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--i THE WASHINGTON TTTVR A JJJNE 15, jj A EXPERTS DETECT FRAUD BY THE TASTING PROCESS Dr. Lucius M. Tolman, Uncle Sam's Chief Taster W. B. Alwood, Official Wine Expert C.

Mitchell, Red Pep per Man Dr. Hartmann, the Beer, and Whisky Tabu lator William B. Harris, Official Coffee Taster George F. Mitchell, Tea Expert, and Miss Alberta Read, Noted Woman Scientist, Tell of Their Work. By WILLIASI ALTDORFER.

If com body handed you a steaming cup of freshly made coffee with the com mand, "Tell me what that Is." would you think him crazy; Would you humor his whim and say coffee, or would ou tell him frankly that he as slightly de mented, to say the least? And suppose a little later another man should offer you a cup of freshly brewed tea with the same Injunction, what would you do? woman you begin to feel creepy? And then to top It all off. If a tall, thin Tnan acre to ask jou to take a taste of red pepper and tell him what It was. do you think you could bear up under the strain? Wouldn ou think jou had suddenly gotten in the midst of a crowd of lunatics? But even though you Imagined all this, you would be wrong. All of these men would have asked perfectly sane questions, the same queries they themselves answer every day in the ear, and get paid a large salary for so doing. The are experts at such things.

Almost every body has to spend hard-earned cash to taste rare wines and other delicacies Unci Sam pays 130 tasters from 5J.O0O to J3.000 Per year to try them It Is all a part of the government's plan to protect the public from frauds. These government tasters go from city to city, sipping champagne and beer, trying costly food stuffs that are subject to interstate commerce, or sit in the laboratories of the Bureau of Chemistry, here these things are served them AH they have to do is to report products that are nut jui iiin or luiaurmiueu, su mui un-( cle Sam may bring the culprits to time Tatters are stationed In many of the principal cities of the country where Uncle Sams food inspection sen Ice has offices There are manv also at headquar-te In Washington Life for these official tasters la not all one sweet dream There are some things, such as red peppers, that might Just as well go un tasted Dr L. Mitchell, one of I nele Sam's pepper tasters, has Just completed an Investigation of red peppers and he had to use gallons of milk to get rid of the taste after he tried very hot species. He said. In speaking of nis experience, "i spent two weeks working on the pepper test, and got so mucn of It In my system that I don't believe I will ever need anv more seasoning in my food as long as I liv Some of the I'xperln.

The profession of official taster for the I nited States government may, on Its face, seem strange, yet It Is more Interesting than strange W. Alwood Is the official wine expert who has the last word to say on all wines coming Into the Vnited States He Is stationad at Charlottesville, Va Dr. L. Mitchell Is the red pepper expert extraordinary at Washington. Dr Lucius Tolman is Uncle Sam chief official taster at Washington Dr Hartmann Is another wine and whiskey tabulator, and William Harris Is the official coffee taster, with permanent headquarters in New 'iork City.

MI3S E. Alberta Read, a noted woman scientist. Is one of the official fraudulent tea detectors, while George Mitchell la the head tea expert of the United States. These men and women, with a score of others, form a peculiarly Interesting group of Uncle bam specialists, whose chief business Is that of tasting and testing the food products of the nation. It Is unusually Interesting to know bow these people do their work.

If a cup of coffee should be handed to the coffee ex pert, his answer to the question. "Tell me what that Is?" would not bo merely, coffee. He would sip It slowly, consider a second or two. and then tell you what kind of coffee It was, where It was grown, and by what process It had been prepared It Is truly wonderful the exquisite taste developed by these men and women. No matter what It may be that Is put In front of the specialist, the sense of taste nnd smell determine almost without further test the exact quality and the exact location in the world where the food is grown.

The tea experts would do exactly the same as the coffee man. and the pepper man likewise. This phase of government work forms an Important part of the duties of chemical experts in Uncle Sam's pure food factory. The pure food and drugs act, while not the direct" cause of It, is largely responsible for the Increased need of a highly delicate palate and nasal organ In the men and women who determine whether or not a food product or drug comes within the wording of the law. While in several instances work of this not it has the Ingredients claimed on the label.

