The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1908, Page 10

Geanerotien Rat The Evening For England and the Continent ant for nies United Btates Au (Oaciner! oa in the International Sie ees ear... VOLUME 48.......... ROTTEN HOSE AND “OUR CLUB” ORE facis are coming out about the rotten hose which was sold to the city by M. Francis Loughman, now deputy to Water Commissioner O'Brien. This hose was purchased in 1904, when the specifications were altered | under what Commissioner Hayes termed “peculiar circumstances.” | The other bidders thougbt that they were bidding on standard specifica- tions, which called for Sea Island | cotton and a 300-pound test. Lough- | man knew better. He delivered hose made of cheaper cotton not up to | weight and had a special test coupled to a low pressure engine. The | inspector of hose testified before the Commissioners of Accounts that he | had often heard of the pressure gauges being fixed so that an inferior hose would show a high pressure capacity. After Loughman had sold the hose to the city and got his money he paid out $2,000 of the receipts to some one whose name he has for- gotten and for some purpose which he does nat recall. John H. O’Brien succeeded Hayes as Fire Commissioner, and had | ‘his attention promptly called by Deputy Commissioner Bonner to the | fact that the Loughman hose burst. Obviously the hose that could stand | a low pressure engine test with a doctored gauge would not stand up| under fire work. Commissioner O’Brien testified that the first time he met Loughman was when Loughman called at the Fire Department pursuant to notice to | make the rotten hose good, as his contract required. Loughman did not make the rotten hose good. Instead he joined | what Commissioner O’Brien called “our club.” He took an active part in the west side primary fight, where O’Brien was running an opposition ticket to Murphy. Loughman must have been a valuable man at the primaries and ing World Daily Magazine, The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. You D BETTER 00 SOME PACKING WHILE 14m AT CHURCH Monday, April 27, 1908. Hi-HUm ) (ar HUM made himself agreeable at “our club,” because not only did he not have The Women One Doesn't Want to Know and Those One Does; to replace the rotten hose, but he was appointed secretary to the Park Board and then deputy to Commissioner O'Brien, who in the meantime had been transferred from the Fire Department to the Water Department. , Loughman made a gross profit of some $7,000 or $8,000, out of which should be deducted the $2,000 paid to somebody for something. Three firemen were killed at the Parker Building fire and two fire-| men at the Worth street fire. The cost to the city’s pension roll alone | will be more than the Loughman profits, not considering the property damage of the two fires, amounting | to some $2,000,000. As it stands now the five fire- men are dead and buried. The 137 lengths of hose are burst and not tepkaoed. Loughman, who nomi- nally was the Windsor Company, is //////////) } art AN Gane WY f JUL, } Uy getting his salary regularly every month from the city by virtue of appointment by John H. O'Brien. And O’Brien, who appointed Loughman, is the man in present charge of the Department of Water, hav | Comptroller’s office, affects the greatest financial interests. | rejoined by Roy L. McCardell, with her," said Mrs, Jarr very sweetly. “You must have done a neat bit of snubbing this day,” safd Mr. Jarr, “you look so pleased. jy can’t snub tha woman, sie has no prite!’ replied Mrs, Jarr. her to understand that she need not call on me or expect | me to oall on her any more—not that I ever did call or not f that { would call—and realy the with people ts killing,” “But you e#houldn't have hurt “you wouldn't Uke an: “Nobody hurts my fee! “and I'd like to see myself give them an opportunity.” “I never hunt your feelings,” replied Mr. tind, you appear to be always on the lookout to get your feelings hurt when I It I took up the things you say to me, I'd have eome cause to kick about being constantly affronted!” “Who's saying anything to you ‘have said anything to you {t was because I had good reason to do so. no right te criticise me; I do nothing to deserve tt joing to say that I should be bosom friends with Mrs. Hickitt; she’s the kind of wornam you iike, gut she’s knpossible. She's always trying to get (14) one ‘ 5 Fe | people who don’t want her.” Gas and Electricity, which of all the city departments, excepting the |P ieee Rouen iccltontthelinasitallauesttonmwhiomitinardiy know. y I ask why people don't want her, as you say? She talks just as amily and she wears just as big a hat and laces just as tight as any other woman I know who has no time to attend to anything but other people's af- ay she tries to get in our feelings.” said Mrs. Jarr, am talking to you. “and If T ever asked Mrs, Jarr, sharply I suppose you ae Letters from the People. “rans nanan sour tne wre mist, tenn ie Wife, Child or Mother? Wo the Edttor of The Evening World A reader asks whether he should save Bis wife, child or mother it {4p tmminent pert! from drowning and he could only save one. My repiy is Bave your wife. Leaving Of personal opinion out your wife is of the from a social stand: Feeson that she fs in her prim @e your mother har ived he Me near her end on earth an im all probabikty t reaching maturity the one to save. Wednesday. To the Bittor of The Evening Worlt On what day of 1h * fall i 15967 homo bur wife stayed mble surroundings and plain people. when your income and ood yond y oe develop: s. I think, of broadest, Tf or your you think your 1 take you tn your wife tn 2 | a Kind tate her with you among | contact w em the same a8 you “How Many t" To the Editor of Te co soma Mr, Showemhow Mak MAKING A WINDOW 60x! | (Be CAREFUL! SOppose TO BE (@e ENOUGH TO PAY CARPENTER $1.50 FOR AN EASY JOB URE THIS F p— [waar Al BOING Now? Atso the Lumty-Tum Bunch, Who Use Each Other’s Fowder sald acs. Jo . yu would t have’ borne with her for your sake!” Silane . She is a t so to heart I mf “Didn't I tell you 1 don't nosey and stupid old dame, so far as I can see. Waat are you talking to me the door in her face? Jarr 1am not like you, I I didn't siam the door tn ou that I acted Mke a lady. e me." nd talk about them be- f cats! at her for What do 1 care if y “I'm eure I go with the best > nave some regard for my fami! face. If you feel so bad about it, I can ass "t swear at people and want tovfight wie way than smile to them to t the track, growled Mr. Jarr. ‘Wom a lot Thank you fur the compliment.” said Mrs. Jarr, “but I was very nice to our friend, Mrs. Hickitt I asked her to down In the parior and I asked ier to take off her hat and put & on the piano, and I talked with her for an about Mrs. Siryver’s party do "You may e sur shy I don't want her to be seen running “Possibly your talking atout Mrs. Stryver's party and other affairs where Mrs, Hickitt wasn't invited was a pleasant way of !mpressing upon her that nu didn’t care for her to call?” suggested Mr. Jarr ‘Well, I suppose any woman would know that m haven't call in the rlor and receive them in state, that's @ sign that you would rather they van't asked Mr. Jarr. ‘Why, yes,’ sald Mra. Jarr. “But when it's @ dame of the lumty-tum bunch you are very Informal, You sy ‘Come right In my room and put your hat on the bed, and there's the powder, wear, your nose is shi now DO tell me what ts going on!" “You've been Uastening!"” said Mrs. Jarr. “Of course, we don't make com- vuny of anyfody we care for, “Where shall T put my hat," asked Mr. Jarr, ‘on the plano?" “You hang ‘t In the hall, where it belongs,” said Mrs. Jarr, “and you mind our own business!" esaWindow Box # « # ByF.G Long Vic tiet rye | Pe) WHAT ARE OO AGS es ean) You SAYING?| 2 ey read Reiders, can this algebra? A and ‘ emount of apples. A says you give me have ewice the amount y ARJU Nol “Wolverine.” | e of vour apt B eaya to A: “If you give me one ; yours I wil have the sa mou 8 yeu bave.” rola; n Wisc To the Discontented Husband. — | To the FAltor of The Pvening W A readér complains that iis wife not kept pace with ‘ ment and that thous! a « keeper she is tkr I Teply: You say " people from an hum e ef wh your wife r 1 aving you married 1 nanhe Wor to have your r ' yout You, perbhops yge . (ie orld every day in contact w edu- » n vessity? Rejglers } ented business people, which was & cuss this, please D Bsa, LET ME ALONE WINDOW BOX) p1 COULD _FIK IT) s The Story of The Presidents 3 By Albert Payson Terhun 5090890000000008 TOOOGOOOO. ‘O NO.19. ZACHAKY TAYLOR Part 1.