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THE BOSTOfr SUNDAY GLOBE -DECEMBER 14, 1924 "GOING TO BE A REPORTER, LIKE MY DADDY" Mrs Harding's Grandson, Some Time to Inherit $200,000, Carries Papers For the Star His Sister Wants to Be a Teacher Golden Caribbean Twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, every week in the year, Great White Fleet ships sail from New York and New Orleans to the lands of mystery and romance washed by the' golden Caribbean. Special winter cruises offer the last word in luxurious sea travel. Special, and most attractive, shore trips are included in the price of your ticket. Special representatives of the Great White Fleet insure your comfort and amusement on land and sea, for the motto of the Fleet is "Every Passenger a Guest." SAILING EVERY SATURDAY FROM NEW YORK For Havana, Cuba; Port Antonio and Kingston, Jamaica; Panama Canal and Port Limon, Costa Rica. $350.00 up Following shore trips included free: Havana Motor tour of city and sub- Cristobal Motor trio to Oatun: SAILING EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM NEW YORK For Kingston, Jamaica; Cristobal, Z.

Cartagena, Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta, Colombia. $315.00 up Following shore trips included free: Kingston Forty-mile motor trip in- Puerto Colombia By rail to GEORGE NEELY DEWOLFE MISS GENE DEWOLFE eluding visit to Castleton Gardens; Barranquilla thence by boat through opportunity to inspect locks, dam, spulway, trip by launch through Canal to Pedro Miguel; luncheon- at Hotel Tivoli, Ancon, C. Z. in the active circulation manager direct charge of the carriers. urbs; trip by parlor-car train through picturesque Cuba; with luncheon and visit to modern sugar mill at Hershey.

Jamaica Stay at most luxurious hotels in tropics; motor trip through sixty miles of fascinatingly lovely country, stopping at chief points of interest. lunch at Hotel Myrtle Bank. Cristobal By auto from steamer to Gatun with stup to inspect locks, dam and spillway I thrrsce by rail to Panama City at Hotel T.voli, Ancon, CZ. Cartagena Motor tour of points of interest; La Pops Hill and fishing village of La Boquilla. lagoons of lower Magdalene River to Cienaga where a special train takes guests to Santa Marta.

Santa Marta Motor tour of tha quaint city and to San Pedro Alejandri-no, home of the patriot, Bimon DuUssr. Port Limon Two-day trip by special train, traversing banana, coffee and pineapple plantations; stop over at San Jose, capital of Costa Rica. Mrs Harding's Grandchildren, Who Inherit President's Fortune, Were Never at White House Make your geeemttonm now through your looml tourist agent, railroad tioket agent, or F. K. M.

Jones, N.E.P.A. Thinks It Good Training Mrs Mezger thinks it is good training for George. So does his stepfather, who is a wholesale grocery salesman and former Public Safety Director. "It is always good training tor a boy to carry a route on the Star." Mezger says. "They learn business and there are some mighty goOd men in this country today who Write for or i UNITED FRUIT COMPANY 19 Broad Street.

Boston. Mass. MARION, Gene and George De Wolfe, 15 and 12, granddaughter and grandson of tha late Mrs Warren G. Harding, widow of President Harding, are the wealthiest children in ilarion through Mrs Harding's death, bat they are not different from any other boys and girls of their ages. Gene wants to be a teacher, like Miss Abigail Harding, sister of the late President, and a musician, too.

"She is smart as a whip," declares K. H. Marshall, principal of Harding High School, where she is a sophomore. "Her grades are among the best in the entire school," he added proudly. "I am going to be a newspaperman like my daddy," says George with an tir of finality.

He is now carrying a newspaper route for the Marion Caribbean Sad booklet. wut giacuy iron a copy. Gene and George DeWolfe, although they were the grandchildren of the First Lady of the Land, never saw the White House. They had planned to go. there to spend two weeks in the great mansion the Summer that President Harding died.

But they are going to see the White House next Summer. They are going to Washington for that purpose, and while there they may dine with President and Mrs Coolidge. BIG FRENCH MOTOR MAGNATE TALKS ON GAS could sell 100.000 cars In America If It were not for yovr 46 percent duty. But If I export to the United States today I have to sell there at 1800, instead of MOO, which Is my locaf price. As a result i don't sell at all." "Do you compete with Henry Pord in foreign markets?" I asked.

