Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1881, Page 6

6 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY” FEBRUARY 6, 1881—EIGHTEEN PAGES CITY SANITATION. The Possibilities of Water as a Carrier of Contagious . Diseases. Impure Condition of the Agueocus Fluid Supplied for City TUse. Ulcerated Sore Throats the Result of Bad Sewerage on Silver Street. Some Useful Hints on the Treatment of Diphtheria, OUR DRINEING-WATER. ITS POSSIBILITIES AS A PURVEYOR OF CON- TAGIOUS DISEAS! Two localities—an English bascment veneered with Lrick and a number of dilapidated single and doable frame structures—were visited yes- terday by Trne Tmueye Health Commisstoners. Apropos to ihe sauitary labor here begun the Tollowing dialex occurred betwegu the two mem- bers of the Commissions: Doctor, a5 2 matter of fact, i3 it true that the Inke waier causes the so-ealled winter cholera! ~Rather paradoxical question, that. 1 will enswer yesand no; ves,so fur as the water may be the carrier of filth, and 1iith a factor that is augmentive to disease: and no, so far as it.the water, Leing the direct cause of the pathotozical condition found to result from this disorder.™ *The water Is then rore or less polluted with sewnger™ 3 “Yes, particularly fn this season of tho year; fn fact, there is no time when our drinkwngz- water Is absolutely free from such coutamica~ tion; and why shouid we expect it o be other than it is? One would not paturally expeet to obiain drink that wus perfectly wholesome if fts sovrce was a slop-bucket. No; no more should we who drain our filth into the vessel out of which wedrink. Destdes, notwithstand- 1ng this fact that we drala eversthing whichis noisowma into the lake, we, as a whole, are determined that it siall get there o greater volume than can be carried there by drainage; henee we'not only permit it but we quietly sub- mit to i,—that is, 10 & tux,—in order that it shall be cwrried there by pump—namely: through the Fullerion avenue conduit - A munieipal outlay, Doetor, that you do not approve vl s u municipal outlay that will, fn my opin: fon. in casc of an epidemic, cause the Geatn of thousands of our citizens!—sn outlay that ls now forcing tons of refuse matterout of the North Branch into our water-supply.—that is to Ay, into the water driwn from our hydrans. % 2all: about the purity of the water in Luke Aizebigmn at different depths fn und about the Crib, ind about the analysis of said _water, is all nonsense—muuicipal botabast,~and practically neans uothing. The purity of our Inke water emeryes fnto the question of the purity of the water .taken from our bydeauts £nd got to Lake Michigan as a whole. "No one doubts but that therc is pure water in Lake Michigan. but many question, 8s they well way, 3£ we RS u city get it Our suvply s delivered Through the hvdrants iz equally as foul as was the waters of the Thames, Lea, and New River prior 10 1852, —1hat is to suy, the living orzun: 1sm= Known 10 subsist upon filth or upow Ditri etter sre preseut in vast pumbers in our bydrnt and the fact that they do « subsist herein, and that _they are inereasing in numbers, together with the knowledre that uni- mal mutter, Votb mwuscular fiber and animal membrsne, nd veretable tissue. such s barley, and corn-sturch, chatf, ete., are eing car- ed through the conduit. from the nauseous pool that we terma a T into the lulce, together with these livine o s, natural inhabitants of the river, 15 sw i 1s fmpure.” < * But these organisms, and the decomposable BLrus -u';rc referred “10, do not in themselves isense? ™ Bur the fuct that they are carried into v are_brought is wr supply, and that the: us LY the pump at the Witer-Work: evidence encugh 10 create n itopression, o = the least, that THE SOLUBLE SEWAGE @F THE CITY isalso brought Leck tous. 'Thet the vast ton nage of excrementitious matter that is reasona- biy thourht to be loadex sese-bree mis is a diseuse-creating clement is unqu Tionuble, and it i3a fact that absolutely deties annlytical research. Hassal * It basbeen 3 hed that impure water fruitful cause - of evidence to this ned, and it is, more- af discase, 8ud & geeat bo cifect hns aready Leen obt over, duily icgreasing, di e belng oc- casioned, so far us is known, Ly or- imnic matters which the water contains, Of the nature and cobditivn of these matiers it little that i3 precise is known. The most burttul, tere is reason 10 believe, are those Wwhich 2re in suspension, and especially when derived frum receut sewnge and fecal matier.” He further suys: *Diseuse is frequent! 