Samples are rrequently sent him from Washington, of which knows absolutely nothlnr. Making up a cup of coffee, such as prepared in thousands of American kitchens every morning, he takes one sip, or perhaps two or three. He is then able to report to Washington vy-3iat the coffee contains, thatlj'T coffee, the grade, and mft 'o the manner in which Bf) -y6asted. Subsequent examinatioaF Msntngton have shown that the pel. jgBe of mistakes made by Mr.

Harri3rM almost nlL Coffee tasting Is a good example ot those classes of work in which the sens9 of taste is the most Important factor in making an analysis. A chemical examination, for instance, could not show the difference In the method of preparation, or tho variation in quality. It depends absolutely upon taste. Upon Mr. Harris' work is based the grading of the coffee which comes into the United States.

lasting: Tea an Art. Of all the work ot tasting, none Is so interesting as tea tasting. This, under the Treasury Department, forms one of the most Important lines of work carried on In connection with protecting the nubile against Impure arti cles of food. George F. Mitchell, who has charge of the work at Washington, is the head of seven substations, in New Tork, Boston.

Chicago, St Paul, Tacoma, San Francisco, and Honolulu, at all of which places the tea is tested Immediately it comes into this country. Difficult cases are sent on to Washing ton, where Mr. Mitchell makes final decision. When tea enters the United States the customs men drav samples from every different variety, one sample to every fifty boles of a like kind. These samples are then compared with gov ernment standards, these standards 'rtwi -vSilifiSPPP Sffi rTBJl MHEsiBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSaKJBBBBBBBBBBttSr' BBBBBBBBBBaBflSsflBBBEirVSBBBrBrj'r' pfBl HssBiisEl 4isisisitBisitHisisHM'i' LsMlflisHliEf ii SBMwKmi Ktllslslslsvjv' JWsisisis9lBLsLsLsLsHflisisisHK HiLisLsLsLsB MHLHsjsjLjgaB I.OOKItG FOR "MOOJTSmXE nTOTTHn." These tests take place every day at the food factory.

kind forms merely a part of the duties of these experts, there are some who do nothing else. Tvilllam B. Harris, for in stance, is the government's coffee tes ter, and does no other work for Uncle Sam than taste coffees His office is in i York City, the principal port of entry of all the coffees. Mr Harris takes rank as one of the most capable experts In this line of work In the United States Ills pene of taste Is so highly cultivated that by merely tasting a cup of coffee he can tell whether or representing the lowest grade of tea that can enter. The standards are choen by the board of seven tea experts, appointed once a scar by the Secretary of the Treasury.

When an expert wishes to determine the quality of a certain tea he makes a cup the same as the housewife does. The quantity used for a cup Ik equivalent to the weight or a sliver half-dime, this being the recognized government and commercial weight used. The tea Is then drawn and the tests made. The qualities which determine whether or -nri fejy- wwmJf MISS ALBERTA READ, The famous woman tea expert. not a tea Is good depends upon Its taste, smell and body.

The smell Is obtained from the infused leaves, which test Is taken Immediately after brewing In tasting the method used. Is that "Spraying the palate," a process of so taking the tea Into the mouth that It comes Into contact with the nasal or gans as well. Taste and smell are so closely allied In this work that only by this method can the best results be ob tained. As for the body, that Is deter mined by the feel of the tea In the mouth, and consists of much the same "feel as would be noticeable between cream and skimmed milk. Color too plays an Important part.

This is only considered, nowever, alter tne tea brewed, as the tea In Its dry state Is under no circumstances taken Into con slderatlon After having completed these tests the liquor Is then poured off, and the Infused leaves examined for their color, rrttlns the Color. In testing the color an Interesting method Is used to discover whether or not tea has been artificially colored. Absolutely no coloring matter can be used In Imported tea. For many years the methods used In determining whether coloring matter had been used were tedious. Miss K.