"No. I make an entirely different type of car." "What do you consider the chief essentials for success in automobile manu- Star, which was owned for many years by his grandmother, Florence Kling Harding, and his stepfather, I barren G. Harding. 1 "My daddy used to be a reporter I on the Star and 1 am going to be a reporter some of these days, just like "I am going to college Just as my daddj did, and be a star reporter," Master George De Wolfe saye, although he is not quite, sure he will be a Star reporter. Of course, when George gets a little older Roy D.

Moore, the new general manager of the Star and one of its principal owners, will be glad to give him a try, Mr Moore himself declares. "Try our deferred payment sW Watches, Diamonds St Jewelry Reliable Repairing 515 Washington St FOt KTH FLOOR used to carry paper routes, I tell you." Mr Mezger was named guardian for both children by Probate Judge L. B. McNeal a short time before Mrs Harding died. It then became whispered about that Mrs Harding expected to make her two grandchildren the principal beneficiaries of her will.

Gene and George will not come into possession of the fortune for many years yet. According to terms of the win they are to be well provided for by the executor, Charles D. Schaffner, who is also executor of the will of President Harding. The will of Mrs Harding stipulates they are to receive generous amounts for- their education from accruing interest, but that the fortune Is to remain intact until they are 28. The property they inherited is mostly In bonds and other gilt-edged securities, although there is some real estate, including two business blocks, the Star 'office, and the Ma-gruder Building.

he he tells everybody, "and I know he was a good one." He is in the sixth grade. Andre Citroen, Called the "Henry Ford of France," Who Turns Out 300 Cars a Day, Thinks His Charcoal Gas Better Than "Looney" Kind i Jv ft: fi Mrs Harding's estate, the bulk of which was left to Gene and George, figures close to half a million. Neither Gene nor George has any fool notion about being stuck up, their associates say. The girl, blond, with laughing eyes and a winsome smile, is the picture of her mother, now Mrs Roscoe Mezger. The boy resembles only slightly his father; he looks more like the Neelys, his grandfather says.

He is a big-hearted, happy go-lucky boy, who likes to do what other boys do, yet he likes to make his own spending money. That is one reason he is carrying a newspaper route, that and the fact that he wants to become a newspaper man like his father; and his father used to carry the Star many years ago when his mother, Mrs Harding, was Charcoal Burner to Furnish Autos Gas Makes His Own Spending; Honey However, Master George DeWolfe is not bothering himself just now about when he is going to become a reporter, because he realizes that be is a little young yet to be even a cub; but be has his mind all made up to get a job some day on some newspaper somewhere, even though he may be worth $200,000 or more In his own right. Star Reporter His Ambition Marshall DeWolfe, father of Gene and George DeWolfe, died in 1912 at Kersey, Colo, where he had gone fcr his health. He was Mrs Harding's son by a former marriage. He worked on the Star a number of yeara before his mother bought him a little paper and sent him to Colorado.

Marshall E. DeWolfe married Miss ether Neely, daughter of former Mayor George W. Neely. When their Ant child came they had a name picked. The name was Marshall Eugene DeWolfe, Jr.

but it happened that the stork proved contrary and brought a girl. So the first born "Tt may not be long," M. Citroen said in reply to my question, "before the world Is without gasoline, or at least until gasoline Is prohibitive In price. Tou In America have been particularly lucky, but even your supply, of oil Is expected to last only another fifteen or eighteen years. In Europe we have felt the high price of fuel for a long time, and that Is one reason we don't sell so many automobiles.

"That also Is the reason we have been experimenting with gasoline substitutes probably longer than you have, and Judging by the casualties of your 'looney gas' with more success. af m'NHsikV NflM SasBaV mW L-y-. m- aW ak ''yJa In Europe automobile drivers must economise on gasoline as on everything else. An autolst there wants 80 miles to the gallon. Citroen, the French edition of our Henry Pord, thinks the time is not far distant when there will be no more petroleum and when a charcoal burner will furnish the motor cylinders with the gas that runs them.

