Show mmm TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 20 1910 WHEN THE END IS REACHED' WHAT? 4- courtship of Mary ano Niles was one that conform nicely the conventionalities of the community She was 20 and he he was 29 when they met at the home of a mutual friend became engaged three months later and married that same spring In the large Industrial eastern city where Niles was already making his way they began their married life on a scale commensurate with his Income and at the end of the second year were occupying a small apart ment In one of the apartment houses on one of the exclusive streets In town They were happy formative years of gathering friends and furnishings An Inveterate shopper Mary had the faculty of making a dollar seem to stretch twice Its usual reTheir little four-rooapartment siliency In Bradford Arms an address the young housewife glorified In giving to trades and sales people was so unusually caparisoned that a magazine called Interior and Exterior had sent a photographer to take pictures of the living and bedrooms for Inclusion In the publication Mary and Justly so was proud of her achievement of this home It had taste distinction and a quality away and beyond on anything an ordinary woman might have been able to achievewent the budget Nile’s earnings allowed Busy constructive years Niles took his pride In It too It was pleasant Into its making to be able to Invite a client Into the really distinguished atmosd Mary In her phere of his surroundings The charming clothes the pleasant lampllt living room of smooth rugs books firelight pewter Sheraton good old prints with Its Invariable luster vase containing yellow roses grand piano — — gave forth an odor of success that never failed to register in- - yilE to m well-bre- good-looki- dim-ton- Still a Spliynx stantly Clever woman Mary! Baker Directs At Age of 90 Nation’s Third Wealthiest Citizen Is Member of Fifty Corporations By DONALD BOLES Associated Press Staff Writer 8UH active as NEW YORK one of the truly great Influential figures In the financial and industrial life of the nation George F Baker ' has Joined the ranks of nonagenarians In the best health he has enjoyed In five years the great financier and banker who reputedly Is the nation's third wealthiest citizen recently observed his Both birthday at his estate on Jekyl Island off the coast of Georgia His arrival among the ranks of nonagenarians finds Balter with his own exclusive niche In banking and Industrial life He Is the nestor of American bankers and the sole surviving ligure of the powerful group of men who dominated American business and finance a quarter of a century ago To Wall street Baker Is a simile for silence He has been a dominant figure In the financial district for more than half a century yet the world knows little of the man who built the First National bank Into a powerful financial Institution and contributed to the development o many great companies The financier and philanthropist has rigidly adhered to his policy of silence except for notable lapses What is known generally of his career has been develojicd largely through others Once he gave a aninterview and back in 1910 swered questions for two days before a congressional committee investigating banking policies of the country Baker once said that he thought he was a director of 50 cororatlon3 but never had counted them He had a reputation In Wall street for attending more directors' meetings than any other man In recent years he has slackened the pace but seldom when In the city misses a meeting of the board of his own bank of which he now is chairman the United States Steel corporation the American Telephone and Telegraph or the New York Pnn txal railroa— When tn New York he comes to the bank twice a week the dickens t'rom that point on the advance' ment of the Niles Gregorys was con slstent and always a little ahead of itself That Is when Niles was earning twenty thousand a year they seemed to be living at the rate of thirty when he was earning thirty It was as if his Income must be at least fifty And so on due of course to Marys unceasing attention to every detail DIFFICULT TO TFLL NILES THE MATTER At the conclusion of the tenth year of their marriage when NUes was steering ahead to greater and greater success In his work their country place thirty miles from town was the most pre'entlous and A far luxurious estate thereabouts more luxurious place Mary prided In than Niles normally explaining could afford By then a rich man the scale of the estate neverthless the outfitting the garages the gardens the swimming pool the tennis ourts would have been still outside the reach of NUes except for the superb power of Mary to manage her financial expenditures and keep them reduced to a minimum for value received She not only had the gift of taste and selection but she had the InIt domitable energy for shopping might be said that the first ten years of their married life was one exhaustive shopping tour In Europe and America Not mind you that Clever as It was drudgery to Mary On the - other hand there was a concrete Joy in browsing about foreign and American cities and pouncing eagerly upon the bargain of a bit of tapestry a rare old chair a gem of a highboy tucked In some obscure shop down some side street Even Niles a less eagpr shopper was not averse to being dragged through the of Florence Italy of Charleston GerSouth Carolina or Munich many on a quest for the proper bit of wood-paneliwood carving lustre-glas- or s It was nothing to give n entire forenoon to matching a particularly god bit toof cretonne or denly and completely the sense finish had written Itself across w ter to of Mary’s life For a year with this crack across her being but with no ostensible letdown life moved along at Consultations with gardeners motor troubles week-en- d parties dinners to clients of Niles tours of inspection with admiring guests through the grounds and then gradually even Niles began to notice 'What's the matter Mary? Fagged? Look as If you njlght need a trip or