Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RAYES OF STRSCRIFTION (PATARLE IN ADVANCE). Pestase Frepaid at this Office, Dally Edlism, Pot-tald, ] 70arcceesssossesesess §13-00 Ttz iy 2l e e yhekwad doay and mistakes, be sure and give W Fre ahZwes £ P2l inclubing Stateand Connty. omtniRwtiton TraY e Biide wither by draft, express, s i 287k, O D% Tegiscered letters, at our risk, FEN X0 CITT STRSCRIDERL, Vi, dihvecal, Sinday escepted, 23 oents per week, Uwizns, Skvered, Seusay included, 30 cens par week. At THE TEIBUNE COMPANT, ermer Madeon and Dearborn-sth, Chicags, Tl AMUSEMENTS. To-DAT, McOORMICK HALL—North Clark street, corner finde. Lcrure 203 p. m, by alrs. &I, Lecnowens. Ject 3 * Stam, Its Court and Customa,” ADELPHI THEATRE—Desrborn _street, corner fcaroe. Concert by tho Tennessoe Jubiles Singera. NEW CEICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, between Jandolph and Lake. “ Ultimo " in German, To-MoRROW. ‘MCVICKERS THEATRE—Madison street, between Desrborn and State. Engsgement of Barry Sullivan. Bichellen.” ADELPHI THEATRF—Dearborn street, corner Monroe. Engzgement of the Kiral®y Troupe, * Around fhe World in Eighty Dags.” HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Chrkand LaSalle, Xogagement of the California SUnetrels, SEW CHIOAGO THEATRE-Clark siraet batwoen Eang QE:“ Lake, Engsgement Eelly n's B3 WOGHPS MUSEUM—Monros street, betwoen Dear- born %) Biate. Afternoon, * Chevulier D'Indus- g;:m-xan in Livers.” Evening, “Poep o' FIEST METHODIST CHURCH—Corner Clark and Taakington streets. Lecture by Col. Boudinot on In- dian Afyire, SOCIETY MEETINGS. ELYSTONE LODGE, No. 639, A. F. & A. M—An- Bual communicatica will be held in their Hall, 62 and & North Clarkst, Wedzesdsy evening next, Dec. 1, nt 5250 o'clock, for the elaction of oficars and payment of duea. Al members are notified 0 attend, Visit~ oo wvited. BN F. PRINCE, 3 3. 1L DIXON, W. AL TLLINOIS ST. AXDREWS SOCTETY,—The Thirtieth Anuua} Dinnar of tho Iiinoir 8¢, Aodrews Society will be Lield at the Sherman Eoute on Tuesdsy evening, 2th inst—Ginner prompt at o'clock, Business meel. ing of the Society at 7 eelock. JOLN STEWART, Secretary. ATTEXTION, SIR KNIGHTS —Special conclve of Chicago Commandery, No, 19, K. T., Monday evening, Nov, 23, 1¢75, Vieifing Sir Enights courteously ine ited. By:order of the Em. Com, G. A, WILLIAMS, Becorder. ST. BURNARD COMMANDERY, XO. 35, K.T.— Annuwl «onelsve Wednesday evening, Dec, L. for the slection of olticers and payment of dues. . W. BARNARD, E. C. 3. 0. DACKERSON, Bocardsr. APOLIO COMMANDERY, K, T.—Special conclave Tuesdsy afteruoon. Nov. 3, at 4 o'ciock, prompt, for work, afternoon znd evening. By order of the Lommander, B, B. W. LOCKE, Recorder, BUSINESS NOTICES EIDNETE, DISEASES, DROPSY, ETC.—All per- ¥008 a.icted with Lisesas of the Kidness, Pain in the Eack, Gravel, 2ad 20l Urinary Diseascs, Disbetes, Dropay, Nervous Detulity. etc., thould_at once try Dr. 6. D. Eowes Arabian Tonic Blood Purifier.—Sce ad- ‘vertiscinene COUGHS, COLDS, CROTP, BRONCHITIS, IN- Cuenza, Whooping-Congh, Hoatencss, Prins or Sore- Dess in the Chest or dide, Bloeding at the Lungs, Kight Swests, Liver Complaint, eic., cured by Dr. 8. s Aratian Milk Cure for Consumption. - Ses & -Ehz Chifags @ribumne. Sundsy Morming, November 28, 1875. 4t the Kew York Gold Exchange ch Satur- ¢ay greenbacks raled steady at 873. Louisisma hes generally been regarded of lste yeans as being in a tolerably lawless con- dition ; but two murderers were hanged there on Fridsy after due process of law. Chicago, it seerrs, may learn a lesson even from Lon- isiana in the way of protecting human life. The disagreement of the juryin the libel- suit which Mr. Kassow brought against the &tate Requster of Des Moines, which charged 3ir. Kassox with yielding to outside influ- ences in his Congressional career, is scarcely tho vindication which that gentleman evi- dently expected. It is reported that a part of the jury were willing to give Mr. Kassox a verdict for one cent damages, but that the majority would not even do this, and hence the disagreement. Without putting any con- struction not warranted by this result, publio men should accept it 88 a notice that the courts as weil as the newspapers are inclined to hold them to 8 verystrict accountability for their public acts, Mr. Kassoy, it is reported, will accede to the request of the Register for @ new trial. Becretary CHANDLELE ir evidently in earnest in the purpose to reorganize and reform the Indian service. When Mr. CHANDLER accepted the position of Secretary of the Interior, we expressed the opinion that he would under- take this work. He is 8 man of weslth him- self, and is of & character to despise personal corruption. If the report be true that he will recommend, in his annual report, the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department, which was always resisted, we believe, undar the preceding administration of the Interior Department, it will be an exrnest of his good intentions end evi- dence of excellent judgment in this regard. In any csse, it is now very certain that he will place at the head of the Indian Burean & man who will commsnd the confidence of the public and manage it in a business-like way. 2 S S p—_ ‘The reported agitation in Savoy for re- snnexation toItaly is improbable to begin with and impossible to end with. Savey and Nice were the price paid by Vicror EManvEeL for essential French aid in the liberation cam- paign of 1839 eguinst the Austrians. The cession was dependert upon the vote of the inhabitants, but, as Prof. C. K. Apaus shows, in his “ Democracy and Monsrchy in France,” the vote was carried by various persussions, and perhaps bribery of the electors to some extent. Nevertheless, when the provinces have been joined to France for 16 years, and tens of thousands of the inhabitants are ns- tives of France, it is not probable that the inhabitants ardently long to forsake s weslthy &nd prosperous country for & poor acd indus- trislly inactive one. If they do so, morcover, the wish is a hopcless one. ®rance, still smarting under the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, would never consent to be shorn of any more territory. « The Chicago produce markets were irregu- lor on Satwrday. Mess pork was quiet end frm, closing at £19.45@19.474 seller the year and §.19.35@19.57§ for Febrnary. Lard was in falc demand end advanced 5e per 100 s, closing at 212.35 cash and $12.45forFeb- roary. Yiests were quiet, at 7ic for should- ers, 103c. for short ribs, and 10%c for short clears, #]l bozed. Highwines were in fair demsnd: gnd stesdy, st $1.113 per gallon. ¥lour ‘was dull and essier. Wheat was active #2d Qclined 1fe, clostus wenk at $1.04} cash and $1.04§ for Decomber. Corn was active and declined 1le, closing at 49¢ for Novem- ber and 47c for the year. Oats were quiet and Jc lower, closing at 30jc cash and 20ic for December. Rye was steady, at G9¢. Bar- ley was 1@ljc lower, closing at 8C}o cash and 85ic for December. Hogs were in moder- ate demand and steady, at $6.90@7.50 per 100 1bs. Cattle and sheep were uachanged. One hundred dollers in gold would buy $114.374 in greenbacks at the close. There is now a prospect that justice will be swift in the case of Davis, the murderer of WarLase, The wretch was indicted yester- day, and next Wednesday is fixed for the day of:trial. There will undonbtedly be various pretexts set up for delay. His counsel will spply for a change of venue, and make‘every dilatory motion that the crooked way of the law can suggest; but the Judge and Prose- cuting Attorney should put the strictest con- struction upon the law in favor of the peo- ple. The caseis one of clear and unprovoked murder, with cvidence so ample as to make it & mstter of public notoriety. It isnot a case where public prejudice could hound the neensed on to 8 greater punishment than he deserves, Besides oll this, there is more than the individual fate of the murderer in- volved. Davis is o type of & class of desperadoes who infest the streets of Chicago and have been permitted by the Mayor and police to prey upon society for two years. “They sre blacklegs, confidence-men, thieves, and highway-robbers, who go about armed to the feeth and ready to shoot down un- armed men at any moment their own vicions natures suggest. They have been taught to believe by the lox administration of the laws that they are assared immunity from punish- ment. The prompi conviction of this man Davis will do more to redeem Chicago from this infamous condition of things than any other action that can be taken. It willbea notice to the desperadoes that they must re- straiy their murderous propensities or suffer the consequences. It will likewise be a no- tice to the city authorities that they must en- force the laws and ordinances against these desperadoes, and frea the city from their presence. It is not slone the life of Wry- 1.4¥D, who is dead and gone, nor the life of Davis, which isn't worth as much as a good dog’s, but the safety of life and property gen- erally in Chicago, which is involved in the quick and summary punishment of this mur- derer. MTURICIPAL GOVEENMENTS. Nothing strikes the observing American who visits other countries more forcibly than the eficacy, integrity, and economy cf the municipal goveruments of FEuropean cities, as compared with those- in the United States. There are governments in cities in Europe which are older than the govern- ments of the Kingdoms of which they are & part. These City Governments have con- tinued year after year, century cfter century, survi ing the fall and succession of dynes- ties ; continuing unchenged through revo- lutions and counter revolutions ; and, during the whole period, preserving their identity, their distinet financial credit and political autonomy, and performing all their functions 8s 8 government with eminent success, econ- omy, and purity. How is it in the United States? There is not a City Government thirty years old, hav- ing within its jurisdiction 20,000 inhsbitans, which is not habitnally misgoverned, whosa taxation is not disproportionate, whose rev- enue is not more or less wasted, whose ex- penditures ave not excessive, which has not a surplus of officers &t unnecessary high sal- aries, and to which there is not a gang of specnlators and jobbers forever looking for some opportunity to make money without giving an honest consideration therefor. But this does not tell the whole story. The history of the governments of the larger cities of the United States is an almost unbroken record of mal-administration, ex- travagance, plunder, corruption, and incom- petency. Our municipal monuments all tell the same story of reckless, willful waste, and of deliberste dishonmesty. An -homest government of a large city is now considered an impossibility, and in all estimates of city expenditures there is now a large mer- gin of cost cssigned to satisfying those who deliberately exact a heavy percentage 28 plunder. The universality of this corrup- tion in manicipal governments hes ‘made our elective system such an abomination that thousands, and unfortunately of the most deeply interested classes, absolutely refrain from any participation in our elections. A result is that the elections for Jocal govern- ments fall generzlly into the hands of those most deeply interested in extravagant and corrupt governments,—the other class refus- ing to participate in & siruggle at the polls with the mob of repeaters, ballot-box stuffers, and recipients of the spoils of office. An- other evil is, that the choice of local officers being thus committed exclusively to those interested in dishonest government, a class of men become candidates and obtain elections ‘who, under another and better system, would never be heard of in that connection. Many and various have been the mensures suggested for reform. It has been proposed to limit suffrage by a property qualifica- tion, and