Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1878, Page 8

‘'Hit CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 19, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGHS [ zens of the Ninth District sent In their nsual com- ENGAGED, THE CITY. GENERAL NEWS. The Sub-Treasury old $10,000 of the new 4 per cents yesterday. Ex-Ald. Pickering, accompanicd by bis family, Icaves for Europe Wednesday afternoon. The internal revenue receipts yesterdsy sggre- pated $15.940.55. Saturday is alwsys a dullday with distitlers. At 2 rognlar meeting of the Laborers' Benevolent Acsociation, held Friday evening. it was resolved 1hat hereafter they would not unload coal on Sun- daye. 5 nited States Depatv Marshal Stillwell vesterday seized the schooner Tamlet, in the North Branch, on a libel for a debt of $439.75. The tomperatare yesterany, as observed by Man- asce, opticlan, No. 88 Madison street (Trinuxz Luilding), was, at8a. m.. 57 degrecs: 10 2. m.. 57; 12m.. 56; 3n. m.. 57; 5p. m.. 59, Barom- eterat 8. m., 30,043 § p. m., 29,54 ‘The INlinois Homeopathic Medical Association will hold its twenty-fourth anuaal scesion in this city Toesday, Wednesasy. and Thursday of next week, The elnb-room of the Grand -Pacific Los Deen selected as the placefor holding the meetings. Alai. 4. M. Walah, in command of the Mounted Police in the Northwestern Territory . of the Brit- jeh Poesessions, was at the Palmer Touse. The entleman hae been absent on 2 furlough. and is on his way West. The Major has the charge of Sitting Bull and his band. The Hon, Thomas . Tucker, President of the Firemen's Insurance Company, and Samuel Apple- Ton. Secretary of the Commonwealth Fire Insur- ance Company, Boston. Mass., are ut the Tremont Jlonse. They are Jouking after the Chicago inter- ests of their corporations. L. C. Earle yieldsto the fascination of water- colors. He has made two or three spirited sketches Quring the past week, using for a subject the model at the Academy of Design in French snd Spanish costnmes. A class in water-colors is to bo started nt the Academy under Mr. Earle's direc- tion, Tuesday morning. Up to the time of closing the ofice of Assistant District-Attorney Thomeon, last evening, George 1. Prussing bad not replied 10 the questions pro- pounded to bim by Mr. Thomson ibe evening pre- Yious. The reply, if made, will not be given 1o the pablic nntil ahthorized by the Department at Washington. The Rice ** Evangeline ™ Combmation will arrive in Chicazo by special train- direct from San Fran- cisco to-morrow (Monday) evening, and will ap- searat laverly's darinz the week. George S. LMizht, Sol Smith 1tussell, The Lone Fisherman, Mies Venie G. Clancey, aud Miss Lizzie Weoster, are among the party. At 5:45 vesterday afternoon, Edward Coffee, while walkiniz along a railroad 'track on the Salt Company's docks, at the foot of Taylor street, was accidently run down by a freirht car which was Doinz ewitched on the Rock leland Road. e was severely injured about the hiead and body, and was removed to his home No. 550 Union strect. Mr. W, I Martin, for many sears known and esteemed here as a journalist, bas zone to St. Paul to assume 20 editorial position on the Globe, Mr. Martin was recerily the city editor_of the /afer- Ocean. and formerly held a responsiole position on he Cliicago Times. He is 8 sentienan of thorough ournalistic kuowledge, practical acquaintance with the business in all its detuils, 2nd will make his mark in his new field of Isbor. At moon vesterday ex-Ceunty Commiesioner George Schmidt, while driving north on Dearborn uvenue, was suddenly thrown out at ihe corner of Huron strect br the breakinz of the king bolt, which 6o frightened the horse that it ran uwav with the ebafte and fore-wheels. ~Mr. Schmidt sastained quite serious injurics about ihe head and shoulders, and had his nasal bone broken. He yas attended by Dr. Pratt, and removed to his home on Grant place. At 7 o'clock yesterdsy morning John Shay. a 1aborer fn_the employ of the Ioara of Public Works, while atwork st the corner of Lake and Morgan strects, was run down by a bread-wagon driven by Charles Itiedel. The mjured man was removed to his home, No. 231 Nerth Halsted Ftreet. and as he is a man of 61 years of age, and in delicate bealth, the physicians have some doubts of his recovers. Ricdel was arrested on a charge of aseanlt with tntent to do bodily injury, and obtained a continuance to the 22d. A mecting of the Taxpayers® Aesociation of the Tawn of Lake was held yesterday afternoon at No. 151 Randolph street. M. N. Lord occopied the chair, and.J. A. McCullongh acted as Secretary. Tt. A. McClellan, from the Committee appointed 10 atrend fo legal matters for the Aesociation, re- ported that the irst bil! of injunction kad been filed 10 test the validgiiy of the Town of Lake bonds and otherindebtedness, and that 3 gecond Lill was nearly completed and would be filed in a few days against the appropristions and taxes of the town. The Committee also recommended the Association tobe Jersistent in prosecuting their enterprise, as they had reduced the approuriations of the Town of Lake from aboat €176,000 to $118,000, showing 1hat an excers of nearly 300,000 veyond the re- quircments neceessaty {0 Tun’ the town had been unpardonably squandered by the Trastees. The Commitice further recommended that a persistent cflort be made to reduce the town expenses 10 8 £um helow $580,000. The report was adopted, and the Committee continued. ‘The meeting then ad- Jjourned subject 1o the call of the Chairman. The place of entertainment for some time known as tne Colisem is sbout fo be remodelpé, re- named, refitted, and remsnaged. Mr. Jacoo Nun- nemacher, of Milwaukee. lias just closed a con- tract with Mr. John Hamlin by which they become joint pariners in the concern, which will for the fu- ture have for its object the enlargement of popular Xnowledge on tne subjecs of the drama. Iu order 10 attain this desirable end. the floor of the present suditorium 15 10 be Jowered to the level of the front entrance, while the roof is to beraised high enouzh 10 admit of two galleries being put in. The plan of the mew theatre has been cevised by Me. Wallace Hume. who has managed to Eccare ns ample means of exit in case of panics as can be found in any theatre in town. Several new features are to be introduced in the way of parlors and rennng-rooms outside of the auditorium, and commenication is 10 be established betwecn tbe place and the Fire Department by xelegmgh. pro- Viding aeainst any scoident. A to the character of ine entertaiuments to be given, Mr. Hamlin £ay= he meuns to drop the variety business and rive legitimate enfertainments. Tle will wipe out the nawme of Coliseum. 2nd call the place by gome other rame, _He will—to be continued after the 1heatre is completed. ¢“Neln,” said the Teutonic proprictor of the beor saloon. sturdily; **1 don’t want somes. You touzipt 1 vas 2 womans, hey, don't it Pringingz r sromo-litorrams into’ der saloon.” ¢ Ths pleasing and chaste chromno-lithograph, sir. said the canvasser, *‘we sell at $2.25 to close out a lot only, for we have already exhausted an im- mense caition of them ut $50 to $75 apiece. Bie- marck nas one like this hang in his ancestral pai- ace ot Varzin, and if Napoleon bad given up his copy of tnis identical chromo-lithozraph peace- fully there wouid heve been no war.” **lsh dot #uy” gaid the excellent Tcaton. cs, sir, " re- plicd the salesinon, **the Emperor William wanted it for the ereat Mational Gallers at Berlin, but Na- Ppoicon froze on to 1t,—eid the Prince Imperial cried for it. and the Empress Eugeny kicked him out of bed kerelap onto the ~bootjack when he proposed giving ©p the picture. So they weatto war, apd the biood of myriads of people was shed. When that came to our boss' ears, #avs he, ‘T2 never have two of the foremost na- tions of the umverse o 1o war again for that reason if Ican kelpit,” and &0 he ran off a popu- lar cdition of this futeresting zootogical and em- blemutic work, The United States Government has appropriated $18,000 for pictures of less in- tringic vaive than this bijou of art. It's the last one I bave, and seeing it's vou I'll let you have it for$2 and the beer.™ 1 rru not,™ said the roprictor of the saloon; **mayve yon stole dot, und de gonstable come 'along mit a wnt of re- publican, and den vere you was. cli, and me too?