1c the use of waters which are perfectly bright and elesr, gnd which contzin 1o nppreciuble sediment. The following disurders und diseases bave all of them Leen produced by impure water—ormely: dyspevsia. diarriten, dssenters, chalera, typheid fever, sexrlet fever, m fevers, and ugue, and we miy 1n cases in which the water y ¢ feeal matter) it is iniporiant tu observe tiat the svinptoms are often markedly ctolernic (pureing. vomiting, cramps, and of beat). The drinking of water ipre cd with sulphuretied hydrogen gases will llkewise give rise to Now, while these observations are to tho Ppolat und exceedingly iuterestiag as to our own condition iu_rerard toa contmninuting water Bupply, bow do you account for a simliar state of uiliirs elscwhere, and the presence there of the so-valled * winter cholera?™ ™ *1n my judgment the disease Is partiaily in- Guced by atmospheric changes, but just how I am_unabie 1o determine; b yilluge, 1own, and n fact ull over this rosd country, every where, durine the past few vears of thrift, every ‘Perishable and unmarkeldble thing bos Leen left to accumulate and to subsequently decom- pose. These svluble portions, intiltriting the 6oil s they necessurily do, have drained into wells, cres ‘er3, and lakes, and have pollut- ed the respective waler supply with the saluble nic muter alrendy referred to, and in this huve become o fuctor fn causing this and othier forms of disense.” *You speak of living organisms such asin- habit foul water. 1s §t not true that whol or puluable water contuivs living org 0v “Yes, but those to which I referare anly found ns the natural inbabitunt of wuicr containing filth: they breed and live here, be- cause of the presence of filth. The diotoms and degruids, ana some of the conferrvare thought 1o be unobjectionable, und without doubt they are, us tiey ure =hnost afwars found In palata. Dble water. but thesaramiecia, the bydra valgara, the anguiltula tuviatis, the vorticella. und some orber forms, nmong which should be mentioned he bacteria, & few fungi, cte., olf indicite the nce of nilrogenous matter.” * In order 1o avoid tne possible danger, what ‘would you sugpest?™ *1 would advise that all water used for drink- inz purposes should be boiled. Ina measure this wili help, although it may not remove the dunger from the orgauic matter, the quantities of which vary ia proportion to the intiux of the - river water.” “ But—" “This is Silver stree one we are 1o visit.” HOUSE INSPECTION. MORE IMPERFECT SEWERAGE. Nos. 15, 154, 17, and Silver street fs an English basement occupicd by four femilies, numbering In all twenty-four persons. In Nos. 15and 15} the sewerage is fair; the only par- ‘ticular fault noticeadle was the common one, no trapping underneath the kitchen-sink, thus permitting the gases emanatiug from the eatch- Dbasin to pass directly into the kitchen above. In No. 17 was where the sewer-gas bad proved the mest troublesome. Here the entire family bad been sick. Euch member thereof had beea sulfering more or less coutinuously all winter long from ulcerated sore thruats, and two were till suffering. An examination of the rear premises revealed the fuct that one catch-basin ‘was made vo do service for two families,—that is, for two tenements.” This is connected witn tne vaultat the back of the yard. This vault has been cleaned but once iu five venrs, and this wus. during last summer. -‘The Health Department were notitied of its foul condition several times, and at Jast_removed a portion of the contents. buton uccount of the odors traversing the tile 10 the cateh-basiy, and from this through the untrapped wuste-pipe up into the kitchen, ey were obliged to return and remove the balance. The sewage flowing down and formitr a cesspool underneath the house, instead of pussing iuto the’ eatch-basin, as 1t should, eaused un examination to be made. This was lust November. The tile leading 10 the basin was found choked up. and that un this account the sewage was tlowing back under- neath the house. This wes remedied, but the cateh-basin, which was neurly tull of solid ooze, was ieft uudisturbed, and the odors ure simply unbearable. 