The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-09
Goa. LuDL0w,s $50 CIGAR
An Incident In the Onlcial Life -.
a the En8ineer yes

Lieut.. Col. Ludlow, who testified Tues
day as a witness for the defense in thu
Carter courtsmarttai. was formerly IN
charge OF the government work az Sa-a
vannah, being the first engineer 10 charge
here after the war.
Among other responsible positions which
Col. Ladiow has held was that Of chief :
Of the Philadelphia water department
Along Ia the SOS the Philadelphia water
works got In such bad shape that thu
authorities were In despair. The secre-
tary Of war was asked 10 assign mem-
Der OF the engineer corps To take charge
of the works He did so. and managed
them for two years with great success.
Philadelphia's politics were evidently not
tree then from the rottenness which dis
tinguishes them today. and the follow
ing incident. narrated in the Philadelphia
Record and republished In the Morning
News some years ago. IL said 10 have
been Nh actua, occurrence:
That's = cool fellow" said an uptown
manufacturer. pointing across Chestnut
street. where Col. Ludlow, the chief Of
the water department. was waiting for
n oar. Let me tell you something which
happened q few days ago to a friend
of mine. whose large establishment con-
sumes a great deal Of water. and who has
frequent favofs TO ask ofthe water de-
pdTtK0eHx. ElG TSGeHxAy SSlteu tho cntex1
ONCE and found Col. Ludlow. az usual.
very polite. Ny friend, before preferrinx
all hls requests, took $50 bin from his
pocket and passed 1t over to the chief,
who examined 1t curiously for second
and then spread Ii upon the deck before
him. He did not utter word at the
moment. but when his visitor was about
to 20 away. said:
Now. my dear sir. what II this for?'s
holding up the bill.
s'oh. that's TO buy cigars for the boys"
WIS the careless reply.
Yes said Col. Ludlow; '.then Sup
pose that you are fond OF the weed your
seif9"
.safy friend said that he enjoyed nothing
better than q GOOD cigar"
Then allow me- said the colonel, <
suave.y. to insist upon you trying one Of
these moving TO secretary and taking
down box OF Henry Clay specials.
Each gentleman took cigar and bit
OF the end. Then with a careless gesture
Col. Ludlow rolled up the so bill into .
paper lighter. reached up to the gas, al
lowed Ii to- become thoroughly ignised
ard slowly lit his own. cigar. You know
that to light your own weed hrst b .
good test Of pc.iteness. IT comes from
the French. who very sageIy reason that
whatever fumes or gases are generated
in lighting will be absorbed into the arst
cigar. This done. the colonel turned with
an easy and polite motion. and said:
Permit me- and held the blazing BIZ
under the nose and up to the cigar OF
my amazed and startled friend, whose
eyes now become almost as big as dinner
plates. With two Or three yasping fnlsaf-
atoms he managed to get light. He
kept his eyes upon the bill unit. 1t had
burned 10 the very fingers which held II
Col. Ludlow watched its last expiring
spark as he Idly allowed the smoke o.
his cigar 10 escape from between his sips.
When the bank note had been completely
reduced to ashes the colonel turned TO
his visitor and said. care!esgiy, How do
you Ike your cigarT The gentleman adj
united Its excellence and took his DEPART
urp. attended 20 she door by the chief.
who, with The utmost courtesy, shook him
by the hand. and then closed the door to
resume his work at bis desk. MY friend
gets purple In the face every time he
thinks Of the affair, and couhded II 70
me simply TO warn RE how TO behave
myself at the water department.