* "I" @ve you my solemn word of hon- on™ szid " the csnvasser, ‘+that this is & perfectly legitimate _commercial tramsaction, Take the chromo for SL.75? Gimme a dollar and a half for the chromo? Tl knock off another quarter for you, whick I wouldn’t do for my sunted father if fic was to come back from his €lecp beneath the_chnrchyard dajsies and-go down onnis knees. Gimme a dollar, and I'll treat. My clularen are crving_tor bread, and_my wife Deen laid up since Easter Sunday with a carnifex aibigensis on her thumb, £0 she can't swallow rolid Tood, end 1 must ecll thie priceless chromo at s sacrifice and et back tomy dcsolate home. Teil Jouwhat Tlf do.—end, mind you, now that yilt Irame alone 8 worth a dollar and 2 balf.—T'll let - you have the chromo at your own price. Make me any offer yon darn pléase and Pll take it." **1 wmess. mine friendts,” said the worthy Tento dot’ you vas giving me a ehtiff tafly, don it2". “*So help me Heaven,” said the saléaman, ““T'll take any offer you make. Money talks. Bet yorS51do.” **Dot ish pisness, Hana,' said a oyeiander. iFith a chuckle the ealoon-keeplr went aown into his pocket and extricated 2V, -whicl® the rtranger covered. **Now," eaid the worthy gompairiot of Bismarck, with an_eurthquoke aust, -1 geefa yon pony biersfor dot gromo.” wDone—take " saud the cauvasser. The tramsaction was completed o these terms, and the excellont German became the possessor of the yorkof ar, eaying *-o, ho, ho! 1 fools vou Tty THats a0 Gald ' the - canvasser, Pletsaatly, *‘that was a big joke on mes I kucss 1 OUAME to et aficr that amd he L9ters who visiied the saloon Ebdg T . 3 played on 3 Yamer, | Abont midnight tho worthy Taam reticed compalriot vl bad been with Bim whea' the. bar. - el Keeper: **voL you wants, ehi" ."1,,‘}“..."‘"!25".‘" ot de ehokes 6u you," yelldd hie friend: o qor Eanvaseer peat you ‘out of “finif thaler fer gcp £10mo." **Gott In himmiell" gasped the seloont keeper, and fell faintine to the foor. il NOTEL ARRIVALS, Grend Pactfie—G. W. Mooy n 3 A. Atkinson, Elmira; Col. J. n"‘x-m&‘i'%w'i:{::‘u“ AT, Barron, Vermont: the Hom, Joho 1 Eegpin o 8 Bradcied bororania Ui n Ei 2Tuaway. X York; E. 18, Campbell, l?; r, New Yor Be Milwaukee; U . Dirlicton: Deissc L. ViR DSE S e ke cod Tamily, Fllking Bos- F. W nogg“n:, D t. Padl; W. D ea. L. W. htierman, U. 5. A3 the Hon, Dav}d Wadsworth. Auburn, Siouse—Col. L. E, Warren, New York; £ Prancisco: 8. €. Seaman, Clinton, la. fon, Detrolt: the ilon. M. 'C. Wooil 3. M. New York: the Hon, . Waterbury - D. E. 1{lil, Akroni the Flon.' D. L. & B. Ml Xew. Yorks E. D. Diske. P itmer llouse=E W, Scott. New York . Livermore, San Francisco: E. B. Gounes, U. S. A3 Sieitom s Phtlipa, Sprivgteld: J. J. Seanion, St. ilitam Humason. St. Paul; Dr. C, W. Cooser, Kobert Ituss. Vaiparaisa. S, A It O; Adsms, 3 G, W. Manston, Sau Diego; A. B. loids- Worth.. Ainchester, Eng.: Robert Lake, London, 1. Hamilton. Scotland: Charles Lewls. Canter: New Zealand; C. Teylor and k. I, Green. Liver- Enz. AN IDYLL OF THE CITY. The young man hurried homeward, And did not dream of harms e met on the street au laraclite ‘With a bundle on his arm. The young men saw on the mantel A Dresden-china sheeps His wife sad not what its vrice was, But only that 't was cheap. By-and-by be'll look in the cloret For his pants, the second pair, And when he finds they're missing He'll weep and tear bis hair. THE SOUTH TOWN. THE ASSESSMENT SUSTAINED. The case of the German National Bank ve. Mork Kimball, to declare voia the whole tax levy of the Town of South Chicago, came up for argument yes- terday morning before Judge Dlodgett on s de murrer to the bill. Mr Flower, on behalf of the complainant, read the bill. The main grounds on which relief is asken are the great inequality and consequent ille- gality of the lnst year's tax-asscssment. Not only. as is charged, was the law violated which required that ail property be assessed at its fair cash value, but even the arbitrary rate of one- third the fair cash value was not adhered to. Many business firms were agsessed at from 5 to 50 per cent of the real value of their property. Some of the bunks were not assessed at all, and other " classes of property were skipped over or assessed at greatly varying rates. The whole valuation of the personal property of the South Town was about $12,000,000, when ir should have been 150,000, 000. JUDGE BLODGETT £aid he thought from the amazing statements of the bill that the complainant would nave usked for the liberty of paying two or three times its legal tax. He thought it was a very dangerous matter for aourts to meddle with, and did not see quite where it would end if & Conrt undertook to set aside the assessments” bacause they were alleged 10 be unequal, or undervaluations, or overvalua- tions, when a1l tne State tnbunals had acted on them, There were over 100 counties in the State -and about the same number of couris, snd each court would have jurisdiction in its own county, 0 that tog resnit mizht e very serious. Mr. H, W. Tenney, for the cumYlninan!!, said thie Supreme Court had Indicated that they never would interfere with the tax-levy unless there was fraud. But all that could happen here was the up- setting of the taxes of Cook County. The present fwsessment was an nnpsralleled outrage, woree than that of uncivilized tribes in Africa. If the allegations of the bill were true, would a Court state and believe them to be true, and yetsay there was no redress for such an outrage? Tue country was wholly uncivilized if such an outrage were permitted. ¢ Judge Blodgett asked if the Boards of Equaliza- tiou were not the proper tribunals, and suflicient to aiford relief. P Mr. Tenner eaid they were by no meang ade- quate. They could only act on persons befors them, and could never Originale isscssments, €0 that persons who had escaped taxation could not e reached by suh Boards. Tne Judee then intimated that he would like to bear from the otber side i JGDGE WALLACE, on behalf of the couniy. said that though reading the bill made a man’s hair stand on cnd, yeta Court could only attend to the facts well pleaded in the bill. but_ the Supreme Court. had ex- pressly passed on tne very facts presented in the bill. They had decided that it dia not in- vatidate & Jevy to_havea onc-tbird vatuation as- enmed 48 & basis instead of-a fair cash value—that nothing but actual fraud was suflicient to apsel it. The proper remedy was by application, firet to the Town Board of Equalization, theu to the County Toard. There were no allesations in the biil that Tho complainants had availed themselves of these remedies,—nad first exhausted tieir legal remedies before coming into conrt. The churgesof frand were too vague to afford jurisdiction, and were controverted by the oath of * the Town Assessor in hig return to the County Clerk. Mr. Flower, ou the part of the complainant, stated that there were four grounds on which re- Hef were asked: first, the assessment was void, belnz made in violation of law and oua different standard from that required by law; second, 1t was void becanse made in classes and no anformi- 1y wus ob: d: third, because tie cupital siock of banks wis to_be assessed on au entirely differ- cnt basie from moneyed capital in the hands of in- dividuals, which was a violation of the law of the State and of the National-Lankine act: - foarth, that by reason of the failure of the Assessorto com?ly with the law he had permitted nevligently nearly one-hulf of the .personal property in South Chicawo to escape taxation entirely. The Assessor, in adopting the. one-taird value ag nie basis, had openiy violated the law, If the Legislature had. by alaw, directed bim to do that, any conrt in the country wonid declare that law and any. or's acts done under it absolutely void, a8 being in direct violation of the Comstitu- tion. Yet by confirming the acts of an Aescssor who adopted such 2 partial standard, courts would. 