1n No.37%; the conditions are quite the same; there are no trippings in the waste-pipe leading tethe sink, and. the gases emanating (rom the Dbasin ‘and the vault pass up unioterraptediy into the Kitchen above. The occupants here have thefr living room on tne floor above, but bave suffered more or less all winter with taroat trouble, The tenantssay thats health officer : that block there 18 the | most arrceatle for the patient. {s seldom seen in the vicioity; that the scavenger has been seen nround these premises only once during the past year, and on this occusion be braught was by the persistenut ef- forts of the tcuants, who tlooded the Depurt- ment with postal-curds bearing u serjes of com- glalnm in reference 1o the accumulating ger- e and tho great number of defunct outs, rats, and dogy Iying about the alley at the river. THE NEXT BUILDING VISITED wns Nos. 66 and 88 Quincy street, a double frame structure ocoupled ns four tonements by somo twenty-three people. Here the sowage f car- ried by a box drain into the privy vault, and then ioto a catch-basin, und from there into the sewer. There are no trapsin the waste-pipes leading to the sinks, and aitbough there Seems tobe 0o compluint of the conditons within doors, the odor without s snid to be horrible whenever it i8 warm. The vault is sald to have been cleuned out Inst fall for the first time within four vears, It is here, i this stroct, where the Health Officer might getin a mouth or two of gvod work. The people on both sides of the street are loud iu their denuncindon of the Henlth De- partment. They say, und the heaps of garbaxe bere and there speak for themselves, that the Rurbage has uot.ouce been removed snywhere along the street since last fall, and it onee or twice Guring {nst summer that 4 seav- euger visited the streec. One box of garbage bas stood, filled full to the brim, before No. 103 ever since early fall Iast year, and itstands there to-day a monument to the efficiency of the Heulth Department. [n Nos, 95 und 97 there sre hiteen or twenty people. The seware is cur- ricd down on the outside into 2 drain leading to the vault direct. In Nos. 93 to 107, two double frame tenement bulldings, there are some foriy-1wo or three people. nuny of them children, und the sur- roundings are frightful to behold. 1u this und the adjoining premises, from No. 3 to- No.” 107, the yards —are undivided and are vsed Iz common by all the tenants. AL the reur ure situated the uut-houses, four in oumber, placed over one generul vault, two of which belong to the prymises fronting on Adans street. This is uiso the situation of the out-buildings at the reur of the other double tencments,—that s, the vault Is in common with that belonging ta' the buildings fronting on Adums street. The cconuwy of the several owners s made apperent in the fact thut the sewage from these several buildings emptles directly intoa_catch-unsin, one for cach of the double tenements, which iS uot provided- with any form of water-sesl, and this is_connected with the vauit by a box-drain. and from the vault the contents are conveved by a drain to the Adams street sewer. These catch-busins are located in the yard close to the bullding, be- tween the stairs”leading 10 upper rear tene- ments. They frequently fill up and over flow, creating a cesspool At the rear and bLeneath the hous: On more thun one occusion the night-toil has backed up through the drain into the catch-basig, and flowed out on 1o the ground beneath the build- ing. Althoush & man is engaged by the owner 1o keep the sewerage in order, it is slleged thut be does as little as possible, und that the neigh- Dbors, ufter standing the stench as long as they can, take turns in cleaninyg out the druins lead- iug to the vaults,as well us the busins them- selves, aud tat o this way they wungye to ex- ist. The only method or process by which the contents of the vaults ure removed is by tush- ing. The coutents of the catch-basin are par- tially cleuned out, aud a strenm of water from the bydraut is carried iato that, and another di- rectly into the vaull, and by the combined effect of the two streams itis ina few hours declared to be in -a sanitary condition. In reference to the scaveazer, one of the occupants stated that she bad once cowe o an understand- iug with n scaveager who hud promised that, if she would bave ber garbage ready in a box be- fore ber door, he would call regularly und empty it. The lndy eaid thut ber part of the contract was immediately filled, but the sciavenger never came ngain, and Snally the box was broken down by old age and the garbage. What there was left was scattered upon the street, Asnin, in front of Ng. 138 South Desplaines strect, on the opposit side, at the intersecton of Quiney street, there stands a box that was tllled with garbage lust fall. The occupnnt says that seaveuiers never come 1o relmove garbnue, butthe liealth Departinent regularly attends to the removal of the ushes. 