By DREW PEARSON Parts "With the coming dearth of gasoline the entire world is experimenting with motor fuels and Europe believes she already has a better substitute than America's so-called 'looney This prophecy came from Andre Citroen, sometimes called the Henry Pord of Prance, whose diminutive cars now crowd the boulevards of Paris by the thousands. I had come out to Cltroen's huge new plant on the Qual du Java! to ask the great automobile manufacturer what the world was going to do without gasoline, and I found the man himself Just as Interesting as the subject he discussed with me. OUTWICRCTIC OPL71 BCGIM5 by Cdwirx C. riobjorv Cheapest Substitute Charcoal Gas "Our simplest and cheapest substitute, so far, is charcoal gas. The apparatus oo turibienea uene insieaa oi mar-) Citroen Is a small, energetic Prench- In the List of the Wild shall Eugene, Jr.

The boy was named after his Grandfather Neely, whose pal he is. ANDRE CITROEN facture?" I put my last question. i low consumption of gasoline, and that "First, the American method of stand-1 Is another thing that counts heavily ard production." Citroen began. 'with he Kwopean. And, finally, ad- man who dimples when he smiles and for making it Is called an 'Imbert gazo-ppeaks English with enough American gene' and is far simpler than It sounds, slang to make the interviewer feel very It is merely a tank and burner placed much at home.

either beside the drive or In the rear. Before the war Prance had never which burns charcoal. The carbon mon-heard of Citroen. Today ISO. 000 cars oxide which results from the contact of carry that name over every road In the charcoal and air Is piped Into the cylln-country and the biggest electric sign in ders direct.

No change in the construc-Parls biases it forth to the theatre tion of the engine Is necessary, throngs below. Citroen Is reputed to "The French Ministry of War con-be the richest man in France, but when ducted an experiment of this charcoal I asked him if this was true he replied gazogene the other day at Lyons, and checking off on his fingers. "Second, a vertising. Here again, you see. I To sell Automobiles, Tires, Trucks and Accessories, and Real Estate, advertise in the Daily Globs this week.

Read the C2rf in today's Globe. graceful body. Europeans Insist on that. American. I believe In advertising.

Copyright by V. P. O. News Service, lae.) We prefer beauty to speed. Third, a pronounced it a complete success." tlmldy and fatal delicacy, who stjod lookfhg upon two bucks engaged In fierce struggle for possession of the wild lady of the forest.

It was love wild, exultant, it was passlbn rampant and combative. Nightly the Mad Moon cruised lone and ghostly the star-lit depths of far skies, and soon tt would rise again above the pointed black forest. Under Its magic and mystery these wild creatures were swept to abandonment, to high moments, to the Inevitable and eternal pinnacle men call mate-hunger. The bucks were strong and vigorous, with antlers dangling strips of dead velvet, with necks swollen and bristling with straight hairs, wkh eyes dusks' TO CALIFORNIA VIA NEW ORLEANS laughingly: "Richest! Why, I have nothing In the world but a factory. Not a penny In the world.

I owe money to every one. Last year they said I was busted. Now they Bay I'm the richest man In France!" And he' threw up hut hands In good-natured despair. "Does this mean that France will discontinue her Import of gasoline?" I asked. "Certainly not Citroen replied.

"But It Is a relief to know that In Ume of war we can fall back on our own forests, rather than let our national existence Recalling that he had recently won lng, backing a few paces, they charged once more. Desperately they fenced with heads and horns. The old buck was quick In movement, setting a terrible pace, but the young rival proved his equal In close fighting. In slashing and fencing, in sidestepping. In getting out of a tight place.

Time and again the heavier animal forced his opponent to his knees, to his haunches, but a twist and a shift and a sudden leap sldewlse, and they faced each other for another charge. They did hot crash this time. To my utter astonishment, as they met they rose upon their hind legs and pawed viciously with their fore feet. They slapped, thrust, and the sound of hoofs smashing against muscle-swelled bodies was a deep thudding. Lacking 'horns, they settled to earth again, and then began the pushing and fencing tactics.

