Motography (Jul-Dec 1913)

204 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. X, No. 6 The story of "The Right of Way" runs briefly as follows : James Phillips' heart and soul are centered in the little graveyard adjoining his home, where he had laid to . rest his beloved wife. Every morning and every evening, with his daughter Rosemary, he would go to the little cemetery and weed and water the little plot of ground he held so sacred. He hears one day that a railroad is to be built through Fairfield, and the roadbed is to take in the graveyard. The old man swears that, while he lives, the railroad will never cross the spot. The pathfinders for the great steel way arrive, and when Phillips hears they have come, he gets his shotgun and stands guard over the grave. He sees the engineers with their surveying instruments enter the burying-ground and aims at them, but Rosemary, who has followed her father, prevents the shot from hitting either of the men by her quick action in pulling aside her father's arm. The next morning the surveyors find all their stakes have been pulled up during the night and at first suspect Phillips, but they learn they have another adversary when Rosemary says, "It wasn't Daddy, it was I," when they attempt to arrest him. The surveyors, realizing they are up against a hard proposition, send for the surveying engineer to come and straighten up matters. The young chief engineer, Robertson, arrives at the railroad station and is met by a friend who tells him he is five miles from where the surveyors are working, and offers to send him out in his automobile. Robertson accepts his friend's offer. The chauffeur had been drinking heavily all day and the ride out to the railroad camp is a wild and perilous one. Robertson saves himself by jumping over the back of the car just as the drunken chauffeur drives headlong over a high cliff and is dashed upon the rocks below. The engineer has fallen unconscious at the edge of the precipe and is found there by Rosemary who calls her father and some of the neighbors to the young man's assistance. They carry him to scene from Essanay's "(liisi to th( Mill I'll illip's house, where he is taken care of bv Kosemarv and her father. \\ hen he regains consciousness, the girl learns thai she lias played Samaritan to the man who is going to ejeel them. While passing through a neigh bor's yard, she sees a box marked dynamite and forms a plan to beat the railroad. Taking the box she mines the fields with the sticks, and when Robertson is ready to put his men to work, the girl tells them what she has done. The laborers refuse to stay, and no persuasion or threat on Robertson's part can induce them to return to Scene from Es "The Right of W; work. He afterwards discovers that the "dynamite" sticks are only pieces of arc light carbon. The staunch fight that father and daughter have put up appeals to the heart of the engineer, and he wires to the company advising a slight detour. The next day he receives an answer saying the road is willing to make the detour. He takes the message to Phillips and Rosemary, who are rejoiced at the news. Robertson is ready to go back but is unwilling to leave without Rosemary, whose kindness to him while he was laid up, and the plucky spirit shown during her father's light have made her dear to him. Ithaca Company Returns The Essanay Ithaca Company returned to Chicago Monday, Sept. 1, and will remain there for five or six weeks. After completing their work in the main studio they will go South, probably to Jacksonville, for the winter. The company includes such artists as Francis X. Bushman, Miss Beverly Bayne, Frank Dayton, William Bailey, Miss Helen Dunbar. Miss Juanita Dalmorez, i »tto Breslyn and Miss McClellan. Moving pictures are helping to keep Cornell students sober, according to the report of Theodore Tweston, a proctor at the university.