5 itis certain that in no section of the Ninth Waurd is there shown more neglect, or is there less attendon given tu sanitavon, than is kere given in Quiney street, just west of Desplaines. - DIPHTHERIA. SOME TSEFUL UINTS REGARDING ITS TREAT~ M 3 In the premonitory stages of diphtheria, when the paticut is uf¥ected with rigors or chilliness, or these with niternate and frregular iushes of Leat, a full warm bath, as warm as the patient can bear comtoriably, for ten or fitteen micutes should be. emploved if practicable. If this is impracticable, the warm hip-beth and the hot 1uot-bath ure the best substitutes. 1f these are not avuilable, warm fomentstions to the abdo- men and bottles of Lot water tothesidesand feet should be resortedto. 1f there isat this time pain or soreness of the throut without much heat, fomentations should be applied externally for Ten ur ifteen minutes, followed Gy the cold wet compress ¢ vered with & dry t wel or cloth, and this should Le rews. unu reapptied as often as it becowes warm or ncarly dry. The patientshould keep entirely quiet at this time, avoiding every- toing in the shape of food, condiments, stimu- Iunts, and’ medicines, swallowing nothing but pure water, and of this only so much as is Gemanded by the thirst. The temperature of the water for drinking may be that which Is When the bot stuge of the fever 18 fully developed, the tepld half-buth and the tepid ablution tnay be resorted to. In the case of more fecble patients, and where the external beut is moderate or un- equal, the tepid ablution should be preferred. The temperature of the water should be cool, but not very cold,—say from 75 degrees to 8 de- grees Fabrenbelt. Either of the baths may be repeated as often as occasion requires,~that is, as often us tho external temperuture of the pa- tient rises much above the normal standard. The patient should be put to bed immediately after each bath, and Le kept warm and com- fortuble. Much sweating,. however, is to be avoided, although a very moderate perspiration wmay bedesirable. Too much eare cannot bo taken to keep the feet warm and the hesd cool; and if there is the least tendency to coldness of the lower extremities and heat of the beud, hot bortles should be applied to the feet and cold wet cloths 1o the head. When there is much pain, beat, or SWELLING OF THE THROAT, or when the little patebes of fibrinous exudation become visible on the mucous membrave of tha tonsils, or clsewhere, thu loeal trentment must be varied nceordingly.” Cold applications must be now resorted to, and ewployed thoroughly and perseveringly until the morbid secretion iy arrested. Sips of very cold water may be taken frequently, or, what is still better, bits of ice may be put into the moutk and nllowed to melt awisy, while the throat is enveloped in cold wet cloths. The object now s o cheek the vivlence of the intlammation and thus arrest the exuda- tion of the membrunous materinl, and there is 20 way 10 do this sv certuinly und So effectuully a3 to reduce the morbid heut below the point which is essentlal to the excredon of congulable lymph. This plan- has been em- ployed in thousands of eases of croup with almost uniform success. Andin the uleerated sore throat of mulinant scarlet-fever it 1s, very experienced mother as well as ows, the only reliable resource. If the patient is at any “time troutled with g cough, diflicilt expeetoration, or laborious recpiration, or all together, after the violence the intlammation has’ subsided, witrm water drinking, to the extent of fnducin ‘vomiting, if need be, should be resortedto. Ane in the latter stage of the disease, when the con- creted exudation is tirmiy adberent to the mucous surface, or bas extended widely in the bronchinl tubes, warn fomentations to the chest and throat are proper. Abundance of e PURE FRESH AIR s quite as fmportant in the treatment_of diph- therin a8 are the bathing processes. No dozbl the contagiousness or noncontaginusaess of the disease depends very much on the wewns which are employed to ventilate and cleanse tho apurt- meut. The paticnt should be kept comfortable by weuns of bed-clotbes and fire if necessary, but on no considerntion should all of the window and doors be closed tor & woment, The safety ot vihers, us well a5 of the paticut, may depend on this precaution. In close rooms and in un- derground apartments, where ree veatitation by doors und windows s Impossible, the air of the pluce may bu puritied to u great exrent by swinging the door vigorously forward and ba ward. In this wuy, in the crowded tenement- houses of our cities and large villages, fresh air may be supplied und the accumulated miusing expelled. The purifying and iovigorating in- tluences of light and sunshine should never ba disregarded. “They ure useful fo nearly aull morbid couditions, and of especial value in the management of putrid and infectious febrile and iudammatory discases. When practieable, the rays