Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
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T TP near Browns Station in the Catskills
~ they destroyed seventeen villages and
tore up the tracks of two railroads, No, this
Is not a story of the war, merely a recital of
what man can do Having finished the work
of destruction, they built a reservoir thirteen
miles long and two miles wide--the largest
in the world They also constructed dam
OF gigantic proportions, the whole work cost
ing more than st250O,0O0.
A young man, blue-eyed, straight Of build
and alive to his work, was In charge. He was
| unknown to the great mass of the people,
| for he had no press agent, but Philadelphia
heard of him and his work So Mayor Blank
enburg induced him to leave the employ of
the city of New York and take charge of the
water system Of this city. At once a hue
and cry was raised that the salary of the
| new man, $4,000 a year. was out of proper
tion to his services and that in any case the
position should have gone to Philadelphian.
Since them Carleton r. Davis has worked
wonders with our water system Typhoid
! has been reduced to a minimum. The water
is clean-the department is run on a busi-
ness basis which should delight taxpayers
"D AVIS is the wrong man in that job"
/ IL said member of City Councils to the
/
right when he drives out to the pumping
stations and filters at three in the morning to
if the men are on the job? No man can
dissipate that way and get down fresh to
the office in the morning"
Which is one of the reasons why Davis is
making good.
ONCE upon a time there was a gentemanly
~ waiter at the exclusive Philadelphia Club
Because of his pleasant ways, he was de-
servedly popular with the members. Now, it
so happened that he fell in love with the
daughter of the clubs steward, who frowned
upon a young man who had no prospects.
The members watched the love affair with
interested eyes, and when they saw how mat
ters were going they decided to help the
waiter.
Encouraged by them, he finally eloped with
the girl and married her Then the men,
bers furnished sufficient capital for the waiter
to take charge of the old Hotel Bellevue,
Since then, George C. Boldt has become rich
and famous in hotel life
T7OLTAIRE was one of those who proved
to the world that the pen was mightier
than the sword once, when he had paid for
a box at the Paris opera, the Due de LauZun,
a favorte of Louis XIV, drove him out. Vol
taire brought suit for the ejectment, and the
dukes lawyer, in his opening address, ex-
coriated the plaintiff thus:
What Is it Monsieur Voltaire a petty
inlS-slinger, who dares to plead against the
Due de Lau2un, whose great-grandfather
was the first to scale the walls of La Rochelle,
whose grandfather took twelve cannon from
the Dutch at Utrecht, whose father captured
two standards from the English at Fontenoy,
whose
mo inf tpl Wolf oil
not pleading against that duke who was
first on the walls of La Rochelle, nor against
the duke who took twelve cannon, nor against
him who captured two standards. 1 am
pleading against the Due de Lauzun who
never captured anything in his life except
my box at the opera"
He won his suit.
TITLE MISS NINE-YEAR- OLD went to
IL the theatre with her father. They had
the best of seats and a box Of candy. Her
father treated her as a grown-up. The light
opera was drawing to close,
Father" said the miss, don't you think
I'm getting old enough to be taken to supper
after the SHOVE"
And it cost father two dollars to make good
his promise to treat her like a real lady.
UNDERNEATH Broad street is a river. 1t
u has caused untold bother for builders and
it Will cause the expenditure of much extra
money when the subway is constructed
So far, it has been traced from the north
east corner Of Broad and Arch streets
south, curving around the City Hall, as far
as Walnut. When the church at Broad and
Arch was being built, the subterranean flow
was observed and damned in more ways than
one. 1t came TO light again when the Ritz
Carlton Hotel was in course OF construction.
There il was observed that it ebbed and
flowed in synchronization with the river tide
two inch above normal and much below
No 4ne appears TO know whence it comes,
nor where It cmptles, but it is really, truly
river nevertheless.
az the street corner of Lyons, in France
~ stood Elizabeth Felix. daughter of poor
Jewish peddler, playing the violin and sing
ing. Jhat she might aid her sisters and broth
crs Eventually she drfted to Paris, where
the revolt of ls4S had turned the city topsy-
turyy. Somehow or other she fell in with
n mob Of rioters, maddened with excitement.
The rabble rolled along one street into an
other, until it came to the Theatre Francois,
renamed Theatre de la Republique,
\ man lifted Elizabeth TO the stage and
holding gun 20 her head, ordered her to sing
the "NIarseiaise."
She raised her voice-overcome by emotion,
vibrant with the import OF the events in
which she was particIpating-and intoned the
famous battle hymn. Half singing half