Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1908 . 9 West 39th Street,New York. A large number of interest-ing papers is already promised and manymembers have signified their intentionof being present. Secretary C. S. MeCosker, of the ROOSEVELT AND THE PLUMBER. President Roosevelt can enjoy a joketurned against himself. Once, whilevisiting his sister, Mr. Roosevelt enteredthe room after everyone else was atthe luncheon table. He was laughingheartily. I have just played a mad prank onthe plumber, he declared. Then he re-lated how he had gone to the bath roomto wash his hands, when he hea
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1908 . 9 West 39th Street,New York. A large number of interest-ing papers is already promised and manymembers have signified their intentionof being present. Secretary C. S. MeCosker, of the ROOSEVELT AND THE PLUMBER. President Roosevelt can enjoy a joketurned against himself. Once, whilevisiting his sister, Mr. Roosevelt enteredthe room after everyone else was atthe luncheon table. He was laughingheartily. I have just played a mad prank onthe plumber, he declared. Then he re-lated how he had gone to the bath roomto wash his hands, when he heard whatseemed to be stealthy footsteps comingdown the hall. The boys had played anumber of jokes on him, and he imme-diately surmised tliat they were aboutto spring a new one. He sopped a wash-rag in water; then, with the drippingcloth in his hand, he waited the steps came nearer and nearer, thenstopped, and someone tried to open thedoor, which the President was holdingshut. Suddenly he threw the door wideopen, simultaneously swinging the wet. Display made by Stevenson & Malcolm Co. at the Recent Fall Fair at Guelph. trouble was gone to in preparing an at-tractive display, and Mr. Malcolm statesthat results justified the eftoit, as manyinquiries received have been followed upsuccessfully for business. One advantage of making exhibits atfairs is that it brings the firm before thewell-to-do farmers who have the price topay for modern plumbing and heatingsystems in their country houses. BUSY AT ORGANIZATION WORK George H. Cooper, Secretary of theToronto , reports that the localassociation has made a substantial gainin membership during the past monthas a result of the work of organizerAndy Mann. The Ways and MeansCommittee is busy on a revision of the American Society of Inspectors ofPlumbing and Sanitary Engineers, hasissued from his office in Mobile, Ala., alist of the officers, committees and themembership of the association whichshould be very useful to the me
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