to limit officeholding to freeholders. But these reforms are not practicable, espe- ciglly in large cities, where every man is to some extent a tax-payer, and wherea man may be made 8 frecholder at nominal cost. But the evil of misgovernment in American cities is a consequence ; it is the result of a producing cause; and the removal of that cause may be, and unquestionably is, the true remedial measure. A glance at the con- dition of European cities will probably show wherein the cause of our misgovernment con- sists. In the United States all our City Gov- ernments gre elective almost in all their branches. We elect in Chicago a Mayor, Common Council, Tressurer, Attorney, and it is now proposed to add to the list Police and Fire Marshal, Corporation Counsel, and Comptroller. Practically we elect all our State, county, and municipal officers,—ex- ecutive, ministericl, legislative, and judicial, —and o8 & consequence have no responsi- bility. In European cities, and especially in those of Great Britsin and Germany, the only officers elected are the legislative de- pertments. The people elect the law-makers of the cities, and upon them place the responsibility, not only for the control and direction of the governmext, but for the ad- ministration of the municipel affeirs by all its officers. We have more ballot-boxing and worse governments; they have fewer elec- tions, beiter officers, and honester and more efficient governments. The affairs of the City of London, with its 3,500,000 of in- habitants, its pelice, its public works, ‘its thorough and efficient public service,—its en- tire administretion is carried on yesr after year and century after century without a shilling of revenue being squandered, wasted, or stolen, or any suspidion of dishonesty being attached ¢o any branch af the publio THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES service. This, which ig hardly the for a single year in a single municipal gov- ernment in the whole broadth of the United tates, is the universal rule .in Great Britain and Ireland, where such a thing as & corrupt City Government, or & corrupt city officer, or & conspiracy to use the public revenues for private purposes, would produce a-national sensation. | We submit to the consideration of our readers the inquiry, whether we do not have too frequent elections, and whether we do not elect entirely too many officers, and whether much of the evil is not due to this frequency of election, and this election of officers who ought to be appointed, and whether, if we had City Governments more permanent in their organization, less depend-’ ent upon the will of those classes ' interested in waste and extravagance, and removed from the control of contractors and jobbers, rings and rascals, we would not have governments managed in the' interest of the public, and governments officered by men influenced by other and higher considerations than their personal enrichment at the public expense, within the shortest possible time. “‘ON THE AMERICAN MODEL.” A fresh proof of Russian liking for the United States is farnished in the late news from the Empire. The Russians bave been imitating us, and so sincerely flattering us. It seems that the failure of the colossal spee- ulator, and apparently colossal swindler, Dr. StroUSDERG, led to a. general ruu upon the more notable Russian banks. The run upon the Bank of Azov-Don in Tagaurog, and the Merchants’ Bank in Moscow, is said to bave been ‘“‘on the American model.” This isa compliment to our financial system. We have not been in the habit of furnishing banking models to the subjects of the well- Inown effote despotisms, but -it scems that a brighter day is to dawn in this respect for our financiers. Dr. SrtrousBene himself con- ducted his operations ‘“‘on the American model.” Incredible as it seems, he actually improved, in some respects, upon that apparently perfect plan. By - essiduously carrying out the dictom of the Macreop school of political economists that credit is capital, he succeeded in failing on & more magnificent scale than any American of recent times. Even Jar CookE, even our own B. F. Arrey, did not do worse. IHis debts are $10,000,000; his assets consist of some household furniture and $40. Unless the former can be turned into cash, the sor- rowing creditors will receive a gratifying dividend of 1 cent on each $25,000. Even the Freedmen's Bank will probably pay a trifle more than this. It may seem at first blash as if financiering ““on the American model” would not, after the collapse of SrteousBeza, become popular across the Atlantie. But this is a suoperficial view. The bankrupt was very poor a few years gago. By following the American model, he has lived in prodigal luxuriance, and has crammed more sensuous enjoyment into these years than most men get in the course of their lives, He has failed, to be sure, but the failare only in- crenses that notoriety for which so many men so foolishly long. He has got his name into cable dispatches, and has become known in this way (o millions.of persons who have hitherto been ignorant that a great swindler was tricking three Empires “ on the American model.” There are too many miserable peo- ple who would be willing to risk the ig- nominy of ‘failure for the pitifal plessures of sudden and fleeting fortune. Financiers on the American plan will probably abound hereafter in Europe. Stnouspzze has been the Jax Cooxe ; the Toa Scorris yet to come. Somebody will appear with & soheme for having a Government give him £234,000,000 of somebody else’s money, will scheme, and plan, and contrive, will pay the expenses of conventions gathered to indorse the projected steal, and may, finally, succeed in bamboozling some stupid or venel set of rulers into letting him run riot with the pub- lic funds. Then the money will be lavishly wasted ‘‘on the Amarican model ”; then some of the financiers will go into bank- ruptey “‘on the American model,” and others