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The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 7

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fiHE f'liiliADEiji-iHlA bU.NDAY 7a Vjfc. y-r- WMMM ''1 Mil J--- i Laying Cement Sidewalks, Note High Ground. No Grading Expenses. Graded Public School on Morton Ave. Panoramic View of Faraday Park from Depot.

Taken year ago. when property was opened. Good Trolley Service to Philadelphia. Among the trees, one. square from Depot ceres at Morton tation I In TROLLEY EVERY FEW MINUTES A NEW HIGH-SPEED ELECTRIC LINE COMING 1 7 Minutes from Broad St.

Station- 8c Fare by Train or Trolley 44 Trains Daily remarkably low price for these large lots, ree Excursions TodaySunday Egress sirzuca. raos. iLs-sf $2 Down F2 $1 Weekly (lO Yer Cent. Discount for ail Cash in 30 Days) AO Improvements Have Been Made You don't have to wait for anything: at Faraday Park. All improvements have been made by the company.

Thousands of dollars have been expended. The beautiful wide streets are lined with magnificent trees. All streets have been graded and cement sidewalks laid. Your home here will be surrounded, with all the beauties of nature fine old trees a hundred different varieties that have been yeara in growing. One visitor say3: "Like cutting up Fairmount Park into building lots." All lots are sold under wise permanent restrictions embodied in agreement of sale and deed.

This insures good neighbors and a refined influence for the children to grow up in. Faraday Park is high and healthful has good Springfield water, gas, electric lights, stores, schools and churches of all denominations. This is the first offering of sections and Section was practically sold out last year in three weeks. As these are only small tracts and the very choicest, you will have to act at once. Meet the tall man with white badge at track 16, Broad St.

Station, in time for the 10.10 train this (Sunday) morning or the 3.11 train this afternoon. He will give you free tickets. If not convenient to come on any of these trains write or 'phone (Bell, Lombard 499, Keystone, Main 1889) the office for free tickets, good on any train. There are 44 trains a day and our agents are on the ground every day including Sunday. Faraday Park Has the Best of Train and Trolley Service It takes only 17 minutes to get from Faraday Park to Broad St.

Much les than the time from many sections of the city, where one is subject to uncertain trolley service with cro7.de cars. For a residence surrounded by the natural beauties of nature with all city conveniences at. hand or for investment Faraday Park is the "best real estate offering ever presented to Philadelphians. It is only a small tract and will go quickly. Don't wait.

Come now and see for yourself. Bring your friends. It will certainly be a pleasant and perhaps the most profitable outirig you have ever taken. with all improvements already made is possible, because we purchased the old Faraday estate over a year ago at a great bargain. All lots are sold under our usual liberal terms and special advantages.

No interest, no mortgages, no extra charges of any kind. No taxes until 1908. Nonforfeiture in case of sickness. Free deed to your heirs if you die before lots are paid in full. Title guaranteed perfect.

Free building plans, and large premiums to those who build within the Think of the prettiest Philadelphia suburb you know of, where lots sell from $400 to 81000. Then come and see Faraday Park and you will be compelled to admit there is nothing to compare with it at similar price. Victor J. Htimbrecht, Tresiderft, improvement Company Rooms 1093 to 1099 Drexel 5th Chestnut Sts. fef Il li ii gSSi Depot on property.

44 trains daily. Eastern end of Franklin 3 min. to depot Cement i II. Beautiful trees everywhere 100 different varieties. First home- a.mimberof 'v others building.

lanificent oak and fir trees waiKS. nne trees anu waiuuiii Miniuutiv. Vat 5 1 i SPEIBK 1 WITH MARK TWAIN 1 iT TUXEDO Pll! i NEWS OF INTEREST TP THE VETERANS Grand Army Posts of This City Arrange for the Annual Fall Inspection 1 -MS-- taw How the Great Humorist and i Dean of Letters Lives at; His Country Home ic 5k -4 Just a Bit Difficult to Reach Him and Then His LittleStenographer Holds the Key to the Situation I -tSt- Post inspections will begin in earnest this Aveek, and promise to make affairs in Grand Army circles most interesting for the next few months. Post inspections so far arranged are as follows: Meade Post, No. 1, of Broad and Cherry streets, October 21, by Inspector Green; Post No.

2, of 667 North Twelth, October 31, by Inspector Uber; Curry Post, No. 18, of 317 North Twentieth; "by. Department Inspector Green, on October 10; Taylor Post, No. 19, of 984 North Marshall street, by Department Inspectoc Green, on October 24; Saunders Post No. 21, of Thirty-ninth and Market streets, by.

