PAGE SEVEN
KOIVEIVIS/1 el RON IC LE
The Gate of a City
By JULIET T. FORD.
The Inspector looked at the small I
desk. Surely he must find it.
black figure in the chair. and then
"Here you are — Jacob Ponov.
back
at the document in his hand.
Sure he was on the Monrovia. What's
Ile motioned a man at the door to
your name, Miss?"
his desk and gave him an order in a
"Natasha—I'm his sister. You say
he was on the boat. Where, then?" low tone. sent him to telephone the
"I have
"Say, you'd better go over to the
medical inspector at Swinlmrne," he
Island, and find out about your
explained kindly to Natasha. "His
keeping
him
there.
brother. They're
report will decide the matter."
We can't tell you any more. There's
Natasha wondered. Perhaps they
a ferry at ten."
telephoning to ,k lion Jacob
And Natasha was piloted several were
was—if he was well enough to be
blocks by the first blue-coated man
brought over. When the man re-
to another dock. The ferry whistle
turned she listened carefully—
blew.
"Doctor says it was not a clearly
"Yes, it is terrible, but in this
ATASHA looked about her.
Everything was ready at last. country they do so much to help,
and
tell you things to give to sick
Iler back ached from bending over
her machine—but the price of trim- people. Look at that list, Rosa. I
can
give
Jacob all that. Maybe in
ming her ten pink satin waists with
fancy buttons was there, in her purse, the summer I could find a room with
and that would pay for a pot of flow- more sun, too—Oh, how well I shall
, and leave enough for milk and work nowt" Natasha smiled hap-
pily. "I am glad you came in Rosa.
s sgs-
She pulled out a worn circular I feel better after talking to you.
from her night school grammar, and And maybe you could send Reuben,
studied the numbered list, set forth your' little brother, with the milk
and eggs from the market? I have
in large type beneath the flamboy- to go down so early. Jacob wrote
ant red cross—
to tell me the boat he would come
3.
2.
Good
Air.
'I. Sunshine.
on—it is the Monrovia, and the
Cleanliness. 4. Eggs. 5. Milk. 6.
papers say it will come into port to-
Cheerful Surroundings."
Natasha's finger paused at each morrow at eight. I shall see him.
Rosa."!—
the
item, and her glance appraised
"Now kiddo, don't get all bet up
bedroom anxiously. For sunshine it
was the best she could do. She had like that. Sure you'll see him. An
you
waited patiently for the top floor I ain't gonna stay now 'cause
arm
hall bedroom and when Morris the look done up." Rosa threw her
tea peddler died, she spoke for it. It about her friend.
"No
Rosa,
I
will
rest
well
now,"
was the only room in the Rivington
Street tenement that got the sun. said Natasha obediently. But before
door, she ran
For two hours every morning, a thin Rosa could close the
her arm.
beam came slipping over the roof to it and held the girl by
"Rosa, I am afraid that I will fail
of the Settlement (louse.
may miss hint, I don't
somehow.
I
The air was not so good. Just now
know"—She was almost sobbing ,
the Cattaloni family were cooking
a garlic stew. And then in the day and practical Rosa gave her a little
time there were many nasty odors. shake.
"Nat, yen make me sick. All ya
But sunshine killed germs, the cir-
cular said. That was surely the most gotta do is to go down on the wharf
—you've got yer pass—an' then watch
important.
fer Jacob to come down the plank. If
As for keeping the little room clean
Natasha coUld do that easily. She ya don't see him, get next to some
guy with gold braid an' tell Jacob's
would have to get up earlier in the
name—Nat, yer cernily are a fool
morning to scrub the woodwork, but sometimes, an' then again it seems
the white made the room so much like ya know morn me about things."
more cheerful, she was glad she had
N
"Ask for the Jewish Immigrant
Department. Don't be scared, he's
likely all right. They keep a lot for
examination." The official patted her
on the shoulder and hurried off.
