The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1908, Page 10

ai" Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to @ Park Row, New Yo . 20! Wort 11th Strest. DP JOSEPH PULITIEN, Pres, 1 eet 184 Street. J, ANGU a econd-Class Mail Matter, «= ‘or England and the Continent and All Countries in, the Antersational os inion. 9.75 ss ¥ NO, 17,072, FALSIFIED BORINGS. IDS were opened Tuesday for the Wallkill siphon, one of the smallest of the half dozen siphons in the Catskill water scheme. The lowest bid was $3,305,000. The Ashokan | dam contract has already been let for $12,660,000. The dikes and, minor dams at Ashokan reservoir | site will cost $7,273,000. | As showing the way the cost is; increasing the Burr-Hering-Freeman report estimated the masonry on 4 bridge dam at $616,000. The pres- | } OX xX ent estimated cost as testified to by Engineer Davis is $2,130,000. | This Catskill water scheme is being carried on in fraud. It was conceived in iniquity. | The initial borings on which estimates were based and the contracts | are now being let are fraudulent. Their falsity was known. at the time. | At least one of the high engineers knew about it because he directed the) fraud. The falsity of these borings is well known to many inhabitants of the neighborhood and hundreds of people resident in Ulster County. They regard such frauds as a great joke on New York City. Following is an affidavit of the workmen on one drill gang showing how these borings were falsified. A high engineer gave the orders which | these men obeyed: | State of New York, } County of Ulster, Chauncey Teas and H. W. Barton and Marshall J. Wood, being duly an@ severally sworn, say, and each for himself says, | That the said Chauncey Teas resides at Browns Station and is by occupation a wagon maker and lacksmith; that the said H. W. Barton resides at Olive Bridge, that the said Marshall J. Wood resides at Browns Station. And deponents further say that during the tall of 1906 they were at hole H_ on line A of the dike sys- tem of the New York water supply at Olive Bridge section, and which hole H is about three-quarters of a mile from Browns Station. That there were present at said hole H on said day Mr. Chadwick, Commis- sioner; Edward Simmons, Commis- }\ sioner, now resigned ; Shaw, Commissioner; J. Waldo Smith, Chief Engineer; Carlton E. Davis, Department Engineer ; Sidney Clapp, Assistant Engineer; Edward Clark, Superintendent of Drilling. When a core of bluestone was taken out of said hole about 1°% inches in diameter and about 10 fect Jong, which was in several pieces, that these samples of bluestone core were handed around to Messrs. Chadwick, Simmons, Shaw, J. Waldo Smith and others as true samples of bluestone bored from said hole, and as showing excellent rock bottom for the dike foundation. And deponents further say that on said day they were present and saw this same core of bluestone brought by Chauncey Teas to sald hole and put therein when the hole had been bored to a depth of one hundred and forty (140) feet, as deponents are informed and believe; that deponents Chauncey Teas, Marshall Wood and H. W. Barton assisted in boring said hole No. H. And deponents further that sald bluestone core was not bored from said hole, that aken from said hole up to! said time were comprised of gravels, shales, etc.; and deponents further say that after the day when said bluestone was lifted out of said hole | in the presence of the commi: rs, engineers and others, said twas bored deeper, going through green slate and rotten shale. SS. from fe 3 27 olay 4 Marshelle of ict. | n ‘ Other borings than this made by this same drill gang are falsely | entered on the official records, and borings made by other drill gangs were also falsely entered. The Evening World could print a page of, statements and affidavits from men employed on work of similar effect to this affidavit. False borings make millions of dollars of extras. What is going on in connection with the Catskill water scheme would be incredible if it were not true. | the ~ Letters from the People. Sound Advice. e in the class of women these different times. | ess a man travels | who think there | ion as to sex In or salary. On s them demanding ive them equal who m for Say fag his prayers: a man