Inspector Thomas, on -November 11, Cavalry Tost, No. 35, Broad and Wood streets, by Department Inspector Green, on November Moora Post, No. 56, of 303O Lancaster avenue, by Inspector Dennison. on November Post No. 77, of 524 North Sixth street, by Inspector Berne, on November Ross Post, No.

94, of Girard avenue and 1 i 1 Ai4 By Albert Edward Uliman nNPZ of the reason that would a thne-liavrid rerp.611 to travel 011 a ertain railroad is the 1 fact that Mark Twain along 1 the iiuo. The other reason i that there is 110 other iailroa! running to Tuxedo Park, where the dean of letters make his sum- Hutchinson streets, by Inspector Moore, on October 7 Sumner Post, No. 103, of 1224 North Eleventh street, bv In- bv we home. And ttili another is that -it is sixty miles from the Jersey ferry, not a pleasant miming's stroll. Mr.

Twain is himself a victim of this spector Berner, on November 13; Scott venerable railroad. lie is 110 longer i i 11. X- voimz ana cannot wiia 10 iuij vity, so he buys his ticket, like any other helpless person, and v. rites a new i volume for publication while on his way. And despite this martyrdom, few words of complaint have passed his lips- The! only words recorded are: journey on that railroad is like pre-! paring for the hereafter." Note the philosophy and calm resigna- tion of this utterance there is not a Jt'ost, io.

14, ot uo Kiclge avenue, bv Inspector Craig, on November Tyn-dale Post, No. 160, of 1265 Ridge avenue, by Inspector Worman. on December Koltes Post, No. 228, of 835 North Second street, by Inspector Bar-ford, on November 2S; Deven Postx No. 363, of Broad and Cherry streets, by inspector Kunkle, on December Naval Post, No.

400, of 304 North Broad street, by Inspector Mooij on October Grant Post, No. 5, of 1706 South, street, by Charles H. Fleming, on October Greble Post, No. 10, of 721 Wharton street, by Michael Farrell, on November 18; Dupont Post, No. 24, of.

Broad and Federal streets, by Michael Farrell, on October 28; Post, 1 yn-fk-mmrmm Avoid of Billingsgate ia it. Once embarked on the journey to Tuxedo you would probably forget your means of locomotion in contemplation of the chain of miniature blue mountains that shut off the world and ether railroads from the quiet, vailey through which you thread your way. You would JSo. ot -RKJ bouth eleventh street, bv dames, on jctoier lti; Town Post. No.

40, of 1421 South street, by Frank HoPuet. on November 27; Revn-olds Post, No. 71, of 1220 South Eiahtb I j. only contemplate after you had passed through a tunnel and exchanged the smoke in your lungs for a supply of fresh ozone. If your-train is an accommo twecn Clemens and the world.

And Miss X. Jjyon, though a small buffer or, more properly speaking, private secretary, is an extremely determined young woman. -She can smile in a truly nxelt-innr wav and refuse vou almost anv old en eei, uy j.utniiu xiiiiier, On Ueceiil- ber Bryan Post, No. SO, of Eleventh and Fitzwater streets, by B. F.

Donaldson, on October 15; Logan Post, No. 115, by Frank lloguct. on October 30; Pennsylvania Reserves Post, No. 91, of Fifth and Chestnut streets, by Charles If. Fleming, on November and Patterson Post, No.

275, of 1131 South Broad street, by Richard J. Baxter, on November 27. tiling without you being aware of your Qg and a uniformed ierson opens the door. "To see Mr. Clemens?" he asks.

"Yes," j-ou whisper. Buttons nods and you are off again. You wonder at the actions) of the persons about you. You little know that the starter at the station has 'phoned to the person you desire to see and ascertained whether our" visit is a thing of joy or not. If not, you stop at the club house and Teturn to the station.

Beyond buttons there is no appeal. It may be mentioned that this course is practically necessary especially in the case of Mr. Clemens. The world is always selfish of its love and were it not for these barriers the object of its regard would have little time to do anything other than shake hands, autograph letters and photos, talk, talk, talk, and listen, listen, listen. He can do more for that same world by avoiding it and leaving as a heritage the work of his pen.

You pass- through hills dotted with beautiful homes and round the road bordering Tuxedo Lake, which vou follow the fact that Samuel L. Clemens is more than a funny man. It is do-scovering underneath the smiles cause for tears; it is discovering the philosophy of the man and the unequalled satire which reveals his undying hatred of shams and hypocrisy; it is discovering the portrayer of a phase of our national life that is dead and gone and remains but in his pages; it is discovering the master of his tongue who used his great gift of humor as a su2ax coating for the great things ho has had to say. You "would rind him-no parlor convcr-saticialist, indulging in repartee, but a man who thinks deeply on world events and has reached his conclusions after deep and unceasing study. Hearing him talk you would know he was a logician.