Natasha looked dazedly from the
stern of the boat as it slid from the
defined case, but taken in considera-
tion with your information about
feet, where she stood, leaning over
the rail—
Bells clanged, and the jar of the
boat against the dock shocked
Natasha almost off her feet. She
kindlier aspect than ever.
"I ant sorry, my girl, but I'm
former conditions he thinks"—
"Not clearly defined, you say," the
Inspector interrupted—
"No sir, not now. But according
of Russian
dock. New York was a tall moun- to all statistics of victims
prisons. in his condition. there is only
with
puffs
tain, flecked here and there
can't con-
says
he
of white smoke. The water was gray one result. He
scientiously sign the papers."
too, and the wake of the ferry
The words carried no definite sig-
churned it into white crests. The
Natasha. She looked I
path of swimming silver and white nificance to
seemed to stretch out like a chain anxiously to the Inspector. He dis-
missed
the
man,
and turned to her a
front the gray city to Natasha's very
hurried to follow the small crowd
off the ferry, and went up to the first
blue-coated man she saw.
"I'lcase, the Jewish Immigrant De-
partment?'
"Looking for someone, are you?"
"Yes, my brother. They said Ile
would be here."
"Sure. Well, it's right over there."
He indicated a large brick building.
"They'll tell you which room when
you get there."
Natasha thought the
afraid your brother is not a desirable
citizen for the United States — the
doctor says his symptoms are very in-
dicative of consumption."
"Consumption!" cried Natasha.
"Yes, that is what they said he must
have at the Exhibit where Rosa took
me. I forgot the name. I told the
lady he was sick from cold prison,
and she gave me this—here"—Nata -
vita spread her circular on the desk,
before the Inspector. "See, those six
things. When he has those, he get
well. And then he is good citizen—
desirable is that—no?"
The Inspector looked down at her
perplexedly.
"Ilut don't you understand, we can't
admit a consumptive to the country.
He is bad for the people around him."
"Oh no!" cried Natasha. "I take
care of hint all the time. He is not
had for me—Jacob." She smiled at
the idea. "You know when we are
both small at Volpa, in Poland, I
always take care of Jacob. He was
so little. He is big man now, but
for me always my little Jacob." A
wistful, mothering light shone in the
dark eyes which the glasses could not
bide.
The Inspector cleared his throat.
"That does not affect the law. Did-
n't they tell you at the Exhibit that
people with consumption gave it to
others. If we let your brother come
in, he would do that. Why, you go to
(tIriob Nurniture
Ellis Island
officials very kind. After two more
had
questioned
and
guided
her, she
Rosa gave Natasha a good-natured
painted it. And she was proud of
found herself in a wood panelled
only smiled.
the curtains. The room looked quite push, but Natasha
"I'm a fool Rosa, always when I room. A man with glasses sat be-
white and dainty even by gas light—
want a thing too badly. I wish I hind a big desk and smiled at her.
so much whiter than anything Nata-
"Interpreter!" lie called.
could
be like you, su•e and sensible.
sha had seen since she left Poland .
"Oh, I speak English." Natsaha
You always think clearly and get
She hoped it would remind Jacob of
felt
reassured. This man looked
you want."
their mother's house. Natasha thought everything
kind.
lie could not fail to help her
"Aw cut that out. That's N'York.
how white Volpa must be now, still
to
find
Jacob.
in
this
town
or
half buried under snow — and the "a have to get wise
"Now I am going to ask you a few
go under." Rosa's jolly face grew
room blurred before her—
questions."
let
"Say Nat, ain't ya gonna let me hard for a minute. "Don't never
Natasha nodded. She wanted very
Designed and executed by Detroit Furniture Shops.
another guy on to what yer after—
much to explain right away that she
in?"