Alberta Read solved the matter by devising a simple and satisfactory device, which she discovered accidentally. Making some tests one day, she was endeavoring to find out If the sam ples were colored, and to do this she took some small grains to study under the glass. She happened to mash one, and upon looking at It through the glass discovered It had left a decided mark on the paper. It further developed that te-i treated In this way would Invariably leave a trace of any coloring matter used. Mnce then a special apparatus for examining tea on this basis has been made, and all the official tea experts now use It.

The reason for such care being taken in connection with tea. when other articles are allowed to come In unchallenged, forms an Interesting story. It Is possible to mike tea from the leaves of the tea plant, which, however, could not really pass as tea The leaves ot good tea comes from near the top or the plant-On the other hand, the bottom leaves of the plant are full of tannin, and almost entirely larking In MfflniL Cnnfutmientlv- any iea brewed from such leaves would. tan btlow the standard of tea fit for con sumption. Another line of work which requires a highly aensltlred taste is the wine work of the government at the Charlottesville, Va.

laboratory. Hero have been made some remarkable testa In connection with all kinds of wines. In speaking; of testing1 wine, Lucius M. Tolman, Uncle Sam's chief taster, gave an Interesting example of the lmpor tapce ot taste. He said: "A chemical analysis would quickly show the dlf.

ferenco between champagne and bran dy, as can readily be realized. But when two brandies aro to be tasted, a chemical analysis might show practically no difference whatever. There might be no difference In the formula, yet the brandies, on the contrary, might be entirely different. The difference would be due to the process by which they were made and their respective ages. Now, the only way In which the difference could be detected would he by mean of taste.

Tnvtlns; Wines Pleasant. Or. Hartmann, who carries on the wine work at the Washington labora tory, gave the writer some Interesting Information In connection with his work. "Wines." he said, "cannot be tested at all times. There- are times when the sens of taste Is more delicate than others Immediately after smoking, for Instance, it Is practically Imrinaslhl tn mnkA firnrtd taita.

Then. too, after having tasted one wine the taste must be removed from the mouth beforo an Impartial test can be made of another. A weak solution of soda serveH for this purpose, or I find that eating a small cracker will also remove the taste." In the work done by J. C. Riley, Uncle Sam's beer man, a sense of taste Is also required, although not to the same ex- Well Paid to Taste Wines, Beers, Whiskies, and AM the Delicacies Bit Red Pepper Is Alse on the Mwhl The Red Pepper Expert Wants Ne Mere Season? as Long as He Lhres-Paid from.

$2,000 to $5,000 a Year Travel from City to City, Sipping Champagne and Tasting Costly Foodstuffs. delicate flavors of the various wines play an important part In their testing, and the expert who makes a high per centage of correct examinations must use his nose almost equally with his palate. L'nenjoyablc Job. While the work of the government wine experts might be one which almost any wine-loving American would like to relieve them of, there is another expert whose Work Is far less enjoyable. He Is the pepper expert who recently conclud ed a series of investigations with red peppers.

"Especially In connection with Hungarian paprika," said he. "are tests necessary. The true Hungarian paprika comes from nowhere but Hungary. The same pepper frqra which It Is made, is grown elsewhere, but the climatic conditions make it entirely different In making testa we have to watch out for the Spanish paprika. This article Is about half as expensive as the Hungarian and Is also not quite as red as the other, but by using a small percentage of oil, the color can be Intensified until It closely resembles the original, at least to the average buyer.

There are numberous other lines of work In the government service In which sense of taste and smell are neces sary. B. J. Howard, chief of tne aucro-chemical Laboratory at Washington. Jt w)J ''aiSaBBBBB 7-irV 41 ftsw sWiii 1 ay saaiBflL sshssmi sBBBbH BsssVBsHHBiLtSsssflssBIIPI sBBBsB kJL-v -afljLHHBHBSiSfliBBH SA3IPLING TEV AT THE TREASCRV DEPARTMENT.

tent am with wines and codes. He must determine whether or not beers are correctly libeled, and In so doing a chemical analysis Is usually necessary. Unlike the wines, whiskies require a chemical analysis Some experts there are vrlth so delicate a taste that they can correctly determine the grade of whisky through that medium, but generally an analysis is made On the other hand, oils like olive and Unseed oils, are bought and sold almost entirely upon their taste, smell, and appearance. As matter of fact, taste and smell are so closely allied that where one Is used the other must necessarily come Into play The aroma of coffee, tea, and the gave an Interesting example of such a case. He said: "We had a can of tomatoes come Into the laboratory for examination.