—Farmer and Fighter, Twelfth President (1784-1860). Stout, of middle height. Swarthy com plezion, rugged but kindly face. High forehead, keen eyes, dark hatr and sidewhiskers. | A FARMER until he was twenty-four; then a soldier until he was sixty | five; after that, President of the United States for sixteen brie! months. That in a nutshell {s the life-story of Zachary Taylor, ont of the greatest, most remarkable men America has ever known. Hit career was one of warfare, not of politics. Taylor’s father was a Revolutionary officer and farmer. When Zach: ary was only a year old the Taylor family moved from their Virginis plantation to the Kentucky wilderness. There the future President grew to manhood as farm hand and backwoodsman. In 1808, his brother Han- cock, a Ieutenant in the army, died. Zachary secured the dead mars commission and left the farm for the battlefield. Two years later he te- came a captuln and married a Maryland girl, who thenceforth shared the toil, privations and dangers of all his exciting adventures. When th War of 1812 began, Taylor was put in charge of a dlockhouse fort near Vincennes, Ind. A large body of Indians, allies of the British, swooped down on the fort in Sept., 1812, They pretended to be peaceful and tried trick after trick to gain possession of the place. But at every point Taylor foiled them. At last, seeing force was necessary, the savages made a night attack on the blockhouse, setting fire to part of it le > Taylor had Gay nS aaa (of whom thirty-threa were more or less . Yet he fought bravely The Fight at and with such strategic skill t iu te i ae the Blockhouse. hours’ struggle he not only put out the flames 3 but routed the Indlans with heavy loss. For guennwmmwm—mmmn mo this gillant feat President Madicon made him a brevet-major lor was the first officer of the Unit Army to recelve a “brevet” rank. For the next two von new honors by successful expeditions against the British. When the war was over, the army wa lor was reduced to the rank of captain. He at once resign back te |his farm. But the country could not spare st: rank of | major was restored to lfm. During the q | he was everywhere that active service could | Hawk war, !n frontier fights, in the Flor Qid vallant service. By 1838 he was a bei | Texas was annexed to the United S annexation as a hostile ac a Mexican army wpuld in 1 as sent with 4,000 men to defend the new territory. By politics, Taylor was a Whig. The Whigs did not believe In the admission of Texas as a slave Staie. They also | bitterly opposed the Mexican War, brought on as {t was by the Democratio |administration and largely in the sts of Abraham Lincoln went so far as to denounce {t a! y y it with ‘Taylor duty came before politics. He had been o: 1 to the Rio Grande (that river being the boundary between Texas and Mexico). He knew his petty force could hari nope to st the mighty army Mexico was able to send a no affair of his. He was there to obey orders. he found he uty that followed, In the Blacte nd elsewhere he Mexico regarded the It was expected that rebelled tion wanted to a head, and wanted, if bv, So Taylor was. secr without waiting for absolute orders from Wash T k, if the move sbould prove unpopular, could blame it 1 Isiveness. But the old In¢ ter saw the efused to effect should reach him eked by one man's advance a step from the adminis (rough shrewdnes positive comma ration. Thus the trichy The commands came On March 28, 1846, Tay! 1 his 4,000 inde and butlt a fort opposite on the othe m, where a larger Mexican army encamped ral sent a mes- saying their r 1 would be taken as declaration of war between Mexico and the United States, The Invasion Taylor answered he was there under of Mexico orders and the should stay If Mexico Q wanted a figh not run a from it. Oa eee On May 8 more t 00 Me crossed the ei sat Palo Alto. The on Resaca de la Palmo. ating