Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-31
GAS AND COAL FUEL.
Queer Mix Up in Double Tenement Building.


 The members of a. prominent club of New London are telling story at the expense of one of it's younger members that recently became benedict. A room filled with hot air and q number of cubic feet of gas figures in the tale. The young man lives in East New Lon don, where he fitted up q a.pleasant home for his bride few months ago on the second floor of a t wo-family house. There. was another young couple living on the first floor. In the atic there are two rooms partitioned off a1d each ten ant has one of the rooms ill connection with the flat that he rents. The fam fly on the ground floor did not fancy the room in the attic that was assigned to them when they moved into the house, and as the newly wed young couple did not use the other room in the attic the ground floor family asked permission to change rooms. as a rela- tive of theirs boarded with them and slept in the -atic. MT and Mrs Newly, we'd had no objection to the change and it was made. As soon as the cold weather visited this section the relative of MT and Mrs Firtsf1oor. who rooms in the. attic, complained of it being ex- tremely cold in his room. They filled the furnace with coal in spite of it's cost, but the boarder still kicked and said that there was not a particle of heat comin gthrough the register in the attic They finally came to the con- clusion that it was impossible to force heat into the attic. and that the regis ter was only intended to mislead ser want girls, who might use the room, into thinking that the room was heated. n1,A Je,x I,a4 41,n A{a @f1,rr experiment closed Mr NeWlywed on the second floor received a bill for gas that staggered him. as there had been but little gas used by him or his wife. He carried the bill to the man on the first floor and asked him how much his gas was costing him. The man on the first floor said his gas bill was great deal less. than 1t used to be and he did not know how to account for it. While they were talking it over it came out that the boarder who slept in the attic room had a habit of staying up late and reading. Mr Newlywed was sud- denly struck with happy thought, and prevailed on MT Firstfoor to accom- pany him to the. attic. They opened the door of the one empty atic rootm and were met with a flood of warm air. 3I knew it was SO" exclaimed MT Newlywed.
 sKnew what was so?'' asked the man from the first floor.
 You have been heating a vacant room with coal $1O a ton and I have been furnishing gas for that boarder of yours to sit up nights and read the life of John D. Rockefeller and a lot of other stuff. explained the benedict of few months, with emphasis.
 What do you mean? P demanded MT Firstfoor, who works in dry goods store.
 T mean that my furnace is heating your boarder's room and the gas he burns IS being measured on my meter" he retorted.
 The man from the first floor was in dlgnant and wanted to fight on the grouna that he had been insulted. but he was convinced that what MT Newly wed said was true. and a plumber was sent for to shift the pipes in the cellar. Now the friends of Mr Newlywed are 1nquiring of him which he would rath- CT: pc, the gas man or the coal man. era