Natasha jumped up and undid the make ya don't want it and—surest had only come to get her brother
Facilitated by factory association.
thing
ya
know
it
comes
rollin'
your
door to let in Rosa Zeligman. Rosa
and take him home. But she waited.
wore a stylishly cut red coat with way! Well, so long Nat, an' I'll be
"What is your name?"
round tomorrer night to give Jacob
plenty of cheap fur on it. She
"Natasha Ponov."
perched herself on the only other the glad handl"
The man had taken a blank of
And Rosa's red cloak went swing-
chair in the room, and offered Nata-
paper and was filling it in.
sha a piece of gum with laconic ing down the dark stair.
"Who have you come for?"
Natasha stood a moment in the
work and you would carry the germs
"My brother, Jacob Ponov. lie said
friendliness.
"Not a suck? Say, what's eatin' doorway. The room shone cheer- he was coming on the Monrovia. yourself, don't you see? The law
,
ya, Nat? Ain't Jacob comin' tomor- fully by its one gas jet. The hot Surely he did—can't you tell me?" says that no insane person, no idiot
no feeble-minded, no criminal, no"—
rer—thought ya'd be ready for a tears gathered under her lids.
"Jacob," she said softly, "God—it Natasha pleaded. If the man would
"But
Jacob
is
not
that!"
spree—Charlie Chaplin's on at the
only tell her that Jacob was there,
Warren and Riopelle
is all I want, to take care of him"— she could answer all his questions
"Yes, wait—'No person suffering
Emporium."
and closing the door, Natasha crept
from tuberculosis—that is consump-
"I'm tired, Rosa—I feel strangely
so much better!
Telephone Melrose 1320
down
the
hall
to
her
own
room.
tion—shall be admitted to the coun-
Open Saturday Afternoon
tonight. But stay a little while and
"Jacob Ponov—wait a minute." His
Natasha reached the docks at seven
talk—only not American. I must
eye ran down a list. "Ah yes, here it try." Now you are a citizen of this
o'clock. A heavy mist from the bay
country, a good one I'm sure. Would
practice the home tongue for Jacob,
hung about the wharf, and dank odors is"—
By street car, via Woodward Avenue
you want to bring sickness to the
you know." Natasha stooped to pick
"He did come? He is hetet"
By automobile, via Woodward
rose from the muddy street. It was
and Crosstown ears, east to Riopelle
up the green gum wrappers that
Natasha's knees trembled. "Oh people living around you? That
Avenue, east on Warren Avenue to
all strange to her, for she could not
would
not
be
kind
to
the
country
Street,
then walk two blocks north.
Rosa's busy fingers strewed the floor
Mister, I was so afraid when I didn't
Riopelle Street.
remember her own landing and the
see him, you know, I"—the room that has been kind to you!' The In-
with.
great
city
towering
behind
her
looked
spector
really
felt
sorry
for
her.
He
"Aw, we don't never talk Yiddish.
swam black before her.
.CW1
We're Yankee now. Didn't ya go monstrously forbidding. Heavy drays
"Here, get a chair." Natasha felt thought it his duty to go into more
to night school all this winter to learn clattered up and down the street, herself lifted gently by the elbows, detail than usual.
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But Natasha stared at him—
English good? All right, you talk and Natasha had to dodge into a and opened her eyes.
wait for the waiting room
"You mean that I cannot have my
it, I can get ya, 'cause grandfather doorway to
"There, now you're all right." The
spouts it at home. lie likes ya fine, to open. ,
man who had placed her in the chair
(Continued On Page 10.)
There were other women in line.
Nat, grandpa does. Said you cd
held
out
a
glass
of
water.
They talked a great deal in Polish
"No, no. That was so foolish of
have some pots off his flower wagon.
and Hebrew and Russian, and when
I meant to bring 'em t'night, but I
me, but I guess I have breakfast too
the doors opened they crowded past
fergot. I'll send my kid brother
early." Natasha smiled. "Now I
Natasha. One of them, a pasty
everything."
with 'ens tomorrer."
looking girl, with tired gray eyes , can answer have
here a report on
"Oh Rosa, how kind of your grand-
"Well, I
came and sat down on the bench be-
he is being
father! My brother will be so grate-
side her, but Natasha did not look your brother—lam—I see
full too, when I tell him. Rosa, do
held in a Detention l'en on Swin-
up. She was watching the shiny
sick?"
