Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — Sulger Meant Well. [ARTICLE]

Sulger Meant Well.

Mr. Sulzer, of New York, represents in the House of Representatives what is probably the most .congested district on the East gide; Mr. Stilzeb has, of course, like every other /member, a quota of garden seeds, but as there isn't a garden or anything resembling remotely resembling a garden in the district, the amiable Sulzer has-been accustomed to trade his seeds for public documents. Last fall, however, he began to think that some of his people who live in tenements might plant the seeds in boxes on the window sills and fire escapes, eo he sent an assortment to the inmates of a model tenement lately built by a friend of the Congressman. Some time later, Sulzer, while in New York, was met by the proprietor of the tenement, who immediately buttonholed representative, to whom be unbosomed himself as follows: “See here, Sulzer, I want you to cut out that seed business. It’s the limit?”

“Why. what's the matter?” asked the astonished Sulzer, and he explained why he had sent the seeds. “Oh, you meant well, all right,” returned the friend, scornfully, “but when I visited the place the other day I found that about ten families were raising cabbage, cucumbers and tomatoes in the bath tubs.”—Rochester Post-Express.