of the sun should be admitted freely into the sick chamber, und during the day the room shculd be as well lighted 28 possible, But at night, when the exterpal -senses of the patient _nced quict and repose, Light should be exciuded; nor stiould the talking or whispering of watehers he atiowed in the roow. . Tais is another impor- tuut elewmentiin tho treatnent of any diseuse, 4ud there {s no remedinl resource so little un-y derstood and 8o generally disregurded ns this. Even nmny physiclans seem to have littie ides of its necessity or value, und will disturb and disquiet their patient evers bour, and even awsken him outof n refreshing sieep, to nd- minister some dose or drug :which will do bim far less good than the quict and slumber that bus been brokel. Tke chief point of skill in the rue physiciun Is to know wheu to fet the patient alone. It is eusy to perceive morbid phenomena, and 1o combat symptoms: but to know when Nuture is downg just rieht, and whek _she should not be lutecfered with, requires judginent and discrim{nation, which are by no menns too com~ mon. - o FOOD AND DIET, mder this head very little uced be sald. Practice of stutfiog the putient continualiy “Tlnlg what is absurdiy called “nourishing dict”™ 8 exoeedingly pernicious. During the acute stage disease, while the feverisviolent and ?lfen}?lflummnz“(‘n severe, no food can be di- gested, and none should be tuken. As rhe fever subsides the putient may be allowed 8 little gruel and good fruit, to be followed. a8 _conval- escence advances, with such farinaceous arti- cles as meally potatoes, pensg, unleuvened bread, etc. DBuked upples, tomatoes; stewed or raw, sweet oranges, and similar fruits may genernlly be’ nllowed as freely as the pa- tlent desires; and until the “crisis of the dlsense :s fairly passeano otherfood 18 required. Drink_may bu taken according to thirst, but when there Is great thirst, with a disposition to yomit, very stnall draughts should be taken and frequently repeated. There is no objection in such euses 10 the juicesof acid and sub-acid fruits, properly diluted, as lemon juice, apple water, and oranges. Dried berries stewed and slightly sweetened will answer in some cusea for both victunls and drink. In tbis city, und prob- ably in most other perts of the country, dried berries of all kinds can be had in abundance alt through the winter senson. Preserved berries can siso_be found nearly as fresh and savory as when first picked from the bushes. Indeed, ‘the vulue of a'really frugivorous diet In fobrile diseases has never been sufliciently uppreciated. THE HEALTH OFFICE. CONTAGIOUS CASES REPORTED YESTERDAY. There were four new es and two deaths from small-pox reported yesterduy. Thedeaths occurred at the pest-house. Oae was Jacob Helarich. of Church street, 57 years old, who re- fused to be vaccinated after several cases had occurred in his house. The other wus & mun named Grofy, from the Town of Lake. At 161 Chureh street, Dr. Hull discovered a case which bad been hiddeu for at least-eigt or “nine duys, and might bave been concealed longer, but the attendunee of A physiciun was necessary. ‘The victim isa child wawmed Autony Scaneider, 9 yeurs old. It is a case oo ill to be moved, and two other familfes Tesfde in the house. T'he Doc~ tor had everybody else in the building vaccinated, but the lufection from the cuse basalready been widely dissennated. Mis8 Scherer, 10 years old, residing ut 2700 Archer avenue, Is_auother vie- tim. James H. Stead, 239 North Lu Salle, and Peter Ferd, 100 Eugenia street, complete the list of those.whio were reported. Tho Eugenla street ease is the second vccurring in_that louse. Other cases of contugious diseuse, were re- ported ns toliows: Measies at 231 Van Huren street; diphtheria on Twenty-ninth street, be- tween Mickiganand Wabush avenues, 213 North Welis, 61 Ohio, 313 urline, northwest. corner of Elkgrove und Grand streets, und 154 Evergreen street; scurlet-fever at 206 Third aveuue and 259 Ublo street. ' WINE IN THE WHITE HOUSE Grave Question Agltating a Prominent Mentor Family—How the President- Eleet Is Bored—Xegulating Iis So- cial Habits and Hospitable Instincts, By Telegpuph to New York Herald. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 8.—Messrs. Cornell and Piatt have been very silent about the object of their visit 1o Mentor, as bus alnost everybody of importance who has gone there within the lust five or six weeks. . 