will retire to spend their ill-gotten gains, again on that model ; then ell the victims will groan in vain, strictly on the aforesaid model ; and then will come runs, and bank suspensions, and stoppage of industrial en- terprises, and general collapse—all *‘ on the American modeL.” We are sorry for Europe. SALE OF THREE BLOCES OF LAKE FRONT, The City of Chicago has a debt of bor- rowed money ranging from three to four millions of dollars, representing an equal amount of uncollected taxes. On this debt the city is psying 6 to 7 per cent interest. The city is called upon by the public necessi- ties to build a new City-Hall, for which it will have to pay at least $1,400,000. This money’ will have to be raised by taxation, and, in case the tax remains unpaid, will have to be bor- rowed at 7 to 9 per cent interest. The city hos a limited proprietary interest in three blocks of ground between Michigan avenue and the railrosd tracks, and extend- ing from Randolph street to Monroe street. Before the fire the Illinois Central Railroad Company offered for these three blocks of land $800,000 cash, and the sale, at the in< stance of property-holders in the vicinity, was enjoined by the United States Courts. Since that time the fire has revolutionized the whole character of the neighborhood of this land. It is no longer the favorite location for residence property. It has ceased to be desirable for residences, and no demand for it for other purposes hasbeen created. It. presents a dreary waste, and the uncertainty which hangs over the matter has arrested and delayed improvements, TUnder these circumstances, the railroad company has now offered to take these three blocks'of lIand and pay therefor direct into the City Treasury the sum of $500,000. Tho land is unoccupied; it is useless and vahue- less to the city for any public purpose, Itis not productive, ‘and is not capable of being made productive. At the time of the origi- nal proposition, in 1869, an objection to the sale was made on the ground that s convey~ ence as proposed wonld earry with it the xi- parien rights, giving to the railroad company the land covered by water enst of the three blocks, extending indefinitely into the Jake. The railroad company now propose that the city shall only be asked to execute 2 mere quit-claim deed to the land described by metes and bounds, and including no rights, riparien or otherwiss, not specified in the deed. In this view of the case, it is a matter of profound estonishment that the Common Council of the City of Chicago hesitates, and, by ingction, refuses to make.the sale. Of the property-owners who origirally demur- red to the sale, six-sevenths have already in writing expressed a desire that the sale be mede, snd the others will -undoubtedly give their assent {o the dissolution of the ifjune. tion, as thereby their property will be in- creased in value. As a measure of economy, this sale should be made without further delay. On the Istof next July the cits will have to appropriate a large sum towards the constraction of thenew City-Hall, and levy a tax to produce the reve- nue for that purpose, perhaps $300,000, and in the meentime borrow the money on the tax-warrant at 7 to 9 per cent until the tax is collected two years later, making a tax of 950,000 to produce a sam of momney no greater than thatwhich is now offered in cash for a tract of land which is not productive, and for which the city has no use. To take this money is to save $56,000 a year interest, reckoaing at 7 per cent, and obviate the ne- cessity of levying a direct tax of $800,000. To make thissale will have the effect of adding $300,000 of real estate, and probably $800,000 of improvements thereon, to the taxable property of the city. It will have the effect also of removing all uncertainty as to the future character of the contiguous and neighboring property now idle and unproductive, and create an immedi- ate demand therefor, leading to its rapid and permanent improvement and increase of value, and consequently adding to the taxable prop- erty. Under these circumstances, it will . bel seen that the city, as a whole, is deeply and finan- cially interested in having this sale perfected. It will obviate a special levy of $800,000 next year. It will save $56,000 expended for in- terest. It will add, in round numbers, $2,000,000 to the taxable property of the city, and proportionately to its revenue. It will improve a large tract of real estats now prac- tically unoccupied. In this matter it is not & question in which the South Division is interested. Every lot- holder in the West and North Divisions is directly interested in the question whether he shall be compelled to pay a share of this special tax to build the City-Hall, or whether that tax be omitted ond this lot sold for the same amount of money. We are confident that outside a ring in the Common Council there can be but one opinion as to the imperative duty of the City Government in this matter, TWO MEN: A CONTRAST, ‘Wiznaxt B. Asroz, of New York, who was ‘born a millionaire and lived 8 miser; is dead. Heney H. Tavrog, of Chicago, who was born poor and lived one of Nature's noblemen, preceded him by a few days into tha Unknown Lend upon which only eyes -once closed by death can open. There was a certain marked contrast between these two men, which it is worth while to point out. WLy B. Astor inherited $20,000,000 upon his father's death. That sum, in fact, was presented to him by the people of New York. The right of beguest is a purely arti- ficial one, and not a mnatural right. It is one which has no existence outside the pale of the law. When a man dies, every natural right over his property dies with him. But the law, from motives of public policy, permits the dead hand to still clutch its whilom wenlth and distribute it as the desd brain once willed. Thanks to this, and to this only, Astor got his £20,000,000 a quarter of a century sgo. He has done nothing to repsy