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niE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JTNE 22, 1013.
JOHN L, WEBSTER SARCASTIC
Thinks the Water Board Might. Have,
Invited Him to Meeting.
BOARD HOLDS SECRET SESSION
T.otd nnd Anurr Sound Float
Through the Keyhole nnd "Weh
ter Come" Ont Smlltnv "Ho
Wins," Bar Spectntor.
Attorney John U "Webster of the Water
board, being the acme and tho very soul
of punctuality, steppeC. lightly and
merrily Into the assemblage room of the
board at the city hall last night. Two
newspapermen, two meter salesmen and
Member Patsey Heafey were In the room.
The water commissioner had called the
meeting at "7:30 o'clock sharp."
John Lee Webster's cheerful face wore
Its smile for fifteen minutes. When a
quarter of an hour had slipped by and no
water boarder had appeared the attorney
began to frown. Then he remembered
that the water commissioner had tried
"to bawl him out" at the previous meet
ing. "Where's the board?" he asked of
Jieafey.
"Howell's office." i
"Meeting?'' '
"Yes."
Silence ensued and after several min
utes. In his most cultured, sarcastic drawl
the general said:
"They might ha,vo Invited us to that
meeting. Any chance of their adjourning
and coming up here."
"Oh. yes."
W. H. BucholE came In.
"I'm about to adjourn this meeting,"
eatd Webster. "They're going to read
minutes. I had that all fixed once, but
when this administration , came In they
Insisted on changing It 'and taking ip
time reading minutes." It looked like
the general was ready If not looking for
trouble.
In Secret Session.
It was 8:30 o'clock when the board met
After awarding the contracts for two
thirty-slx-lnch and one four-Inch meter
to the Simplex Meter company and the
contract for four 400-horsopower boilers
to the Wlckes Boiler company for 115,578.
a recess was taken and the board went
Into secret session In a room Just off
the assemblage room.
For thirty minutes the muffled sound
of argument came through the keyhole
and then loud and angry voices and the
word "Dundee" Impinged upon the ear
drums of those In the outer office. Sud
denly W. II. Bucholz came stamping out.
"Ten o'clock Is my limit.'' he said,
"and they know Just where I stand on
the Dundee matter."
When the board came out of Us secret
session all was serene.
"Heard high voices and angry argu
ments In there," said a reporter to At
forney Webster. "Anything to report."
"They've left It in my hands. Nothing
definite."
Howell was glum; the general cheerful.
"General wins," said spectators.
The "Dundee matter" concerns the
claim of the George Bros, for pay for a
main they laid at their own expense. It
: was over this main that Howell accused
, Webster of drawing a contract and leav-
lng out the things he wanted In.
Members of the board will leave Sun
day night foe Minneapolis to attend a
. meeting of the American Water Works
association. Howell, Heafey, Wead and
Sherman will probably go.
The new boilers for the Florence plant
will Increase the horsepower pumping
capacity of the station to 4,400. The boilers
must be In by the latter part of Novem
ber, i
EFFICACY OF PRAYER SHOWN
Fairly Adequate Response to Moth
er' Appeal Soothes the Pnln
of Traccedra
Triplets, all boys, were bbrn to Mrs.
ILouis Isler of 72 Prospect st-eet, Brook
lyn. In the burning of whose home, at
El Rogers avenue, on January 31, last
year, she and her husband lost all of
their four children.
Isler, who Is a prosperous kosher
butcher, called Dr. Harold Rablnowltz
of 64 McKlbben street to his new home
yesterday afternoon and soon the physi
cian ushered three little boys In to the
world. Each weighed six pounds and
each was healthy and possessed of; lusty
lungs. Mrs Isler was reported as doing
well.
When the Isler home burned last year,
through the explosion of a kerosene
lamp, their four children were asleep.
Two were dead when found and the
other two died soon afterward, Mr.
Isler suffered from mental shock for sev
eral weeks and seemed to be inconsolable
All of their household goods were de
stroyed. After a few weeksthey established a
new home In Prospect street and re
cently Mrs, Isler has been Vfry happy.
Her neighbors said she had prayed every
day, many times every day, foi children
to take the places pf those she lost. She
told the physician today that she knew
her prayers had been answered. Three
of the children killed In th flro were
boys. Three boys came yesterday,
Isler said that no mother in his family
or. In that of his wifohad ever had trip
lets' or even twins before. -New York
Herald.
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In this story of love and warfare on
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From her bronzo cage In the rotunda
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"Remember," said the sergeant, "no
ono Is allowed to dismount without
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"Murphy, yelled the sergeant, when
jc dltcovered Mm lying breathless .on
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ono afternoon was approached by a small
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This story leads the reader from social
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THE AIR PILOT. By Randall ParrlBh.
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The hero of this romance Is Lieutenant
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Inventor" of an Improved aeroplane. Why,
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THE SOJOURNER, By Robert Dull
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From boyhood Jack Holllday has been
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the Junior prom, Violet, comes to Jack's
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JOHN O" JAMESTOWN, liy Vaughan
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The hero of Jamestown is the central
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A girl of 18 haB been alone on a tropical
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Juvenile.
ST. DUNSTAN BOY SCOUTS. Uy
Warren U Eldred. 335 Pp. U.fiO. Loth
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The boys of St. Dunstan's school aro
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They become interested In the "Boy
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HARPER'S BOOIC FOR YOUNQ
NATURALISTS. By Alpheus Hyatt Ver
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Written with the aim of helping boy
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experience. Taxidermy, trapping, catch
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PRUE'S JOLLY WINTER. By Amy
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A center of Interest Is the dancing
school with Its funny, fussy teacher,
and the ungraded village day school, with
its pupils of all sizes, Is amusingly de
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haunts It, and a more real excitement by
tho loss of little Prue In a snowstorm
that closed the school.
POLLY OP LADY GAY COTTAGE. By
Emma C. Dowd. 228 Pp. l. Houghton,
Mifflin company.
Those who have had the delight Qf
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of the hospital, and Miss Lucy, the head
nurse, and their adoption of Polly as
their little glrU Polly continues on the
hospital staff, but many new and won-
gather the scattered Texas forces for a
mighty effort against Santa Anna and
the Mexican army.
LITTLE TOP8Y TURVY. By Carro
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Nature lessons are made Interesting,
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"MI8TRE8S DAVENANT, THE DARIC
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In his former work, "Shakespeare and
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patron and the heroine of the sonnets;
the patron being Henry, earl of
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h find htr "rillv ritlnt nna " TM.- . . . ...
she finds her "truly relations." They
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THE TEXAN SCOUTS. By Joseph A.
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