,
you think he'll be vers
gray water splashing around the burn Island"-
"Don't be silly, Nat. Didn't the piles. The incessant slap of the waves
"Oh—detention—what is that? But
woman what sunned the T. H. Exib.
he is just from the 'dreadful prison in
say that them things on the list rather calmed her excitement.
Siberia. Please don't hold him any-
"Has the man said when they ex-
I gonna send
where. I must take care of him."
'lid fix hint? An' ain't
the boat?"
Natasha looked worried again. An-
in the eggs an' milk from the market pect
Natasha looked around quickly, for
in the mornin'? Mebbe he ain't bad
in other island to find before she could
had
spoken
her
reach Jacob. She started up. "Please
yet. How long did ya say he'd been the girl beside
Yiddish.
do I take a boat for that island?"
in prison?"
"They do not knots — he said it
Not so fast,
Natasha's small, black-clad body
"Wait a minute.
Natasha an-
Her voice might be an hour late,"
I have to find out a little
otraightened fiercely.
swered, not very responsively. But Missy. What
about
that
prison in
shook—
the girl persisted in a soft voice— more.
What was he there for?"
"Have I not told you often, Rosa .
"I hope it will not be very late, Siberia.
"Oh,
I
can
tell
you.
It
was the
Two years the Russians held him in
for I shall miss so notch of my work. government, so unjust, so cruel. Not
Siberia. They moved him from
s I am meeting my father, He wrote like America where all is kind. You
alway
prison to prison, and it was
that Inc was afraid to land alone—
see, one night, four years ago they
cold and damp, and never enough
but it will make toe very late, I ant
food. My mother followed, begging
come to Jacob, a lot of men, and
afraid I may lose my place." Her
her way—in some villages the peo-
want him to sign paper saying he
on discontentedly.
all his motley to the government,
ple were kind to her because their voice trailed
Natasha turned on her with un- give they take care of it, and just give
men were in Siberia' too. One woman
and
fury.
in Tischka gave mother potatoes and reasoning
hint
paper"—
"Your placel—your lathed You are
Pin money for the Czar, I reckon,"
corn to', carry to her husband. But waiting to see him and wondering
she could not tell where he was, and how many less buttons you will sew interposed the Inspector grimly.
"Yes,
the Czar tax us all the time.
mother had to eat the food on the
So Jacob did not trust the men. He
way. But she found my brother! on today perhaps!"
Frump °pular resort; from re-
The girl did not seem angered, but
knew a friend lost all his savings of
mote Summer home; from far
Here, I have the letter"—Natasha mildly surprised.
drawer—"See, she says,
years
that
way.
Ile
refuse.
They
and
near, by train and boat,
fumbled in a
"But we cannot live if I do not
ever since the close of the
I found Jacob but he is sick. I gave keep a good place. I most think of get mad and one man, drunk with
hit Jacob — Jacob hit back
summer season, these rental In-
the men some money that you sent
vodka,
see him. He buttons—it is the same as bread. and they put him in prison for hit-
struments have been coming
me, and they let me
And the city thinks more of my but- ting government man. And they can
With them, In this great 17th Annual Clearance, are all the exchanged, sample
must get out of prison, they say
back to us. They are offered
old father,"
— an assort-
tons than it does of my
send him to Siberia for that!" Nata-
now In this sensational clear-
(new), shopworn and discontinued style instruments on our floors
Natasha, send me some more money.
she
ended
quaintly.
fifty
at
such
sha's
voice
trembled
indignantly.
ance,
just
commencing,
ment
which In variety of makes and designs, In values and diversity of prices•
The man here told me that for
But Natasha was not listening.
stand, we believe, wholly unrivalled the world over!