The chemical analysis showed nothing wrong, yet we knew they were not as they should be We found out afterward that In the process of canning, gasoline had been uied as a solvent, and the fumes had gotten Into the tomatoes. There was no gasoline, merely the fumes, but the only way they could be detected by stirring the tomatoes slowly and by smelling them." In pharmaceutical work also, this same sense Is a necessary adjunct I recall one case In particular. In my class at college, I had at one time a. pupil who depended largely upon his sense ot smell. When he came across any unknown, he told me, he was guided entirely In Its analysis by his sense of sroelL And in his case his sense of smell was so acute that hbuwork as a whole was above 95 per cent" In all decomposed food-stuffs a sense of taste and smell are all that Is necessary to 'determine the quality of the materials.

One special line Is that done by Miss Read. She made an extended investigation with frozen and dried eggs, and throughout her work was largely guided by her ability to smell and taste the slightest taint This also holds true, to a large extent in testing preserved fruits. Jellies, canned goods, Ac With Jellies, for instance, a chemical analysis of raspberry and strawberry Jelly would show practically no difference. Only by taste could the difference be detected. Flavor does not respond to analysis, and In everything where It plays an Important part taste Is the principal medium used In connection with It This is particularly so in the case of butter.

Thomas Cornelius, who Is the but ter expert at Washington, said: "Butter Is scored entirely by taste, smelt and sight By "scored" I mean grading according to popular Ideas. We have a special Instru ment for this work, similar to an apple corer. In testing butter we take Cut a plug with the aid of this instrument In scoring, a scale of one hundred points is made, of which forty -five goes for flavor and aroma. These, naturally, are determined solely by taste and smelL Twenty- five per cent Is given for grain, or bodr. determined by slghtt 15 for color.

10 for salt, and 5 for the package and general appearance. In using such a method It can readily be seen that taste and smell play the largest part practically half the points being given for flavor and aroma alone." A similar process Is used in connection with sampling cheese and milk. with, however, a slightly different basis. In cheese, for Instance. It is mashed up in the fingers until It is soft and warm enough for the true aroma to be notice able In testing milk an Important factor Is visible dirt Taste Is used In testing milk, although In determining the percentage of bacteria and fat contained an anaylsla Is necessary.

Much that holds true In connection with foodstuffs also is true In the case of drugs. According to Dr. Kebler. chief ot Uncle Sam's drug store, taste and smell, although not to be entirely relied upon, are very necessary. He also brought out another interesting point "In connection with all the work coming under the food and drug act" he said, "a sense of taste and smell cannot be entirely relied upon.

Neither could be made the sole argument in court When we bring an Injunction against a firm, for Instance, for adulterated or mislabeled articles, we "must have better proof than that furnished merely by taste or smelt However, I do not mean to say that both are not largely used in our work. Chemists are able to do much by their use. Many times, for Instance, by either tasting or smelling an article the person so doing will be able to determine what method of analysis Is necessary to secure the best result In our work smell and taste serve as an Indicator rather than as a part of the actual work." (ODtrnsiit mj. wumin L. Altdorfs) HAS JULIAN HAWTHORNE FELT HIS PREDICTED CORSE? Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Author of "Scarlet Letter," Prophesied Sins of Fathers Would Be Visited Upon Children.

