The evening world., 1908-12-25
JOYOUS ]AN|TOR
PUTS A CR|MP IN
APARTMENT Joy
Wee Wul.ie Walsh Causes
Trouble at the Linlithgow
After Taking Night of,
SHUTS OFF THE WATER.
Closes Steam Pipes in One
Half House and RoastS
Tenants in the Other.
SHUTS OFF THE WATER.

Wee wunie Walsh. descendant OF
various Scottish chiefs, who until 1915
o'clock to-day controlled the steam
and water supply of the Linlithgow
Apartments. Riverside Drive and One
Hundred and Twenty ninth street, later
on occupied a steel-reinforced apart
ment back OF the green lighted entrance
to n certain brick building on one Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth street and will
probably spend the week end there.
He not only occupied II, but crowded
IT with a package the guardians of the
ehifce declared was four times his
size. lie was proud of his Christmas
bundle, too, ngi kept the neighhor-
hood Informed on the subject for hours,
just as he notified the jewellers in the
fashionable Linlithgow of Its existence
at an earlier period
/ Wee WuIlie WalsA-he Is four fee seven
and one-halt inches tall-had Christmas
! eve off. Carl Christensen, teh dignified
and ar!stocratic superintendent OF the
Ltnlthgow, granted Wee Wullle's re-
| quest for the evening on but impressed
upon him that lie must return at mid
night and attend to the engines and
boilers.
Then He Cheered.
The little Scotchman returned quite
| promptly. taking II easy down the hill
from Broadway and making a casual
four-mile journey Of the block, Arriv-
| ing at the ornate entrance of the Lin
| ntngow, he "heered. His cheering didn I
! wake anybody up. "a everybody was
| trimming Christmas trees or drinking
| t,asts.
The dignlfed Supt. Christensen heard
Wee Wullie cheering and came out.
| William" he said, you are bolster
Gus, Go downstairs and attend to the
! steam.
Wee wulle screwed up his little eyes,
pierced the broad breast of his chief
| with look of hate and quietly fell
downstairs To his proper domain. The
fall seemed To I'LL his soul with venom,
for he instantly went to work to spoil
the Christmas Eve celebration for the
l.inIthgow, He put out the fires and
drew all the steam out of the boiler for
one side of the house, throwing II into
the boiler for the other side. Then he
turned off the water for both sides.
Half an hour later half the tenants
were becoming uncomfor;ably chilly
Furthermore the boiler that was getting
all the steam was irving to bio" on
Furthermore. Wee Wulle was singing
Scotch ballads in a terrifying voice.
Goes to flake Protest.
Nh Christensen, who was giving a
party, got tifty-siN complaints In less
than six minutes and carried very
annoyed expression down into the
rnglne-room with him. He also carried
down an evenin- suit. superhly bcsomrd
white shirt. and other regalia that CAV
luS;r. 20 his handsome person.
But somehow he took only little OF
this ups airs again. for he said few
cutting words To Wee Wullie that Wee
Wullte resented. Mr.. Christensen went
upstairs ON his hands and knees crop
i'm. Wee Will" stayed below. scatter
Inn. about fragments his chiefs cloth
ing and singing gleefuly. He had at
. tackled the beautiful superintendent
with everything in the engine room but
/ the boilers: he had smtieH the big man
as David smote Goliath and he was stiu
. in a shifting mood when three police
men and patrol wagon arrived. And
II YOU go up to where he is now you
will hear him challenging all the police
men in the world To single combat,
leapinP up and down in his cell and
shaging the bars Ill they trcmble.