The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1908, Page 8

Department. . lengths of Loughman hose burst The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, jan The Pipe Calls the Cigarette P By Maurice Ketten. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Pi Row, New York J, ANGUS SHAW, 8 © SOSEPH PULITZER, Pr, 1 Kast 124 Birres, Entered at the Post-OMce at New Yor! Bubscription Rates to the | Bening World for the United States. Canada. ae eeeeee SETS, One year.... Ane MONK. seeeeereeree -60! One tnonth... ICHOLAS J. HAYES, who was Fire} Commissioner when the Loughman | hose was bought, refuses to be the goat. Fire Commissioner Lantry and Chief Croker also refuse to ac- cept the responsibility for the rotte: hose and the lack of water pressure which made the Parker Building fire such a disaster. ‘After a week’s repose under the ruins of the Parker Building the : bodies of the three firemen have een dug out. The insurance adjusters are now at work. To-night there may be another fire. Some child may carelessly play with matches in a crowded tenement-house block. The electric wires may be crossed in an office building with thousands of tenants. Some twoman on the high floor of a hotel may overheat her curling irons. Then what will happen? ‘The New York Fire Department and the New York firemen will be promptly on the spot. The hose carts will come. The engines will be attached to the hydrants, With rotten hose and weak water pressure there may be another horror. Commissioner O'Brien writes that ‘the existing system is to be supplemented by a special fire service due solely to the initiative of George B. McClellan.” That “special fire service” is to be operated from stationery pumps and with special mains, with a pressure as high as 400 pounds. If 460 lengths of fire department hose burst at a pressure of from 60 to 300 pounds, as the underwriters’ report shows on page 2, how many lengths of hose would be left at 400 pounds pressure? What good is it to spend $5,000,000 for a high pressure fire service if the hose bursts? An old hand engine is the safest way to pump water through 60-pound pressure hose. ——_—> eeauttutuyt ann uary 18, 1908. | GE EEE FESTA EETE E E CEECSHSOB @ The Story of the Operas By Atbert Payson Terhune. be | NO. 18S-WAGNER’S “SIEGFRIED.”” IEGFRIBD was ihe f Jained hero by whese help Wotan, king of the gods, hoped to ave curse of the Nibelung gnome, Alberich, As told in the stories of * and Wotan had snatched jfrom Alberich ide its owner master had laid a death cu he Ring, Wotan . along with the other Nibelung changing himself to a dragon, cave and watehed tt night and Alberich still Mime. Wotan knew y rule the world but would wreck he Khine De s magic Hung, wh of the world, Alberich, in reve so On had been forced to give it to the giunt Fars treasure and the Tarnhelm (wishing cap). hid the d to regain treasure in a for did the gnome's bro Mine, dv linda, wi intered found a dying woman, n Stegfried, toy ted to his of @ wonderfu boy might one day overcome and hoard, The your s parentage and instinctiy gnome to tell him the story of i th ¢ forge the broker weapon for him, Mime could not. W: ing to the gnome, to.d him no {ror would be slain by Si |that the latter, because he w: the only man Who could remake the ruined swoni. Siegfried set to work at the task with a will and achieved: {t. Then, guided by Mime, he started, weapon in hand, for Fafnir's den . | Reaching the dragon’s lair, Stexfried sounded a call on his horn, Out rushed '\Fafnir, Siegfried attacked the transformed 4: and after a mad battle slow (him. Then, entering the cave, he viewed the priceless treasure. But !t aroused no wonder in tas simple mind. Born and brovisat up in the terest, he knew nothe Ing of wealth or power. Still, as trophies of ifs battle he carried forth the Tarnhelm and the Ring. As he was ignorant of the latter's value and magio jrse could not herm him. In slaying Fafnir a drop of the dragon's blood s He had put his hand to his mouth wm the abile ve, he heard h Warned him that Mime would order to gain the Ring. Scarce to ease the pain. The dragon's blood, tou ity to read the language of birds. jand understood the song of a wood presently approach and try to polson Siegfried had the song ended when Mime shuffled up to him with a flask, offer ing the hero a cooling @rink. The you 1 @ Sweep of his sword, laid the wily Nibelung dead at his feet. Once more the curse had br death frist was now alone in the world. Ali his l!fe he had been lonely, always ing vainly for a friend, a comrade. n face he had ever seen. He was lonelier than bet > He wel- comed even the return of the woodbtrd t! ad warned him against the Nibe- ‘The dird now told him of a fire-gint rock where slumbered Rrunnh!i us Valkyrie, who had been made 1 and cast {nto that en: cause cf disobedience to her father’s, \\ commands. Fa ly Siew- s flery rock. W n, who wished to recover the Ring 4 from discovering Br de, barred his way. But with strole of his Siegfried cur