The sun., 1908-06-24
A TUB FOR MRS. CARTER'S DOG
WAS THE ROCK on WHICH SHE
AND THE CARPENTER SPLIT.
She Was So Hard to Please, lie Says. hut
Then She Was woman, So lie Did His
Best Until the Checks stopped
He Joined the Gre editors and sued.

wishes il distinctly understood that the
suit he has instituted agains: Mrs. Leslie
Carer, who acts at number Of addresses.
10. ,ayment for certain work done prelm-
mary to the instalment of bathtub for
her Boston bull terrier was brought en-
tirely without prejudice to the reputation
Of the actress with the audible hair, who
s lust woman.
al don't blame her at ell" s,id Mr.. He'd
mnd. passing a heavy hand the wrong
way over the fur Of little kitten that clam
bered into his capacious lap. You see
she 10 an actress. and anyhow she would
be all right il she wasn't 30 excited
"You say she's excited, eh?"
Yes, sir. she certainly is; but she calms
down again apd then it is oil right. No,
don't blame her 80 much. She is a woman,
and they're pretty much all alike-or so
| think Mrs. Carter was certainly hard
TO please and you never could tell when
you'd got her pleased. Maybe you'd
get her please and go away pleased and
when you'd come back she wouldn't be
pleased with what pleased her before,
and you had to go to work and please her
all over again. But then she Is woman,
like all the rest Of her SEX
Mr.. Hedlund's little bookkeeper knitted
her brows at this, but her employer smiled
% pleasantly as he delivered his opinion
that she too smiled perforoe as she bent
her head again over her work.
Mr. Hedlund would like s., ,O75, please, for
work he did in making over the house at
ll5 East Eighteenth street in the effort to
transform it into what Mrs. Carter regarded
e. III t.o~ L,,,
band, W. H. Payne, her son and the bull
pup. The bill was originally $4,000, but
Mrs Carter paidhim s925. Thensh stopped
paying. having broken herself Of the habit.
and it's the balance, Mr.. Hedlund says,
that he would very, very much like to see.
The contractor admits that he never
built bathtub for dog, but he can't
believe that incompetence on his part is
urged by Mrs. Carter as a reason for not
paying his bill, because the tub was never
really built. They only got as far as the
open plumbing when Mrs. Carter stopped
paying instalments and that finished the
business
The work began in December, 1908, and
the dog bathtub appeared to present no
very great difficulties OF design or con-
is lamentable shortage of ready made
dog bathtubs. Everything has to be
made to order. But it is comparatively
easy to fit bathtub to a bull pup. If it
we're a dachshund, now, or a greyhound
any tailor might be excused for turning
out a tub that bagged at the knees or
wrnkled across the shoulders, but with a
bull pup all is simple. So Mrs. Carter
thought when she gave the order.
The dogs tub was going to be put on
the top floor said Mr.. Hedlund, right
next to a shower bath and shampoo ar
rangement that she was having put in for
her son. Well. worked along and at the
end of month sent her a bill for three
quarters Of what I'd done up to that time
and in three days along came check A
month after that | sent another bill, but
along didn't come any check that time.
Well, when it got so couldn't see her and
couldn't see her secretary either I stopped
work
4 don't blame her 80 much she's
woman. But she was hard to please-she
certainly was. Why, guess we tore down
partitions we had put up half dozen times;
And like as not she wouldn't tell me had
to pull EN- down until we d got all the plas-
tering done and everything. Then some
morning she'd say she didn't like it the way
il was and it had to come down. So down
it would come, and just as likely as not it
wouldn't please her the next time. Why, l
pulled down those partitions put up for
her and some of EN- just because she wanted
to have 'em moved about three inches-yes,
sir; not more than three inches.
she wasn't easy TO please, and sorne-
times she would talk pretty sharp about it.
One time she did, but the next time saw
her she apologized and she said to me: You
see, Mr. Hedlund. I'm accustomed to hav-
ing my own way guess she was too. IL
looked chat way to me. She was very ner-
vous very nervous and quick spoken. but
don't blame her 80 much. She's a woman,
and then. too, she's an actress. That dogs
tub was going to have separate little room
all to itself
Mr.. Hedlund said that he didn't succumb
to the norion of bathtub for the pup with
out struggle. "When she comes to me
with that order" he said, Il tell her why not
put in slop sink, and would fix 1t up with
wouldn't be all right. But it didn't seem to
please her at all She got quite sharp about
Il. But don't hold it up against her. She's
just q woman"
Justice FitzGerald who heard the evidence
about the, repairs for the bull pup, Mr..
rendered decision. On the witness stand
Mr., Hedund said that when Mrs. Carter
TOOK the house it had an English basement.
Mrs. Carter had Italian ideas about base
ments and things and no was ordered to
start in and put them into effect. Her artis-
tic temperament demanded Renaissance
doors. After the work was started the caf-
Penter found his existence full Of variety.
When 1t wasn't dimensions that displeased
the actress 1t was the colors employed.
hen came that suggestion about the slop
basin.
"Slop basin!" said Mrs. Earter in her best
Du Barry manner. "Slop basinl" Did her
eyes blaze? Well. yes, they blazed some.
And whether or not IL was that slop basin
on which Mr. Hedund was wrecked 1t was
about that time that he joined the great ma
jority OF creditors. Mr. Hedlund said yes
terday that he wouldn't have done any work
for Mrs, Carter IL +. L. Radcliff. who owns
the Eighteenth street house, hadn't recon-
mended her.
Mr.. Radcliff Is a very nice man." said Mr..
Hedlnnd, He never had to do any work
except, live on his money. and so he knew
lot OF those actor people. He recommended
Mrs Carter, and that's why did the work
for her. But don't blaine him. didn't
worry aboutit. anyhow. Invent to Europe
and forgot all about 1t. don't blame Mrs.
Carter 80 much. either. She's Just
woman"
Parker-Fayt.
Miss Ethelwyn Hoyt -ad Frederick W