change" “All right try a trip or change" Three months in England browsing about among the shops for Ideas for a certain addition of a Tudor suite s lie had In mind then a bit of Basque country and home by way of Naples and the Mediterranean But strangely enough the homecoming of a Mary a little more lusterless and a little moie difficult to bestir out of her lethargy than the Mary who had gone hunting divertissement three months before “Matter Mary?” Wild-me- hat he could not understand Betwait Better to try somehow some way to Jerk out of this leaden agony that was gripping her more and more Another year then of the week-en- d parties the personally conducted tours through the grounds the adding here and there to the perfection of the establishment 'What in heaven's name Is over you these days Mary? You haven't been yourself In months” Well here she was try mg to tell the untenable Somehow it had to be told —it had to be told of all re “We're so finished “Meaning what?” “You Me” Niles’’ “How?" “Oh I don’t know There's nothing shop for Just rushing from shop we are expectant about You take the right shade of silk for curtains me for granted I suppose I take or color of bathroom tiling you that wdy Nothing around the All this made the busv years of us corner for Nothing to build begrowth seem filled with the sense of cause we’ve already built No excreating the setting for the lnd of citement left — no Joy of creating — life they wished to live no imagination between us Just As Mary's friends put It she husband taking wife for granted worked like a stage designer bent wife taking husband Stale I need the proper draon accomplishing something to- - do I want a sponmatic setting for their background MARY S MANAGEMENT taneous compliment from a sponWith the country place called Wild-metaneous impulse to pay one I want CONTINUES TO SHOW she achieved It On the outthe impulse to say complimentary skirts of town adjoining the most to my husband and I haven't select country club In the state repto tell Niles the things It was not that impulse any more than he has resenting an actual outlay of seveial matter That easy Is It was not even You're a failure as a husband to me hundred thousand dollars and giving to attempt to tell him Theie Niles I m a failure as a wife to you the effect of having cost much more easy were not the words to convey to him We've gone along on the momentum the beautiful home of Marv and Niles reared Its turreted head It gave you a sense of rppose Just to enter these doors to sink Into its restful chairs and divans to look out over Its meticulous expanses of garden and terrace to browse in Its libraries relax in its music room Models of proposed U S foreign service office stretch out In Its luxurious sleeping suites at Shanghai (top) building was finished The home diplomatic residence re New U S Embassies Are Improving SOMETHING DROPS LIKE LEAD PLUMMET The Mongolian Juke Tscu Tsdn on the left u ith his daughter and eldest son The duke was governor of the Urga district of outer Mongolia until the soviet Russians became dominant there in 1921 Well for another year or two there was the pastime the excite ment and always the pleasure of bringing into this home the friends and acquaintances who would exclaim at its perfection and revel In its comfort It was a source of perennial thrill to walk with them through the beautiful avenue of poplar trees the geometric perfections of the sunken gardens and point out to them the vistas and scenic delights from almost every window Then one day something seemed to drop like a lead plummet to the Now that being the house was finished what next? What then? There were the usual Friends Cards divertissements Theaters Travel No children of Interest her own but a in a local child welfare charity to which she gave time and thought There were apparently as many interests as there had ever been No particular reason so far as casual diagnosis could make out why sud- - Tuo Facing A- -a HARBIN ManchurU OP— Aristocrats of old Mongolia cling to their titles as dukes although most of them are no better off than the most humble of the nomadlo shepherds who used to support their regimes The men of the families maintain that as descendants of the erstwhile rulers of the land they are not supposed to labor but the women be they duchesses or what not In their own right or by marriage shepherd the sheep pitch- the yurts kindle fires to keep the family pots boiling and see to it that the pots are filled A pair of duchesses who came here when numbers of their people fled eastward as the Russians advanced during the dispute over the Chinese Eastern railway said that their husbands did a little hunting now end then but spent a large portion of their time gambling Despite adversity and the nomadic title life they follow the Mongol bearers cling to traits of their They are all fond of - silks and the women will spend then- last cop- - DETROIT (UP) — The Grand International Bottle Rag and Scrap Iron company of North America and Europe Willie Whttsett president and Gantlln Prechett treasurer is under a cloud with Us owners and operators on alx months probation The trouble was caused by Excelsior which is a horse and the firm's chief asset Excelsior President Whit sett explained to Judge C E Stein was responsible for breaking into a garage and stealing automobile parts found tn the pers for trinkets from which they can make necklaces especially If they aie novel and colorful Har- bin while the Russians were advancing came mostly from the Barga area where the soviet tried to erect a small buffer state on communistic lines as a means of pinching the Manchurian frontier east of the important railroad Junction at ManchulL There were about 30 000 Mongols In that area most of them engaged In raising horses cattle and sheep wagon of the OIBB&SL Co which Excelsior draws Messrs Whitsett and Prechett both negroes told the court of their great surprise when officers found the stolen parts Both figured it must have been Excelsior who was to blame Bo the