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Ham, shoes and cigars given
deputy" smoke inspectors?
w Peter Haines, an engineer employ
ed by the Chicago Grains and Feed
Co., testifying before the civil service
commission in the trial of eight depu
ties of the city smoke -inspection de
partment on charges of graft and ex
tortion, declared that a "Mr. Mul
doon" of the Commercial Coal and
Coke Co. had approached him with a
le'tter purporting to come from the
smoke department, and recommend
ing his company's coal.
Chief Inspector Osborn Monnett,
who brought the charges against his
subordinates, said the letter was sign
ed with his name, and had been forg
ed. "Muldoon," he said, had come to
the inspector's office after Haines had
complained, and tried to patch things
up. Monnett said the man had also
tried to intercede for some of his
customers.
At yesterday's hearing of the
charges it was testified that the dep
uty inspectors had a private club
room, fitted up by companies whose
power plants they were to inspect,
and also received shoes, neckties,
hams and cigars from different busi
ness interests.
Sears-Roebuck was named as the
corporation Which furnished the in
spectors with free shoes. Julius Ro
senwald, the well-known philanthro
pist and seller of ice water, is the
head of this corporation, so the gen
erosity is not surprising.
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SHE'S FINE AND LOTS OF HER
Defending her bloomers, Dr. Ros
alie Ladova of Chicago says that in
England and France women bathers
wear only tights and nobody objects.
Yes, and over in India and parts
of Egypt they wear only dirt Custom
has much to do with the standard of
modesty. That old saying to the ef
fect that "To the pure in heart all
things are pure" doesn't get into print
often nowadays. Maybe you don't
see it owing to the dust kicked up
by the rapid progress of civilization.
But, looking upon the bath picture
of her, we decry the prohibition of
Dr. Rosalie's bloomers. There are
some things so replete with enter
tainment that hyper-sensitive mod
esty should not be permitted to put
them down without protest. This
does not apply to all Chicagoans who
would affect bloomers, but if Chicago
doesn't rise as one man, or woman,
and roar for Dr. Rosalie in bloomers
Chicago has dropped 'way back in
her appreciation of a good thing and
plenty of it.
BITSOFNEWS
Two young men committed three
hold-ups in short time in West Chi
cago av. police district early today.
Victims were Ira Holt, 2113 Cornelia
st., robbed of jewelry worth $377 at
Hoyne av. and Iowa St.; Louis Ber
man, 843 Leavitt st., robbed of $4 at
Iowa and Leavitt sts.; Samuel Tre
vos, 2308 Wright st., robbed of watch
worth $98 at Oakley blvd. and Wright
st
Mrs. Mary Doane, owner of room
ing house, 210 E. Ohio st, near Har
rison's residence, failed to get injunc
tion to restrain Chief McWeeny from
having policemen watch her place. -
Gordon Cruce, 14, Fort Recovery,
0., drowned in lake off Delaware pi.
Washington, D. C. Administration
leaders confident the currency bill as
now drafted will pass - with little
amendment.
Washington. Henry R. Towne,
former president of the tariff asso
ciation, testified that two checks for
$500 each were paid James Watson,
Indiana, because he had influence
with members of Congress.
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KILLS WOMAN AND SELF
Mrs. Lola M. Climin, 231 S. Sanga
mon street, was shot and killed this
morning by Henry Bissin, a night
watchman, 117 S. Green street who
then put a bullet through his own
brain. The double tragedy occurred
at the door of the woman's home,