the people to whom he owes this vast gift. His whole life bas been spent in sdding million to million. He has wrung the lact cent from his 2,500 tenants, has drawn morey from some of the foulest tenements that reek in their rotten- ness on New York alleys, has clutched with shaking hands at gold He leaves behind him, still subject to his miser's grasp, $150,- 000,000, two-thirds of which is in real estate that will probably be worth, within ten yoars, twicewhatitisnow. Tho $130,000,000 he has added to the bequest which the people of New Yorkallowed his father to bestow upon. him is mostly what English economists call the *‘unearned increment.” He did nothing to get it. The talent, the siill, the capi- tal, the lsbor, concentrated in the metropolis, have increased, yoar after year, the value of Astor’s lots and rentals withont his doing a solitary thing. His colossal for- tune, both the bequest and the increment, wos given him by publio consent, expressed in the laws of the State of New York. It was the largest unincumbered fortune in Christen- dom. No entsil fettered it. No charges crippled his disposal of it. It was absolutely his by law. It was equivalent to 1,000 for- tunes of $150,00C each, so that this one grim old money-grabber bad one thousand times the money that would have amply provided himself and his family with every comfort and every reasonable luxury. He held it all by public consent, and most of it was in fact a donation from the people. What has he done for the public in return? Practically nothing. There are millions of Americans who have been infinitely more generous than this Crasus Aston. He gave a few pitifal thousands to the library founded by his father and that bears his family name. The whole sum probably did not amount to a week's in- come. Yet this is pretty much all that pane- gyrists can find about which to sound his praise. He dies worth $150,000,000, gold value, yet deeply indebted to the world, snd dies without discharging scarcely a penny of his debt. Vice-President Wrrsox.lived for his kind and his country, and died poor. Hed he lived for himself, he might have died s millionaire. The sorrow and esteem of s nation follow Hevry WILsoN to his grave. The nation is his debtor. The debt is his monament. AsTor had it in his power to build the grandest monument of private munificence the world bas ever seen, and yet have left " his family with super-ample provision for their every luxury. The income of the frag- ment of his 84th year, sifice September, has been enough to enrick all those with natural clgims upon him, What could not this man, with en income of a million a month for many years, have done? - He might have almost abolished the poverty of honest men upon the Island of Manhattan; he might have grappled with sin far more suc- cessfully than the State can ever hope to do; he might have freed thousands of honest men and women and helpless children from the kindred curses of hunger and cold, have satisfied the pinched belly, and clothed the shivering back. He might have founded in New York the most renowned seat of learn- ing in the world,—a university before which Oxford and Berlin would pale, a school that would have drawn scholars from every part of the globe, and made our commerciel me- tropolis 8 new Alexandria. Magnificent museums, glorious art-galleries, the vastest library in the world,—all of these were within the compass of that colossal fortune. He might thus have lived in the memory of the whole world until the archangel blows his trump. Bat, with diabolic selfishness, he sacrificed his fame to his miserly folly. Tha | good that might have been is not to be. His %on, an aged man who already has one foot inhis palsied hands. Humsnity iz cheated of ite rights. Noworder Communism thrives ‘while Astons live only to grab. A few days ago, a citizen of Chicago, known to a limited but growing circle of ap- Ppreciative ' friends, suddenly died in the primest years of life. Fievey HoBarT TAYLOR was still a young man, no older than Wrrr. 1aur B. Astor's grandson. He was born with no vast fortune waiting for him. The for- tune of which he died possessed he made. No man has ever questioned the morality of the making. Mr. Tavron left to those de- pendent upen him all the money that they can possibly need, and presented the bulk of ‘his property—some $600,000—to trustees, to be used in such a way as ‘‘ %o do the greatest Good, and least harm.” If the trustees do their duty, in the spirit of the be- quest, this gift can be so utilized that Mr. Tavror’s name will live in grateful heerts in this city for centuries to coms, He has won his fame, for he hay done what he could right nobly. He has set a precious ex- ample. His gift is the largest ever made by a Chicagoan; bnt men with large hearts and larger means, stimulated by his good deed, will imitate it. Hexpy H. Tavror has richly repaid the world for all it may have done for him ; Wrntzax B, Asro shirked his dsbts to the world, and so died its debtor—in the es- teem of none, in the contempt of all. THE NEW BUILDING ORDINAKCE. ‘We have at last 8 competent building ordi- nance, under whickh it fs believed Mr. Bamxy's inspection-buresn may be able to restrain the flagrant violations of public safe- ty that have been endured in Chicago since the fire of 1871 under the patch-work ordi- nance that has been our only protection. The new ordinance, adopted Friday evening last, hng been the subject of much careful congideration by the leading architects, build- ers, and insurance agents of the city, and its adoption as a whole by & vote of 26 to 5 is the most creditable action the Council has taken for a long time. The propositions in the Council to tinker at it were fortunately defented, because a. large body of men unfamiliar with building are not the proper personsgo treat a matter of this kind. The best test for it is actual experience, and we have sufficient confidence in Supt. Bamwey to believe that he