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WfBmgm ?V r-wrVv chief virtue of k. the "eye bar'' method is that it bars out all com petition. Only bridge trust companies offered bids. Their bids ranged from $7,500,000 to $12,000,000. The courts threw out the con tracts because some people had got on to the "eye bar" method and were making an awful holler about it. Then "Paddy" Ryan blew into town from Youngstown, O., to look things over. He met Sulli van one"hight, and they talked about the "eye bar" method, and the bridge jokingly. "Paddy" Ryan didn't know anything about bridge building, and he hadn't enough money to build a rat-trap, far less a bridge, ,but he had a whole lot of ideas. He got Sullivan to incorporate himselt with him as the Ryan Parker" Construction Company, and shot in a bid of $6,500,000. To Sullivan's horror, they got the contract. Sullivan went to Ryan. "Here." he said, "look what you went and done ! How are we going to build a bridge I'd like to know." "We ain't," said Paddy. "Go home and forget it. Fll attend to the business of this firm." He did. He sub-let the con tract to the Phoenix Bridge com panj' for $4,500,000, and made $2,000,000 without'batting an eye. Also, according to Sullivan, he pocketed that $2,000,000 and for got all about his "partner." "Paddy" Ryan, the, former jay town "bull," lives on a country es tate now, and comes to town in his private, car. When not trav eling, Paddy breeds fancy chick ens to win blue ribbons. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STEEL TRUST STORY' Washington, Feb. 9. The Stanley committee, which- for weeks has been listening to offi cials of the Steel Trust try to ex plaint that trust's swollen profits, today heard the other side of the story. Miss M. F. Byington, a Pitts burgh social survey worker, told the committee of her experiences among steel laborers at Home stead, Pa., during the winter" of 1907-08. It was a tale of disease, and squalor, and horror. "Down in the shadow xof the clanging steel mills, in the smoke and grime of the industrial hub bub, the tiny, white-faced Slav children pursue their joyless play ing in filthy courtyards where silnshine seldom penetrates the thick black smoke that hangs be tween the red brick walls," she said. "Old-young, bent, disease stricken women spend their days in dirty, overcrowded, half-furnished rooms, windowless, unven tilated. Three, four, sometimes five people sleep in the same room. I even have seen four dou ble beds in a room 12 hy 14 feet. "It is all dreary, and gloomy, and joyless, and inhuman. It can't be believed until it has been seen." Then she produced documents to prove her picture.N She showed tables representing the expenses