The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1908, Page 12

cnn Che Publishe* Dally Bx es s sky a) tho Press Publishing Company, Noa, $3 to 68 Sunday ark Row, New York ss d at the 4 ce at New York as Second-Class Mall M Onan vannnniii: 4380 | One Ye wi One Month...» ; 0 | One Monthissscssscsscsressressseseer’ FRAUD WAS COMMITTED. WOm i : day at th system because Three firemen were killed at th Parker Building fire because the hose burst. Two firemen were killed at the Worth street fire be- cause the hose b At every fire of importance some fireman has been killed or injured by bursting hose. Why the hose burst the Commis- sloners of Accounts officially report, They say “fraud was committed upon the city in the sale to it of the Windsor hose.” They further say: “The responsibility for the fraud rests elther | upon Michael F, Loughman, Deputy Commissioner of Water Supply, | Gas and Electricity, and former president of the Windsor Fire Appli | ance Company, or the United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Com: | panies, of Trenton, N. J., or both.” | This is what The Evening World and the Committee of the Board | of Fire Underwriters said months ago, | That M. Francis Loughman and whoever were associated with him | might profit, firemen have been killed, millions of dollars of property has been burned, and the new high pressure system has been impaired in value to an amount more than enough permanently to enrich M. | Francis Loughman and his associates, | Who these associates were the Commissioners of Accounts do not | say. They do not even call attention to the testimony of John H. O'Brien, who said that Loughman belonged to his political club on the west side. O’Brien was secretary to Mayor McClellan when the hos¢ | Specifications were changed under what Fire Commissioner Hayes termed “peculiar circumstances.” O'Brien was Fire Commissioner when some of the Loughman | had burst and, although O'Brien required manufacturers of other burst | hose to replace it, he did not require Loughman to replace his burst hose, When O'Brien became Water Commissioner he ousted Frank J Goodwin to make Loughman a $6,000 deputy, and Loughman |s O'Brien's deputy still. Legally liable to the city for the replacement of burst hose, mor- | ally liable to every fireman whom the bursting of Loughman’s hose ha injured and to every property owner whose building the bursting of the Loughman hose let burn, Loughman, by O'Brien's favor, continues to draw from the city $500 a month and to hold a responsible and powerfu position, a job where much bigger contracts are awarded than for Fire | Department hose, Doubtless O’Brien was assured of Loughman’s reform before he ap- Pointed Loughman Deputy Water : : Commissioner. Doubtless O’Brien was convinced that though, as the Commissioners of Accounts say, “fraud was committed upon the city in the sale to it of the Windsor hose,” Lougtiman can be trusted to conduct the city’s business with the | +)! gas and electrical companies, to hans dle and supervise water contracts— the Titus contracts for instance— and that no matter how fraudulent were Loughman’s transactions & ROTTEN: ras | of moane = BEES xuten | |/ le a | ii Eeeeenremn the Fire Department, now that he is under O'Brien's own eye In the Love In Darktown. wv Water Department he will be as immaculate and faithful to the city’s interest as is O'Brien himself, If, ‘Letters from the People. “Travelling Men” as Husbands ‘To the Editor of Regarding field” as to whether Make Good Husbands,” kindly down as one they do n man, am as, althoug to my fa that a tra how good usually tion or ing married travelling salesmen regarding this quss- ¢ gee ne wa thon S3ROOKLYN MAN. | when paying i In the World Almanac. n fron S To the Paltor of The Ever " Where can @ell me the d des? Style Veraus Comfort To the Editor men with standing col- (What about the _The Evening ‘There's a bottle of boiled water in fatr. ‘That will be cold enough for me.” “That's for the children,” said Mrs. | sare, | warden ‘Well \ ) | SUITS-AH RECK Sh "Oh, on second thon way, it will be cooler after awhile, a I have those tickets that were given me by J said Mri Kittingly to go y home. You always say you don’t care { , I did think I'd lke to go and see the Sa "ve promised to take ¥ ne's deen very nice to me, a Ct ee World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, July 147 1908. Two Historical Meetings IF WE DON'T FoR You -YOU NEED NEVER SHAKE THIS HAND CARRY NEW YORIK a a By Maurice Ketten THE TRAIN STOP HERE, NIXON 7 Sometimes Puts a Worse Crimp in Her Temper-- By Roy L. McCardell, GaP we have another hot spell 1'!] Poe country in some cool place “Dare you to find one ho cool places In the country In thot we y stuck under a low ceiling in a roor which conceals the kitchen in hot weather." eat ike I do