"Yes. That story is straight.
great, bona fide reductions se
rubles he will let Jacob escape. The She heard a man on the pier call out
make their speedy sale an ab-
guards say there arc too many prison- —she saw other men running with Your brother told us just the same
ust food
thing. Guess you used to have a
solute certainty—and presenting
ers, and they have not enough
Farrand
ropes. The ship was coming!
Everett
pretty tough time over there. Well,
such values, such ease of pur-
for themselves. But they m get
Original Price, $375
It took a long while for the Mon-
Original Price, $400
Uncle Sam doesn't hold these kind
chase In securing that long
money for it, so if the government
rovia to dock, and all the other pas-
wanted Plano or Player.Plano
finds out, they can pay the officers sengers had to land, before the steer- of prison records against folks."
Whitney
for your home as it is not likely
"Then that it all? He can come
H. F. Miller
not to punish them—'
age was allowed to come off. There
Original Price, $300
will, for a long time, If ever, be
"Rosa, that country is a cruel
with me. Oh please"—
Original Price, $500
was much gutteral shouting back and
"Easy there, easy. How long have
again available.
place. And it's lonely—that's what forth and delighted cries of recogni-
Vose
makes it cruel. There's too many
you been here?"
Briggs
For, not only do we deduct
Original Price, $550
people for them to care about just tion.
"Six years."
Original Price, $350
Jacob was not in sight, and fear
every dollar we have received
"Have you a position? Do you
one. It's all the millions of people gripped Natasha that he was very
as rental, but this is taken from
Adam
Schaff
makes
it
so
lonely"—Natasha's
make
a
good
living?".
Leonard
that
sick. But perhaps he was only weak,
the price the Instruments sold
Original Price, $300
"Oh, you want to know if I can
sallow face was drawn with pain. and was waiting, saving his strength
Original Price, 1400
at when sent out, which was, in
Rosa tried awkwardly to comfort to land. Of course it would be tir- care for him!"
many eases. much lower, than
Grinnell Bros.
"Well, yes. Your brother doesn't
her.
Steinway
ing to stand in that dirty pushing
the same Instruments sell for
"Aw go wan kid—Yer glasses are all
report to have any money. We have
Original Price, $400
Original Price, $600
today. YOU SAVE ALL THE
this. crowd.
to be careful not to take in a man
blurry now. Here, wipe 'em CM
RENT AND YOU SAVE THE
Now the ropes to the steerage who might be a charge on the
We ain't over there any more, an
Sterling
DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN
THE
Weser
Bros.
Jacob's steamer gets in tomorrer. gang-way were down, and the people state"—
Original Price, $475
Original Price, $400
PRESENT PRICE AND THE
Hut I tell you," Natasha cried, "I
Brace up. How'd ya get the money crowded at its base. Natasha was
PRICE AT WHICH THEY
first at the railing. She did not hear make ten dollar a week, and here"—
All the others are going at similar reductions. F,ach one has been carefully
to send fer him?"
SOLD IN THE SPRING!
tired the hubbub of greetings, nor feel the she opened her purse and produced a
Natasha's voice sank to a
regulated and tuned. Many, even of the rental and exchanged, cannot be told
pushing of the immigrants as they roll of bills. "I bring money to show
makes
monotone.
Surely
with
each
an
oppor-
from
new. Learn fully of our FREE EXCHANGE TRIAL PRIVILEGE. It
wedged past her with their bundles--
I
saved
every
I have enough. Rosa told me
"I saved—that's all.
tunity as this awaiting you,
your permanent satisfaction an absolute certainty!
she was only looking, peering into
gave
myself
enough
See.
