The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-06
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Tho Crlohel mo Ia commander NJ Tho
anlnd ifpupa ~ tho Bpwcry and adjacent
territory had inst cofnr back from Hot
springs with tNg Tim sullivan, fll ~ feat
md the waters and With a determination
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tfr'oh without paying Tor "
he at out on hla fire, tour NJ inspection
yesterday ~ y g,ies, In tho automobile ~
his chief. COMMISSIONS Ellison ~ tho In
rartment " Water supply Ota and Flee.
tficl'y,
Althoieh thew had bAen no showers he
discovered SVEN damp sidawalka In Harlem
and put dove his suspicious In n notebook
but he caught nobody actually In the act ~
using n hosr until he vas coming home.
when the Colonel spotted n man In n stone
yard playing n hose on heaps ~ granite.
union dressed,
paddcn wanted to get right oft and NJ
monstrate, but II Nas almost lunch time
asd Commissioner Ellison wouldn't stop tho
machine, NJ hiH subordinate madela note Of
the stoneyard's location and drew n rough
sketch Of tho man with the hose for indenti-
hcation.
lie was indignant ho explained afterward,
at the apparent eTrontery Of the man, who
kept right on squirting as the automobile
passed. That was unusual. because Eli-
sons touring car isn't like anything else
that ever dripped Rasolene. II makes q
noise like the series Of explosions In a drug
house fire and most water users have learned
to tell II by the sound a block away and
hide the hose. That's why Padden thinks
ne didn't get any direct evidence to cor
roborate yesterdays damp spots.
Thu Colonel didn't share his chiefs in
difference about the man in the s~toneyard
and under no circumstance would he let
lunch come before duty, so as soon as Eli
son would stop the machine, in front Of the
Park Row Building, the Water Register
rushed for the bridge. boarded an elevated
train and third rallied it back to the Harlem,
thereby willing the collar OF the dressiest
man in the administration And it was
all for nothing.
There was the same man waving the
q anne hose at the dressed stone Col.
Padden approached and said not I'M
kindly but with a tone of authority that
it was as wrong to steal a pin as to take
500 which belongs to somebody else
That Is the ancient but wise homily with
which Col. Padden always begins when
he catches a hose user who has no meter,
and then he gradually works up from
pins to CITY water, and az a rule leaves the
offender penitent and in tears Frequently
the tears will do for small areaways and
front stoops. eyen ~ they d tba si anoahs
That is why, Col. Padden says, he is al
ways as touching as he knows how to be,
But there was nothing. penitent about
the man in tn e stoneyard when he heard
to 60 to hell and then squirted unneces-
sarily near the Colonel s shoes.
When Padden told who he really was
and showed his badge the sQuirter became
and sang, Mother, mother, mother,
turn the hose on me; somea are blind and some
see; mother, mother, mother turn
the hose on me-" Furthermore, he kept
time to the tune by waving the noz zle in
the air, which caused the water TO go in
and curves, and Col Padden had
10 dodge. Finally he made a flank jump
and got alongside of his man and grabbed
the nozzle 80 that he had a dry start on the
pin story and rushed along to the beauties
Of good citizenship and the necessity Of
obeying the laws, especially the hose law.
We'll, didn't tell you that some were
blind and some couldn't seer asked the
souirter. And he pointed to a fellow
workman a hundred feet off who was
industriously working a pump which fed
being pumped was right out OF the Harlem
River
Col. Padden gave the man a cigar, some
thing choice left over from Hot Springs.
Then he picked his way across the granite
cigar, and then he came down to the
Oriental Hotel for some dry duds and a
collar.
The Colonel neglected to report the re-
suits of his trip to the Commissioner,