the aod’ 4 spear in twain an’ pressed This spear was the bol of Wota vine power. Now that a mere tal hattered: !t Wotan realized with horror that the reign of the gods wing to an end. zfried hastened towant the rock and plunged brav of fire. The ffames did not daunt him, for bevond lay Love. And because the flames could no harm fim On the summit of the reck he tide asteep—the fire: woman he ad beheld In all his Ife. Wone tically he knelt beside her and kissed her on the ips. The spell vas broken and the goddess-woman awoke. She sprang up to find the hero stand- y before her. Their eyes met. Biunnhilde in that care forgot Valhalla and hor iife as @ Valkyrie, forgot Wetan and her lost {mmortality, forgot all except that Siege arms were siretched out to her. the c through !ts protecting ‘The story of “Goetterdaemmerung” (fourth of Wagner's quartet of “Ming” operas) will appear Tucsday, \ way once she lost twenty dollars of ber own mone the party was me: “Old Man Moneyton gave her such se that buste: t The Chorus Girl Tells of Dopey McKni zg) to want her to pay it @ look and s: Pa Rola By Roy L. McCardell, og ie guys wouldn't talk shop!" said the Chorus Girl er and Abie Wog or an Who is responsible for the rotten hose? Nicholas J. Hayes, who was Fire Commissioner in 1908, says, in| the Tribune, that he was opposed to buying the Loughman hose, and “so strongly did I feel in the matter’ that he wrote to the Board of Estimate protesting. He says: “1 knew that this company did not itself manufacture hose. I considered that it was not for the best interests of the city, particularly in wearily. “That's just the trouble having friends not tm the profession. They'll Interrupt you when you wants to show them your scrapbook of notices, just when * you are reading to them about whet the dramatic critic |even know of the East Saugerties Herald said about your work in| “Not t repertoire as Phoebe, the maki in ‘Lady Audley’s Secret,’ expect him to oy saying to you, ‘Aw, Chat Saugerties js the bum town to|sometody else! call goods!" “And his fri “The other night, fuet to show you, Mamma De B: vial losses ana ready 1op. You'd never 1 Bostor Dopey ght says th: Pe . wombe hears old Man Moneyton making some crack 7 Hes be tak the peculiar circumstances, and | had no hesitation in saying so at the | two million dollars being lost through busted hose, and she . Dopey says time.” | sets up a scream that you can never trust the sflk kind no don't pay any attention to them when t matter how much you pay for 'em, because they get runs In Y it will be all righ Dopey says he has introd What were “the peculiar circumstances ?” them that give way when you least expect {t, and in that! Musical Swede the tost society and he Possibly Mayor McClellan knows. He was chairman of the Board of Estimate at the time Commissioner Hayes says he protested agai this contract to Loughman. Possi- bly John H, O’Brien knows. He |/ was secretary to the Mayor at that time, and he has since appointed Loughman his deputy in the Water has al @ go [BY 9 6 6 } ge McManus Geor OH LOVEY, HE DOESN'T KNOW YOU !} You'D BETTER FIX YOUR HAIR! BABY “WONT To Show MANA? | Ni OH DEAREST, come HERE Loughman was not required to re- 4 req! AND Ste. place the burst hose with good hose as the contract called for. Another contractor whose hose burst was re- quired by Fire Commissioner O’Brien in 1906 to replace it. Other matters in connection with the city’s affairs are attended with| “peculiar circumstances.” Many of these are Intangible and indefinite. | The rotten hose and the low water pressure are not. | Mayor McClellan has an accountant tabulating the hose records of | the Fire Department. The Board of Underwriters have already printed | this in eighteen tables telling about the brands, age and number of burst! lengths of hose, | What the Mayor should investigate is “the peculiar circumstances” to which former Fire Commissioner Hayes refers, DIDN'T | Just A. VT TLE MINUTE AND SNOOKUMS Jarrearage for three years, and the fourth PRECIOUS SEE KNOW HIS 14; year the ladies make up the defictt ? should be punished for their children’s ladies are not as considerate as the misdeeds tn school, y are sup- calendar. posed to be responsibic fur the of*sprlug. They grant no ‘“quarter,”* Hence it {s said that the ladies, during ble that fourth year, engross all privileges: say for In-|and the Initials of those words, th ight school e calendar and the lad u give tre name L(adi ss) Atall) P(rivilezes,) “He In Bent Who Does Beat.” To the Ealtor of iz World | 1 for the following Optimus est qui the case of a FRANK SULLIVAN wo Probl | 80 a late thre r 's dros and A ylindrica! granite behind juarters, On the is PGrEE thd 1) fourth year dar makes {t up bY the stone is 7.8, what ip , Jumping “forequarters” (four quariers) the shaft?” For Further Adve:turce of ‘‘The Newlyweds, Lheir aby,’’ See Suuday World Come section. y cause s Friend, Boston Charley. ything he'd pay for it, and so he would {f he had the money, Jey says that people