with a will of your own. Do what is right and yo ‘won't have to care what think, And it is ce @ewn on your knees i ene Rea fone to camp with my n eae ana I have “doubled up" in Wipobatiss rags commotations w ie Galeeman, and in no 5 ork should Anelt at night to giv = ings received do | re lighting or ridiculing 4 FRED D. © in Business. NKLL Women Be he Miltor of The Evening World “Observer” asks why men give up ete seats to women tp cars while on Qhelr way to and from the theatre, but! Rot when going or coming from busi- in it, gets all e wants. ALICE 8, A Fraction Problem. ot The Evening World: can solve the following exanplel mame. The answer & that i& ta due of 37 cr HH bokenw |" ‘Two-thirds of 2 la what part | 1908. { HERE $A QuieT | ROOM JOHN . | SLEEP AS LONG | Ad You WANT in | THE MORNING. NOTHIN G “To DISTURB You - SATURDAY COcKsA— DOODLE ~ World Daily Magazine, Monday, May 18, The Day of Rest. ee STN Sty Ck By Maurice Ketten. The Presidents By Albert Payson Terhune 17th President (1808-1875).—Dark, swarthy, smooth shaven, black haired. | ! i Big of head and face. Short, aquiline nose, small, aeep-set eyes. NDREW JOHNSON began life as a tailor. He never had a day’® schooling, and could not write his own name until after he was married. He had the doubtful honor of being the only Chief Ex- | ecutive to be impeached. Another and still more dubious ‘distinction was the fact that he was too drunk to deliver his Vice-Presidential address distinctly. He furthermore occupied, in his time, practically every office to which a citizen is eligible. He was, in turn, Alderman, Mayor, Assemblyman, State Senator, Presidential elector, Governor. Congressman, United States Senator, Brigadier-General, War Governor, Vice-President and President. In referring to this chain of offices | he originated the term “swinging ‘round the circle.” SUNDAY. i Johngon was born in Raleigh, N. C. His father was a eexton and | man-of-all-work, who died saving a friend from drowning, when Andrew was only five. The boy helped his widowed mother as best he could, ; and is even said to have been sent out sometimes to beg. At ten he | Was apprenticed to a tailor. When he was fifteen he got Into trouble with the authorities by throwing stones throngh the windows of an old woman's house, and (leaving his term of apprenticeship uncom: ' | pleted) ran away from Raleigh to avoid the police. He worked as @ | tailor in South Carolina for two years, then moved to Greenville, Tenn. T same year, 1826, he married Eliza McCardle, a fairly well educated, am- | bitious Tennessee girl. Johnson was seventeen at the time he married. Miss McCardle was only j fifteen. Johnson had learned to read, after a fashion, but knew nothing of | writing or arithmetic. His wife taught him both } He was an ardent “Jackson Democtat,” and de- 2 ° |$ Mabried at i clared himself a champion of the working classes. The Seventeen. youngeter's aggressiveness and a certain rough ‘ability. made their mark, At tw he was elected Alderman, and at twenty-tw At twenty-seven he went to the Legislature, was re-elected, and in 1840 was one of the Van Buren Presidential electors. In 1841 he became State Sen- ator, and, two years afterward, a Congressman. He served two years as Governor of Tennessee. and in 1857 was elected to the United States Senate. When the question of secession came up he was (although a Southerner) one of the Union's stanchest sup- porters, Throughout the South he was denounced as a traitor, becaus@ ;of this loyalty, At Memphis and elsewhere he was burned in effigy, threat- qi ened with lynching, and a price set on his head. His Tennessee house vas mo wen comfscaced, lie slaves taken away, lis sick wife and child turned into the street. Johnson's ill-treatment from Mis former friends and nelghobors roused great indignation throughout the North. Lincoln made him Military Gover- nor of Tennessee when Grant drove the Confederates from that State, and conferred on him the rank of BrigadierGeneral of Volunteers. In 1864, when Lincoln came up for re-election, Johnson | was chosen Vice-President. His courage, his loyalty, his sufferings in behalf of what he thought right, had made him popular. So, although \a firm Democrat, he became Vice-President on the Republican ticket. In- stances