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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-10-20

The World Regularly
Publishes a Larger Class
ified Department than All
Other Eastern Territorial
Papers Combined.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-10-20

WANTED-500 men to feed at 15c
. meal. Lodging Csc and S5c per wk.
Sandwich Sc. Best in town for the
money, 220H East So. First Street
l0-l3-0t'
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-10-20

FOR SALE-A new stock Of gro
cerics and fixtures, and store build
ing for rent. For particulars, ad-
dress X. Y. H., p. o, Box 1853, Tulsa,
Okla. l0-20-6t'
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-10-20
The World Want Department

The World Gets the Ad-
vertisingIBecause railways
Brings Results. The Want
Department Tells You the
Story OF the Circulation.
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
Subway's Northern Terminus Soon To Be in Its Midst
From Getty Square to Coney's Isle VIII Then
Be q Phrase Embodied in Song and Story

"Church-A man is safe from automobiles in
the subway.
"Gotham-Yes. but there are other smells. you
know"
The idea is still too new for Humorist Oliver
to get into his stride. but after few months he
is expected to turn out really high grade para
graphs. AS a temporary expedient 1t is said
he is substituting subway for all other vehicular
travel in his old stock of farmer mother-n-law
baby and young husband jokes.
John KendrCk Bangs is believed 10 regret
having shaken the dust of Yonkers from his
feet now that brighter days are dawnlng. He
might have been Mayor and Jester laureate ana
linked his name indissolubly with the Getty
Square terminal Time was when Bangs and
YonIlers promised to be coupled in history with
Depew Id Peekskill. But absence of mind
prove ranss's und ng. He running for
Mayo and like all able politicians planned to
addres, the Wa burton avenue burghers in a
dress coat white appearing before the populace
of the 1ists In n pair of Overals- One night
he forgot to put on the overalls, after speak
ing to the aristocrats, and the voters buried him
under an indignant avalanche of ballots He
might nevertheless. have lived down the Incl
dent and made successful campaign for the
office OF a dogcatCher, il not for Mayor. But ne
went away, embttered man.
William Welsh, the furniture man and stump
orator who resembles Henry Ward Beecher in
looks and is a mental understudy for Brian G..
Hughes does not have to be funny for a living,
and pays 10 have such things as the fol-
lowing inserted in local newspaper:
What's the matter with our new administra-
ton? Has it dried up and blown away? Or has
1t been lost in the shuttle? We don't even hear
1t mentioned any more. II wasn't so in former
times for we remember in days gone by that
the administration was always In evidence
Then II a man fell off ladder or there was
doghght in the Square the baby cut tooth
or the fish didn't bite. the administration was
called TO account for these things.
Now we have highway robberies. riots and
murder IN our public streets. and no one seems
to mix our present administration with these
passing events II would seem that IL has been
forgotten or else considered as an irresponsible
concern.
rninistratton and mix II up a little with things
that are going on. A little pounding will show
that they still remembered by some. for It's
a terrible thing to be forgotten while still alive.
Now .et those calamity howlers' Of other days
'whoop 'er up a little. for they know how to
do it."
Asked for . diagram by q Tribune reporter,
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
Le Rou1ilfer Brothers
West 1qventy-third Street.

prosecute them. When Tammany came into
power. in 1904, with three district leaders in
charge of the Water Department. the efforts
that had been made IN the preceding administra-
ton by Commissioners Dougherty and Monroe
went pretty much for naught. Commissioner
Dougherty, for example. had a special law en-
acted by the Legislature in 1902 making IL a
misdemeanor TO tamper with meter to steal
water by means Of a secret pipe Yet In the two
years and more that Tammany has been in
power IN spite of the many cases of thieving the
Water Department has discovered it has not
secured single conviction under this law. The
Water Department shifts the responsibility to
the Law Department. and the Law Department
blames the law
The water stealing act is especially compre-
hensive. 1t is known as Section 651-A of the
Penal Code and reads as follows
A person who wilfully with intent TO 1njure or
defraud:
% Breaks defaces causes to be broken
or defaced the seal of a water meter; or
% Obstructs. alters. Injuries or prevents. or
causes TO be obstructed, altered, injured or pre-
vented the action of any such meter or other
instrument used to measure or register the guam
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
DIR. Lyons
PERFECT
Doth Powder
Cleallses and beauties the
teeth and purifles the breath.
Used by people of refinement
tor over a quarter Of a century.
Convenient for tourists.
PREPARED BY
S II e@~@ 21ec