Julian Hawthorne, erstwhile No. 4 Co In the Federal rrison at Atlanta, on whom. It would appear, has fallen the Hawthorne family curse, supposedly feared by hU famous father Nathaniel Hawthorne, Is a free man again after having served tw months of a years sentence for complicity in mining promotion swindles It is true he is at liberty only upon parole, but It is considered practically certain that he will not have to complete the remainder of his term He now is back in New York, where be has gone into seclusion, refusing to Fee any but his most intimate fnends. This man, who had attained International fame as a Journalist author and financier, spent the months of April and Maj among a thousand convicted offenders against the government offenders of every class and station in life. That he must have found associations during that period not altogether distasteful to him Is Indicated by the following editorial In 'Good Works." the prison monthly, of which he served as editor: "These men Include many persons of good education, gentle breeding, and high Intelligence: and hundreds of this type are now going to Jail for fences which been in, a manner created by the newborn scruples oi lawmakers and the subtle dlscriralna' tlons of public prosecutors.

"A new order of prisoners has consequently come into existence. They re criminals, not by innate tendencies. but by accident and stress of circumstances; by novel conditions, not as yet not as yet fully digested Into tne mora: tense, and such an inruptlon to our Jails 3f an unprecedented element could nut fail to bring about modifications In tne handling of prisoners of all kinds." Editor's Chnlr Awnlted Hint. When Hawthorne entered the gates of the prison, which but a little more than a year before had opened for the of another distinguished financier Charles W. Morse.

Good Words was without a head. The former editor of the little four-page paper had Just been released. The authorities seized upon the opportunity of nominating Hawthome for the place, thus associating one of the most loved names In American literature with a Journal for convicts. The first contribution which Hawthorne made to the paper was a "Fable in Correct Language." with apologies to George Adr. It was a criticism of an inconsistency he had detected at once in the prison regulations "Tor what Inquired the In telligent Investigator from Mars, thus ran the satire, 'was the high wall instructed which surrounds the Instltu- aonr In order." was the reply of the Terrestrial Interpreter, 'to render impossible the escape of the 'And does it fulfill its 'And pursues the HAWTHORNE'S PRISON SONG OF FAITH AND HOPE Written After Hearing; Caruso Sins; to the Assembled Convicts.

We sit In our rows of sodden grav Up there In the great blank hall. Through the window bars the great blue day And the Kolden sunshine call. Call us as Christ called Lazarus, dead. To rise and come forth from his grave But Christ cares not to free us. we said.

To give back the life God gave Better the dead than the living dead Whom the world shuts out and the bars shut In. Man-made scapegoats of all men's sin' Then In the hush of the great blank hall, God wrought a wondrous miracle. For a voice, like a glorious trumpet call. Arose aa a soul from the deeps ot hell. nd our souls rose with It on wondrous wings.

Rose from their prison of iron and clay. Forarot the grime and the shame of things' We were men once again In a sunlit day. Sin and srlef and punishment all ere lost in that human trumpet-call. Not bars nor banishment can abate The strong, swift wings of the deathless soul. Soaring aloft over grief and fate As the tones of the master of music roll Through the gloom and doom of the prison pen.

Distilling the fragrance of flowering song Into hearts that remember Youth again And Innocent loves that knew no wrong. How. then, if such be musics spell. Shall we doubt that Christ still conquers hell? Visitor, "are the shins and ahoulderblades of the denizens Inscribed with the let ters "With the responded the guide, "of preventing their escape. "The planetary stranger took out his notebook and entered In It tne iouow' Ing discovery: "On This Earth, the Prevention ot the Impossible is Not Considered Su- perorogatory." Here, It has been suggested, might be the reference to the "family" curse before mentioned Is the semi-humorous fable an echo ot Hester Frynne's resentment at being compelled to wear the scarlet letter According to Nathaniel Hawthorne's own brief confessional autobiography In his preface to the 'Scarlet Letter," he mentions the part which his forebearers took in the persecution of the same Hester Prynne.

and reveal? that the author had the sense of a curse hanging over his fatally In requltment of his an cestors' cruelty in the early Salem days. "He was a bitter persecutor," Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of one- of his forefathers, "as witness the Quakers. who have remembered him in their his tories." Of the persecutor's son. the great author wrote. "He made himself so conspicuous of the martyrdom ot the witches that their blood may fairly De said to have left a stain upon him." Writing sadly, Nathaniel Hawthorne said he did not know whether his an cestors bethought themselves to repent and ask pardon of heaven for their cru cities; "or whether they are now groan ing under the heavy consequences of them in another state of being.