of his bravery were many and were oft-repeated in those days. One told how he had been warned of an attempt to murder him at a meeting he was to address, and how he mounted the platform, pistol in hand, and in- | vitea his unknown foe to begin firing. At auother time, when a Virginia mob tried to lynch him, he drove them back, single-handed, witb a drawn revolver. But the tide of popularity was quick to turn. When he made bis inaugural address as Viae-President {n March, 1865, Sohnson was so drunk he could not speak coherently. He afterward ex- plained that he had been ill, bad taken a little liquor to brace him for the speech, and had been unduly affected by It. Lincoln died the next month, and Johnson became President. Because of his former bitter hatred of secession and Secessionists, most people thought he would now try to wreak terrible vengeance on the prostrate, exhausted South. Lincoln's policy had been summed up in the words, “With malice toward none, with charity toward all.” But it was believed that the new President would satisty the harsh longings of the most radical Becession-hatere. To every one’s surprise, Johnson did nothing of the sort. He adopted WHY DIDN'T You STAY IN BED-You | —_— rs. Jarr got a whisk b: s hat, to the great n 4 his hai gle, she hi dusty t fall, and ner dust or oughtn't to speak to y gayly as she pushed to Mr, was tn the sin yy out od Remember na I had jarr, who last weak, om, cal ed wives for t coved the thaa gle Jarr, something, “1 suppose Well, , dear me!” t tirecame man T'm reading. you le! Wut the ring at th bachelor friend. Don't be silly “Vd say more Jarr Jealous. “Oh, you couldn't make fd Mi er, Mr. Jart's rs. roo. and crested name announ enough for her to be neighborhood, thought I'd drop tn," Jarr ts certainly a lucky m ifere Mrs. Jarr beamed a “Well, {t was about time! sad Mrs. Jarr, tnter- on getting some more ice posing between Mr. Jarr, who was muking u futile effort. to shake hands with the caller, “Hers! some of the women who don’t do Give me your hat and gloves. It's easy to see you Love In Darktown. A'S VERY HIGHLY ana Beaut MISS MONTRESSOR, AHS GOIN? CATER TAKE ER FOTOGRAFT Sue FACE WIF MIAH LiL CAMER RS JES ONE MINUTE AWLL COME BACK WIF DE. DEVIL-UPMENT OB DE FICTUAKL Why Are Married Ladies Always Interested in Bachelors or Never—or Hardly Ever—in Other Married Men? are a bachelor—look at fhe dust on this hat! Jarr to get bu r the way you acted r to tell you to come up \ dies always have @ list of tncomparable! Jarr in a tone that indicated that Mr. Jarr didn't} "sald Silver, “come to think It over, Mr.| Mr. 8 * sald Mr. Silver with a etgh, “when I see| interest in with thelr husbands and make life miserable, I won-| ‘Oh, you shut up The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jones an unexpectedly mild policy, and thus began his memorable clash wit Congress. He wanted the Southern States restored to the Union as soon as they should apply for admission. Congress, on the other hand, declared special legislation must be enacted to bring those States back. Johnson then, by proclamation, formed provisional governments for the Southern Sta Congress, in reply, passed a bill admitting all the freedmen of the ‘ South to full citizenship. Johnson vetoed the Dill. “Well, I guess I do’ said Mr. Jarr, sidutly; and| * ~~~) Congress passed It over his veto. Johnson delivered he believed {t himself at the time. $ Bitter Fight { public speeches denouncing Congress. Congress con- “And the better a man is to his wife the less she! { With Goraresess demned his acts of administration and continued to paca A Tarerlai sath Veonelcued ll (hell bechelonilisLive |: <-—-~~-=nnnmeens © blll Bloverg bls), vetonm Mined reniten and Congress had here the neir of the Jarr watched them. Their husbands can't come home and very different ideas on the “reconstruction” of the she had made no attempt) tel! them they have been anywhere or seen anybody.| South. Johnson excited some comment by referring to his own plan as dent. ‘The average woman {s/so fearful that her husband|‘*My policy.” The Congressional plan was forced through against the Chiet ou at all!’ chattered Mrs.