The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1908, Page 17

\ t ine’ Evening world Daily Magazine, Roosevelt for Mayor of New Vor meee ( By Weurics Ketten. Un One year One moath VOLUME 48. _- Eee CHIEF CROKE R'S Wes STIMONY. IEF CROKER told Ma commissi was low iet Croker furthe he water pressure is so 1} in the doy t a fire might to them, New astrous as thet Accey York is “of San Fra But nditions, and | and the water pressure "s testimon hiel Crok he reason why the nose was rot twas weak It is doubtfu! whether any investigation conducted by ) Sfully disclose these reasons, because the responsibility for the admi tration of both the Fire and Water Departments is his. The following extracts are from Fire Commissioner Lantry’s testi-| amony: j Q. Who prepared the specifications? A, Commi: fa) Do yeu know of any hose of the Windsor sburst within three years? A. Yes. In Commissioner O’ Bren 5 time and| ‘amine. | Q. Why did they not re A. They have replaced some. Q. How about 116 leng 1906 issue that are rep i rable and fourteen lengths of 1904 hose that have not been 1 heir sureties were notified Accor ‘ding to the fire underwriters’ report, this hose was not replaced is is the hose that was sold to the city by M. Francis Loughman. {instead of requiring him to replace the hose that burst, he was appointed | Deputy by Water Commissioner O’Brien | Chief Croker testified that he had not tested the hose for three years because it was so bad that it would not stand a test. One of these years John H. O’Brien was Fire Commis- sioner, and all three years George B. McClellan was Mayor. In December, 1903, the ast month of Mayor Low’s term, the waver pressures were tested in Man- hatian and the Bronx. The pres- State street, which is at the nd of the island, was from 2 pounds. At Broadway street, 17 to 26 1-2 1 DESIRED To-- Sherman's March to the Sea, a tall, red-haired, acy had become @ No. #1,.—Ci VIL, WAK—Part I HIE most important feat of 1864 was achieved bj erim-faced man, who declared that the Contede mere empty sbell—and set out to prove his statement, The red- haired man was Gen, W. T. Sherman arly in the war his own good sense and foresight had nearly wrecked his career. His opinion had been asked as to how many soldiers would be needed to quell the Confederacy in the Southwest. He said at least two hundred thousand were nece: He was looked upon as a crank for such seeming ex eration, and was soon atter- ward removed from his command. Too late: the Government found his esti- mate had been, if anything, too conservative ated Sherman's prowess, and the two had Grant alone had apprec Worked side by side in the subjugation of the Southwest, So 1¢ was that ief, early in 1864, not only gave Sher- Grant, becoming Commander-in-C man command of the army in the Southwest, but chose him for the hard task of invading Georgia. Gen. Johnston's army in that State and Lee's in Virginia were the two most potent sources of s bh now to the Confed- eracy, So, while Grant attacked the latter n to subdue the former and to take the all-impoytant provision and military base of Adianta. In April, 1864, Sherman left Chattanoog: and n the wonderful march which was destined to live forever in sony and story His expedition consisted of about $9,000 men and 25 him Johnston could oppose only 62,000 t pail the had the advantz e positions behind which to fight, and in his own territory. The rival tor j Dalton, on May 14, and Johnston to Resaca, Attacked there a erates withdrew to C: retreat Sherman followed up the flying f series cf football plunges, Johnston bein ever rand farther back, Sherman as constantly advancing, with not a single real setback. By Yorce and by military shrewdness, the Union General fore 4 position after position of the Confederates. Gne Southern stronghold after another quickly fell into the hands of the victor ous erners. Steadily, sy Sher- man continued \o advance, making good each mile of ground gained, drive ing h{s hopelessly brave foes before him On July 17 the last ob: lanta began, The Confede if dissatisfied with what it termed * “failuye to arrest the advance of the enemy.’ Hood was defeated with even hed him Ezra Chureh and elsewhe vacuate Atlanta is ours, and fairly won!” curtly er Against >s of SIro! Through Georgia the Confed- step of their nnlike a “Marching © attack upon At- had expressed it- d his s place sed and the dir ‘and on Sept. 1 forced the aphed the victor to Prest- dent Lincoln Hood, having h to Atlanta, tried a conntere ne Union 1 t of communi- jled to move. He hurried into to cu’ off nat ‘cations. Sherman did not fal the trap, He did not turn Lack from hia course to pursue Hood, but marched onwerd toward the | send- Tennessee. Thomas met in ing Gen. Thomas to the de: a terrific two-day battle mas pursued him t was destroyed. Hood's ft Georgia almost without def he sea was literally a triumphal prc ‘Through ite passed the produce of rit was opposed, but routed, » Confederate into ‘vennes- n’s march to p (Des 15-16). Hood y. unt the whole ind victorious Northern army, feed- P country rried the place by At Fort MeA man's men in upw which time no news of them red hed the North, } become a eat invader 0 worked t inwe: { The Capture ing Confederate lines j of Savannah. On Dec. 2 nan entered Savannah, having lost, ce le qed anc 2. 