1o effect. declure an Assessor to be more powerful thsn the Legislature, —nay, more even than the Constitution. The Adsit case was & beautiful illus- tration of the results of such an assessment. Suppose_that Aceit could, by going before the Town Board, have bad his assessment cut down. How could he consistently do that when ne £ad only ooeyed the law. and rated his property at its fair cash valoe? He declared afier the decigion of the Suvreme Court that he would never make anotber houest return, ard that was an illastration of the fair and lecitimate effects of suchluws, —they invited disnonesty, they even com- pelled it MR. H. W. TENNEY e3id the present cage was one of the most impor- tant that had been bronzht 1mto conrt for a lung time. e was not in favor of tax-fighting, but he felt that the way the taxes had been levied and collected for some years past was an outrage, and it was an act of zoud artizensaip 1o expose it. The theory of the bill w23 the gross wequality. Mo point would bemade on technical defects. He cimmed the whole nssessment-roll way a fraud, gotten up fraadulently, and ovpersted inequitably. It was tie great domesday book prepared every year for the terror of the citizens. There must be 8 valid assessment-roll or there could be no tax. ‘Tloweser calamitous mixht be the present cffects, the nltimate results wonld oe very benefc THE DECISION. Mr. Bonfleld then rosc {o reply, but the Judge stopped hiw, saying he didmot wish to lear any further arguments. The Judge then remarked that the only question wae whefher the Coartcould render any relief 1o the complainant. 1t did not appear but that the National Banks werc all ns- keseed at n uniform rate. The other banks, acting cither undér State charters or some other form, were assessed at a much jower rate, though not a lower percentage. But the capital of the National Danks was much easier to he_ascertained and 2s- eessed than that of Sate Banks. The object of the Asscssor was to ascertain the amount of prop- erty cach bank actually had, not what it claimed to_have, and perhiaps State Banks were taxea lower because they had lees, perhiaps be- cause the Aesessor conld not ascertain how much they. did have, and it had not been sufliciently ehown that the difference was the result of fraud on the part of the Assessor. As to the charge that versonal property in the Dbands of merchante, or that maritime property or moneyea cupital in 'the hands of individuals, was assesved much lower than its value, the reply was that the law had provided four tribunals to nass on that question: Fint. the Asscssor; recoud, the “Taswn Board; third, the Board of Supervisors act- inzas ¢ Dosrd of Equalizations and, fuurth, the State Board of Equalization, When 'the asscss- ment-roll had passed through all those Doards there should be an end to the question s to whether the rate of tax was uniform. and the assessment at a fair cash value. It was tmpossiblo for a Court to zitempt toadjust the value of the property of the country for the purpose of tax- ation, and it would oc productive of the moat &erions and calamitons consequences for a Conrt to sct aside the entire asscssment of a whole city like Chicago on the mssumption that all the public oflicers had been dereilct in the performance of their duty, There must always be & difference of opinion as to values. The only charge of frand in the present bill was that the property had been undervalued, That was Do scrious violation of the law of uniformity. The question was whether the rule as to cash value had been transcressed, a0d that question must be referred to the officers whose business it was to examine the assessment. A Court, after those officers had passed on the ssment, would not interfere on the gronnd that there was an undervalnation or overvalaation. Almost all the suthorities cited by the complain- ants referred to violation of the rule of amformi- ty. There was no charge that tne complainant had not been assesaed at the same ratc as uther Na- tionat Banks. Whoile §t was trne that s demurrer -admitted the facts in the bill, yet they were only such facts as were in the knowledze of the complainant, or it would be able to testify to in court. But how did ‘the German< National .Bank _know that the capital of Field, Leiter & Co. or others had been aseessed at too higa a comparative %rate? How did it know that tne savings-banks had more moncy than the Assessor returned them as baving? The Court was-not bound to take its statements on the eubject. It dld not appear that the case was such as justified o Court in luying its hand on tne assessment 2nd saying that the circum- stances were such tha: tne collection of the tax uzht to be restramed. The resolt would” ve to opeu the Courts to every taxpaycr to prevent the collection of a tax, and thus to stop all city govern- ment, simply becanse he thought other broperty- feers were not sutliciently tuxed. . ‘Siuce ‘the of- ficors charged with the duty of collecting the pubiic fevenues had al of them passed om the (Astessment it would' scew a Court QuEht penot, o mterfere and amrosate 1o laelf the right to stop the tax. The complaint a3 Mot that the hank. was taxed 100 bign or too » but that it thought the other banks were not That was a matter to be looked after by. the pablic functionary who made the assessment. The complainant had not made outa Case, and the demurrer would be sustained. . . *5tr. Flower eaid he would stand by the demur- rer, and asked for an appeal, which was allowed: on giving a bond fn the sum of §2,500. MENDING PAVEMENTS. A STITCH IN TIME. About three wecks az0, 88 & reporter was walk- ing down Wabashfuivenue, he happened to notice a pluce. in the pavement moar Van Buren strect where one block was £lightly sunk below the sur- face of 1ts fellows. Two days afterwards he passed by the same place, and happening to | glance at the spot which he had previously ob- { served, saw that the depression Lad somewbat in- : creased m size. Instend of one block which was sunk, it was then half a dozen. A few days sib- sequently he again passed by, and found that the jarring and jolting of- temms, accompanied Dy a severe rain-storm. which bad loosened some of the blocke, had mude a break in the pavement about u yard square. ‘To-day there is a gpot there ubout threc yards each way. 1lis attention once called to this place, he was not long in_noticing® similar_instances_on other strects,—on Luke, on North Clark, on Kinzie, and several other trav | streets. The nrocess was very simple. Owing to an original weakness in the block. or the fact that the filijng was soft at a particular spot, there comes & wiiht depression in the rosdway. The wheels of cvery teum passing over it strike with violence on the blocks whose surfaces are ex- poscd, and gradually tear them froin their place. The rain settles there, foftens the gronnd beneath, and ench succeeding wheel drives the loose blocks decper into the mud, and tears from their places those immediately surrounding them. Another rain-storm comes and begins to float up sowme blocks, which, falling over on their sides, are broken by the wheels; and, malittle while, the insignificant depression hus _become a broad siretch which it will cost $10 or $15 to repair. B This process of decay und of ruin is going on ail over the city, apparéntly without any attention of the city nuthorities or of the property-owners or tenants, althoughiit is the duty of the ficst to Stop this destructive process the moment it be- “ins, ond of the second and third to have some cye at least to their own immediate interesta. This negligence 18 onlv another proof of the shiftless, reckless, und wasteful way in which the interests of & munlcipality are managed. It would be con- sidered folly in & private individual if, when his roof beran to leak from the decay of a shingle, he should wait until all the shingles arc gone, and then nton a new roof, instead of replacing the defect- ve shi with a new oneata cost of about 10 cents. The property-owners are taxed thousands of dollars jor the purpose of putting down a pave- ment. Under ordinary circumstances, it ought to last ten years. Under the system now in voue, it is in good condition for abont two years, heglus 10 show slems of weakness in the third, und ia & wreck 1n the fonrth or fifth, —all owing to carcless- ness and neglect. Thus Wahash avenue, which was paved a litle over two yenrs go ut heavy ex- pense to the property-owners and railroad com- pany, is now all_gomg to pieces, and nest year, unless prompt mneasures are taken, will ‘have to be repaved. Lake