| may have a good time without her that she is #us-| Executive's wishes. ; forward the easiest chalr’ yicious sven of his best friends.” ‘At last, in 1868, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that y with the)" sT think you are hard on us.” said Mra. Jarr, but| johnson be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. The chief counts G@ the nicest ene, smiled as she sald it She knew Mr. Silver/againgt him were founded on his public utterances against Congress and his foment 2n aidn'ts include) her ciieged “usurpation of power." A two-thirds vote of the Senate was neces- |p ean tell when I meet married couples Just| sary to convict Johnson. The Senatorial vote atood: Gulity, 35; not guilty, whether it's peace or war," sald Silver. "If it's] 9, By a single vote, therefore, the President escaped conviction. war, the wife will be as sweet as sugar candy while He came up for renomination, in the Democratic Convention, July 4 In company, but if they are at peace the woman] ig6g, but was beaten. On Christmas Day of the same year he issued a pro- loser no occasion to belittle or make fun ef her hus-| iamation granting full pardon to all who had taken part in the Con- , band to others.” federacy. Leaving the Presidency the next March, he retired to Tennessea, | After some more conversation on this and other| fn 1870 he was defeated there for the office of Senator, and in 1872 ran un~ | subjects, Mr, Silver withdrew, with the smiling Mrs. | ccesstully for Congress. In March, 1875, he was sent by the Tennessee BCEiRCa, Tels A) aren Lee CSTR CSG ES (to a) Ca Legislature to the Jniied States Senate, but died of a paralytic stroke om ; | “Machelors must be tnteresting,"" sald Mr. Jerr.| yy 31, barely four mouths after taklug his seat there. Mra,{ when the guest had departed. “You didn’t treat Rangle that way.” Mrs, Jarr didn't argue the point. er never married,” she sald; +) now so much about woren," ‘eppata the answer,” said Mr. Jarr. “And say, Is {t instinetive with married women to keep a xindly bachelors and widowers? In case their and room and dusted off Mr.) amazement of Mr. Jarr. t, while as for the Inst ad picked his hat off the der If Jarr realizes how lucky he Is 1) Just the gz heir husbands’ bacheior * said the bachelor, as he} 'm tov old and crar pick. Now if I'd met y ——— > i him Jealous!" sald neries may be obtained on application ach article to “The Evening World or we Missing mbers of this Ha ES by acnding @ one-cent stamp for © Circulation Department.” The Bible’s Good Use of Words By Prof. Lounsbury of Yale. AKE up your mind that the Bible is a guide to be followed gram- DY Jealous. an to get a wife like you." t the bachelor and insisted for his highball. ything but fuss; husbands die’— "said Mrs, Jarr. .G . Long. matically as much as it $e morally. The language of our version belongs to the aixteenth century. It, therefore, naturaly contains expressions which, though proper at that time, are not in accord with the common usage of our day. ue tines! orlaluslivgire a, ally the relative pronoun referring ersons. © we say, ee RPC Ya ti heaven. More than this, the sudtle distinction found In the employment of shall and will had not then become established in the language, But these do not affect the correctness of its procedure in regard to expressions still met with everywhere, In such cases accept its authority withe out question, and conform your practice to it. ’ Idiotorial., Botheration on all cooks say we. The greatest COOK In the world sat next to a friend of ours the other day and confided to him that OUR EATING is ALL wrong. We do not know HOW to EAT! Whatever the cook gives us we take BECAUSE we are ww BY iftul Araminta Montressor, Now You JES SMILE AN’ LOOK PLEASANT AN? AA'LL TAKE ER SNAP SHooT. The ‘Fudge’ ED Wisdom From a Scoffer. — Copyrot, 1908. by the Planet Pub. Co Ps HOW DARE You MAKE DAT | UGLY COMIC VALENTINE \ UIT AM JES ER LIL VOUT 08 BE ocus - BUT OAR Yo!’ /5 / ” afraid she WILL leave. Strawberries should be eaten with champagne and not with cream! Cream costs SO cents a quart and champagne $3.50, put it is a better FOOD! When you put PIE into your stomach you do not know what you are doing, Do not mix up your foolish insides! If you do you will mix ah up your Brain! The consequences of MIXING up the BRAIN are HORRIBLE! If you don’t Belleve It, Regardez vous us. We are a STRIK- ‘ ING example!