The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1908, Page 14

Thursday, January 16, 1908 Ye Olden Days and Now. By Maurice Ketten. “The Evening World ee Magazine Siorld. Company, Nos. 53 to Tews. £0) Week [10cm Street, § ToTuy We opin cof 3 AVAUNT! V/ 1 (= norabaliheabead we come, | 2 SA [3 MAKE Way peat Entered at t = roasts KOBE Coun Bubscription Ra GUESTS) ited States. One year... One month 60 | One mont AYOR M'CLELLAN has di investigation of the Fire Department hose and why so much of it burst at the Parker Building fire. Now that three firemen are killed and ) million dollars of property destroyed, something, of must be done. The condition of the was | well known. It was rotten. Thej Board of Fire Underwriters made a public report that 287 lengths of 3- id burst in the preceding ten months, Of the hose that burst 116 lengths were sold to the city by the Windsor Fire Appliance Company less than three years ago. None of this concern’s burst hose had been replaced, as the contract called for. | The Windsor Fire Appliance Company was a $1,000 company, or- wanized by M. Francis Loughman, who is the present deputy to John ~_ THE ARRIVAL TRIANON OF THE ee VESTS, = course, hose inch hose and 627 of 2! <-inch he H. O'Brien, now Water Commissioner, and in 1906 Fire Commissioner. | 3 HOw Aur any fits (LG ‘s cep Rte atte AICI) 6 5 e - NOW - money (Doe) (09% This $1,000 company sold the city $17,000 worth of hose manu: HA 5 5 ‘ You? REAL factured by the United Globe and Rubber Works, Unless the Windsor is Company made no profit the city could have saved money by buying the hose direct. Why did not the city buy direct? Obviously because M. Francis Loughman had a pull and the United Globe and Rubber Works had no pull. | Y 42 pull cons} After the it went out of busi cis Loughman on t roll as Deput Commissioner O'Brien wr to The with the paragraph printed Jan. 14: “Manufacturer: the reason is that specifications which were| changed in 1905, in H. O'Brien was Commissioner, make it al- most impossible to manuf i Windsor C nd Water Commis y had sold the city this. hose that burst, ner O'Brien put M. Fran- Water Commissioner. ening World finding fault jtes TANE THE SuBWay | Ta COLOMBUS CIRCLE AND WALK 3 BLocns ) & cture hose that will stand high pressure East .. Sano This paragraph was printed in 6 BLociKs WET » | I Zz quotation marks, and was preceded 7, by the line: “In an interview Fire Com- missioner Lantry is quoted as) saying.” SS At the time Mr. O'Brien's pres- cae ent deputy sold the city hose which 3 ree : burst. Mr. O’Brien not Fire GoinG fo THE CASTLE at Commissioner, but secretary to-the — Bi: Mayor. ee ae If Women Are Spoilt, Overdressed and Foolish, ‘It’s the Men’s Fault; “You also say: ‘The water supply was also short. The pressure was | That’s Mrs. jarr’ Ss idea; and Jarr Says, After All, She May Be Right." weak.’ The water pressure at the Parker Building fire was the maxi i dc F tn ‘ mum available under the only McClellan projected the high pressure fire service. Water Department at that fire was 100 per cen Here again the question of fact is with Fire and the firemen on the job. hattan Rubber Company, who O’Brien’s memory is at fault.” Neither is The Evening World the authority for the stater ed above that the Windsor Company’s hose burst. Those figures taken from table 14, page 12, of the Fire Underwriters’ report. system known in New Ye The ei by Roy L. McCardell, ner Lantry | Also with President Townsend, of the Man- “Mr, says, in the New York Times, i * sald Mr Jarr, “but husband gay said Mr. amure th n the m 1 when and whe dare Eady right.” sald Mr. Jarr, interrupting the flow of her nisly near his own delinquencies. M. you t going to negleet my home, Vil put in uA good time and being a chum and a coimn- i has no O'Brien. Let hose and the Croker, tphans of The Evening World him settle the question is to blame for the rott lack of water pressure with Fire Commissioner Lantry, the New York Board of Unde ers and the widows sane en Jetita Falle yn, ib H i id