partners are free on probation with instructions to see that Excelsior Is made to understand the gravity of grand larceny and breaking FISH FURNISH LEATHER MOSCOW W)— Soviet scientists clnim discovery of methods of making leather from fish skins and the government plans to open a number of tanneries to treat the skins of cod and wolf fish The skin of the white grampus is said to make excellent shoe leather In the past year nearly Spark Plugs every 10000 Miles? m two-thir- ds and entering of the people of Finland engaged In agricultural pursuits -- LOWEST PRICE- ’’ A a If f dH I f4 ’’ll 4 i J fcl fj2 DELIVERED HERE FULLY EQUIPPED IN TOWN or on the rod here's a car that offers everything an owner can desire Idle it through traffic at WASHINGTON WT— Uncle Sam is turning a more imposing face to the world In foreign capitals In marble steel and stucco new embassies legations and consulates are rising to replace the former obsolete and undignified quarters of American diplomats Since the passage of the foreign service buildings s act in 1926 the United States has been acquiring more and more of its own buildings abroad Before that time members of the foreign service open were housed hi make-shiunsuitable dwellings Now they have specially constructed residences and offices built In keeping with the country they represent and furnished to provide all the comforts of the United States Two of the newest and most preare those at tentious embassies Tokyo and Paris The former will 1931 bo completed in It will cast ft somewhat more than 11000000 and la built of earthquake proof concrete and steel The embassay buildings in Tokyo will include offices residences for the ambassador and two apartment houses to provide residential quarters for the commercial military and naval attaches and their families Construction of the new United States embassy office building In Paris which will also cost more than $1000000 will start next January It will be located In the beautiful Place de la Concorde The government owns the ambassador'a residence In Paris having acquired It furnished from the late ambassador Mvron T Herrick Another prrtentlous project la the proposed new building In Shanghai to house all activities of the U 8 government It will be built on a slote above the river an hour or step up to the throttle four miles fifty at a touch of Slip Into fourth and go humming down the highway without straining the engine running up gasoline consumption or causing vibration a comfortable car at any speed handsome car It's It's It's a sturdy car ft a will "do its stufP'and kep on doing it Ride In this dean-line- d capable automobile Drive it Learn for yourself that FOUR AHEAD V) d 4each model priced exceptionally transportation — 24 types of - and low considering its earning ability (( Bring your haulage problems to Morelandl The Instant you apply Freefone toacom it stops hurting Yes instantly! Then the com soon becomes so loosened that you can lift it right oft without feeling it That’s the end of Mr Com Get a bottle ef Freezone today and put good AD drug stores it ' That has been Moreland’s policy during 20 years of successful truck building Moreland engineers with a hand always on the pulse of western hauling pioneered mechanical advancements which are one by one being motors adopted throughout the truck industry This applies not only to transmissions but brakes and multi-speedrive 6 wheels with also to many lesser modern details C( The 1930 Moreland line runs the gamut of As Iv Forward Speeds-at the World’s SPEED SUPERIORITY Isa fact Knock out Drops Ocndcns the Pain Corn Lifts Right Off! 4 f Blame Horse “ The refguers who poured Into Change i re Theft Charge J1 14 I A f in Nicaragua (below) are typical of new housing projects for U S' envoys abroad deep-seat- t of Inanimate things and now that and charming manner But In the we have finished with them we've meanwhile the days are oo crowded too busy too happy nothing left" "I don't know what you're talking (Copyright 1930 by the McClure about” Newspaper Syndicate ) "You Wouldn't" "You mean— ’’ "I mean I’m dissatisfied Niles Horribly Irrevocably I m finished here I'm bored There Isn't enough between us We're polttA boarders under the same roof Life Is swift life Is passing and we're missing it" "I don t know what you mean” “I know you don't or I wouldn’t be saying what I'm saying” “Take a trip” This Mary did but It waa a trip which struck Incredulity and amazement Into the heart of Niles "I need to be free Niles I cannot regard my life as the snug completed thing it seems to be with you Emotionally we are finished materially we can only be repetitious J need to be fed stirred moved Intellectually and inspired to do" "I don't know what you mean” “I know you don't Niles" That was four years ago The new Worn-ofarmspark ping canao Mary lives In a three-roohard starting alow pick op house In Connecticut that she had constructed out of an old barn She poor idling iota of power is married to a student of bee culA new set will is ture Everywhere throughout the ure euy ourting simple and sparsely furnished housefaat pickup bri hold is evidence of the study of this liant performance intricate and subtle form of life to See yonr deolerto- which they both devote their days day and insiat opoo K' Some day Mary hopes to find time AC Spark Plugs 9 to furnish their home In a quaint and Mongolian Dukes Cling lo Titles rd WIDOWS SACRIFICED (UP) — i xcava-tioKOENIGSBERG in the Samland district of Fast Prussia have disclosed finds indicating that the widows of the most ancient Inhabitants of this part of ir Germany were burned alive on ttv husbands’ funeral pyi?s The conclusion has been generally accepted because It Is known that these ancient Prussians preserved much of the language and customs of their original Indogermanlc home Wflshington Informed congress a faw days after the battle of Biandy-win- e that 1000 of his men were without shoes BY FANNIE HURST I MORELAND TRUCK CO OF UTAH 137 Motor Avenue i Phone Wasatch 5192 Vi FREED MOTOR CAR CO Wasatch 6573 |