will administer it honestly, and discover any defects it may be proved to have in its present shape. The valae of the ordinance, if it is as complets and effectiveas is believed, is two-fold : 1. The increased protection it will afford against the danger of general conflagrations ; and, 2, the decreased rates of insurance which it will guarantee to property-owners. With this ordinance in practical working there is reason to believe that Chicago will henceforth be regarded by insurance companies as ome of the safest cities in the country, instead of one of the most dangerous, for the placing of risks. The new ordinance fully and unreservedly reaffirms the fire-limits as co-extensive with the city limits, and requires that the walls of all buildings henceforth to be erected with- in the corporate limits shall be constructed wholly of incombustible materials, and with foundations of masonry. The exceptions are in the case of elevatora, which may be built of wood, but must be protected by an en- velope of incombustible material that is rigid and firm in itself ; sheds, which must havea slanting roof, and msy not exceed twelve feet in height, twelve feet in width, and sixteen feet in length, and which may only be used for storage of wood and coal ; and, also, ‘brick buildings of not more than twenty feet in height may be set upon wood-sills, pro- vided in the space between the sill and the ground there shall be an infervention of some fire-proof material. The latter excep- tion is intended for those localities which are without sewerage. One of the greatest nuisances end most serious dangers in the city since the adoption of the late ordinance has been the repairing of frame buildings damsged by fire. The present law, like the old one, provides that a damage by fire, decay, or otlierwise, of more than 50 per cent of the value of such build- ings shall warrant the Superintendent of Buildings in condemning them as public nui- sances and abating them in his own way, unless there shall be an application for a committee of reference; in the latter case the commit- tee shall consist of three disinterested per- sons, one of whom shall be chosen by the owner of the buiiding, another by the Soperintendent of Buildings, and a third to be chosen by these two. The referes on the part of the city was formerly chosen by the Mayor, who was likely to be deceived ; but since Supt. Bamzer will henceforth have the choice it is hoped that he may be move fortunate in his selec- tions. He should proceed under this pro- vision against many public nuisances in the city that have been damsaged more 50 per cent by decay; and the line should be strictly drawn in every case of fire, It is this provision more than any other which, if rigidly applied, will enable the suthorities to improve the condition of certain inflammable districts near the centre of the city which are a constant menace to its safety. Another valuable feature of the new or- dinance is the stricter definition of the re- quirements in regard to the projections ang ornameatation of buildings. It is provided that all stoops, steps, balconies, verandas, porches, bay-windows, towers, observatories, dormer windows, etc., shall be wholly con- structed of incombustible material, with a few exceptions in the case of first and second stories and dwelling-houses, for which other rules are provided. It is also required that all cornices, gutters, eaves, and parapets shall be mode of incombustible material. The same is true of roofs, except that composi- tion-roofs shall not be excluded; but the rogulations in regard to the latter require a covering of dry gravel, and, when they bave 2 mean height of 45 feet, also an incombusti- ble protection under the weather-covering All Mansard and Gothic roofs must be so constructed as to exclude wood entirely. Additional protection is afforded by many other requirements of the ordinance, among them the following: Every roof must be ac- cessible either by scuftle or iron steps run- ning up the outside walls. All buildings more than 56 feet high, and covering an area exceeding 5,000 superficial feet, st be pro-| vided with 2§-inch metallic stand-pipe ex- tending above the roof, and with hose-coup- lings conforming to the size and pattern used by the Fire Department. All signs at a height of 40 feet must be of incombustible material, and other signs may not be more than 2 feet wido nor form a pert of the building. Out- side walls of dwelling: must be carried up at lesst 20 inches shove the roof. The regu- lations concerning the proximity of fiues, hearths, steam.pipes, farnsces and their pipes to the wood-work, should be strictly enforced, and they will then prove to be among the best provisions of the lsw. The ons im regard to the obtaining of per- proviai in the grave, clutches the mmmmlmwmmd the Aldermen wanted 5 strike ount, will probably prove to be an im- portant means of enforcing the ordinance, It may well be doubted whether the ordi. nance is #dequate in regard to the penalties it fixes for a violation of its provisions. A coaviction subjects the offender to & fine of $10 to $100 for the first offense, $25 to $200 for the second offense, and $200 to $1,000 for the third offense within & lapse of one year, and such penalty may then be enforced oply by an action of debt in the name of the city. It wounld be better if the collection of the flues were eirforced by imprisonment on failure of payment, and if the Superintendent of Buildings were permitted to take a more summary process in the case of the more fla- grant violations of the law. We may, nover- theloss, be thankfol for the great improve- acnts the ordinance offers. e ———— HOW TO MURDER BOYS SAFELY, A number of years ago an old woman was arrested in an Eastern city, charged with pur- suing the trade of maiming children for & livelihood. Tt was said that she bought ehil- dren for a few dollars apiece from their un- natoral parents, drove them into streets