Competition is keen. Their customers devour a
vast amount OF free luncheon and So according
to the logic of many of them. they believe they
ought TO get their water free.
One trick which is a favorite among saloon
men is Ito tap the riser Most drinking places
in New York in corners Of buildings the
upper stories of which occupied by families.
The part of the house used for dwelling pur-
poses, according to an ancient rule of the Water
Department, is not metered The water that II
is supposed to use is paid for by the landlord
at a frontage rate. The saloon. however is
metered, the meter being placed as a usual thing
In the front part Of the saloons basement But
IN order 10 get water without being compelled to
pay Tor IT the liquor dealer hires plumber to
connect his bar fixtures with the pipe which
feeds the upper part of the house. The con-
nection is made quickly in the middle OF the
night and is hidden from view by boards or
plaster. Often the secret pipe is buried in a
new brick wall, erected. should any one ask the
reason to strengthen the flooring
Another method by which saloon men as well
as many storekeepers steal water from the city
is by means of an old service pipe connecting
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
LOCAL OPINION.

IT'S a fine business" said Paddy the Plug,
dean OF Getty Square hackmen, when he had
read the account of the meeting. '1 estimate
that all them people after riding through the
hole will be wanting ride in one Of me open
coaches to get the air"
While nearly all the leading citizens favor the
enterprise. few moralists who fear contamna-
ton with the evil OF great city some shop
keepers who apprehend loss through patronage
of the big department stores. and North Broad
way aristocrats, who foresee influx Of bour-
seoirie are ranged in opposition. The moralists
point out that Yon{ers, with a population OF
10000 and 260 saloons and 40 churches. is al
ready on the ragged edge. II would take very
little moro to rub off the bloom OF pristine inno
cence Didn't they have to pray like everything
In all the forty churches last year for Mayor
Andrus and he a pillar Of the Methodist Church?
II costs so cents to go by steamboat to
Coney Island, and the young people swarm there
hv hundreds A Scent fare might put the
SUNDAY schools out OF business. Baseball at
Van Cortlandt Park and the stddy pleasures OF
Fort George would be much nearer. while the
present Sabbath desecrating visits OF fifty thou
sand New Workers. would be multiplied to a fsar-
ful extent.
The opposition shopkeepers look on the present
railroad fares as high tariff wall that keeps
the Yonkers housewives from rushing down TO
14th street bargain counters AS 1t is, they say.
a lO-cent bargain often induces economical
women to spend 80 cents carfare The low com
mutation for business men does not disturb
them. since the masculine tribe rarely conde-
scends to shop and carry bundes-
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
p - n,,o,,rT o toDr e IN 15E p,rrroNHo, oE voNKFps

Mr.. Welsh said that he partly meant to express
his 9entenCe an ante-elect1On calamity
howler. He, like others. used to get up in pub
lie places and against the Mayor and the
city fathers without good reason. But the PEN
dulum had swung too far; people were losing in
terest. and il time to get the hammers out
again.
''As matter of fact" said Mr.. Welsh. either
seriously otherwise. 'YOnkers is the most
moral and best governed city in the United
States. We have few police court cases. There IS
been lots of lying about the town Nineteen
hundred years ago the great preacher OF moral
lty tried establish perfection. and we're not
perfect yet. We Yonkerites are now in good
pOSitiCn-dOn't want to lose our grip and get
any lower. hut just keep pushing anead.
The subway is exactly what we need, and
we're ready for it, The senSibl" shOpkeeperS
don't oppose IL. because they know that those
who want TO patrOniZe New York department
stores will do 1T anyhow. AS for COney Island
and the moral ASPECT we have 1O-Cent shows
and hOOche-k kCochees right he-e in town. The
young people who feel like IL are bound TO see
the sights They go 20 Coney Island now. Yes.
we have about go saloons and forty churches.
Yonkers is a home city. and a city of churches.
like RrOOblvn
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
A MERRY MAYOR.