Then, as if doubting of their penitence. and catching an inspired glimpse lrjto the disastrous future of his son, he wrote this petition In reference to his ancestors: Praved for Exemption. the present writer, as their representative, hereby take shame upon myself for their sakei. and pray that any Marltan curse incurred by them as I have heard. and as the dreary and unprosperous condition of the race, for many a long year back would argue to exist may be now and henceforth removed" This foregoing, written in Jils moss-covered "Old Manse" at Salem, is supposed by some persons to express a clairvoyant dread that the sins of his fathers should be visited upon the children and the children's children.

However that may be. burdened with a curse or not, the talents of one of the greatest Journalists of his day were turned out for sixty days largely to reporting prison baseball games between the convicts, and In recording the foundation-laying of a new prison laundry, the donation ot a setting of eggs to the convict farm. Also he wrote philosophic editorials He produced nothing considered so epochal as Oscar Wilde's. "JJe or "Ballad of Reading Gaol," but one or two of his poems are adjudged to be of'good literary worth by critics. Hnmorona In the Hawthorne started a column of edl torial paragraphs entitled "Pen Points' with a grim pun on the word the widely' known abbreviation ltentlary." These are examples ot his wit In this column.

"We are entitled to our rights and most of our acquaintances say we are getting them." "Many a flyer lotes the use of bis wings after a sojourn here." "Thorough research Into the origin of the hookworm will prove that it Originated In some prison." "One great pleasure In being here: we hear nothing about the self-made man "'Be sure you are rlght-4f not ask the guard then go ahead." "'e get a good discount here, for we get paid In advance." One of Hawthorne's most poignant contributions to "Good Words" was his poem, written on the occasion of Caruso's visit to the prison. "The tenor sang In the. auditorium at the request of his countrymen, "i.upo the Wolf," and a dozen other Black Hand operators. The verses were dedicated to Caruso. In the prison magazine, under the caption.

"A Sermon and a Hawthorne writes as follows ot the dlf' ference In the effect of the two: "There Is a kindly disposition In the community to help convicts Persons inspired with such impulses sacrifice time and convenience to come before the subterranean brotherhood and dispense moral counsel, kindle hope and ambition, assure them of the unfaltering tendernei of the Creator, and urge them to approach the foot of the mercy leat The S04 subterranean brothers sit silent on their rows of chairs before the herald of salvation silent and observant "After the orator has finished his argument told his Illustrative story and thundered his appeal, the SOD perhaps remain silent and unresponsive. The good man sits down, a little chilled and disappointed: he did his best he tried hard, and yet the result was negative. The men seem hardened and indifferent What can rouse them? "A woman rises and begins to sing And there is a note In her voice that keeps recurring, a tender. Irresistible music, rising and falling, perhaps associated with simple, homely words that DIVORCE SUIT NOW FOLLOWS ROMANCE OFMOTT WBBssssssssssWhT TE5 S- JE' flsssssssssffliBBsssssV uBbbbbvsb jarsVsF A sssssssssSaMsK-lBlssssHassssl BssHlBkfJsS) firMiyr'Tisr feBsssssssl ssssssssssssssssssssw-BlVL. IssssssssssssssssssssssVBIssssssssssssssf JULIAN HAWTHORNE.

convey a thought of gentle and Innocent things a tone that Is love and sympathy. "The" singer knows nothing of the world; sin and crime are only words signifying something: vaguely horrible; but she sees, men In prison and she Is sorry for the'm; and that tender, innocent sorrow finds Its' way Jnto. the music of her volc-s, and a change comes over the subterranean brotherhood as It to her." Willing to Chnnee It. Iran Jndfe. "Kissing Is thought by some to be Unhealthy exercise." said he.

