Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-09-10

New York, Sept. 9.-The Citizens
Municipal committee, which is bitter
ly opposed to TammanX hall and has
placed an anti-Tamnany ticket in the
field, is working hard TO make propa.
ganda for its own ticket and against
the Tammany ticket. One of the ON
mittee's best and most striking argu.
mants is made in a public statement
which explains in detail the work ac-
complished and the reforms introduc-
ed by the Fusion Board of Estimate
in the matter Of recognizing the city's
method of purchasing supplies. The
report shows that, Notwithstanding
the obstacles which the Tammany leg
islature placed in the way of the
Board of Estimate, the latter saved
millions of dollars for the city.
1t appears from the report that the
city's annual coal bill is about $780,
900. Formerly each city department
purchased it's coal Independently pay
ing exOrbitant prices for low grade
and often entirely worthless coal. The
Board OF Estimate standardized the
quality of coal according to the caloric
or heating value of the coal as deter.
mined by chemical analysis, using the
British thermal unit as the basis of
the calculations. In all cases where
the coal was found to be below stan:
dard the contractors were heavily
penalized. Similar reforms were ip.
troduced by the Fusion Board of Esti-
mate in the purchasing Of meats and
other food supplies for the various
nstu ncfitDti1nc nnI NV thocn NafornnS
a saving of many millions Of dollars
was achieved every year.
Houlini is not the "only pebble on
the beach, when it comes to picking
locks and freeing himself from hand.
cuffs. He sens to have an exceeding
ly clever rival in William Shauger.
who is said to have quite a criminal
record as burglar and house breaker.
"A short time ago Shauger and two
other men were arrested at the point
of . pistol while robbing the Little
Falls IN. ~ station of the Erie rail
road. Shauger was taken to the town.
ship jail at Little Falls and locked
UP in a cell. About half an hour later
Van Geisen, the Jail keeper to his sur
prise saw Shauger walking out of the
jail building. Van Geisen drew his
pistol and forced Shauger back to his
cell. The prisoner had picked the
lock of his cell and would have es-
capped had not the Jail keeper seen
him in time. To guard against any
further attempts of the prisoner 10
escape, he was handcuffed and chained
to the bars of his cell. Shauger
laughed and told the chief of police
to turn out the lights and he would
show him what he could do. The chief
turned off the electric lights and
when he switched on the light again
after a minute, and a half, Shauger
smilingly. handed him. the handouts
and chain of, whiehi he had freed him
self. The, chief became alarmed and
sent the prisoner for s%afekeeping to
the Paterson IN. j. Jail.
Some persons do not seem to have
the least consideration for the feelings
of their fellow men, even when their
fellow men occupy a fiat in the same
apartment house. When Mr.. Clements
who lives in an apartment house on
18th street, raised the shade of his
kitchen window the other morning he
was greatly shocked by the sight
which presented itself to his aston
ished eyes. Right in front Of his
kitchen window was the dead body of
an old man who had been the tenant
of the fiat above, dangling from a
rope with which he had hanged him.
self. 1t wa found ,that the old man
for some reason had tied one end
of a rope around the leg of a heavy
kitchen range, the other end around
his neck and had then let himself fall
from the window, %strangling to death
in tnidair.
The scarcity of domestic servants
in and around New York and the diff.
Guilty of obtaining and keeping them,
especially in the suburban towns and
villages surrounding Greater New
York Ike wreath, have given rise
to a new line of jokes in the funny
columns" of the newspapers. The
Servant Girl Jokes" have gradually
supplanted the "Mother-in.Law Jokes
at one time the standby of the pro
fessional joke smiths. A mother.in-
law who is a terror" is by no means
a joke, but, fortunately such mother
in-laws are few and far between. But
the servant girl problem is even less
Of a joke and, what is even more in
portant, it c%onfronts perhaps q thou.
sand persons to one who Is a victim
Of too much m0ther.in-law. ssss5