crowded with vehicles so that they were al- most sure to be run over, and then extorted money from the sympathies or fears of the owners of the carriages that had killéd or wounded them. The disclosure farnished food for nine dsys’ horror, and was then for- gotten. The feminine fiend escaped punish- ment, we believe, through some legal techni- cality. Since then, the business of torturing children to the brinkof death, and sometimea beyond it, has assumed larger proportions. The tropeze is the favorite instrument of death. It is a regular business to keep it supplied with victims. When Hexgy Berom rescued little Prince Lro” —whose real name was probably something like It Ponores—from the men who were making money by risking the child’s life from day to day, the evidence taken show- ed that the proprietor of the brutal show had advertised for a boy to be trained in this way, and that he had 'had fifty children of- fered him! He selected the poor little ¢ Prince,” and purchased him from his real or pretended parents,—brutes who sold their own flesh and blood into slavery, and proba- bly spent the proceeds of their sin on a day’s drunk. The rescne of “Prince Lro" was the first fruit of the formation of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. These little animals certainly need the pro- tecting care of such an organization guite as much. as sick car-horses and vivisected vagrant dogs. ‘“ Prince Lzo” is safe in New York, but ‘Master Freppre Lazerre” is dying in Cleveland. At the present moment, he is the last victim of the deadly trapeze. But before these words are put in type there may be another bundle of bruised flesh, another little quivering heap of racked sinews and tortured nerves, another white face, another baby candidate for a coffin, lying on & hard, wooden stage before an audi- ence gluttonous for the death of a child, and satisfied with getting its money’s worth. For this slaughter of the innocents is going on in cities from Maine to Oregon. The same spirit which rang through the cities of ¢¢Kill] Kill!” in the Roman Coliseum lives now in the hoarse and bratal applause that hails s child's jump for life from trapeze to blanket, while the fingers of Death clutch at the little body from below, and hell—if there be a hell—yawns for his murderers. Freppre Lazerie was 8 years old. The’ baby fingers that should have had nothing to hold except a toy or a spelling-book curled around a trap8z# close to the ceiling of a Iow theatre in Cleveland. Away down below, 4 fect obove the bard floor, was a piece of carpet held by o couple of men. With one strong swing, thechild flings himself from the bar, turns once, twice, thrice in the air, and alights on the carpet. Somebody slips—the carpet flies sideways, and the baby's head croshes upon the stage. He groans, gasps, and is still,—butchered to make a Cleveland hali- day. Thatisall. The child is dying at a hotel. A single monk put an end to the butchery of human beings in the Coliseum by giving up his own life there. The sand that drunk his blood has not had its thirst slaked in gore since. It is too much to hope that Freooe Larzerix's murder will save other children from o like fate. The stage will still be spattered with baby blood and brains, while the Church is powerless, and the State is idle, and civilization is disgraced. SE—————— PERSONAL Rafas Baxton, U. 8. A, is at the Pacifie, N. B. Perry, of Albany, is at the Palmer. The lstest slang is: *Oh, pull Gown your vest.” The Hon. D. C. Floyd, of Cincinnati, is as the Tremont. - Gen, G. H. Graves of New York, is at the Tremont, Tne Hon. W. H. Parks, of Marquetts, is at the ‘Tremont. The Hon. M. B. Hayes, 5t Denver, is at the Sherman. Maj. J. M. Beardsley, of Bock fsland, inat the Pacific. Ex-Gov. C. C. Waahburn, of Wisconsin, is st the Pacific. The Hon. C. W. Clisber, of Cassopolis, is at the Tremont. Col. George W. Lilley, of Sedalia, Mo., inat the Bhermsn. The Hon. J. Waldo, of Houston, Tex.,isst the Sherman. Mies Louiss M. Alcott will spend the winter in Baltimore. Bessie Turner’s book is said to be making & big “sell.” J. L. Perea and brothar, of Bernalillo, N. 2L, are at the Palner. Col. Forney hears that the Prince of Wales is coming to the Centennial. Thurlow Wead thinks ambition for the Presi- dency burt Ar. Wilson physically as well as ‘morally. Carlyle says there may be a courage which in the total sbsence of fesr. Thatis, when the fence is between you and tha dog. Mrs. Blackford, that horrid American woman who ruiped the young RBussian Princs, paid ‘Warth £38,000 for fancy new dresses. Charles Prancis Adsms hss been quoted ss saying that the one thing necessary to & revival of business in this country is arevival of re- ligion. . Dr. Fallows, of the Reformed Episcopal Chureb, delivera a lecture to-morrow evoning at the Second Universatist Church for the bemefit of the church. New York Herald: The Charlea Francis Adams Clab of Indianapolis is discussing the question whether or ot it would be better for & hen to have five toes. 1t is thought Col. Baker, formerly of the Brit- ish acmy, will go over to Busais after his term of imprisonmunt is filed, and fight sgainst En- gland if any opportunity offers. M. Stilison Hutchins, of the St. Louis Times, writes to the Ciucionati Enquirer that thore is not a word of trath in any report or rumor con~ necting him with the Whisky Ring. Tains is now engaged in collsciing material for » ** History of the French Bevolution ”; sod e sigh bis ¥hls mind I8 4o ooudpied With the subject thas it will admit nothi & therefars, refused to write m,!"