and drove them back he captured the town | tase to the Americans giving-them twent s to withdraw, and Oe ee iver and attacked 2,300 of the A Mexicans were routed. The beaten | There, next day, Taylor gave them a secon } across the Rio Grande, Crosai of Matamoras, There he waite er for inforcements, &c. On Sept. 9, with 6,625 men (most! ), he n hed on the for- tifled town of Monterey, which defen lel. After 000 Mexican treops je the garrison and town surrender. triumphantly . When a sudden victory. Yet the several days of flerce fighting he m. With a mere handful of men he was ¢ through the very heart of an armed and he turn of affairs at Washington destroyed all h crowning moment of Taylor's career was at series mi mp for euch | Miasing nambers of 1 | by ecnding mn one-cent Cirealation Departmen QOODODODBGHEDOODOODODOOOOSG HGH Nixola Greeley-Smith DIOS" ON TOPICS OF THE DAY YOOOS: Trial Separations. GEORGE M, FERGUSON, of Chi- R, AND MRS M cago, have announced to their friends that, being unable to agree, they have decid ypon atrial separation. The wife has gone to Detroit, while the hus- band remains in Chicago. It is understood that they will sorrespond occasionally, and {if the tone of the letters shows: they cannot lve more happily apart than together, hey will be reunited This !s a good idea. Indeed, on merely casual cone sideration, st seems to present all the attractions of trial marriage with none of its objectionable features, for there is @ tide In tho affairs of almost every married couple when @ month or go of separation seems the only altern ‘ 5 — tive to complete distilusion. When the bri x months “anv exclaims peevishly after a quarrel me Mke a child! L won't live with you an hour longer!’ and th 1 retorts icily, “Very well, I'm glad you've reached such a sensible conclusion,” a trial separa ton such aa the Chicago couple have undertaken would do far more to convince them of their mutual dependence than a whole series of the hysterical reconctita- tions that mark the first year. However, almost as many married couples overestimate their dependence om ‘eaoh other as underestimate It. Women especially endure in silence insults that | every impulse of self-respect prompts them to resent for the simple reason that \ they fear renentment would mean a quarrel and posstble separation that could Inot be borne. So they suppress the stinging retorts that leap to their lips, and | #0 permit what were once decent, considerate husbands to degenerate Into petty ee eacteed terse should not be too quick to take offense. Rut once offended lit ts far better to vent one'e venom in n few well-selected woris than to nurse It with meek and dplomatic silence tn a rancorous heart for weeks, A sup- preesed quarrel, an injury that festers under eurtace kisses and fair words, does ths of oupl# reach the point deseriber roy aan the most charming of men, but Just at present we can't agree they had better attempt the Ferguson remedy of trial separa- \tlon, Ahaence will teach them as nothing else could how petty thelr quarrels | were, how necessary their mutual compantonship ts, or, if It demonstrates to them that they are happler apart, as in some rare cases it may, {t will have | rendered them a service equatty grant The Salary of th> President. v e1 he desired no salary, ASHINGTON had notified his fenow-citizens that ‘The Limits suggested in the first Congress ranged from $15,000 to ‘70,000, The salary was finally place at $25,000, and this remained the compensa- tion until President Grant's second term (March 4, 1878), when it was increased h to $6,000, the present sum. Chapter 2918 of the law of the second session of | the Fifty-ninth Congress, approved March 4, 1907, appropriated for travelling | expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended at his gtsci om jena faccounted for by his certificate solely, $25,000, The appropriat for the care ef the White House and ite stable and greenhouses wee in 18 ne | jon anythingy” THE WHY Don'y ) IF Youd yusT 2 D | é ; love than any amount of verbal fireworks. Dy) i ‘You BuY A) a \ Y | more to destroy love than any d sy the Chicago wife when she eaid