They were blowing hard, the fast pace beginning to tell upon them. The wild tournament came suddenly to an end. It ended abruptly, without apparent cause. With an indescribable squeal the young buck sprang away, blew shrilly a hissing whistle, turned and fled wildly, panic-stricken. Into he murky shadows of a dense growth of birch and aspen.

Here was mystery. They wore evenly matched, and neither bore spy ripping of the flesh, any blood, letting, to show they had engaged In combat beyond a thin, streaky glistening of copious perspiration staining their coats. Suddenly the victorious buck raised a drlpDing nose to natch furtively at the wind, and 'his ears played restlessly In a questioning manner. With a bound, all beautiful and utterly feminine, the doe leaped Into the clearing, her "flag" flashing danger, her head thrust forward, and then quietly, like a forest phantom, she slid Into the dusky undergrowth' and was gone. The buck wheeled furiously, snorted, stared at the knoll whore I lay prone and motionless and barely daring to and then he trotted slowly after the fleeing form of his heart's de sire.

Long after they were gone I lay there thinking, wondering, pondering world-old enigma, and it was close to dark when I turned toward the wood road and home. 1,000.000 francs on ths roulette wheels depend on the oil-producing countries from which we now Import 728,000 tons at Deauvills. I asked hips If he attrib and bloodshot. They were nearly of a uted his Industrial success to good man agement or sheer luok. size, yet one bulked a trifle heavier, a little more stocky.

He was a master In many an Autumnal episode, this buck Ssys He Follows Ford Methods In reply he laughed again, and point A most comfortable winter route to boB Angeles, San Francisco and other California Cities by the excellent train service of the Southern Rail-say from Washington to New Orleans, thenca de luxe "NEW SUNSET LIMITED" train of the Southern fcetfle Lines to California, leaving jfea Orleans 12:10 noon, featuring dub car with barber shop, bath, valet pa observation car, with ladies' unge, bath, maid and manicure, ith modern sleeping cars. Excellent toning car service all the way. Also a Portable tourist sleeping car from "Washington through without change Angeles and San Francisco at Pullman fares. Booklets, 're 8, and schedules. GEO.

C. "A NIELS, New Eng. P. 246 Washington Boston Advt. ed to a picture of himself and Henry with many sears, whose coat was dark mouse-color on the back and shading to a tan on the sides.

The younger one was of a light reddish color. They were fresh, unwlnded. showing the combat to be In an early stage. IN THE LIST OF THE WILD The smoky sun hung above a brown, pine-clustered hill. It was a strange sundown, a pallid yellow ball adrift In a pale sanguinary sea.

The smoke of brush fires drifted low over the dim miles of a New Hampshire landscape, and the air had a fugitive pungency of burning wood and leaves. Somewhere the red hounds were unleashed and running amuck. Homeward bound along an old wood road, I watched the play of paling sunlight retreat down dusky corridors, the lonely shadows, the ghostly wisps. Boughs dipped and swayed Indolently, and a leafy whispering walked from tree tree and vanished softly. A lone and industrious chickadee uttered a beaded greeting.

The silence was unruffled, remote. see Suddenly I -heard a faint dashing as of hitting stick, a series of sounds sharp, spasmodic, quite unexplalnable. A whimsical west wind aroused the forest to a sudden yet subdued threnody and brought the strange noises closer to ear. Interruptions to wooded solitude always touch the qule. the bump of Inqulsltlvenes.

the slumbering Instincts that are a heritage of early man. I listened once more and heard again the mysterious rapping like sticks crackli.g In the brush. Softly, silently, all a wonder. stepped off the road and headed with subtle tread and speculative eyes toward the intermittent disturbance. It was loud going over the red and saffron forest floor deep with late fallen leaves too noisy for fugitive stealing, yt the pad of light stepping disturbed more the imagination than It did tho placid stillness of the hour and place.

On hands and knees I crept up a pvae-clothed knoll, crawled under a low bough heavy with needled plumes, and looked eagerly, helf-expectantlty and all surprised upon a drama of the wltd being enacted In a little clearing bordering a still dark pond. Three white-tailed deer composed the company- sleek, lithe do tail af of gasoline yearly. "This means a bg saving to us the automobile manufacturer continued, "for the charcoal fueling cost of a 26-horse power machine will be about five or six francs per 140 kilometers, whereas ths cost of gasoline runs up to 40 francs for the same distance. And In time of war the charcoal could nt be exploded, as many of our gasoline storage depots were In the last unpleasantness with Germany." "Have you been working on any otntr substitute for gasoline?" I asked. ''The Swedes have a mixture which Is not exactly a substitute." Citroen explained, "but which Increases ths power of the engine.