2 wounded. He sent worded telegram: T beg to present you a Christmas gift, the elty of Savannah, with 150 pound. At Reade street and West Broadway 32 1-2 pounds. Why have these dropped to 10 pounds? During Mayor Low's adminis- tration a great deal of hose was bought. Why did this hose last better than the Loughman hose? Much of the hose bought under Mayor Van Wyck’s administration fs still in use. Although under (Mayor Van Wyck hose was bought from a middleman named Marks, who did not manufacture it, just as wmder Mayor McClellan hose was Dought from a middleman, Lough- tman, Marks’s hose was not rotten, wnd Marks was not made Deputy (Water Commissioner. Mayor Van Wyck and Fire Conn & itheir offenses against the city of New York by rot pressure. The real way to find out why the hose was rotten and the pressure was weak is to unearth who else were Fire Appliance Company besides M. Francis Lou ested in the options on the Catskill water supp idemning? Husbands Have a Most Unkind Way of Arguing With Wives; pressures ~ opping; but they always dented I } |have forgotten it In a store. I re By Roy L. McCardell, with it, for it caught in the door ai T looks like rain,’ said Mra, Jarr, ‘ss if I go down-/ gave him a plece of vn to-day I'l wear my fur hat The rain can’t! Hicketts stavling ar that. It's a little cheap thing anyway.” Here) thing ke that! Well shed a little, as if to ft was Mr. | ella I can find in the} Ul we pause. won't!" snapped Mrs. Jarr. ay four p nner in a restau d ther Want to see at th itatt house a e got a better t when T 1} theatres, than to | home. home!" “Oh, all righ ainly you woul of dollars on me oh, nothing would “T would ju: said Mrs od you from spe: me! No ling every You said you didn't want to go to dinner or the theat I did nothing of the kin ould have Jarr, “If you nell did not hose and lo sald Mr. Jarr. “You can carry don't be going to rain a of th and if its a nice evenin train, vou say!” said Mrs, Jarr won't ra You just say it won't rain uty you enn't agree with me oy fe yar and you have and you needn @ an umbre ft I get y said the children had Jeft thing! There Isn’t a Single Nis on Which the Two Can Agree \'n a joining forces with Get inetly, though, getting actor Was very impudent afte: eee Dove Makes a Woman's World. y mone me home.” Jar: nad asked T don't be. we will go same-| harply. “It won't rain! How do| * tuse T sald I thought it s to argue with me it's kind? Oh. think to argue me out won't| The lives of firemen, the destruction of geaiten are an enormous Be ice t to pay f By F. G. Long. ' What ver Cenct 4 AM, Z, \ 1 1 | Por Justice | « The tanther r ! | . {_~— OVER. Cwnere’s 7, CTHER Door! a <a — ~ 7 Pension Delis f SRM, THERE, | Gig. HEARTY: 0) bates of cotton. ein J also about 2 Sot content to rest on als ls, Sherman wait long enough to | povision his army, the tlrough the heart of a hostile lund, compelling Charleston to surr , capturing Columbia and other Scho.eld at Goldsboro, N. C. Thence » the idea of wiping out Johnston's ting with Gran nst Lee at Rich- he moved still fruther northward «| North Carolina army and of co-op¢ mond. s ‘The last most dramatic scene of ine C Civil War was at hand. 1 By Helen Oldfield. talk of the bx bundant admonition and ¢ live their own lives, which might hamper them, the 11 niet end of woman in nd mott work, in ies w yori for women, Who the wome: fucus ba ‘And nurses to do up t mein a] po pe sure, modern scien ae BR health of body and mind, and home knit lery is a thing pr cre : is the same, and the nes may be accepted as a fi 3 the principle all nations, corraber tronger 1 anion and mar voman was E 1 ) ca fact which i ts are best. the Adam nee and ed of her ia often qu It fs not to t whom she Ww ne lesson of all the’ ages is that w however gif nial abiding place in “the sweet, safe corner of the t dren.” Love makes a woman's world. an’s love is of mé ea thing apart; ‘Tis woman's whole existe 1. finds her most ehod fire, behing the heads of el 242— Sweden's Beautiful Women. By Frau Laura Fitinghoff, Swedish Author. >, in my | HE. loveltest lief, those of the Norrland I district of Vesterbotten, of Ve ind and Jemtland, Up on the cule tivated mountain sides, as weil as down among the birch trees of the Leys, is to be found the typiteal northern beauty, She ts not a blue-eyed, Nght aired, mild of glance but a woman of finely chiselled, severe features, ith < the depth or of the wonderful dark blue mountain lakes, and \ith heavy, generally is slender, straight and well developed, j ver feet are small, her r movements light, | Our land, beautitul ad¢ Inchided its human ypes—lacks as yet that f ghtfully tt should have. It requires courige to forth those beauties hich no doubt in more than one would be plensed to hold liness, and piquant @aintiness. women in Swe ernorrla peec pa ee, symmetr: | Leap Year. | By Paul A. Passanante. | VER since this year in I don’t know what to do, One chased ine 1 here and there. to Herald Square. this year was through She sald, “My dear, now Remember, it is lear Now won't you pro I told her to skidoo. - mar; I wis ease be mine; youn & She looked so down-hearted at me, it was a bitter blow Just pleture me The people 1 0 That feilow's surely slow She chen got ov he> bended h And said, “Do me a f T sald, Get up. you p T Was marric ——