Twenty
dollars."
ask
.
you
penny, only I
your home will soon ring with
She laid it on the desk.
food, because I knew I must keep every face—
melody; soon hold that greater
$90 Off on Stroud "Pianola" Player.Piano
There were at least a hundred ster-
"Yes, yes. That's fine. But now
well to work, or the money would
attractiveness and charm that
stop. I sent money every month, age passengers on the Monravia but about his being on Swinburne Island"
This has dark oak ease; the marvelous rhumb' music rented features, and
a beautiful Instrument always
at
length
the
last
one
passed
down
—The
Inspector
was
reading
the
re-
and I !stayed through the vacation the gang-way and was swallowed up
brings!
beautiful tone—an instrument that in some music.loving home will bring un-
port again.
time in summer. Rosa, sometimes
bounded delight. Wonderful value!
Natasha watched him anxiously.
I felt like my machine that goes on in the babbling mob.
Dock hands began to go aboard to
A $750
How could he be so slow. Jacob
There's a $650 STUIVESANT "Maoist" Player-Pisan at 8560.
always. It has no feeling, only you
- Piano
unload
the
cargo.
sick and tired, and this man asking
must give it enough oil to do its
GRINNELL BROS. Player-Piano at $610. A $600 MENDELHALL Player
A blue-coated official touched Nata- questions—
work. I had no feeling and I fed
$165. A $700 JOHNSON slayer Piano at $570. A $600 StTANI.}.:T ik SONS
at
"Please Mister, let me go to him
myself like I oiled my machine, I sha's shoulder—
Player.Plano at $420—
It
"All off, Missy—What, didn't your quickly. Jacob is not strong any
did not even think about Jacob.
your own
more. I want to take him home and
These price. In each case, Include 5.25 worth of New Music Rolls of
takes time to think and feel and that sweetheart tome?"
Natasha looked at him with uncom- make him well"—
selection. SEVERAL BRAND NEW SAMPLE PLAYER-PIANOS. $50 to $75
wouldn't help him. His sickness
prehending eyes.
"You say you know your brother is
REDUCTION.
wouldn't wait. My mother wrote he
"Jacob—my brother, he is on the not well? How is that? Do you
was weaker"—Natasha's voice broke
so in the letter."
know why?'
hoarsely—"but that letter did not Monrovia. He said
"What's his name? Say, mebbe
"Of course I know. After he is
come till after I had sent all the I
You Can Buy Any of
he's on the Island. Come with me. for two year in damp, cold prison
money that was needed. That day
These Great Bargains on
We'll have a look at the list."
You
remem-
no food almost, he could not be
with
cried for the first time
Natasha followed her guide blindly
were
EASY MONTHLY
well. My mother write me how
ber at the factory. And you
to a big desk.
PAYMENTS
is why I
kind , Rosa. I wanted to tell you
She remembered she most not allow weak he is, and so that
OPEN EVENINGS
have
room
all
I
about my trouble—
herself to be afraid. Rosa had said send for him. But
I
Downtown Branch, 1, $, 6, Broadway
fixed where he can sit in sun and
"Sure, I wanted to help ya But
this might happen. And she to
WO)
NOW
for
complete
phone
us
(cherr)'
yarn
out
of
ya.
rest.
And
then
I
will
feed
him
eggs
us
or
Write
had to
the out yer brother was quite calmly her brother's name—
HEADQUARTERS
as spike
I doped
and milk. I think I have paper here
Soon
list of bargains If you can't come immediately.
"Jacob Ponov."
W et I took
that say they will make him well"—
some
On the way t'bein' a lunger,
243-247
Woodward Ave.
man
at
the
desk
thumbed
The
She ptilkd out the circular. The man
the free Exhibit.
Ye
to for
there
Sadie when she was took— typewritten pages.
took such a friendly interest in Jacob:
Ponov — Ponov — gosh, what
She thought he would approve of her
an' Davie Jacobs, they helped him names?"
a lot. Nat, don't it say here there'll I Natasha clasped a corner of the plans.
62,000 T. B.'s in this burg?"
An Interior
Eirtroit ,Nurniture *mps
See These Bargains
in Summer Rental Pianos
TODAY
'158
'340
'155
'335
'377
'175
'262
'198
'344
'158
'335
'397
Urinnell Bros