George O'( controversy with Mr. Miss Lonely Takes ilo Bump for Mr. Man’s Sake ¥ FOR THE / 11 50 SORR (YOU ARE SUCH KIND > MAN ILIKE A GO0D HEARTED MAN) Fag) Tigusr) MBO Letters from the People. Gee ) : r are|§ [in Italy are most strict, SESSESTSBESES ES CEEEEECHESO ° = The Story of the Operas @ By mee Payson Terhune. NO, 17—-WAGNER’S “VALKYRIE.” old's" story it has been told Wotan. king of the gods, stole from Alberich, the Nibelung (gnome), ithe magic Ring which made its owner ruler of the world; how Alberich placed Surse on the Ring; and how, in turn, an Was forced to yteld the Ring, the and the treas- e giant Fafnir. eina t cave ne of the Tarnhe . changed to @ dragon who henceforth the hoard. Alberich never Mis efforts to regain the Ring. (knowing the Nibelung would, ning it, bring ruin on 1 nine warrior maidens, known as tes, whose duty It was to snatch the souls of slain heroes and bring them to Valhalla, where, on the Last Day, He c the gods) they should fight for the gods. TI Valkyries were led by Brunnh Wotan's favorite daughter, © © ¢ emund, a brave, unfortu an led a roving life, followed : luck. When he was a boy } His father (Wotan in disguise) had s om 2 marriage were broken ing, hiisn to shelter us mother had Hated Slecinundasiew he was forced to fl e slain brethren owed ad driven the magt had said n y effort, ne Ni wre that Ler hus The Man With the Worée. By Rudyard Babar ; a t is a miracle rless men with may wrought again th Jail. if a pamphieteert ff a despised German official with a taste the necessary words, why not any 1 Our world, which Is only conver t hope as kindly and Just as sts Is that the man with the words shat wat » by step with him try to tel magic of every word sha every means fair afd foul that the mind of day Magazine. man can sug 242 An Excuse for Women’s Coquetry. By Paolo Lombroso, EMININE coquetry has one capital excuse—its cause is entirely masculine, For the craving of women for elegance, luxury in dress and their extravae gance in jewelry and other ornamentation mere| ° cir desire to please man, to attract his attenti and cong As Sig. Cadaiso discovered not long ago, the vomen in prison, writes Prof, Lombroso in the ¢ tion from the outer world, the fact that the suMictent to stifle in them the desire of being t especially so far as th cerned. Powder, scent, cosmetics and all other bidden, but coquetry 1s stronger than rule Several prisoners found the means of powdering their faces, They patiently licked tha walls of their cells, masticated the whitewash and thus obtained a kind of white paste, with which they proudly coated their faces. One woman was found with her cheeks covered with rouge like @ ballet girl. No one could realize how she had managed it. Her cell was thoroughly but vainly searched. Eventu ally the mystery was solved. In the nightgowns used by the prisoners there are a few red threads, This woman had patiently pulled out these threads one by onm had soaked them in water, and in this ofiginal way had made some rouge fa her private ye, autiful and e! dress of the Prison rues wrisoners is cone handmatds of vanity are fore “The Gospel of Saving. By the Late Russell Sage. wa great deal, wher $1100 the wren | hes wares i teacher ba on education amoke withou 9 rap Btenographer w at four n mould follow in acy pense {dea undoubted on) pis Ae eee er fort w rn ut ad 1m r Phat : ae Etiquette : . ats T ON THE HIGH) » SHOULD HAVE A_) Clock HER UP-_, aie satan Wena: ED: GEOFFRY.'} Like ME- 5 (Sik's DANGEROUS! lyn alice t is to f° Ehening World (SPEED: GEOFFRY. : srs bret, ought suc 1 2 ' where gent. 1 ; : HE wi S Y By i] | | Nien oS) he | ’ did not Who can explain | oneae HRIFT is an easy, simple thing, and it means so much, It is the foundation of success in Dusiness, of contentment tn the home, of standing in society, fates industry a man of the individual who practises It. |. the ants and the squirrels all provide carefully for a rainy day. every dollar earned save 25 cents, Don't mite, Always keep in training for hard work, J