Euclid Shore High School - Shore Log Yearbook (Euclid, OH)

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The reason for my traveling to Denver is that I discovered Irving Stras- bourger is staying there. You know that Denver is the world wireless center and I suspected Irving to be there. You should have seen him. You wouldnlt recognize him at all. I-Ie has grown a magnificent beard and mustache and he has allowed his curly hair to grow down the hack of his neck in the latest style. I found him hard at work in his laboratory which is the nucleus of the wireless stations. I-Ie is the chief there hy the looks of things. I was especially ini- pressed by his calm and steady manner and the quiet way in which he took the report which had just been brought to him about an earthquake damaging one of his stations in California. But you should have seen him when he received a message from his wife telling him to hurry home because Izzy, Cwhich I was told was his youngestl had come down with the measles. That, unfortunately. ended our interview and I started back to Paris to tell you all about it. Well isn't that the limit. Say, 'Retta, do you know what a big thing you are doing? It surely is interesting to know that some of the fellows are success- ful anyway. Yes, she agreed, tomorrow I am going after one of the girls. I won't tell you which one so you can be wondering until the next time I come, which will be another week. Am I right? I may be able to call on two this time so I'll have alot to talk about next week. I'll have to be careful going across the ocean tomorrow. You know I was caught speeding in the lower level when I left Bermuda and so they are on the lookout for me. I am pretty sure they got my number. I shall take the Southern route on my next trip over. I am going to my hotel now and wonlt see you for a week, so goodbye. I said goodbye and she was gone. I-Iow I envied her. All I saw or heard of the world was very little. Though all the devices and ingenious methods for the spreading of news were employed by all nations yet I had nothing to do with these. When my success proved to be a real and honest to goodness thing then I too would see the world and enjoy myself to the fullest extent. Meanwhile I waited for Loretta's visit and dabbled a little at my work. The day came at last when Loretta was to COID6. On the very hour that she usually arrived in she came, true to her promise. I grasped her hand eagerly. I can see that you were successful again! Oh, of coursef, she assured me. 'CI couldn't help but be. I'll tell you right off the bat whom I saw this time. First I had a good old talk with Eva Smith and then I went over and visited Ralph Pfeiffer. My gracious, but I was surprised at Eva. She is about a foot taller than when I saw her last. She has a wonderful stylish stout figure but it is somewhat overcome by her knickers. She told me that she was professor of chemistry and physics at the big Pfeiffer University at Chicago. I forgot to tell you that she lives in Chicago. She moved there from some little town a year ago, I think it was New York. and settled in Chicago. Strange isn't it that Chicago has grown so. but of course since the St. Lawrence water route was completed it has grown to three times its former size. It now rivals Moscow. As I said before, Eva teaches at the Pfeiffer University and is now one of the world's greatest authorities on science and chemistry. She has separated radium into four different elements and is now experimenting on some new gas. She also has propounded a new theory of sound and vocal vibrations which will upset the old laws and teachings. You say she teaches at the Pfeiffer University? I-Ias Ralph Pfeiffer any connection with it? I asked this because I had been so surprised lately that nothing would be unreasonable to surmise. That was just what I was going to tell you. I drove over to Cleveland from Chicago and I visited Ralph at his city home on the Grand River right near the Lake. It's a beautiful place and Ralph has just oodles of money. The Grand River! Why that's way out in Painesville or Fairport. It can't be his city home you mean his country home. I had thought she was mistaken in her statement but she soon explained it all to me. Why no, Al, it isn't Painesville any more: it isinside the city limits now and is all built up. You wouldn't recognize Ifuclid or Noble either, they're all 23