Mayor COyne had twinkle in his eye, a cigar
in his mouth and fly lowering the red
fringed bald oasis of his forehead when the re-
porter called the 1852 Manor Hall. He is a
small Brownie looking man. but the teetOtalers
profess TO find = resemblance 10 Rip Van Win
lde's kes-carrying SnoInes. since enc OF his po-
lice commissioners is alleged TO be interested In
brewery stock He was elected on the Demo-
cratic ticket last fall. largely on the rapid tran
sit issue
i've stopped reading your paper and 1 don't
know that l ought TO talk with YOU" said his
honor. playfully. The Tribune said the other
day that we're most bankrupt and can't borrow
money except at high rate of interest. That's
all wrong
I'VE want the subway. for one thing 10 cir
cumvent the extortion OF the Central railroad.
which charges 80 cents for a single trip to New
York. the same as II did in the year 1854. I
suppose they charged that In 1882, when our
beautiful Manor Hall was put UP. The fares
have been higher than for neighboring towns.
and hate checked the development OF Yonkers
Communication is reasonable. but mans family
has 10 pay too much or else take a slow cir
cuitous trip on the trolley. We're trying to get
back at the Central by holding up its application
for the use OF city land under water and a
franchise to lay electrical conduts In the streets
Il am booked this evening to debate in the az
hrmative before the Athena Literary Society on
the proposition TO annex New York to Yonkers,
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10

They put me on the affirmative side without my
consent. because think We can have subway
without marrying the metropolis The present
arrangement works for the morals OF our COM
muntty. If we have any immortality in us We
take to get rid of il in New York. YOnkers
Is really a vrtuOus town We have more
saloons than are required to quench the thirst
of our inhabitants. large foreign population
of Germans, HUngarians. POlaks and SlOvaks is
accustomed to living on beer and bread No,
have not heard of the practice Of praying for the
Mayor. and do not feel at the present time that
I candidate for prayers
His honor mentioned report that Leslie Suth-
erland. clerk OF Westchester County and Re
publican leader of YOnkers, had obtained the
support of New York capitalists to build local
tunnel connecting with the metropolitan system.
The Union Railway Company has been also in
the field with proposal TO build a trolley to Van
Cortlandt Park terminal
Tom Lonergan, the CincinnatUs Of Yonkers.
who is said TO have discovered Theodore Roose-
Welt and made all The mayors in the last forty
years, was measuring out forty yards OF clothes
lines 10 customer in his Ravine avenue gro
Gerry store when he was summoned to give his
subway views Mr. LOnergan has fringe OF
gray whiskers around his venerable. rubicund
face and speaks with accent that slightly
suggests Dublin and Berlin combined.
I'm for the tunnel. and don't fear the cor
fupuoh OF NeW YORK; sald ClnClhn'tus LoheF-
gan emphatically. Didn't celebrate my forty
fourth wedding anniversary the other day by
taking my wife to Fort George? Thought il
would do her good 10 the sights. Twas the
first time we'd been down since they made the
hole Well. sir. all the saloons was open and
not a drunken man did I see till we come back
tight. and here they were climbing lam posts
on every corner That shows that we've got
something to learn from big city in handling
the liquor traffic. I favor keeping open a few
hours Sunday afternoon
Yes. I'm the oldest resident hereabouts and
not to be boastful. I got all the tmprov
for this street. and had EN- lay out Irving; Park
that you see opposite. I'm not a party man,
but keep independent and help TO elect the best
candidate for Mayor. l put in the last man
Andrews, and this man Coyne. but they both
lied TO me and proved disappointments In or
der TO get Andrews III three years ago l set uo
Dennis Murphy a lightning rod 70 get Dem
ocraoc votes; was going 10 be the ROD myself
when Dennis steps up and offers TO run. II
have any creed it's single tax and municipal
ownership"
Aren't you a sOcialst?'' asked the reporter
twice"
But you didn't tell anybody" said a black
eyed, plump young matrOn in blue gingham
dress.
Now Mrs. O'Hara." retorted Cincinnatua
cutting slab OF sponge cake. did you tell any,
body the first time you kissed?"
Il wasn't kissed The Irst time" said tha
olushful Mrs O'Hara. amid the tittors OF rnis-
oeuaneous customers.
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
SK New York Cit Water in Vast Quantities. XEasS
Various Ways in Which the
Trick Is Accomplished.

