Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
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TIP near Browns Station in the Catskils
~ they destroyed seventeen villages and
tore up the tracks of two railroads. No, this
is not a story of the war, merely recital of
what man can do. Having finished the work
of destruction, they built a reservoir thirteen
miles long and two miles wde-the largest
in the world. They also constructed a dam
of gigantic proportions, the whole work cost
ing more than $12,5000O0.
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 hue
and cry was raised that the salary of the
new man, $4,000 year. was out of proper
tion to his services and that in any case the
position should have gone to a Phladephian.
Since then, Carleton Il. Davis has worked
wonders with our water system. Typhoid
has been reduced to a minimum. The water
is cean-the department is run on a busi-
ness basis which should delight taxpayers.
Hn AVIS is the wrong man in that job,
IL said a member of city Councils to the
writer. How in war can he do his work
right when he drives out to the pumping
stations and filters at three In the morning to
see 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 time there was gentlemanly
~ waiter at the exclusive Philadelphia Club
Because Of his pleasant ways, he was de-
servedly popular with the members. Now, 1t
so happened that he fell in love with the
daughter of the clubs steward, who frowned
upon q 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 MEM
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
VTOLTAIRE 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,
q favorite Of Louis XIV, drove him out. Vol
taire brought suit for the ejectment, and the
dukes lawyer, in his opening address, ex-
corlated the plaintiff thus:
What! Is 1t Monsieur VolLairc, n petty
ink singer, who dares to plead against the
Due de Lauzun, 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"
I,t., taI olt tal am
not pleading against that duke who was
first on the walls cf La Rochelle, nor against
the duke who took twelve cannon. nor against
him who captured two standards I 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 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 show"
And it cost father two dollars to make good
his promise to treat her like real lady.
r 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. It came to light again when the Ritz
Carlton Hotel was in course OF construction.
There II was observed that 1t ebbed and
flowed in experimentation with the river tide
two inch above normal and as much below.
No ane appears to know whence 1t comes
nor where it empties, but it is a really, truly
river nevertheless.
NN the street corner Of Lyons, in France,
" stood Elizabeth Felix, daughter of a poor
Jewish peddler, playing the violin and sing
ing, that she might aid her sisters and broth
ers Eventually she drifted 20 Paris, where
the revolt of 1S4s had turned the city topsy-
turvy Somehow or other she fell In with
a mob Of rioters, maddened with excitement.
The rabble rolled along one street into an