The evening world., 1903-11-10
Some Members Of the Board
Throw Up Both Their Hands
and the Answers Do Not
Agree by Any Means.
CITY AFFAIRS MAY STOP
TILL THEY FIND OUT.
An Over Town Excited Groups
Are Arguing and Figuring and
Swearing, and friendships OF
Years Have Been Broken.

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when 10y
nov" 10" AL.
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- = 49,. - ,-,t.rtsrs v,ib
uity legislation. split the Aidermanlc
body into lew m hitherto undreamed
VI factions, and prevent the passage OF
a angle ordinance until the question ia
pettled, Here are the views Of the Alder
men:
Aiaermap Tom Foley mir Tom,
..ryov ola q. Ann, 7 s,o,,d $40 that
Ann was as old AZ Mary was when
Mary WAS AZ old a. Ann is now.
Therefore, as Mary is twice as old az
Ann was when che was twelve years
cd. and May is now twenty-four, then
when Ann viii be twenty-four Mary
will DO two and a half times as old
and-E1cuse me q minute, IL you Will
20 over to Alderman Dumer, Of Will
famsbnrg, YOU will And him q very
Glover mathematician"
Alderman John Dumer, of WILL
iamsburg.
..TIpw old IN Amir Let me see: Mary
/, now Older than shs was when sne
WAS half tho arc THAI Ann Ia now
Therefore. when Ann u twice " old
a. ahe IN now she will DO half as old
axaln N she was whom she was half
a much again younger than she ID
now. Thoretore. IL you split the
halves and divide twenty-oour by
VWAlVe. mllIlIDlYluK AT olAo4ShSo W
the general average Sou see ue 49,
AYasr~ar patrick n. Malone, South
p,..L,x,-
"How old 10 Ann7 n Ann lived
~, Tusntv-sourt .treet soa,th Brook
Ivn. when Mary lived ON Twelfth
street, Williamsburg, and they sudden
ly moved at the same tina, 20 that
Mary now lives on Tvsnty-nourth street,
Williamsburg. and Ann on Tweffth
street. South Brooiayu. they should
pass each other somewhere In the
neighborhocd Of Sixth Avenue pro
wang tney fooH enc co5ns1ms8 I Wisn
rs lar 40 Can S.h Can
icy we're Doth ouF
Arse nats' '
Alderman Leopold Haxbur0eR.
5 r-,, -. o.. : mt a
- N
o home Uen SI - IA,
80 nrc,sam that
$500 IN n
nn 9" ~ ..n.,,,ng like
pu,pe 80 - .ons, three
80 ,h.v wers
=. ~" 1,.,s.u a, .,. month
-. .r.-t ana n
$3.50 - "a, turelve
how mSch older would the last twin
be than his younger twin. brother
That lad of mine had hardy GOT !
all down on hds slate n ne shou,,
Ask me again some time AFTER th'
frst Of january"
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Aider"ah --Ia g.
oid ID Ahh' -
ure u =. - ,sma nod bese,
S,Ioa 80 $50 aso then An,
-, =. ,nu, 30 ,,ota min,
go -. tuo,Yo vaars from wher
- ia 90 Mar
~ We my "a f,
Wneh MARY was nor quite 0ia enou The
wn',d Sothn I bay. two votes nine wear
fwronmu tpe nne tSwsiIr vsees haived i
ne ~ o,rht . Ia eiahtee,
years old. Why. that's as easy a
~
President CROMWELL or RICHMOND
How old is Ann? Well II AM
lived In staten Island, and was oil
enough to go to South Beach with
out an escort. she ought to be KEEP
home at night unless her sister Mary
who is now twenty-four, acted as ne
chaperon when she was twelve, AM
continued to do so when she was a
ola % AM, q. now Than. ~ she couI,
oiu as Ann 10 now '"eh' a..
DO tins when she was as ola as AM y
Mary was when she could do this, b!
this time they ought OH 70 De or
chonsron though II were thei
parent I would rather have them &,
to Midland Beach
President Haffen, of the Bronx.
..How old Is Ann? Why. I started
that nuzzle in the Bronx the day
before election. / had one OF my
l~ieutenants spring It among a lot OF
I Fusion workers. Those workers have
beer figuring that out ever since.
They don't even know that II Is cleo,
: tton Gay YET; IhaIs why eaREI neS
to the Bronx"