New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-01
MCARRENS FALL-IN BATHTCB.
THE ANTT-EATHTUB VOTE OF HIS DISTRICT
IS RRETRIEvABLY A1IENATED

The vision Of bathtub towering at least two
hundred feet above the free lunch counters in the
Fourteenth Ward OF Brooklyn discurbs the sleep
Of the Hon. Patrick Eenry McCarrer, Senator from
the With District Of Kings. The Bryan and
Stevenson Club Of the Fourteenth Ward, told
in The Tribune yesterday, has made the astoun6-
ing discovery that Senator McCarren has become
sort Of exclusive proprietor Of a 500 oathtub at
the Hoffman House
AL this BODIES IL for Senator McCarren for he
always has had soIidIy ST his back the anti-bath-
tub vote OF the Fourteenth Ward When Mccarren
was nominated the orator making the speech said
in substance:
Fellow citizens, We offer you candidate who
ana who has yet 70 ahrCat his constituents by
ouying oathtub.
That speech counted for NcCarren. He galloped
away with the nomination, was elected hands
down. and since then when he has shown dis
position TO stand in wiki the Sugar Trust whose
factories are in his district, the anti-bathtub
Soclatlons Of the Fourteenth Ward have had sim
PIE and abiding faith in him that never las been
shaken till the present. Wash everything in beer,
mas been one OF the Senator's campaign slogans.
another serious feature Of the oaLhrub issue is
Tie strong probability thai Senator McCarren. after
having invested 500 In q porcelain bathtub with
GOLD and mother pearl faucets for hot and cold
water actually uses the same. His watchfuI con-
sLLuents have deursd out tnat with the $500 bath
10 must GO lavender water hot days pre-
4.toto. IN COD weather, 70 prevent him from
-AttJ.4C N me Oal!., rink OF that, nOv!' MS
constituents eXciatrn with mingled horror and as
TOMS hI.lent
Wy shou.la't the aI2oho, BE distributed in the
ward for internal reief?' they ask u one breath
We depiore such va2iries,'' say his constituents
at last awake % The depths of degradation into
which their erstwhlle leader has faIlez.
The conviction has taken hold OF McCarren's
constituents that there several gross OF screws
loose with their former political idol
A few short years back he took the keenest de-
lght in riding with some OF his constituents the
'front.' seat Of a fish wagon and holding the lines as
the dealer scd Jamaica Bay eels. a ara wing room
car Is now the proper thing. Pigs knuckes and ale
We're good enough eight years ago. Now it's fried
mushrooms on toaS 81 and extra dry vine While
e-C-rE the fourdat lions OF his political structure
MS constituents assert that he used fire hose for
his bath. Now it's $50 bathtrb. with lavender
ard acoaol, at the Hoffman Il use. Ir. Mecca rsr
has patterned after the Roman Senator's OF 700
!. D; and now history IS repeating Itself. The
vancals who make up he Ar.i-Bathtub -4ssooia-
ton The hammers and PAYERS who pave the Appian
|ays q old Williamsburg and Bushwtck and all
the small ~ sadiatOrs characters and clients
Nho have struck terror 70 The Republicans OF the
With District in DAYS some by-aH these have
heard the story Of the Sa'0 bathtub. lavender and
alcohol az TIE Hoffman House, ard n mighty cry
Is going up for NoCarren's blood TO
'McCarren is 4 dad one says George A. Owens,
the Republican opponent, OF McTarren. who. by the
way. defeated McCarren II 1891. 'NcCarren is
doomed says Mr.. Owens. His constituents will
stand for almost anything hut they won't stand
Tor $50 2athtUb and alcohol in the water at the
Hoffman House"