Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-15

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for its owner, so he sided around and after
some contortions managed to steer the
right pocket in the line Of grab.
Meantime the other young man had
found his hat and, apologizlng, both left
the car with the wad.
But Jimmy simply smiled.
An elaborate system OF grating in
connection with snow removal is now be-
ing investigated in New York. The re-
moval Of the snow is arranged for by con-
tract, the contractors receiving a certain
sum per cubic yard. 1t is. said that they
had the work done by Jtruckmen at less
than two-thirds this sum, and also that
fraudulent tickets we're issued which pur-
ported to show that snow had been carried
away, when, as a matter OF fact, it had
not been touched. The contractors we're
thus able to establish a claim against the
city. and there was a division of the spoils.
The method by which the game was
worked is thus explained: Tickets were
issued in tripllcste. one part going to the
leading foreman, one to the driver, and one
to the foreman at the dump. They are
worth $3.50 each when properly punched
and signed by the foreman. The driver
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and sign and punch them. Then they were
put on the market at a price which would
insure good profit to the purchaser.
The street cleaning commissioner discov-
cred the fraud, and he has already caused
the arrest of a number OF men who are
accused Of being concerned in 1t.
New York boasts of a Solomon among
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disputes in his line of business, soothing
the wrinkled brow OF sorrow with chunks
of sympathetic wisdom. Recently, at the
funeral of William 8. King, a town sport,
two widows appeared, each demanding q
place in the first carriage following the
hearse. Both would not occupy the same
carriage.
The man who was paying the funeral
expenses looked at the undertaken and the
undertaken looked out of the window. The
women bristled and each began to tell her
respective companions how much King
thought of her. Sisters and mothers Joined
in the chorus and it looked as IL the funeral
parade would not start.
"of course you have your marriage certi-
~ficates, ladies" the undertaken asked, and
there was an instant dive for handbags, a
tumbling of handkerchiefs and the produc-
ton Of two formal looking squares OF paper.
The undertaken and his companion read
both over carefully, and the former turned
TO the women.
Mrs. Anna Ward King in the first car
riage," was his decision. MRS. Carrie
Siegrift King in the second. At funerals
widows take precedence strictly by date Of
marriage. Mrs. Anna Ward Kings GER
tiflcate is fourteen years ahead OF Mrs.
Carrie Siegrift Kings. Ladies may 1 as
sist you to the carriagesT"
Mrs. Carrie siegrift King snatched the
other widows certificate out Of the under
takers hand, read it, handed 1t back,
swallowed hard two or three times, drew
herself up and said:
"0h, If that's the way it's going to be-
Then she gathered her wraps and her
two women relatives and the procession
moved.
As the crowds were hurrying along Park
Row, a blind pencil peddler attracted the
sympathy Of many OF the passers-by by
shedding copious tears. Dimes. nickels and
pennies were lowered upon him. Finally
the crowd became 20 big that a policeman,
who, probably through sympathy, had not
interfered up to that point, approached
the man with the admonition:
Hey, you'll have TO move on. Don't you
see the crowd you're co%llecting?"
The blind man took off his blue glasses,
wiped the last property tears from his
eyes, looked the crowd over. and moved on.
Patrick Grady. painter. swinging him.
self and his buckets along on a bos'n's
chair among the trusses of the Queens
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island, encountered a wire rope that
blocked his advance. He stood up and was
trying to work his chair around the rope
when he lost his balance and pitched over
board.
As he fell he grabbed for the rope that
had bothered him. He caught IL, but his
weight caused the end OF the rope to
slip off the end Of a steel timber to which
Il had been fastened. and in a second
Grady found himself swinging from the
bridge like a pendulum, for the other end
of the wire was attached TO the minaret
at the tip OF the bridge tower, 15 feet
above the painters head.
Luckily, for Grady. the eloth-sheathed
loop at the end OF the rope was still there.
He caught it with both hands and hung
on while he swung out over the East
river, back past the bridge tower to the
island. and out over the river again.
While the arc lessened. five bridge work.
ers scrambled up the tower and began
pulling at the wire rope from above. They
pulled Grady with 1t. and presently other
workmen leaning from the trusses were
able to catch him as he swung and pull
him to the bridge.
He was winded and scared, but not
hurt. The foreman gave him the rest OF