKesson & Robbins, New York. The Voice of Reason “Drink it for Ht Health and Contentment” Quality end Character Remember The “A Label BLAlZ Order a case sent home the main hall of one of our best clubs and hotels. A young man approached me and’ requested me to write upon a printed slip the name of the per- son I desired to see, the business concerning which I desired to interview him, my own name, my age, present address, previous condition of servitude, and my favorite flower. After I had complied with these formalities, I seated myself in one of the large, comfortable leather chairs to await the return of the young man who had taken my card. I had a letter of introduction to Position Unrivalled ia LONDON. ‘THE LANGHAM HOTEL Portland Place and Regent St., W. FAMILY HOTEL of the HIGHEST ORDER In Fashionable and Heakhy Locality. Reduced Inclusive Terms during August and September. Mr. Wisenheimer and had asked to see him, was informed that he was very. busy in con tion with Mr. Charles Slobb, arranging tails of a pa nt of nine million dollars Mr, Slobb was about to make from his « sonal funds to his friends, associates others who had sustained trifling losses i ping enterprise in which Mr. Slob ha¢ ne displayed interest. Owing t that this payment was actuated so oble spirit which could not bear to se: mon people already bending wearily ur ht and burden of past performar nM and had nothing whatever to do exercise of a gubernatorjal clemency were of considerable magnitude a © time to complet Mr. Doublecross in? Unfortun was not. He had just been summoned erly to explain portions of a course prep the Presidential Correspondence School ¢ he was chief director, entitled, “ How 1 Friends in Wall Street,’’ to which the Pr had recently subscribed. My matter was one of great importance + and one which I thought required and shocll receive the attention of a member of the firm, 9) I persisted in my inquiries. Might I see Mr. Moneygrubber? Not at pres ent, was the discouraging reply. He would b disengaged in four hours, if I cared to wait but Mr. Blowwhistle could’ sce me. At last, thought I, I have found some one wit whom I may discuss my troubles. I was into a large room in which a tall, well-g young man sat at a fine mahogany desk d letters to a stenographer. He bowed me gr ciously to a seat while he completed his corre spondence, and then turned his attention to me This, however, was but for a brief moment “I was referred to Mr. Wisenheimer,”’ I te gan, but just then the telephone bell rang and2 some mone dw “Pardon me for a moment, up the receiver. “Yes, this is Mr. Blow What can I do for you, Mrs. Goblet? Y. lost_ them again? When did you have then{) last? You say you had them at the Casino.) and wore them last night at Mrs, Van Asterbilt’s) cotillion, and noticed them again when you req turned to your home? You had guests in the) | house? I have frequently warned you agai the dangerous practice of inviting friends to yout} house. By all means have their rooms and cifects| examined immediately. No search warrants ate necessary under such circumstances. Necessity knows no law. 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