The sun., 1898-02-03
ANOTHER ROBBER GANG
Why the Water Works Jobbers
We're Scared Off.
LOTS OF DOODLE IN SIGHT.
Competition Among the Thieves
Delays the Scheme that Was
to Have Been Sprung
On Monday.
LOTS OF DOODLE IN SIGHT.
Special to THE sun.

| Special to THE sun.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2-There is grea
excitement about town today among
local politicians to ascertain what wa:
the reason back OF the soaring off of the
thieves who are engineering the scheme
to steal the Philadelphia Water Works
The great success OF the job by which
the gas works was recently stolen sot the
hungry horde Of jobbers crazy to &c,
away with some other big steal.
When the gas works JOB by which the
plunderers got away with something
that will foot up Il clean 50,OOO,OOO be-
| fore it is through, was well under way.
THE Sun stated that the next big job
would be the attempt to steal the water
works.
None Of the papers here took any stock
in the story but the information was
from the inside and the story proved as
true as the gospel and today every paper
is printing editorials against the pro-
posed job and the funny part OF the
matter is that the very papers that were
red hot in favor OF the gas works steal
are the ones who oppose the looting of
the water works. The conclusion to be
drawn from this state of affairs is easily
drawn.
The robbers got down to work last
week and by lot Of hard hustling they
got their forces together and it was found
that Il majority Of Select Councils could
be mustered in favor of the job.
The exact vote that the jobbe's felt
sure they had under th.ir thum bs was
twenty.eight which out of Il total OF
thirty eight was the easiest thing that
they had struck for many moons.
Then a call was made for a special
meeting of Select Councils to be held on
Monday. The meeting was called all
right and all hands turned up but nary
word was said about the water works
job the one and only object for which
the meeting was called. But no explana-
tion was forthcoming and after discus
sing all manner Of things except water
works jobs the meeting was adjourned
and the gang dispersed.
Now there is talk about town that the
reason nothing was done at Mondays
meeting was owing to the fact that an
other gang OF Municipal punderers are
in the field for stealing the water works
and that they are going to distribute
more Doodle than can be gotten out of
the Schvlkill Valley concern, and that
the quiet adjournment on Monday was
due merely to the desire Of the leaders to
hold off while and see how much more
Doodle can be rakcd in from the Phila-
deIphia Water supply Company which
is said to be the name OF the corporation
that has lately stepped into the field.
The competition is likely to be very
spirited and there is going to be some Big
bags of boodle in sight before the water
works is finally disposed Of.
No matter which Of the bands OF rob
bcrs finally secures the spoils it is now
evident that nothing but the final cap.
,ure Of the city's water supply is the
final object in view and there is 50 much
bondlc in sight that the citizens of the
good old Quaker City might just Us well
make up their minds that in due time
thev will loose the waterworks just as
they lost the gas works.
And when they come to contemplate
he matter in all its enormity they can
at the same time remember the fact that
TIE SlN was the first paper to warn the
people of Pennsylvania that a job was on
loot to steal the Philadelphia Water
works,