now! snepped Mrs. Jarr, t so warm sald Mr. Jarz, showers are promised ‘No, you won't,” re now to keep the milk and ie refrigerator, and goodness knows when the !ceman w the Icebox, said Mrs. era country for mine ‘Well, I never and ice k let the water run “and, uch a eelfish Mra. f {t's as hot to-night as tt Jarr. man peevisn was last o'zht I'm going to sleep scape, that's what,” said Mr Jars, changing th fire, f you don't think ‘and there , king trips y needs an T'll fix some ice to go to Yonkers Sunday to see her m sald Mre. Jarr. crowds start and ride up In the trolley a "Don't you touch tt Kittingly''—— T should do something for her,” said fe subject The Same Hot Wave That Takes the Crimp Out of a Wife’s Hair -Ask Mr. Jarr. M e and If yc Ul leave, and it ing I know shi that! Sleep on the fire-escape, tn The “Well, get out that Ilnen su weather,”” said Mr. Jarr. ‘I've promised that linen suit to ing and I told I'd give it to and you should be giad to do somt! children play in the id Mr, Jarr. 8A white That's one thing some of the fell and want ma to go along.” you car suld Mra. J and efore the crowds do, I don't eee wh for!” ing Sunday sn I think I'll step out mind, “The Janitor brought up the evening pa) ai want look out at all.” Yes, there {s," said Mr. Jarr, anerily want In this house from the evening par water, I'm going out and get a glass "T knew that wae what you wer raty,” sald Mr an go to the roof Jarr. had a married man, was all he deserved. “And that reminds me that at the office are going fish ee fianin “T didn't know you had any engagement" y a minute and get the evening papers. er al there growling and fussing! Why didn’t you say {t ike @ man “MY DEAR MURPHY girl has got a , got A Mrs. “He's to you ar nice to Jarr. becoming . He's very ng Satu said Mr, Jarr said Mrs, Jarr, them when I'm through with them. There ts no need of your going "If T can't have a singe thing I clothes and a drink of my old Meeting his friend Rangle in Gus's cafe Mr, Jarr asked him what rights Rangle sald he had the right to pay all the bills and that was all, and that | 4 MISTOH CHOLMONDELY, You MusT PURCHASE ( ONE 08 DEM 1——~< SWELL SWIMM. arn \ ON You'o LOOK LIKE ER. MARBLE STAT- CHoo IN ONE 08 DEM LILY WHITE FROCK S ») The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jones and Beautiful Araminta Montressor DAT Yous =~ { DONE ALREADY) GOT SOME ) TAN ON Yon FEATURES.) GE QC ae (Now, VES’ OBSERVE) | YOU DO Liv) ME CLEAVE DE BRINY 4 HANSOME,, S (GET OFF THIS Pra ( No WHITE BATH ING SUITS: ALLOWED } ® \ AH SWIMS LIKE A it \ BLACK BASS, (Gaur) \CKNOWED /T. ee) ee w= «~BY F. G. Long. CYpgsi -AH's VERY ( FOND OB DE OCEAN. / AHJES' ! No, 12—The Husband That’s Gay as a Summer ot of ing the hot | 0c colnet Jenkins and jay and Sunday next trips are nothing but be going away every “Tf you don’t 4 you can vou have deen sitting v paid Mra, LOHDOHODHOGOCGDHOGQOGGOOOH 20 Husbands -:- All of Them More or Less Undestrabta, GODOOOSSS By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Day. HE Husband That's Gay es @ Summer Day may wed, Ap seem to the outside observer an undesinedle posses» sion except In a torrid season such as this, when the gayety of summer days 1s not apparent, But to e womem of normal balance the husband to whom life ts e perpet= ual ha-ha {s trial enough to enttle him to the ¢welftt, place on our Het of men not to marry, He deserves his fate if only es « teller of ¢unny stovtem, Some optimist once remarked that there were just thim teen original jokes. An unlucky number, {t will be re marked, which may be reaponslble for the fact that we are doomed to hear them so often, Many a well-deveoped sense of humor hes perished in its prime from the fatality of being wedded to « teller of jokes, The husband with a perpetual joke is as mua of a nwsance as the husdand with @ perpetual grouch. ‘John, mother ls very ill," says the wite of this dread vaudevillian of the home, ‘Ha! hal" he re torts sympathetically, ‘That reminde me of the best mother-in-law joke I ever heard.” “The agent called for the rent to-day,” {8 met by ‘Did I tell you the funny story Jones got off on hie landlord the other night?’ and no wifely persuasion can lure him from the pleasant flelds of anectotage on to the cold, hard high- Way of fact which the necessity of being housed and clothed and fed compels us to travel rherever a group of men are gathered together, and after the fashion of Kind eaoh one buys in his turn, there is always one who tells a funny On, JOHN! THIS HAW = HAW ! THAT REMINDS ME OF THE BEST MOTHER- IN-LAW STORY 1 EVER HEARD! His Laugh Never Leaves Him. y and departs on the heels of the laugh it has created without saying “What'll you have?” Now the Husband Tiat's Gay as @ Summer Day doce pretty much the same things There may be a grave crisis in his housenold-one which It would take the ed wisdom of husband and wife to meet, But a hollow ha-ha is all the em swer he has for it, and the fragile shoulders of his wife asgume the burden of Atlas, holding up thelr little world. Wives, men complain, weep at the wrong time and the wrong place In thelr Phiiosophy, in fact, there is no time for tears. But the husband who laughs per ly te ly S@ exasperaung as the wife who weeps. Tears eccomplidh quite as much as laughter in the world. Tt {s just as ailly to wear a button with * on It as if the imperative inscription read ‘Cry!" Tears, dle teere fale laughter The H nd That's Gay os a Summer Day shou'4 give his wife the benefit variety just ag the weather does, Three hundred and sixty-five days of lan- uorous leatage and flaunting sun would send all of us in search of the North Pole, Stmil the wife of the man with the eternal smile longs for serious ness ines under the perpetual infilction of irresponsible high spirit Ie even t drives her to elope with ar undertaker who eball ey that % eniy: ins ot laughter she ts not repald? At when one may spend the afternoon at a vaudeville performance, it 8 ne one that way, one does not care for a husband who ects the were a continuous comedian—alack! without drawing the stupendows If only the Husband That's Gay as a Summer Day would cloud w nally’ But he won't! For he would cease to be an undesiretie tem band if he dia, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland. NE touch of highball makes the whole world spin. A woman doesn't really “live” until she is man Tied; and after that she sometimes doesn't want te ae ond live. The man who kisses a woman at the first opportunity is either a fool or a cad; the man who waits for the see ond opportunity {s a philosopher; the man who wales ter the third opportunity is a speculator; and the man whe waits any longer !s—a freak, No man was ever so bald that @ ‘woman couldn't make him (blush with pleasure by telling him whet a pretty color his hair must have been. In the face of a man’s childlike vanity tt te so aim. cult for a girl to decide to be ready when he arrives and thereby lonk as though she bad been waiting for him, or to keep him waiting and look as though she had deen primping for him. That sad, patient smile one on the face of « married woman may net much from heart-hunger trom a dally effort to listen to her hu» est Joke at the same time that he pacifies the cook, ecothes the baby. ks tor hig lost collar button. | ‘Tis best for a man to be square, Dut @ woman ts more lucky to be round, The Dying Words of Great Men. By’ Leon Lansberg. D will forgive me; for thie is His busin’ were Beings mee { ui words, \ | The painter Lantara lay in the agony of death, and the oem | fessor, after administering to him the last sacraments, cumsorted | him with the words, "How happy you are now going to oe my | son! You will aee God face to face throug all eterntty.” | "What do you say, father?" adjected tho tnoorrigible artist, “Always Crema the front, and never side face?” Claudiue the poet died with the words, “Good night!” to his wits, Schiller kissed bis wife, and a few minutes afterward expired, Tho famous aculptor, Carpaux, who dled in full possession of hie taounen, asked to be painted “after life’ when dead; then, turning to his mother with tho words, “Mother, oh mother dear, I love you with all my heart!" he dea Haller, the physlologtst, feeling his pulse in the moment of agony, meme mured atoically, “It beats , , , it still beats , . , {t stops beating? ema | expired. The \aat act of Mozart before surrendering life was to try to render wily | hie mouth the drums in an unfinished requiem, writes Leon Lansberg in the Sunday Magazine The famous mathematician Bossuet was at the point of deeth when al friend Maupertius came to inquire about tis condition, He was told that | oasuet was dying; that he no longer could speak. , “TH show you how to make him talk," sald Maupertius, and, etepghag @ | tne death bed, he called into his friend's ear, “Bossuet, what is the squaee of twelve?” “One hundred and forty-four,” the dying mathematician replied with « Mass | The Mathematical Mind. 4 | LITERARY worker who wished to do a large amount of reading by A advertised for an assistant capable of digesting the contents of mendous quantity of books in a very short while While weights h mpplicant’s qualifications for rapid, asaimMetive reading he inquired csge- into his mathematical acquirements, Finally he chose the man whe wes most skillful at entangling arithmetical problema, On the surface that seams en unnecessary accomplishment in this case,” fe said, “but expertonoe has taught me that anybody who |s expert in figures am read any kind of literature put before him with greater accuracy amd speed, \ titan the person lacking in mathemationl acumen.” na 240 ili atest ited Niieak pill