AT the same time that New York City has be-
sun the expenditure OF S161. 900 600 for a new
water supply OF vast proportions IL has been
unesrthing secret pipes by which millions of
gallons Of water annually stolen. Workmen
OF the Water Department, for example dug up
a street the other day and found a mysterious
connection between city main and the main of
a private water company in Queens Borough IT
was 235 inches IN diameter. and through Il, ac-
ocrding 10 the estimates Of Water Department
engineers 10000 to 100000 gallons OF water
were being taken daily by the company from the
city At this rate the company was getting
100000 gallons year, which It had been sell
ing back 20 the city for 500 million gallons
In other woTds. the city. so it's authorities say.
he's been robbed OF S4.745 a year II is believed
that the pipe laid four years ago. making
The total loss TO the city about $4,000
Officials of the accused corporation which is
known as the Citizens Water Supply Company.
Immediately announced that the unearthes pipe
could not have been laid by its men, as in fact
10 vas contributing 10 the city's main, not
Craving upon it. Il was the city that was the
thief, not it, This challenge was accepted by
Commissioner Ellison, who invited Cord Meyer,
president Of The company, TO inspect the uncov-
cred connection. By the use of the pitometer,
the direction OF the water was shown to be out
Of the city main. -Ir. Meyer was forced TO ad-
l4AAA A4-aA illS clilpdllA was SeIInE the water,
but he continued 10 assert as strongly as before
that the company was absolutely ignorant of
such source OF supply.
Yet this loss TO the city is dwarfed in compari-
son with the rent made I'm Father Knicker-
hocker's purse # is charged by the New York
Central Railroad Company. Inspectors Of the
Water Department last April discovered they
declare that this corporation had been tapping
The citys mains by means Of service pipes to it's
freight yards on the North River and obtaining
vast quantities OF water for which it paid not
cent
10 10Th street. on both sides of Twelfth avenue
The street also being leased and occupied with
tracks. Within this district Inspectors Hannah
and Cook found fifteen water hydrants Of the
type 10 be seen or street corners for the use OF
The fire ano street cleaning departments All
OF them were Uumetered- From many OF them
water was running TO waste. These were photo
sraphed ny one Of the inspectors as evidence.
Several of The hydrants were used by the tugs
ot lice company which came from all parts OF
the harbor 10 hli their tanks. and when the
railroads IuEs were not around other tugs came
in and helped themselves. on Pier So at seth
street. nine tuss and TWO floats We're seen TAX
ils water from ne four nydranrs there
AS f-r rs the engineers Ct the Water Depart
ment can figure out. the New York Central
Railroad has used <300U00 10 S5000p0 worth of
water without paying for it The case is now in
the hands o. tae Corporation Counsel
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10