"Yes." she replied: "but then, who There's risk In all thing. I suppose." Eugene Dolsoa. Scion of Millions, Who Fled with Actress to Far East, Named as Co-respondent by Walter Bowne. Boston. June It Another chapter about to be written In the history of young John Lawrence Mott 3rd, the heir to million, who.

leaving his wife be hind, and throwing his chances for torture away, fled on a tramp freighter to the far East In company with beauti ful Frances Hewitt Bowne. The latest development in the affairs of the Mott Bowne. and Manning families will be staged at Trenton, N. when Walter Bowne will bring suit for divorce against his wife, naming Mott as correspondent In the meantime. Mott and tne woman who sang her way to fame and Into the heart of the scion of the famous Mott family, when she was a member of the Chocolate Soldier- company, are in Hongkong.

Service Has Been Made. Word has reached this country from Hongkong that a service ot complaint has been made on Mrs. Bowne. who will be in a position to marry when the divorce becomes operative, and Mrs, Mott who was Miss Carolyn Pitkin, of South Bralntree, agrees to release Mott from his matrimonial bonds. Right here, a stumbling block arises, Mrs Mott in spite of the fact that she has put up with a great deal because of the vacarlea of "Larry" Mott, as he Is known to his friends, partly for the old love that has never died and partly tor the sake of her child, has steadily re fused to enter any divorce libel against her husband.

Larrtf Mott was only nineteen years old when he met Miss Pitkin, who Is the daurhter nf Charles A. Pitkin, a teacher at Thayer Academy, in South urauuree. At that time Mott was a second-year Ktudent th T.awrence Scientific facnoot at Harvard. He was taking a course oi studies that were to fit him to take his rightful place In the great Mott iron foundries which have enriched the family. According to all accounts, Mott speni little time worrying about iron ore, nor did io show anv alarming interest in nis studies at Harvard.

When ne mei v-aro-lyn Pitkin what little Interest ha might have had In the iron business faded com pletely away. Even at Mott showed the same utter disregard for conventionality as he has ever since. So he and the pretty Bralntree girl eloped, somewhat to the chagrin ot both families. Mott Tnmed Down. For a time after the marriage Mott tamed down considerably, and he and his wttq were apparently very happy to-gether Then family life palled upon htm, and -for a long time up to the day he and Mrs; Bowne boarded the tramp freighter Indracdo at Brooklyn and sailed away, he crowded more excitement Into his career than most men see In a long lifetime.

For several years Mrs, Mott put up with her husband until Bhe felt obliged to leave him, and ever since has lived at ther home of her father-in-law, with ner one cniia. to business. He wrote short stories, which found a ready sale, and for a time worked as a reporter on a New York newspaper, but the big foundries that had made the Mott fortune of J3.000.000 possible held no lure for gay Larry Mott But of all the adventures and escapades In which Mott figured, the most sensational was his elopement with Frances Hewitt as she was known on the stage, bhe is Mrs. Walter Bowne In private life. To bring his son to terms.

Jordan L. Mott Jr. sent Hector Fuller, one-time war correspondent and globe-trotter, armed with a fat roll ot bills, a big letter of credit, and unlimited expense account to catch up with the prodigal eon and bring him to terms. Mott and the girl with whom he eloped were on the Indradeo, a lazy tramp steamer, built for a cargo carrying ca pacity and not speed Even so, the East Indian freighter reached the Orient before Fuller, who traveled In express steamers and limited trains. When the elopers were finally found in Hongkong, Fuller, who had known young Mott for a long time and was an Intimate friend of the family, warned the wanderer that If he ever hoped to share the Mott millions It behooved him to return to New York and settle down.

Millions Without Inducement. Larry Mott replied that he was quite well satisfied with Hongkong, and didn't have the slightest intention of going back. As for the Mott millions he cared llltle. So Fuller returned and gave Mott senior the message, and Larry Mott and Frances Hewitt remained in the East. mat they both had grown to love.