If you would see him today with pink cheeks at seventy-two you would marvel. As you gaze at the great mane of" silky white iiair, the great acquiline nose, the shagzy eyebrows, the merry but penetrating eyes, you would conclude that there is as much of the symbolic about him of his native land as there is of the American eagle. As vou saw the man in his snow-white flannels you would conclude that he had chosen a harmony of dress that pertains to no other man, and you would admire the courage that sets aside foolish' laws of custom to follow its own trend. And leaving the place with the impression of this great man of seventy-two fresh, in your mind, you would, sigh -at the fate tnat will not permit him to live as many yearsr again and continue to make the world. better and-brighter by his living.

You, are only comforted in come down stairs to chat wkh whoever is present, and perhaps he dictates a little more. His lunch is a glass of milk, and after it lie may. take a drive behind a safe and -sane horse and pay a call or two on friends. His dinner at 7 is a full one the first square meal of the day, and the evening is spent with the fiiends and acquaintances who hold lum dear. Mis Lyon will inform you that Mr.

Clemens does not exercise much that he uses his vigorous mental faculties to such an extent that physical exercise is unnecessary. He does not indulge in games or sports though there was a time when four aces would have caused his eyes to brighten unless an innocent game of hearts can be called a game. He is not fond of most animals in the ordinary sense. He likes a dog at a distance. Kittens are his only pets, and during the summer you can "find him almost, any time scratching the head of a ball of yarn-edition to a Thomas or Maria.

If you should ask him where he got the kitten he would answer: "I rented it for the summer." At first you would smile and take it as a quip, but inquiry would reveal the statement true. Mr. Clemens is unable to keep kittens in his New York home, so during the summer he merely borrows them and returns them to the owners at the end of the season, thus assured that they have good homes. If Mr. Clemens changes summer places and kittens many seasons the country will be threatened- with a horde of eats all known as Mark Twain's kittens that will be unaccountable.

The world is- gradually awakening dation it will atop at many pleasant litt.e p'aees along the it it is a through train it will only hesitate. At ail events you will arrive there it: something more th.tn the hour and a little bit which the time table promises. You can take your time getting off the train, and you, face the small station and three or four "jiggers." The word "jiggers" being translated from Tuxedo-ese, means electric 'bus. "Take me to Mar-r er I mean Mr. Clemens'," you jay, with becoming ha-t'uv to the man who chauffs.

"See the starter," he answers laconically. V.onderingly you turn in that worthy's direction and attract his attention. His rye iaicea in j-c-ar air of qriet dignity and leerve and some other points. "Ye-e-s?" he queries. "I desire to be conveyed to Mr.

Clemens' place," you say in modulated tones. His eye sweeps you again, and you know that you are being mentally weighed and balanced. His voice takes on the shades of the inquisition as lie asks: "Have you a letter or card from him asking you to covceV "So" yon may answer, it it is true, "but I am expect-d." If it is not true you would be foolish to say it. "Very well." comes the answer. He nods to the chauffeur and you are off.

Not for long, in ten minutes you arrive through a beautiful roadway at the Tuxedo CTub house. Your "bus" stops loss. hile tew great men are heroes to their secretaries, let it be said that Mark Twain occupies a sky-scraping pedestal in the estimation of his secretary. If you are interested in learning how Mr. Clemens passes his day, the best ferson to go to is that same young lady--ler employer never talks about himself if he can avoid it.

Beginning with the morning, you will find that it is not a question of what time he gets -up. but what time he up. If you should open the door to his bed room at eight o'clock you would probably find him smoking a cheap cigar although there are many boxes- of imported perfectos around the house and waiting for. his coffee and rolls. More cigars and pipes follow and the air becomes heavy with the odor of Connecticut filler or, plug-cut, as he dictates chapters of the autobiography which is to be published after his death.

He dictates slowly and surely, using the semi-colon mark, of which he is particularly fond, as frequently as possible, and when the copy is handed to him by his stenographer, it is. almost ready for press, so few are the corrections to be made and so polished and rounded are the sentences of the great master cf English. After dictation he may read not fiction but scientific tomes that would drive tiie. aveiage reader to an encvclo- ifltil i' Want Every Ifle Sufferer toTeat This Care Our Bxpeune. Sena Your ame mid Andrea For a.

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