The evening world., 1917-11-01
them home"

FISH In tho afternoons and carried
them home"
AND IN BROOKLYN THEY WE'RE
PACKED IN LIKE SARDlNEs.
An orator without humor Is like an
oyster without crackers. The Sheriff
has a humor with crackers. Do they
know him in Brooklyn? The Acad-
emy of Music was sardlned with hu-
man beings TO the ceiling. When the
Sheriff walked on the stage the
crowd arose and those in the top tiers
cracked their heads against the roof.
Flags were waving and hats were
waving and people shouting as II they
were Just going mad. Then they re-
membered who was there and they
laughed. They knew what to expect.
and they stopped laughing to cheer
again, and to shout again, to yell
again. This was in Brooklyni
The band was playing "Hail"-no
"OveT'--no "Listen"-"Keep the
Home Fires Burning" And there
was a beautiful woman in stage box
four, with misty eyes and a catch
In her throat, the sweetheart Of the
Sherifrs childhood; the mother of
four OF the darlingest Riddles In New
| YORK who make No. 70 Oliver Street
paradise worth while: the haven
to which Sheriff Al HES from tho
/ worries OF office and the cracks of
| the campaign.
| "Pll take for my text this evening""
said the Sheriff, when order was OBJ
| nhU Of
the enemy. 1t Is called: Here are the
facts and here Is the bunk And he
proceeded to dispose OF the bunk.
When he got through the facts were
bunk and the bunk was fact. At
least that's the way the audience
| looked at IL.
We've had less fires" says the
ad., less loss OF money and loss OF
life. This Underwriters, through
their secretary. have reported S1,4O0.-
900 more In losses than the Fire
mmlssioner did in his report. They
report also $4,000 more fires than
Commissioner Adamson. Mr.. Adam
son explains this by saying that the
fires not reported by him were those
for which the engines weren't called
out. But i think n fire is a fire
whether you put It out or the en-
gines do.
''John c. McNulty. an expert, writes
that more lives were lost in factory
fires in 1916 than in 1912, when the
bureau for fire prevention was organ
lied. That report hasn't been con-
tradicted. and l suppose 1t must
stand"
Fire Commissioner Adamson Is the
Sherlff's rival for the honor of Alder
manic President. When the Sheriff
was in the Legislature, though, he
was one OF the leaders who put
through the new factory laws for the
prevention OF fires and surrounding
the factory workers with safety de-
vices and methods of escape.
Then" continued the Sheriff, they
say the streets are cleaner. Well,
maybe they are where the Committee
OF $50 lives. They say they have
done away with white slavery. The
only slavers who were convicted were
four, and they were given their de-
lserts by District Attorney Swami, who
Is not Of the Fusion Administration"
And SO the Sheriff went down the
line, demonstrating to his and his
audiences satisfaction that every.
thing the Administration advertised
as facts was bunk and the advertised
bunk was facts"
"All administrations" he said.
"po.nt with pride TO their achieve
ments. That's a great old campaign
slogan. But has anybody heard any
body pointing with pride to the full
filment OF the promises OF the plat
form OF four years ago2 Not one.
They haven't done thing they prom
ised TO do except put tax on the
electric advertising signs.
"Now, as TO patriotism. We all love
patriotism and we've shown that It's
no idle word with US in the boys we've
sent to the front But this is not a
national campaign. It's a fight for
municipal administration, and We
should stick to the issues.
mo one man has a right to wrap
himself in the American flag TO the
exclusion OF all others in this cam
paign. Mr.. Mitchell didn't do 1t until
the eleventh hour. And then he didn't
do Il until the returns from the pri-
maries were In,
"well, that's like the call that the
cop heard In the middle Of the night.
Help! Murderl Policev he heard, and
he ran up three flights OF stairs and
there q woman was waiting for him
MY husband has been beating me
for the last hour and a half she
said. For an hour and a half2
aueried the cop; why didn't you cal
me sooner?' And she replied: We'll
up TO a little while ago, ] thought
had the best OF IT.
"Of course" resumed the Sherifr
''I could say lot more. For instance
there is the Eleventh Avenue railroad
deal. But Mr.. Mitchell has askcC
that this be n gentlemanly campaign
and in cJmplying with his desires,
can't express myself"
Then Judge Hylan, Tammany's frs
| reader, came in and gloom once more
descended on the campaign.