They mix about SO parte Of ethyl alcohol with SO parte of DIAMONDS ON CREDIT WS are ene of the largest and oldest Importing houses la this city Two vesre' time given to pay for a 1100 diamond In weekly or monthly payments; ethere proportion. Anticipating the rise which has re cently taaen place, we stocked up heavily els months age and shall give our customers full advantage of our good trades. Diamond Engagement Rings OUR SPECIALTY Toung Man. bring her In here with you. If she to the right girl, end of course ehe la she will not select a diamond larger than you can afford.

Please de not confuse us with the ordinary installment house which sells a cheap elase of good. We sell goods only of the Aneet quality. YOU OAN DEPEND UPON OUR GUARANTEE Our years' expt-rtmee la at year sarvtoe Exquisite Mountings In Gold and Platinum He Mate the stmt Lighted Olaaneod OBtoes la the City THI INSTALLMENT PLAN has eosse to stay. It baa boon a wunuertui help to many, or our thousands of cash customers, some may not approve of our selling diamonds ea the uisiallutent plan, ana for thai reason wo are not giving you our name In this advertisement; besides, -it to an extra Hssurancs that all business you do with us In our credit department win be considered strictly conndsntlel. Ford, taken during his last trip to the United States.

"My success is no. fault of my own," he explained. "I am a great admirer of Henry Ford and spent a week with hm once, when I had opportunity to study him carefully. I saw that bis methods wefe good and that Europe would have to follow them, I have merely been one of ths first to use them." As a result, Citroen has transformed It acres of war buildings into up-to- date factories that turn out cars a E.oM Economising ea Fsel With heads lowered and mouths open dripping frothy spittle, they stood looking at each other for the fragment of a minute, and suddenly rushed together, head-on. with clatter of horn on horn and grunting of heavy bodies.

Furiously they tangled herns, pushed and lunged mightily, ghd twisted brutally, slowly, their heads In order to get an opening for a thrust In the neck and fore quarters. They uttered no sound, just a loud measured breathing belching from the nostrll-plts nothing more. The big buck drove his rival backward. It was firm footing and sheer weight plus strategic strength. With a twist of his head he attempted to throw his antagonist, but the younger one backed furiously, shook free his head, aad bounded aside.

He uttered a short bleat, ft may have been fear Frank's Pipe Shop LINE OF HIGH-tiRADK Meerschaum and Briar Pipes A FINE LINK OF wgar and Cigaret Holders PeolaS Chrlitmas suggestion I a of Perfectly ROCK AMBER BEADS dav and rival Ford's Rouge plant in, oay ana i "But ws European manufacturers neatness and efficiency. 1 Like his American prototype who ex- i have long been economising on fuel. We perlments with railroads and water had to, In order to sell our ears. power, Citroon also has his hobbies, and The interview then turned to Interna-one of them is a transportation line tlonal politics, and I asked Citroen If through the Sahara Desert by means of France was going to pay hsr debts to caterpillar automobiles. The French the United States, automobile king has even gone so far -We could easily pay our debts tt you as erecting small hotels in ths Sahara would allow us to pay you goods." as stopping places along his line, which was hs prompt reply.

"But year high connects the Algerian railways with i tariff makes this impossible. Take off m.w. IxMiP tariff aad ws will pay pea, I HSKsJJK tPl Press, with A Pw making. repalHni Vrk a AX lunnwou in pivws oi uiimtino jewelry. Address: POSTOFFIOE BOX 1544, BOSTON No Dividends Bert Tou married for money, didn't yea eld mast Mr Hooker Ah.

yes, my bey. but the wife hasn't declared any dividend yot. tlftu'iJfl to Inspect this beau- kmSZ 0rregnVtdl" to Sudbury $tH near Scollsy Sa, ONE FLIGHT VT tt stay have seta Jjrear ft.

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