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It must seem long to you, Al, she answered. Things in America have changed so since the Soviet Revolution that you would be disappointed if you did go back. I havenft seen or heard a thing of Jim, Irene, Eva or any of the others with whom we graduated. I'll tell you what I'll do, Al, in order to find them and see what they're doing. I,et's see, there will be a week between sittings for my portrait, won't there? Yes, I replied, wondering what her plan might be. I have money enough to inHuence the Soviet at Moscow. I will Hy over there tomorrow morning in my Sky-rocket because it will be best to talk to the agent in person. I will have it broad-casted by wireless that I want to know the where-abouts of James Howard, Irene Waters, Eva Smith, Irving Stras- bourger, and Ralph Pfeiffer. The International Guard is scattered all over the world and it will be but a few hours before I have my information. It will be worth the price. donft you think? I,ll say so. Surprising I did not think ofit before. I have wanted to hear about the gang so much. When you know where they are you can easily visit them and have a good talk. Would that I could go with you. But I shall soon start on a portrait of Morewineski, the Soviet chief and I cannot let that go by. I shall ask you to come for your first sitting next week at this time. I-Iere's hoping you will be successful in your effortsf, That's all right with me, Al, next week it shall be. I'll start my search immediately. Goodbye. She closed the door and was gone. From that day until she came for her hrst sitting, I was so impatient and restless that I could not put my mind on my work. The day arrived and Loretta walked in with a triumphant look on her face. I never was so happy in all my life. I told her to relate her experiences at once. Oh Al, she began. I had more success than I hoped for. I got all their addresses in one day and would you believe me AI didn't have to go out of Moscow for .lim I-Iowardf' What, I exclaimed, Jim in Moscow! What is he doing at the world's capitaliu Oh, he is very successful. For one thing he's a favorite, yes, an intimate friend of the Soviet leader. Morewineski and he conducts the Opera Inter- nationale and also the Ballet Commune. If anyone has struck it rich he surely has. I asked him whether he was going back to the U. S. or stay at the capital and he said he was going home for a year or so and then return to Moscow. Is he married? I asked. No, he says that women are too independent these days and he cannot bother about a wife, since his whole heart is absorbed in his work. I think, Loretta, that you have done a good week's work. Anything else you know? I guess not. I attended the Opera and Ballet and it surely was good. Jim is a genius with the baton. Thus Loretta and I talked away while we decided what pose she would take and I made the first preliminary sketches. Soon it was time for her to go again. This time she was to be absent only four days. I' knew little if anything ofher plans or where she was going next and all I could do was kill time until she came once more. The day came. It was Thursday, and she arrived punctually with the same radiant smile on her countenance. Whom did you see now?,' I asked expectantly. You'd never guess. she laughed as she said it. Monday I took a trip to the old U. S. A. Nothing happened much on the way over except that I had to land at Bermuda at one o'clock in the afternoon to hx my rudder on the tail of the Rocket. I arrived at Denver, Colorado, at four in the afternoon. What were you doing in Denver, I,d like to know? I asked since I knew nothing of her plans. The following narrative followed and completes one more incident in our quest for knowledge of our friends, the Seniors of 1922. 22

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absorbed in the city too. Well as I was saying I had a chat with Ralph and from what his wife and daughter lVIary Cshe's about sixteen I thinkj told me I understand Ralph made his fortune superintending the construction of the two immense dams across the Mississippi at St. Louis and New Orleans and also for the one across the Amazon in South America. The power plants at these dams furnish electricity for the whole world you know. Ralph drew all the plans and designs for the great structures. He hasn't wasted his money either. she continued, he has done much in the line of charity and has founded one of the largest Universities at Chicago. The same one in which Eva teaches and which also bears Ralphfs name. Everything has gone line so far, hasnlt it? I said joyfully, but I was not so gay when Loretta remarked that she was a little uncertain of hnding Irene. I received several reports as to the whereabouts of Irene and I don't know just which to accept as the correct address. But I wonlt make you uneasy, I'll simply do my best and I'll call on you again in a week. Ifthat's alright I shall go now since I'm in need of a rest. Goodbye. Again I was left alone to ponder over the news that had been gathered from the four corners of the globe. There was yet one more mystery to be solved. VVhere was Irene Waters and what was her fate? The wait did not seem long since time passed swiftly on account of my having completed the portrait of Morewineski and also for the first time in a long while making a trip to Britain for a few things that I had needed badly. I went by air though I could have gone by rail all the way to London since the tunnel under the channel had been finished. I was in the best of spirits when Loretta came again. She had a worn haggard look on her face but under it was a Hush of triumph. I began to question her but she motioned for me to sit down and began her story. i6Wh6I1 I received the message from the Communist Guards as to the whereabouts of our old pals. I found that I had four different addresses for Irene. They came in one day with intervals of about an hour between. First message was Seattle, second was Rio de Janiero. third was New Orleans. and the fourth was San Francisco. I was at a loss to know whether to go or I1Ot. Finally I decided to wait and see if any more messages came and if I1Ot to set out for San Francisco. No more came. so I Went and soon found out where she was staying. I was surprised to find her living in China town, in a picturesque dwelling along the water front. She was glad to see me and this is the story of her life. A couple of years after she left high school she taught a class in physical culture in New York City. Some man connected with theatrical productions saw her work and suggested that she appear in vaudeville in an acrobatic act. She followed his suggestion and soon became a popular star. After a time on account of the routine of the work she decided to leave it all and live an outdoor life. She then invested in an aeroplane and conducted a passenger service across the Pacific from San Francisco to Yokohama. For two years she did this but then her spirit grew weary of the monotony of this work and she looked about her for new worlds to conquer. By a streak of luck she got a chance to offer her services to the Soviet Secret Service and now is quite a power in this monstrous organization. She said she enjoyed her work immensely, for it was so thrilling. She was just about to wind up a case she had been working on for the last month or so, a plot the Chinese had made against the Soviet in the VVestern Hemisphere. That accounts for the numerous addresses I had received by wireless. She told me she could retire at any time she wished and get an immense revenue or pension from the Soviet, but she wanted to continue the work because she liked it. A Chinaman came in just then and she gave me a smile, a hasty farewell and was gonef' Isn't it great to know that all of them are successful, Loretta, and happy? I never dreamed that our class of 1922 would rise to such prominence in this busy world. When I hnish my work here which I hope will be soon I'm going to visit all ofthem and we'll see if we can't all have a jolly reunion and jubilee. Wouldn't that be great? I just know everyone of them would be tickled to death. A. N., '22. 2-I