“ articles until his great work s completed. Robert Coliyer says that when ha Iast steamship disaster hs oould not“::::". there are some privileges denisd to & @ which a good, sturdy ls of haady. - I layman often found vy New York Hera/d : The ides of the den originaed by the Persans, who made :;': typify bungar. Thatis what makes man g, **I'm a8 hungry aa the devil ; let's bave 5 h: dozen raw.” “The Chicago Timnes wonld be in ball, i newspaper couid circulsta thers,” said ag ,m'_ able Chnstian gontlemsan yesterdsy, when % read the blasphemous head-line over the of an cxecution. i) ‘The Mayor of Clifton, near Cinci caused the arrest of & (uhinnlhhm:nn::um August, and atterwards exculvated himaelt by alleging that she was drunk, has been azed f, £50,000 damagen. o Philadelphia peorle seem to have agreeq POStpona the revival uatil atter the Ceusen fhy 8 being lesa importact. Their mistaken is that persons may save their souls when thy’ have nothing better to do. The Nation of this week coutains an Astioly reflecting soversly upon Col. Forney, whiey should secure his prompt return from Eurp ;i‘::l:r to inatitate a snit for libel e to confug imself unworthy to represent the Contennial abrosa. #atag Howard Glyndon writes in the New Ty Mail of a man 80 years old who had neverin oy his lite visited & liquor saloon. Ho was stricke down with heart-disease while in St. Louls, vy mistaken by the police fora drunken man, sd died in & station-hounae. This from Boston: 8he came ont of Musiee Hall last Sundsy, her intellectusl countensney beaming with unusual excitsment, snd, e abe took the proffered arm of ber escort, we heard ber exclaim, in an ecatatic tone, Okl Haory, waan't that the doss prayer?” Merit does not go nnrewarded in the casect Uli Perkins, He has been promoted from the staff of the Chicsgo Inter-Ocean to that of the Titusville Herald. He may get a position ox the Hyde Park Sun if he bohaves himsalf. They his ald companicns will envy him. Z Ida Lewis, the marine heroine, is poor, sad plars every Monday morning on s saven-sade three-quarters octave washboard. Sbe asks hee admirers to send her solid chunks of * soap,” if they send anytuiog at atl. Bat she is independ- ent enough to do without gifts from aoy quarter, Said & Nevada iawyer concerning & man who had kicked his wife down staira: “Gentlemen of the jury, he h'isted ber! Great heavens, bs h'isted her! Ho—the brute, once, perhaps, 8 mao—raised his foot and applied it to the form of her who, at the holy altar, he Bsd swom to love and cherish.” Judge Holmao, of Indians, refoses to sty whetherhe mil or will oot be & cavdiudsts for Governor, in case tha course of the Democratis House is such a8 he can sapprove. It is undere stood be will not be, uvless the party shall seem to him to bave mada s brilliant record, oo shich be may confidently appeal to the peopls. The New York Worid bas discovered that tae proper phrase for expressing dissent is mo looger *¢ Too thin,” or, * It won't wars,” bat, “JI¢ won't go mund;™ and the Cincinmati Times saya the phrase has an origin similse to the Order of the Garter. [t was what she sid to the enterpriging store~clerk, who assared har it wes the Iatest thing out. ‘The report that Misa Charlotte Cushman wss improving in health, and that she was to svper goon in publio readings, proves, unhappily, t> have been untrue. Miss Cashmaa's agaot writes to a gentlaman in New Haven that she is serh onsly ill, and haa abandoned all hope of. resding this season. She hopes to be sble to appesrin pubkic six months from now. A critic 8ays to a lndy correspondent that she mav dance with her son or her lady friends, bub that “*dancing in the middle of & crowd, with fow dresses, up to late boars, iavoiving & good deal of apparent embracing of the opposite sz, is thought to be objectionable fn taste 2 =stia panciple.” Now isa't it siogular that lowe dresaes are 5o often up to lats hours ? If therais not a bloody riot in New Orlssos before Christmas it will not be the faalt of the Bulletin. The way in which ihat journal Is +¢ digeussing ™ the mixed-echool question ia sim~ ply infamous. Its pages are sprinkled with jtalicized sentences of tnis sort: * Brothers, go and see your littlo sisters sittiog side by ste with negro girls, soms of which are unét fop contact even with their own coloz.” The Archbishop of Canterbary was requestsd by Doan Stanley to draw up and publish & specisl form of prayer, to be nsed lo all the English churches dunog the Priuce of Wale# tour 10 India, or for the nex: five months. Tbe Archbishop intimates that the few simple words in the prayerbook will be sufficient for ti8 . Perhaps the inforence from his wordsy that ho thinks the Princo past praying for, is# little straioed. 3 In his Thanksgiving-sermon, M. Beocher dis oussed the question of the common schools, s0d especially that of Bible-reading. Ho nolds thst the schools should be godlesa. just a8 soy shop or manufactariog establishmont Is godless, be- cause teaching religion is not one of its foa> tions. He believes tha American people "‘: pable of & grand enthusissm on the subject common schools, and the New York Tribuns adds: *Wemay benow on the vary varge of ie” . Richard Henry Stanley, Attorey Genenal d: King Kalakaus's domintons, died b Hozolt . Nov. 5. Decessed was s native of New Yorl City. He went to the Hamaian Isisndsin 15;’" and commenced tho practice of law. . 02 dissolution of the Cabinet fn 1674, Mr. Stanisy was selected by His Majesty for tho i office of Attorney Genaral, whicn be filied? credit up to the time of his demisa. Tres tho wrother of M. Jobn V. essley AMrs. C. 8. Hatehins of this city. The Eastern newspapers generally which bat® noticed the recent expulsion nrmw_mmdnfl for belonging to secret societies .mmm:!: a8 sgainst the Faculty. Thers ssems ‘:umr- good deal of false seatiment aboutihe ‘ The facs that every stodent on enteriog N“’:‘ 1a obliged to subscribe to s solemn plede® e covenant that he will join no secret lan‘!' stands onexplsined; and ths, young msd subscribes to such a pledge cannot oxml'n“ self from obeerving it by pleadiog “}“w i always beon regarded s dead letser mere form.” If it 'e;mlfll;o'fl"d'd Faonlty it would bave over, g is s notorious fact tbat oo l“fl"‘; Princeton has ever dared openly to Wes ¥ badze af his society. 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