Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-06-14

ClDlNf NOIE, anu lnd0kS BOOu0SSS
no horrible ward politician received
the appointment. The Times fur
Their raves how evenly divided the
Sewer Commission is from a politis
cal standpoint, but for proof of this
we will quote the Louisville Herald
and the Evening Post as to the poll
tics of the near Mayors appointees:
Wednesday morning the Herald said
Mr.. Mengel and Mr.. Davies were
Democrats and Mr.. Wood and Mr..
Fenley were Republicans. The Post
the same day said Mr.. Mengel and
Mr.. Wood were Republicans and
Mr. Fenley and Mr.. Davies Demo
Gratis. Take your choice. Until
near Mayor Smith can explain why
his appointees on the Board of
Works and other city departments
have left the city treasury depleted
the sewer bond issue ia a 100 to one
shot and all the gushing editorials
in the Bingham press and the in
dorsement of some disguised Repub-
licans in the Board of Trade are not
going to give the Smith reform"
administration a cool two million
TO blow in while perpetuating the
reform" crowd. You know what
Abe Lincoln said about fooling all
the people all the time, etc.
The Keystone comedy police were
crowded out of the calcium light
this week by the thick" fire depart
ment, which made a big hit with
everyone except the owners of the
cottonseed oil plant Another that
didn't appreciate the show was the
old IInro1d xryhfoh Ttancdoxr
published glowing accounts of the
chick" fremen's school, telling how
the noble boys were progressing at
the firemen's school and the high
averages they received for efficiency.
Reward of merit was distributed
freely for those who had learned to
couple hose together in half an
hours time, and high averages were
given the boys for being able to go
up step ladder or walk across the
floor without falling over their own
feet. The Herald published pic
lures, too, Of the efficient fire fight
ers, but didn't explain why the fire
underwriters still classed Louisville
as a jay burg of the third class be-
cause of its chick" firemen. Well,
anyway, the near firemen didn't
show bit of gratitude for the Her
AIDS effort. Fire broke out again
at the cottonseed oil plant and the
chick" f1remen made a holy show of
themselves. 1t seems as If places in
the parade to the fire were trans
posed and the coal wagon was in
front at Third street and the Con-
federate monufent. The going to
the fire must be described as a
parade instead of a "run," as the
slow time they make now couldn't
be classified as a run" To go
back to our story. The coal wagon,
horse, driver and all became en-.
tangled in the traffic at this point
and in the mixup the fire pumping
apparatus was wrecked.
It is hardly necessary TO discuss
the eottonseed plant fire again, as
the chick" firemen lost control, and
afraid to confess their failure to
handle this poor old WORKOUT fire,
one of the department heads, instead
of ringing in a second alarm tried to
call out help by separate telephone
messages. Fortunately there were
some real f1remen at Camp Taylor,
and they quenched the flames. 1t
the firemen's school out to the cot
tonseed plant as, if they can not put
this fire out, it will serve as train
ing for the chicks" We'd certainly
hate to pay the bills for demolished
apparatus the thick" firemen are
storing up. In addition to the dam
age at the cottonseed plant fire
some bright ones tried to take
fire truck through a narrow alley at
Twenty-sixth and Jefferson, tearing
off all the sides and equipment of
the truck, and to top it all off one
of the joke firemen in ciosing the
fire alarm box turned in another
alarm and had the poor chicks" and
their little dummy motors come a
trailing down again. One or two
more weeks like this and the Key
stone police will have to look to
their laurels, the thick" firemen
getting to be some regular "hum-
dingers."