street was paved some years 450 by special assessment. The pavement was worr: ont, and had to be replaced oy speciul taxation. Great parts of it have been repuved again, but now it is all going to pleccs. There are some places, between Siate and Dearborn streets, for instance, which are in n horrible condition, —all caused by the shiftlessness of the city authiorities, and their failure to stop the evil the ‘moment it began, It never secme to occur to them that there 1S xuch a proverbas **a stitch in time saves aine,™ or_that itis the custom of mankind generilly to flll a. tooth as s0on as 1t begins to decay instead'of wait- ing for the whole jaw-fuil to be rotten. Common sense would dictate that whenever a policeman, o a street inspector, oF any ather city omticer from the Mayor down, saw & wesk spot in the pavement he woula report that fact to the _proper officer of the Department of Poblic Works and that the men would be sent out armed with a hatchet and a couple of blocks for the purposc of jerking out a bad one and putting in a sound one. The city buys these blocks 1n large guantities, and hias them coustantly on hand. Apparently it pre- fers. instead of putrinydown one block which costs 2 few: cents, to wait until it 18 necessary to put down 100. The plea is sometimes made ihat the city has no money. But this wasteful way of doing businese_hae prevailed during the last five years—prevailed ata time when tne city had an abondance of money on hand, and when 1t was squandering that moiiey for unneccssary objocts. In times like tiese, when money is hard to get, and improvements are paid for with great reluctance by the citizens, every city officer should be happy to ministeras faras hecan to the welfare of } citizens who are taxed to support him. ile shoul not consider it beneath s aignity, wnether he Ye policeman, fireman, or clerk, to notice all these defects the moment they begin, and to reform them us far as in his power. It is aleo surprising that property-owners them- s cltes do 1ot pay more attention to these matters. It is surprising that the tenant of a Lake street store, seeing the eicns of decuy on the pavement in front of the premises which he occupies, shonld not expend half adollarin remedying the mis- chief ut once, instead of waiting six months, and then having a zaping chasm in front of his door which interferes with his business and lessens taxed enol hs profits. While it is snrprsing, nnd while© 1t would secm that u - regard for their own . intgrests wonld induce inen to look after this matter. still it is the city that has the control of the strects; itisthe city fhat inspects them, the city thutis supposed to Jeep them in order} but in this case, anhappily, it is the city which shamefully negiccts them. \When the attention of the Department of Public Works is called to this thirg, 1t caunot help per- ceive that it has on hand the workmen witn which to do the work, aud the blucks to enable them to doit, aud that its popularity with toe Citizens will " be greatly euhanced if It will keep the streets in order, and thus dimimsh the terriole burden of svecial assessments. As it is now the ouly mending of strects is donc by the railrond compamies, which have learned by e¢xperience that it costs less 1o Jay one block than o bundred. THAT MYSTERIOUS FIRM. THE FIRM OF ‘*J. J. M'DONNELL & CO.," which hs been supplying the County Hosvital for wome time with vegetablos and eggs, was yesterasy the subjeet of considerable inquiry. Such of the Commissioners as were not in the secret were won- dering who they were, and the others expressed regret that uttextion had been called to their deal- ings wita the county. Commissioner Bradley was among the latter, and bo was by mo means in 8 comfortable mood. He happened in at the County Building just 28 & TRIBUNE reporter was going throngh some of the old bills of the mysterious firm, and when ealated with *‘Good morning, Commissioner. " his face changed color as be mat- tered an unwiiling response. e was sct upon at once by the scribe, as a matter of course, but his tongue was still, and all' he would ray was that the matter oughtto be worked up. The reporter replied that such was his duty, and tuen proceeded overhauling the biils. e found them all made out on umiform size bill-paper with the printed heading torn off, all in the same band- writing, and all very satisfactory and difilenit of comparison, for the reason that thiey were made uo of charges for other than staple articles. . In November, for instance, there was a charge of 65 cents per bushel for potatoes, while in the bills for March, wnen potatoes were higher than in No- vember, the charge was only 60 cents. In one bill there was a charze for a caseof lemons at §3.50, while 10 _another a box of the same froit was put down at¥5. The difference between a ** cave ™ and a **box™ is not known. In secveral other bills were items of ‘e six ‘pounds of bread at 7 cents per pound, whichis o little steep when it is considered tl the county hasa contract for the same article at twoand one-fifth conts. und beside the quantity for such an institution 100ks strange. Then there *were charges for_vickles, chow-chiow, cabbage at 40 cents 1 dozen heuds, and dozen of ather articles the reporter could not measure the correctuess of for the reason that he had no meas of judwing of the quality of the goode, or the macket valnc of themat thetimeof the purchase. Egsswerc a large itemnail thebills, andm_ every case the charges much higher than they conld liave been guu;?lu for of Ices mysterious and more convenient rms. Affer the bills had been casually looked through the reporter called on COMMISSIONER SENNE, and asked him if he had seen the statement of Mr. Bradley in reference to the comparison made in these cotumny between the prices paid McDonnell & Co, for potatoes for the Yospital and the price paid for potatoes at‘the Insane Asylum. He smid Lie nad. and that he was prepared to correct some of his statements. He #aid he bad been delerated 1o purcnace potatoes for the Asylum, and that he found that he could boy them'in the city for 30 cents, but woula have to pay for delivering them, and, thinking that be could do better, he went into the conntry and withina circle of ten miles around the Asylum bought several hundred busnels for 30 cents, and had them delivered, and just a5 zood potatoes as could be furnished by ** McDonnell & Co." ut any price. He thenght the charge of 50 cents made by **McDonneli" a8 ontrageous, and said be could have bought the ssme article at any time on Sonth Water strect and had them delivered ut the Hospital at o saving of 20 cents on the bushel. Last evening, acting on the previous suggestion of Mr. Bradley, the reporter VISITED THE MOSPITAT. 10 nscertaln from the Warden somcthing ol the character, standing, location, and cause of his Tavoritism for ** McDonnell & Co.. ™ but he was not at home, or, at least, could mot bescen. The clerk in the ofice was asked some ‘questions, but e was in blissfal ignorance of the firm. “‘How and by whom are goods purchased®’ asked the visitor. o The reply was, **Mr. Bradley's crocery wazon comes up cvery day and brines czgsand vegetables. | Ihave nothing to do wirh it." Biut who ordere thie zooist” f ++When the wagon comes up one day the goods wanted next day are ol dl-red.P' - 4 Lo Who orders them? The housekeeper. 3413 he fn “*Yes, sir, " was the response, and he_leil' the way through a long corridor and up~-a flight of, steps, where he told his companionto wait & mo- mentand he wonld Lave the lady-appear. Itivas then 7:30 o'clock, and in a few moments later he put in an appearance and stammered ont that she was in, bot had gon to bed:" The search for tho housckecper wis then aban- doned and the office was' again reached. On the. wall byng a frame containina the printed bill-of-: fara of the inmates of the Hospital. arringed for cvery day n the weel, The remarkable featare of the bill was that the item of vegotables, which have Deen ko lsvishly furnished by the mysterious irm, -did not occar, and thot egzs were only allowed for supper o aays in the week. which facts it wonld be'well for the Hospital Committee—of which 3r. Bradley is a memoer—o consider, when paying for the 390 dozen eges eaid to have been uted between April 24 sua May 13, aud the large bills for vez- etables that arc constantly beinz prescated. Giving up all hope 'S¢ soelng tho Warden, the reporter called on P * MR. DRADL] at his store, No, 374 West Harrison street, made known his infssion, and was politely referced back to the Hospital. This would not ‘do, and after some parleying the inquirer after ** McDonnell & Co. " agked 1f McDonnell was in. s Now you know all about it," was the re- sponse.. 