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...arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared: "It all belongs to Mr. Anderson and Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam who? Why Uncle Sam Wilson. He owns all about here and is feeding the Army." The phrase spread to the Army camps whence went the meat shipments, was taken...
When Joseph Carroll, engineer of a Brooklyn laundry, heard the Negro night watchman tell of a "ghost" he had heard one night last week, he walked into the engine-room and straight to a boarded-up hole in the floor, relic of an unsuccessful well-digging. Stopping his ears, holding a knife in his teeth, he touched the knife to a pipe which went downward. Presently he could hear a distant moaning...
Angelo Casale of Brooklyn wanted to ride on the subway but had no nickel. Ingenious, he carried water in a folding cup to the turnstile slot, poured it in. The water completed the electrical contact, allowed him to enter the subway. But a watchman caught him, had him sent to jail for two days...
...exactly 9.17 o'clock last night when Charles Apted, caretaker of University buildings, heard watchman Herman's whistle. Mr. Apted had been on his sun porch listening to the radio but immediately seized his coat and followed the fire engines. It turned out that some of the scaffolding in Eliot House, of which Professor Merriman is to be master, had caught on fire. There are 971 rooms in the new building, and students attracted by the blaze bothered firemen and the police by peering from the windows into the courtyard. They were admonished to throw no bricks. No bricks were...
...feels is right. When things go wrong he stops work and plays tennis. Sometimes he works all night. He listens to a great lot of advice, disregards most of it. Sometimes his spasmodic working habits bewilder his subordinates. To ease their minds he has instructed a special studio watchman to keep a lookout for his car and swiftly warn the workers of its approach. Thus laggards will not lose their self-respect by having the boss catch them in a poker game...