The Indradeo Is not a passenger shin, and has no license to carry any person otner tnan tne crew. This little for mality didn't daunt Larry Mott In the least Mott signed as a purser for a shilling a month. Mrs. Bowne signed ship's pa pers, too. and so far as the official records are concerned, was a stewardess on the voyage of 10,500 miles.

The night before the sailing there was a scene between the Motts, father and son, at the Rltz Carlton. In New York. It was the climax of many pleadings on the part of Mott senior, to bring his son to his senses and cause him to live In a manner befitting the heir to the Mott millions and the family name, of which there is none prouder In New York. The burden of the talk was for Larry to go. on a long trip with his friend Fuller.

For a long time, the young man seemed to listen with close attention to his father. Then In a sudden tit of anger, he swore that be would live his own life as he saw fit "If you do, you'll never get a cent of my money as long as I live or at any tinre ntterwarov said his rather. I don give a hang for your money. I can take care of myself, and I'm going to do it" was Larry Mott's reply. Mott first met Sirs.

Bowne when she was a member or the Chocolate Soldier" company; Her name appeared on the programme as Frances Gibson. Off the stage she was Mrs. Walter Bowne, the wife of a wealthy business man of Flushing, Long Island. DIvnrre Wits filitalnrd. following a fist fight with Bowne in the Hotel Martinique, New York.

Young Mott's entire wealth consisted of IT0O when he boarded the Indradeo for bis long cruise. The girl who was willing to give up conventions, her husband, a beautiful home, and an assured position on the stage, added J9M to the sum. and since they have been In Hongkong has added to the family Income by singing In the choir ot the English church. boon after his marriage to Miss Pitkin. Mott and his bride spent much time in the Canadian Northwest, where he obtained material for a number of short stories, mostly tales of adventure, that found a ready market During the time he epent there he steadied down and seemed to have grown tired of trying to sow the biggest crop of wild oats on record.

The moment he struck the lights ot Broadway, however, the lure of the gay lif I New York appealed to him more strongly than ever. As If to make up for lost time, he plunged In even deeper than before. His family sent him away for long trips to Europe and hunting expeditions In far-away places, but without much of any appreciable benefit Matters, reached a climax in the spring of 1908, when conditions were so intolerable that the elder Mott got him aboard a European liner. He made a clean getaway in Hhmm. drifted -to Alaska, and finally reached flew loric For the next two years Mott cut a wide swath in the lobster palaces, until me time ne and Frances Bowne walked, down the gangplank of the Indradeo and sailed away to a new world.

To complicate matters further In the triangular story of the Mannlng-Bowne- Mott families, John Manning has ob- Mott steadfastly refused to buckle down tallied a divorce from his wife. Adele, some distant Islet ZING OF THE FANNING ISIANDS. ITora tie sa Frudieo Dupttci. Father Emmanuel Rougler. known In the South Pacific as "king of the Fanning Islands." was among the passengers on the Oceanic Liner Sierra, which arrived here today from Honolulu.

The islands of Christmas and Fanning were sold recently by Father Roueirr tn a British syndicate for HOO.00O. "I am still Interested In Christmas and Fanning Islands, which I sold to a British syndicate. They are now being developed io copra on a large scale." Father Rougler is the owner of other coral dots in thi far south seas, which are rich In copra and phosphates and which he appears to dispose of as a real estate dealer might a corner lot Father Rougler went to the South Pa cific Islands as a missionary a quarter of a century ago. His life's history among the natives has been one of adventure and evangelical -work among the wild tribes. Father Rouder.

who is said to vnHh more than Jl.000.000, is known all through tne south Pacific and the antipodes, where he occasionally pops up after a quiet sojourn In Europe. The romance of the south seas clings to him wherever he gees, and although he makes frequent trips to the outside world he always returns to the Isle dotted wa ters of the tropics. It is said that Father Roucier known more about the strange islands that jut above the bosom of the Pacific south of Honolulu than any other man who has been In these waters. He knows their location and has visited the majority-ot them Father Rougler wears the garb of his clerical vocation. -whether In the capitals of Europe or in a copra grove oi r-" -SJ.