14 *+ ButIdo not.” ** But you do. ‘T know who started this thing, and the person thatstarred can tell you ail. Thescrive protested nis iznorance, and ventared £6 23k if o youns man named J. J. McDonnell was not in his employ. +*What do you ask me that for? ‘*Because 1 want to. locate that mysterfous dealer In high-toned eggs and silver-skin po- tatoe: **You know ail about it,” he answered, and then pointed to some bread on the counter which he sald hie vold for seven cents a loaf, and going to n bin scooped up eome of the rice that McDon- nell bad been selling the county for eizht cents *Then you will not_ssy whetber McDonnell i3 in your employ or not?" continued thie reporter. “*No. 1 will not. 1 told & TricusE man last night all T kne.” ¥Then rou don't know McDonnell " ““The person that staricd you on this Knows it all, and vou'd betrer asi him, or go sce the Warden. " was lis answer, and he would say noth- ing more. “Fhe reporter bid him good-cvening, and started for the office, and just outside of the door he en- countered 2 Iad snd asked him if he knew Mc- Donncll. 1le replied thot be knew ** Johnuie, ™ us he called him, and that he wasa clerk for Mr. Bradiey, and thus, after a loug and painful scarch, the mysterious firm wae Jocated bevond utl question, and there i3 o longer a doubt that Mr. Bradley—the Commissioner—is the *¢Co.." if not the firm itsclf, and_that the goods roing to the Hospital came from his store. This bringa to mind the fact that over a year ugo, when another individual—not n Commissioner—was selling roods to the Hospital in the name of oae: of nix cmbloyers. and caurging zood round prices there- for, that Nr. Bradley, raised a biz rumpus in the Board, and got np an'investization, etc. The in- vestization fesulted in sustaining the cbarge hie made, but he allowed the whole thing to be hushed up, perhaps with an eve to *‘3lcDonnell & Co." opening up basiness ot an early day, In any event, **McDonnel] & Co.” succeeded the firm of ++3icCleayy & Co."” in controiling the Hospital trade, and now controla it, notwithstanding that they are-half a mile away, and there are a dozen grocerics within o stone’s throw of the institution That would sell the same goods they are furaishing at the same rates. ¥ = THE MANUFACTURERS, THAT COMING BANQUET. A meeting of manufactarera interested in o ¢ manufacturers' meeting and dinner™ which will be held at thciPalmer House Thursday, was neld last night ac the Palmer Houge. Mr. George S. Bowen acted as Chalrman, though the gathering was very informal, and anuounced the Thursday meeting and dinner. He said that an organization of manufactarers of Ciicago and vicinity was needed for mutual protection, beneft, and information. Cbicago boot and shoe manufac- turers were selling shocs in New York City at wholesale, and Western iron manufacturers were making the frames of sewing-machines manufac- tured in the East. These were facts which were not as generally known us their imporiance de- served. There were hundreds of liltte mattera which every mauufacturer wanted to know ubout the detafls of business of other manufacturers. These things conld be Jearned in no other ivay tnan personal interconrse. There were hundreds of interests which were com- mon to all Western, manafacturers, and these in- terests conld be taken advantace of only through united efforts. Almost every branch of munufac- turinz industry was protected by 2 union of the representatives of that industry. The number and stability of thege unions evidenced their worth. A general _combination of manufacturers could rove but beneficial to ull connected therewith. e furtner saia that he had sent out more than 1,000 circnlars requesting attendance Thursday. Most of the circulars had gone to manufacturers and some to Governors of States, 1tepresentatives, and Senators, and public men. Mr. Appleby, of Wisconsin, had agreed to be present and address the meeting, and a proftavle discourse could be expected of him. After Mr. Bowen had spoken the meeting and conversation became gencral, and all present opined that & nnion, suchas was contemplated, was greatly nceded to influence legislation, to dis- cuss the subject of taxation, and work for the common good. Chicago was fast becoming s manufacturing centre of no secondary importance, and it was fitting that there should be a something—an orginization—representing not only the growing intercsts of this city, but of the wurronnding country tribntary to the Meétropolis of the West. A Mr. Bowen read a fiumber of letters received in puswer to his cirentdrs wentioned above. The writers of all of them spoke in favor of a manu- facturers' uniow, and many siguified tueir intention of aitending the meeting Owlng to the fact that the attendance was not as large as was desired, it was decided that another meeting should be held Monday nizght at (he Paimer House, and to that meeting are cordially invited all manufacturers in this city —clotiunz, bools and shoes, hats und caps,” woolen poovs,” iron, wa- chinery, farm implement wmauufacturers—are all requested to be present, POLITICAL. TOE SOCIALIST3. The Agitation Comuittee of the Socialistic- Labor party held its regular weekly meeting last evening at Nu. 7 Clark street. Mr. Paulsen moved that so much of the record relating to the failure of the Arbeiter-Zeifung to publish reports of the Socialist meetings be sinicken out. but, after some debate, it was al- lowed tostend. A report from Thomas Ryan, Secretary, an- nounced the organizution of 4 Lranch Section in the Fifth Ward. Mr. Sibley =aid a man who had published a Greenback paver proposed to starta Sunday morn- ing paper, una he liad beon requested by him to e iow much enconrazement he could get rrom the Sociallsts, the person proposing to in his paper for Socialistic_commun A motion was made by Mr. Morgan to uppoint a committee to inquire into the matter, but it was voted down, request from lumber-shovers was made for the assistance of the Committee in orzanizing a Lumber-Shovers' Union on_a Socialistic. basis, ' and next Satarday evening, at Sack's Halj, corner of Brown und ‘lventicth streets, was announced asthe time and place. Speakers were also ap- pointed to attend it. *Phe plan of orzanization for wards presented by Mr. Mourgan was adopted unanimonsly. 3 Afterattonding to sonic other unimportant basi- ness, the Committee adjourned. NATIONALS. A mass-meeting_of ** Nationals™ was held last evening at Phelan’s all, West Indiana street, to which busincss and working men were invited to come and bear their wants ‘and the measures for their relicf discussed **in prose and svf M. J. . Randall discassed the question in prose for overan hour, touchine npon questions which oc- cupy the attention of many inteliizent minds, but touching upon them ratherafter the etyle of a ward stump-speaker than tiat of a freasoner. Some well-worn _ views in_ regard to the reitions between labor and ¥ capital <tated, and mwplificd, and drummed mto the card of the - auditors. It was Itke preaching to stones. The audience was moved, but only by emall sections, which moved occasionally dowi the stairs, making a terrible ‘uoise 28 they went, and making more noise ns'they came vack to catchi the turead of the speaker's remarks. Some greenvack and labor songs were sung by Mr. Luion, aud, af- ter other speeches, the meeting adjourned. THE DEMOCRACY. The Cook County Democratic League met last meht in Parlor 17 of the Pulmer House,” ‘Terg was a fairly larze attendance. Henry M. Shepurd pre- sided, und he explained that the object of the mevt- Ing was to discuss the matter of ward orzunization aud to organize Clubs in the various towns and country districts. A long discussion foilowed upon the method of organization. Mr. M. F. Taley fa- vored scparate League Ward Clubs, wiich would mi-monthly mectinzs. He favored muking