calle them rumdums and makes cruel and vulgar of that kind, when Boston C y, In his active d didn't have @ er asa porch climber. Anything well done ts Art, Dopey says; but, of course, © says, that don't Include heefsteaks. And where was there an artist in vaude. that cowid give imitations of the human voice and birds and beasts of the and piping songsters of the woodland grave ke the Musical Swede could ood, string and brass? now wha to jewelry stores and, as he steps in the door he says, ‘Look Who's a throws a ful of cayenne pepper In the salesman's eyes and off with of sparks. ° ust for that they pinches the other day and prefers a cherge of arceny. With him goes the Musteal Swede, who is standing around. outer st to see Boston Charley «ets fair play and no two jumps on him, as the accomplice. ght's voice trembles with indignation as he tells how he goes tf and asts the Judge to change the charge to petty larceny, be » knows what a slump there's been in diamonds, and they throw to cour “Dopey says he has known Poston™ Charley for years and years and years, And ff he As active as he ued to bo It ain't on account of his being @ rummy. It's because, while the rich was riding in thelr automobiles Bostem Charley's had to work on the back ends of street cars in all sorts of weather lifting stiok pins and pocket cluckers from careless parties, “Dopey says Boston Charley always treated him right, and onct, when they was travelling on the B. & ©., Boston Charley found @ pocketbook in a guy's pocket in the parlor car and give twenty dollars to Dopey to lose his That's how they first got acquainted. Dopey says he knew they'd be a holler vinen the guy missed his tanyard, and #0 he went forward to the dining car an@ a his twenty under the carpet when no one was looking, because, he eaya, ected a search of the person. But the mook gets off at Martinsburg, W. Va., without missing his leathen and when Dopey goes to the dining car to dig up his treasure, he finds the din- ing car ha? heen cut off at Brunswick half an hour before, “After that, Dopey says, he made up his mind {t wasn't no use to try to be honest and saving, and from that on he blows his coin as {t comes.” “Maybe he’s right, kid. Harry Trimmers, the astringent spendthrift, never loosens, but I don’t see anybody chrowing confetti on him, while everybody loves Dopey, only they don't show it.” Thirst Appeasers of the Desert. By Dr. D. T. MacDougall. HE Indian and the desert traveller often seek relief in the juices of Fy plants when water fails, The fruits of some of the prickly pears are slightly juley; the fronds of the same plant, or the great trunks of the saguaro contain much sap, but for the most part It {s bitter, and while it would save life in extremity, yet it {s very unpleasant to use. The 1 cactus, or bisnaga (echinocactua), however, contains within Its spiny 3 a fair substitute for good water. To get at this juice one munt armed with a stout knife or an axe, with which to decapltate the plamd which 1s done by cutting away a section from the top. Next a green stake fy obtained from some shrub or tree that ts free from bitter evbstances, and with this or with the axe the white pith of the interior !s pounded to a pulp and & cavity that would hold two gallons 1s formed. Squeesing the pulp between the hands {nto this cavity will give from three to six pints of a drinkable liquid hat {s far from unpleasant, and is generally a few degrees cooler than the atm Scouting Indians have long used the bisnaga to save carrying a heavy supply of water, and a drink may be obtained in this manner by a skilled operator tm five or ten minutes, Some Facts About Melodrama. By Jules Eckert Goodman. I1f facts about melodrama are rather sensational. Take for exashpte this one item: A stage manager during the past season, with his dif ferent attractions, has played to 382 weeks of business, an equivalent to eleven theatrical seasons, with gross receipts of nearly $1.800,0008 Some 40 people were engaged as members of his different corpanies and their salaries amounted to over $0,000, an average of nearly $10,000 per week. His printing bill alone was almost $75,000. And this was but a single manager, though one of the biggest. Every week in New York Clty between 80,000 an@ 100,000 people attend melodrama performances. You can hardly laugh away these things. A form of entertainment which draws l!ke this and upon which so much ly eynended 18 worthy of serious consideration,—The Bohemian. | ‘Smoking Car Compliments. T a dinner in Washington the Bishop of London told a story, as the clgare As on, about one of hiv predecessors. ‘“Whon Dr. Creighton was Bishop of London,” he said, “he rode on a train one day with a amall, meek curate. Dr. Creighton, an ardent lover of tobacco, soon took out his cigar case and said: ‘You don't mind my smoking, I suppose?’ The meek, pale litte curate bowed and answered humbly: ‘Not if Your Lordehip does: nyina my being sick.’” nappens? ‘Boston Charley, who has @ great senee of humon |