ttty Of water supplied TO consumed by any
person, corporation, or company; or
(S) Makes or causes 70 be made any connection
by means Of a pipe, conduit or otherwise with.
tne water main or service pipe of any person.
corporation or company furnishing water to
consumers, in such manner to take water
from said main or service pipe without its pass
ing through the meter or Instrument provided
for registering or measuring the amount OF
quantity Of water taken from said main or SER
vice pipe;
CD Makes any connection or TecOnneCtion with
the water main or service pipe of any person.
corporation or company furnishing water to
consumers, or turns OFF. or in any manner
tnterferes with. the valve, stopcOCk or other
appliance belonging TO said person, corporation
or company, without obtaining from such per-
son. corporation or company written permit to
make such connection or recOnnection or to turn
or otherwise Interfere with said valve. stopcocc
or other appliance;
(0) Prevents by the erection Of any device or
construction or by any other means free access
to any such meter by the person. company or
corporation furpishing such water; or interferes
obstructs or presents by any means the readina.
or inspection of such meter. is guilty OF a mis-
demeanor.
Many are the cases Of water stealing thar
Continued third page.
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
EEae Tarupr - EarfHrv heaY r. mile
us ElIl Htslo
When New York subways stretch and grow
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when New York subways stretch and grow
Aho ioNAs'7 '''9 mPoioe Poet OF Yonkers.
The citizens Of the peaceful village of Yonkers
are IN an exalted mood these days They go
about with thumbs in armholes Of waistcoats'
hold their heads at a metropolitan angle and tax
easily OF million dollar deals. II is no longer
good form 10 address neighbors by first Names
and agricultural topics are at & discount TO
20 downtown means a journey ct least as far
as 125th street. Manhattan, and Broadway and
Fifth avenue are becoming familiar images.
Everybody reTrains from knocking the admins
tration. Public prayer for the Mayor because
he doesn't SIT the lid he's gone out Of fashion.
Wen have the hole. all right" says one citi-
zen TO another.
-surei Getty Square is the natural terminus.
-Four hundred million is the figure, ehT'
We'll. that's for all improvements. / guess,
but wei have our share Say. did you
sver ride on the 'sub'7"
.-yytat do you take me for7' is the indignant
reply. -Pve been practising ever since they
arrr talked Of connecting US with the rest OF
the city"
-oh of course. ain't afraid myself. but my
wife thinks IT'S little risky"
George S. Rice. chief engineer OF tho Rapid
Transit Commission. IS the man who put the
bouquet Of hope in the buttonhole or Yonkers
r,r1de Speaking recently before the citizens. he
DFeGLcfed N--S
TEN would be bounded by Coney Island on the
south and historic delightful Getty Square on
the north A 5-cent fare would take people
from one extremity Of the new metropolis 10 the
other from the rustic soItudes Of bird-infested
YonI1ers 10 the wave-beaten rnarge or tne AL
lantic. The present subway ends al hihss
bridge but q commission is already cohoeiinihs
land for q mile extension TO Van Cortlanoe FarA'
ana the next inevitable step win be three miles
further 70 Getty Square
The sum Of s400. 100000 is available Tor al
extensions said the engineer. and 's'o"o'o0'
VIII be spent on the Coney Island line aIons'
a long whiskered member Of the auoieii0o
asked II the money was on exhibition IKE lhe
crown Jewels of England, and If he couio iee
OF IT'D Mr. Rice told how narrowly fohKefs
missed the tubular boon a year and half ago.
when August Belmont had an agreement reaos
20 sign with the Central Railroad 10 connect lhe
subway with the Putnam branch at Kings
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10

Continued on third page.
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10

bridge. but H. Nick Twombly thwarted the prof.
ect The speaker urged his hearers to pre-
pare for underground travel. CThe long whisk-
cred said he had bought a cemetery plot
on the instalment planD He did not mean TO
discourage them by stereopticon pictures and
the statement that $50 persons had been found
packed in one car. He told them not TO mind
all the talk about bad air and the irOnware al
legged to collect in the lungs. He comforted
them by saying that oil makes the smell and the
heat is due to a $1,000 900 power house. Such
expensive heat and the smell OF much good
oil would presumably be considered an advan-
tage But the new subways would have Ven
tflation devices and so forth beyond the present
arr MT
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
TAPPING THE RISER"

some -cea as 10 how widespread is the theft
of water in this city is TO be found in the fact
that since the first Of the year. 269 cases have
been found where city water was being obtained
without payment. The methods used in defraud-
ing the municipality are many. IN one instance
a brewery was found 10 have laid a service pipe
f. the street and connected it with a main,
from which il had been taking water for seven
years without payment. The evidence was so
overwhelming that the brewery people imme-
diateIy paid up. The bill was for $1JGS
Saloon men constitute the largest class of
offenders They use q great amount Of water
New-York tribune., 1906-06-10

directly with the street main. For example. q
corner barroom is extended TO include the first
floor of building in the rear which has never
been metered. The service pipe OF the old build
ing Is accordingly connected with the bar
faucets. that only fraction of the water
used is indicated by the meter
The more desperate water thieves tamper with
the meter They unscrew the top and break of
some Of the teeth of the cogwheels. so that the
mechanism. although 1t still works. fails to
move the hands on the dial rapidly as It