c an open organization, and throwing off its exclusivencss. James Woods, of the Fourth Ward, favored ieeping the Leagite where it 13, 8 an organization of an_exclusive coaracter. . J. N. Somers, of the Sixth Ward, belleved in making the League n popular association in the vards, 3r. Lovejoy believed in extended membership in the League, 8o that 3t should embrace the entire Demo- cratic party. ' After some further discussion, the meeting adjourned. THE CITY-HALL. were The license receipts were $200. The police are hapoy. They got three-quarters of their March pay in cash. : The Treasurer's receipts were: ' Comptroller, $4#2.48; Collector, $279; Water Oftice, 'S4, 441, 42; total, $4,762.90. The Mayor and Comptrolier are understood to have in.preparution a new Revenue law, in order to help the city over the “‘:qu against which it has run. Prosccating-Attorney Linscott is after the pro- fussionsl bailere. Nobody .but the wmembers of that disreputable closs themselves will be sarry if he ehould make ehort and quick work of it. The Mayor, Corporation Counsel,-and Comp- troller went to the corner-stone- laying, and very Tittle was done in any of the Departments between Zand+4 o'clock, when LaSalle strect was full of soldters, - Exz-Ald. Kirk, C. 3. Henderson, and Charles P. Kellogg had an’ fnterview with the Mayor in the ‘morning about scrip, but the particulars were ot divalzed. All that' was lesrned was that *‘tne scrip is bothering the life.out of us.” Corporation-Counsel Bonfleld has received notice from \Wasnineton that the Land Commissioner had granted an extension to the Valentine scrip-bold- ers, they having until the 15th of June to ille their . The case, therefore, cannot be heard until l‘l’lrlx::!lhnt time. It i8 expected that the Secretary of the Interior will take it up about July 1. e city anthorities are doing all they can to in- nn?xlmc e Assessors to distribate the burdens of taxation equally. Many who have heretofore been nasessed Jightly in personal property” will be sur- Driscd when the returns are in for 1578. Dr. DeWolf, Clicago's Health Officer, sces no reason why the city stiould not be free. from any Visitation by cliolera or other cpidumics this sum- mer. or why it should not. generally €peakiug, hold its own as regards its reputation for being one of the healthiest” localities on the face of the earth. ‘Tlhie Mayor says that the imoression that thecity anthorities do ot wish to_have the certificate and scrip cases taken to the Supreme Court is wrong. Should an unfavorable decision, however, be ob- fained 1n the Fuller case it wouid be u great biow tothecity. If_both cases went up together, und thie serip was alone sustained, the wheels would not stop. 1fthe '773 were first declared illegal, the weripwould be Injured. Ilence bota cases ought 1o go to the Supreme Court at one time. Mr. Don- fleld. he said, had been €0 busy, having seven or eizht importaut cases to look after,” that he conldn't hurry matters very well. Mr. Bonfleld himself stated that, of course, he would heed the resolution of the Councll. He considered it bad policy to have the questions decided one at time, Dut the responaibility had been taken off his shoul- ders. Although ot of the nsual order, efforts will doubtless be made to get the scrip case on to the docket of thé Appellate Conrt at ouce, and have an early day fixed for the hearinz. 1f an opinion fs given early in June, both cases can be gotten into The Supreme Court sitting at M. Vernon. r—— THE COUNTY BUILD{NG. The County Collector yesterday levied on the ef- fects of Mrs. 7. Castagns, No. 1398 State street, for taxes, and o custodian was in possession at last | accounts., Ti the Criminal Court yesterday, the Elston road quo warranto case again came to light. Tne own- crs of the road were given until: Wednesday to fiie .4 plea to the information. The Rosvo murder case will be called in the Criminal Court to-morrow. but it is more than Jikely Yhat it will be continued, from the fact that the State’s Attorney wilk have to be at Geneva to ry the Gacritys. “The Committec on Printing and !Stationery met yesterday, and, after auditing a number of bills, agreed to report 1o the Board to-morrow callin on contractors mot to furnish anything in the future cxcept upon a requisition. The smoke-burner man was around again vester- day Iaboring with & committee 10 zet his S500. Ile did not succeed. however, and it is vretty general- Iy understood why. The story has been given be- fore. lic will not get his money until he becomes willing to divide, or until an ex-Commissioner agrees to stop fghting him. Taxpoyers should bear 1 mind that the five- stxth tax business apolies only to the South Divi- sfon. Yesterday some persons trom West and North Chicago tried to pay their taxes by tendering five-sixtirs, all zrowing out of reading un item in the papers which they failed to fully comprehend. The Finance Committee met yesterday, and in the matter of the temporary loan of $200.000. due June 14, ordercd the Treasurer to pay $30,000 of the amount. To obey this order, the Trensurer will have to husband the income from. taxes, und suspend the payment or all county orders for the time velng. ~ What i3 to be done about the balance of the loan {s not known. Neither is it known. even, whether the §30,000 will be pawl when due. 'PITZGERALD AND WALKER'S EXTRAS. A year azo Commissioner Fitzgerald was an un- compromistng enemy of wWalker and cverylhing else in the suape of extras in the Court-Ilouse work, but now he is not. e thenfourht Walker's claim for §21,597, which Ezin eaid was due him asa matter of equity, but it was allowed over his Tiead, but never accepted. Yesterday he got the Committee on Public Buildings and Public Service “ together especinlly to vote him a largzer amount,— 23,721, —and bo sppeared as Waiker's champion. e taikedgloud and long. and as urzent!y asked the allowance 05 the Iatier sum as he had ooposed the ullowance of the former. The srchitect had not certitied to the justice of the claim either, and the power of the Board to pay it was being tested in the Courts, yet this amounted to nothing in the frce of his desire to vote the money away. 1le was wild with zeal, and, losing sight of the fact that he bad introduced a resolution into the Boara at its Jast meeting commanding certificate in favor of Walker, which bad not been acted on, he talked loud in the fnterest of the oo~ pressed contractor. Ihs labors, however, proved to be of no avall, for when ne called the vote vn his motion to allow $28,721 it stwod. yeas—Fitz- zewald, Dradiey, and Hoffman; naye—Spofford, Boese, and Meyer, and was lost. He did not pive up tamely, bot at once sought to comvince Meyer that ne was wrong, and to win his vote. It was n0 use, however, for Meyer stood by his position. Fitzgeraid was disheartenced at the resulr, and asa consequence all other auestions before the Com- mittee were allowed to go over until Wednesday afternoon. CRIMINAL. Richard Huggard and Helen La Verzne were beld to the Criminal Court yesterday by Justice Robin- son in bonds of $300 cacn for stealing a trunk and contents, valued at $6, from Kate Foster, of No. 105 West Washington street. A subscriber gives notice that the policeman who steals potted plants from a certain honse on Onta- rio street should desist and return what he has al- ready stolen. Else he will e reported. John Ryan and Elibu Rosencranz, who were ar- rested upon suspicion of complicizy In the late vurglary of Gage Bros.’ establishment and the t of twenty picces of silk valued at S1,500. re before Justice Foote sesterday, and were 1d In bonds of 5500 each for trial May 23. J. Thomas, charged with committing an abortion, and Thomes Jawocski, accossory. were yesterday discharged in the West Division Potice Court at the request of the proscentor’s attorney. Jaworski, it is sald, has left town. and_has made, or prowiised to mike, suitable provision for his former mistress, Mary M oore, and her child. Atan carly hour vesterday morning John Ben- nett, of No. 125 Van Buren strect, _while on his way home was arsaulted at the corner of State and Van Buren streets by o party of tnknown men, one of whom knocked him senseless by nitting him on the head with o brick. Tnc rest of tho gang then hetped themselves to the contents of his pockets, amounting to about $83 in currency. No arrests. Minor_arrests: Lawrence Beattie, thicving va- nt; Owen McCarthy, David Kennedy, and John rie, brought m by the boy detecives, charged pockels in the processions of yester- trick Hanraban alins ulfer, " ta) ilar offensc oy Detectives Scott and Lon- fleld; **Slinnie ' Marks, charzed with the larceny of five pucketbooks from the store of Isadore Wolf, No. 198 Madison sirect: Andrew Luum, charzed th 2 drunken assault upon, and making threits against, Mrs. Anderson, residing at E, konayne's honse, No. 10¢ Bremer strects John Keeles aliis *+Catd,” dssaulting William Ponley, or N Beemer street; Ann Hic i an, arrested upon a broth Detectives Donficld and Scott yesterday arrested a fellow who gives his name as Thomas Collins, and who exuctly corresponds 1o the description of one Churles Colling, who escaped frum the county jatl at Bowlinz Green, O.. upan the night of April 18, tozether with Timothy Mattimore aud Jacob Wringer. The prisoner owns that he know: Mat- timore. and yet denies 1 is Charles Collins. He “clalms to gotten _out of Columbin Penitentiary April~ 20, hav- ing served a four-year sentence for burglary in Tolcdo, and_claims he &till hot on hiy prison- sult. Le dlso states that he was arrested soon after his lideration at Fostoria, upon suspicion that_he was the person_wanted. Detective Scott has written to the Sheril of Woud County, O., andg will hold the prisoner until a reply 15 received. Justice Summerfleld yesterday held the Zollow- inz: John E. Hoflerdt, a colored man, who stole o watch and chain und £50 cash from William Goidie, ot No. 434 Mid ran {r:xme. $500 to the Criminal Court: James Kearne .\Buxpecll-d of the burglary of Gage Krox.' store the 3Stli; George Mellville, alias Charles Cluyion, burglary of Mrs.” Foster's House,-No. nl2 Wubash avenue, SC00 to the 20th; Joseph Webber, vagrant, S50 fine; dake Thorne. an mcorrigible young boy, sent to the Criminal Court for the Xeform School at the request of his parents; ‘Thomas Dawson, vagrani, $30 fine; Gaetano Vaud and Josephine Parner, kKeepers of un ltalian dive at No, 686 In- Indiana avenue, S25 fine,and a number of inmates, $5 cach; James Carroll, accnsed of threats to shoot John Crawford, dischurged. Jus- tice Morrisson held Charles Singleton in $300 bonds to the Criminal Conrt for the larceny of about §200 worth of clothing and jewelry from his grandfather, William Ioltzman: Le Grand Kin: Teceiving and disposing of the goods, S300 ditto} Alice Sharkey, larceny of- o’ watch and $30 from. Rufos Wilkie, $500 to the 25th; Ellen Scully, erant, $50 fiue; Jumes Leazon and R. Sclesi: embezzlement from M. J. Cahll, continued to the 28th: George Richold, Jobn ' Baker, Willlam Dwyer, and Henry Colline, keeping concert-sa- louns, continned to the same date: Timathy Mon- ainn, stavbing Martin O'Brien last Suncay, dis- charged for Iack of proscention. HYDE PARK. TRUSTEES' MEETING. The regnlar tri-weekly meeting of the Boara of Trnstees was held yesterday afternoon in the Village-1all. Present, Trustees Beck, Green, Pot- ter, Wright, and President Bennett, Mr. Coy be- ing absent in Washington. The Committce on Public Grounds reported on the proposition of S. IL. Carlson to finish the atlas for $1,300; that it was being done to their satisfac- tion at the cost of $300. saving thus S1,000; and that they did not see the necessity of baving him i hli 1 e Police Comniittee recommended that th force be kept as follows for the year: Sta tlon-Keepers, Richard Dumpley Firet District. X. Hunt, M. llunt; Sccond, Tuomas Ryan, W. Howard; Third, Peter Lurdbery, Moony Nachan: Fourtn,’ A." C. Cudmore; Fifth, Marun Muerphy, James Tally; Eighta and Nintp, Peter Stenberger; Tenth, Fatrick Clancy, J. B May- nard. Fhe Committee recommend that the pay be cut £10 per month, reducing it tv $30. Keferred. The attorney, a8 directed, broughi in an ordi- nance fora road law, or poil-tax.” The ordinance was passed.. The commutation, if men do not wish to work, 'will be $1.25 per day. fThe citi- munication on the Chicago & Thornton Road, and wan thelr policeman made roadmaster su well as policeman; and that he do some work. 'The Clerk read o list of rondmasters who had been selected, and thelr names wera referred. The following pe- tition was presented: We, the nndersigned, restdents of the First Precinct. respectfully and most earnestly request that you will not grant any saloon license, duriug this muateipal year, within the following boundaries, Viz.: Tnat ter- Fitory cast of Woodiawn avenue, 1ying between Forty- cventh and Fifty-seventh streets. We teel that for yarlous reasons we hase the Fight to demandat your hands exemption from the iils and annoyances counecte ed with the liquar traftic. _The greater part of our peo- pleare opposed to the traflc from priaclple, as its hate- Tul aud demoralizing intlucnces tell directly upon all, and_especlally upon the young of our communl:y, 1 ‘we have no saloons where the idle sud vicious can coas Vealently cougregate It will materfally advance our property Interests and our moral prosperity. Fur these ind many other good snd sufiiclent ressons, we urgs that you grant our petition. S1gued by 402 Iadics aud 234 genta: s ‘After o speech by Dr. Ferris, it was_referred to the License Committee. WALDRON'S DEFICIH The Village Attorney then suomitted a rept 1 have the honor to submit herewith o deed con: ing to Judge John A. Jameson as Trustee, Granvilie § Ingraham, aud Judge C, if. Wood belng 'named as bl successors In trust, for the Village of Hyde Fark, cer- tutn property thereln described, Which it 13 proposed to turn over to the villige (0 apply on, account of Liie de. felency caused by the misappiication of the fundsof the viilage by fts ex-Treasurer. This property lias been appratsed by experts in real estate u connection with sume of our citizen, Whose uames arc appended to the recommendation and apuraisement, a3 worth at present prices ubout €28,000. It Is claimed by Mr. Waldron that 1t has cost him about the sum of S3=.000 Mr. Waldron tenders It to the town und desires a credis of $30.000 on account of the balance due from: Nim to the village. “The main reason why Mr. Waldron considers himself fustiy eatitled to & credit of this mnount, i3 sald said to be that this land was received by Mr.'Waldron from Mr. Chauney llowen In payment of the indebtedness ot said lowen 1o the villaze, the nature of which you are famfijur with. 1t {3 claliied that Mr. Waldron way in tact not Tesponsible for the loss of this motcy by Mr. Bowen, and_ that he could notat the time by held leisally Muble because of it. However this may be.and I have notsuficient knowl- edze of the facts (0 be avle to form an opiulon fn re- gard tolt will in vlew of the Importance of gertin immediate possession of this property before’ other disposition shall be ‘made of it. “and in view of the fact that the oplslon has Deen expressed In writing, herewith sulmitted, by persons in whose judgment I have configence, that the vil- 1age will stortly be able to Tealize the full sum of $30,000 trom Liie saie of tiils aftér consultation with U y Cummiite s, th all things considered, it Is 3 13\b e To aceg,” the aud ailow the credit of S3v, U therefor. Ti.s cone: sion I have reacted after a full investization of the fets and circumstances, aficr yome Ledtetion. aud jouut. % Judgce Johu 3.Jsmeson hasconsented to act as trustce for th village under the deed. and G. S, Ingranam and Judge C. H. Wood us successors n trust. . I V. Feeexay, Village-Attorney. 1 am of opiniou, From our knowledge of the property mentloned In the, foregulnc list, und of the circumsiances under which It s prunosed to be turned over by Mr. Waldron 10 the Villagre 0f Hyde ’ark for the sum of $30,000, to be eredited to his account with the village, e are of the opnion that it will be cdvantageous to the village 1o take the property at that zure, and we judge thac by holdlug the same until the deinand for Teal estate improves, the village whil be able to reulize’ that suin Trom Henry T. Ghace, H. N Ilfbbard. G. S. Ingraham, Charlex 1. Wood, C. B, Nelson, J.'N. Barker, Charles Hitelicock, Jumes i W.'K. ‘Nckermag, M. L. Waltz, Georze S Bogue, J. . Caltioun. Mr. Green had looked over the ground but did not know of 113 value as he is not well acquainted with the real estate. -Mr. Potter did not see that it was wise to credit Mr. Waldron with any more that its exact value. Mr. Benpett wished it kept 1n mind that there miglt be some liens or claimsugainst Mr. Waldron, and other parties might sieze it. Mr. Freeman said that the offer was made by Mr, ‘Waeldron, and it would hardly be fatr to accept the deeds of property without granting the credit 2sked for. 2dr, Bennett thought that there shonld be a com- munication from Mr. Waldron on the subject, or if he was not able to write it, Jethim have his attorneys do go. Mr. Green suld that the Judiciary Committee bad been authorized to make recommendations, and after looking it over, this was thetr recommenda- tion. Mr. Wright thought tbat some one should be present to appear for Waldron as promisea, but no une appeared, and therefore he recommended that the matter be left over until Monday evening at 7o'clock. Judge Higzinus had spoken to him in the hall vefore the meeting, and appeared to want to buveit rashed through. 4 James H. Reese suid he signed the recommenda- tion. but could nut tell the value of the property. The Board, therefore, let the thing go over until Monday evenuz.® ‘The vfliciat bond of J. I. Benoett as President of the Board of ‘Trustees. signed by Solomon Field and J. Ramsay Flood as suretics, was received. Seven saloon licenses were granted. Fhity-one saloon licenses were petitioned for by the saloon- kecpers. 5 Mr. Wright offered the following resolution, and it was referred to the Judiciary Commlttee. Thac the Vilage Attorney be ‘and heredy uitsazainst A, D. Waldron and ifs several sureties iipoa each and cvery of the bonds Pror (0 the last upon which sutt has heen commenced, and which were given by bim as Treasurer of the Vil lazze of Hydo Park. The Board are getting aeady toimprove Commer- cial avenue, Ninely-fifth screet, and One Hundred a;ndlsu‘um.l strest, and Lave ordered un ordinance or It. ‘The Board then adjonrned until Mondsy. SUBURBAN. PARK RIDGE. A specisl meeting of the Doard of Trastees was beld Thursday evening. - The President appointed the following standing commilttecs: Pimmce—Lr. Fricke, J. IT. Buttler, and S. W. Grannls; Strects and Alleys—J. 1L Buttler, D. A¥Gubbs, and F. Schlender. The bids for furnishing oil and sun- plies and attendance of street-lampa were opened, but by reason of their indeflnite character they were all rejected, and nes proposals are to be re- cefved. NORWOOD PARR. The mewly-clected Board of Trustees, conslst- ing of Messrs, Burbaus, Lowe. Moisley, Seymour, Stevens, and \Winchell, have orgnmized, Mr. S, L. Burhaus being chosen President; John Commack swas elected Treasurer; John Stockwell, Street Commissioner; Hobert Orr, Pound Muster: H: C. Luiter, Chief of Police; and S. E. Commack and Rohert Orr, peiicemen. The Clerk presented the estimate_of amount needed for expenses of the Village Government for the current fiscal yeer, $2,780, which was approved. EVANSTON. The Village Trustces met_Friday cvening. The resimation of J. R. Fiteh, Villae Engineer, was offered and accepted. The regular monthly revort of the Village Treavurer showed for Aopril as fol- lows: Keceipts, $2,090.51; disbursements, S1.- 60:2.81: cash on hand, 312,880.59. The Finance Committee having reporied that it would be pos- to securc the Doard’s present quarters for 5 per mouth, jt was_decided 30 1o A com- mittee report sdverse 10 the proposed extension of the water-worl stem 10 Svuth Evanston elicit- ed much afscussion. und was at last laid on the table for une month, the Village Clerk being in- structed to inform those outside the limits of the villaze now using the water-pipes that they must brinz tacir proverty inside suid Hmits or have neir water turned off. Tpe Rev. Dr. Ridzeway, of Cincinnati, will vreach at the Methodist Church to-day, he havinz exchanzed pulpits with Dr. Hatleld. ' Dr. Noves, at the Presbyterian Cnurch, will lectare on **Rob- ert Tyncall and the Enslish Lible.” The Kev. 3Mr. Bis<el. of Mighland Park, will occupy the Con- grezational pulpit this_evening, ' the Rev. Mr. Packard having gone to Mr. Bisscll's charze. The Ttev. Mr. Monjean, who may pussibly be cailed to ill the Bavtist puipit permanently, there this wornin will preach ——— 5 THE WEATHER. Orrice oF Tue Cnicr Siavan OFFICER, Wasmiseros, D. C., May 19—1 2. m.—Indica- tivns—For the Teunessee and Ohio Valley, falling followed by rising barometer, warm southeasterly veering to cooler southwesterly winds, cloudy and rainy weather, accompany- ing thunder storms, clearing away in the former and western portion of the latter. For the Lake region and Upper Mississippi Valley falling barometer, brisk and high east- erly to southerly winds, slizatly warmer threat- ening and rainy weather, followed in the latter by rising barometer, westerly winds and vartly cloudy weather. = G ) For the Lower Missouri Valley, rising bar- ometer, gouthwest to northwest winds, and cooler, ¢I¥ar or clearing weather. Cautionary signals continue at Duiuth, Mar-~ quette, Escanaba, Milwaukee, and Section one, Chicazo, Grand Haven, Ludivston, Alpena, Port Iluron. Detroit, Toledo, Sandusky, Cleve- land, and are ordered for Erle and Buff: LOCAL OBSELYATIONS. 11CAGO, Moy 18, Vel.| n, Weather GENERAL ODSEEVATIONS. Cuscaco, May 18—3ldaight. \Bur.y Thr. | Wind. | Rain, Weather. .02 Cloudy. Statfons. 48 67 Cloudy. Cloads. 03, Thre'ning ‘11iCloudy. Chlcago... Detrote. E., fresh . E., fresh OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Sax Fraxcisco, Cal.. May 13.—Steamship Gaelic, for Yokoanma and Honz Kong. Loxpox, May 18, —Steamships City of Brus- sels and St. Lawrence, from New York, and Siberia, from Bostou, have arrived out. New’ YORK,-May 18.—Arrived, steamship Egypt, from Liverpuol. QOLDIERS DESIRT MEYERS—ITART—Mr. Rudolbh 3. Moo Tork Cley, to 313 Sarah Harte of CofeaSToRL of S ATILES_JECKEL—n this eity, Tharmcs 364 West Washingto ~1=l..‘l‘1lyu|§l:’1}e’s{"ilm‘ Maras D. D.. Mr. Jullus . Abies and Misa' Empny 00000 Bialitite, of Marenaitown. oo 24 Mt biegh MURPHY—MEREY—On the 12th {ng, by the 4 e Dr. foles. John A L. 3 boil of thld city. oty and Aafy il REYNOLDS—DEWES—0n 16, 1578, H. W. Reynotds, ul?rflfl.}ffpfi"“hx. My Jennte A. Dewes, of Park Ridge, i1, *- > 10d 21 ThE Teaiens of Lhe brIdes Pasnal SrESE: Yar g Wyckofl. Portaze Clty, Wis. Mr. T5one (¥, Sumig of LaCi6 e, Wi, and Miss'Ada T Weovkpd- e, DEATES, —— CRORIN—Mrs. Nelife Crokin, beloved J. Crokin, aged 30 years. All ¥ ved wite of 1y, herlos. * T : h“ ¥ho know hor Jah.:, (Funeral takes place this (Sun oclock, from et Tate restdenergay Eap Hagesto the church, By’ cars T Calviry B, Xilfriends are cordialiy lnvited to atters? C3¢ta, €2~ 5t. Louls and Toronto papers nloass co DURACK—The funeral of Mr. John Dursee., cars, drowned on the 10:h 1t will tags 1 iZ34 - Sunday, the 19th fost., a6 his late reqies, West Erle-st., theaco by cars to Calvary Cogrs nix’usnrz UT—May 17 i tery. 3 Tz gy Ifjehrocht. of consumption,, p, g tand Cemetery. Al frizuds ave nviag 5 5 8t tho r Hdence of by v s cléy. May 17, 197, e b Moo M TR 20421 . thfas., a2y v.fi:aflcfi;‘d‘m the 19th Inst., by caratages 1o gy, o Duakirk ana Kansas City papers plese RO. 7\315‘{: this elty, on the 18th fast., James Boney, uneral 1] take place from bl dauehters e (Mrs, T, Unkrey), it Oakar CAahers reteney 10:30 o'clock. by carriages fo Calyar Motz ap respectiully invited 0 atrend. " R SEINWERTH— sganmER M4y 18, of consumption. Mim Kiege “Funeral Tuesday at1p. m. Carriazest Rosens) SPERRT-ln Chicazo, May 16, at Yo. m\g:‘bfl}, st Fdward ndale Sperry, 83ed 33 years 10 montyy Interred at Graceland Cemetery 18fh las. (6, Dk ). T~ Ann Arbor and Detrolt papers pleasz co -1 o 4 THAYER—Vednesday. Mav 15 A Lila Thiayer. aged 19years, w2 Tammilre, m, e ANNOUNCEMENTS, NT 158 LATISIER'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Tas 75 MESokd o5 Sishin r?zfl?fi:’%"mfiq' third-st. _Parents are tuvited 1o Vislt the school NG TO PARTICIPATE IS Tim S Ceremony of removing the Asta St Goaal: the 234 nst. are requested focave. thelr maes Lon Gen. Martin Beem. [ooms 47 and m.wfi Block, and Gen. Julfus White, 177 Lasalle s beforé the 22a inst. _Round trip one-balt fare.” - MERCHANT TAILORING, THE RECOGNIZED SUPERIORITT . 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