1t is supposed very generally that Mr. Garfield has called in succession Fenton, Pierrepont, Cornell, and Platt to Mentor only to consult with them about New York politics. No doubt bhe has tulked over such matters freely with them, but it is known here among those who. bave the most intimate relu- tions with Mentor thut another und quite different question bas formed un eurnest sub- Ject of discussivn between Garfield and bis emj- nent visitors. Little a3 the general public sus- pects it, they bave ut Meutor a trouble which the mere formatiou of a Cabinet, or the selec- tion of a uew set of Foreign Ministers, or even the determination of & policy. is u trile. The real, the auite awtul trouble which cause st less nights to the Sage ot Meutor, und which makes his waking hours uneasy, has no reladon 10 politles or politicians. not cuncern the great Conklingimbroglio, if there is one: it has no reference 1o Mr. Cimeron’s possible atti- tude toward the next Administration; it bas uothwg to 4o with Gen. Grant's likes or dis- likes: {t does pot relate to the everlasting Soutbern quesiion, or to the tarltf; or to the ul of commerce, or to subsidies, or to fn- ternal improvements, or to the Speakersbip of the next House, or to the politicul complexion of the next Sente, or the improvement of the Mississippi, or to the Mouroe doctrine, or the laterocennic Canal, or the new Mexican rall- ways. 1t is a problew betore which ull these to- reiher * pale their {netfectunl tires.” The real source of unbappiness at Mentor is fouud fu the problem, **Sball wine be bunished from or allowed in the White House under the next Adwiuistrutiont” Du not luugh, for the question s more serious, or rather imore troublesome, thun you would suspect. Ridicu- lous us it may appear to you. there hus been got rough the country a lively ugitadon of this question. Tempernnce people, as they cail tnemselves, are making the most intemperate appeals 10 Gen. and Mrs. Gurtield on the sub- ject. Women of the mascuifne order write ur- xent appeals to the President-elect to folow the noble example of Mr. Hayes and refuse to have wine served at bis state dinners. Make it a tra- dition, they urge, that the White Houso shull be the snectuary of total abstinence. Fdllow your | predecessor in setting a splendid example be- 1ore the country, and 50 on, and {u order to help the Gartieids to the desired conclusfon these (n- temperate temperance women ia Ohlo, and no doubt in all the Westund perbaps in the Eust also, nre now sending out circulurs soliciting subseriptions to pay for a portrait of Mrs. Hayes to be hung in the White House in the mune of fotul abstiuence, and as a steroand fnllexible ud- monition against wine at state dinners. I All this gives 4 curious awount of troubdle at Mentor, Gen. Garlield does not like to give of- fense to many good people who have total ab- stinence at heurt or on the brufn. But neither does he like to play the bypocrit. He 1S not a total-abstinence man. He likes a giass of wine, and in Washipgton he bas long beeu known, not only as a kood diner-out, a lover of & good din- ner. but as one who at dinner could and did tike his shure of wine, and liked it. He has never been 4 dinner-giver himself to any extent, be- cause he bas always been fn narrow oircum- stances; but he feels that it would be rank hy- pocrisy in bim to refuse wine to his guests at bis own tuble on any pretense of principle. But a good wany of those who nre making hfm unbappy about this ridiculous mutter of wine iz state dinners urge that what I3 wanted i3 an ex- ample. Mit. HAYES' PRECEPT AND PRACTICE. They say that President Eyes is not n tee- totaler esther, and this evefybody who knows him in Obio’says is truc. Mr. Huyes never, it seems. mude any pretense ol disliking n glass of wine until be bécame President, und he bus been kunown to sit with friends in n Germun beer- garden and tuke his sbure of » buttle or two of wine witbout hesitadon. So they say here- abouts. Indeed there ure tales touting nbout in Obio that even since he becnme Pro nt and ostentutiously refused wine 1o his guestsut state dinners, be hus been known o take o glass ot two of wine frecly and Joyfully at other tables thun his vwnand in other pinces than the White- House. But {t seems Le i3 the greuat éxemplar of temperunce because he has bapished wine from state diuners, und_poor. Gertleld {5 urged 2nd besought and poor Mrs. Gartietd is worried 10 follow the splendid morul example of Mr. und Mrs. Hayes. There are people in Cleveland who have been ata Hayes state-dinner. They say thut there WS o wine, but that there was rum-punch, It was frozen rum-punch, to be sure, uud some of Gurtield's friends, who have heurd nbout the rum-punch, propuse ‘tu ndvise him to make a strict bargain with the total-ubstinence bores,— a sort of Treaty of Mentor.us It might be called. By this trenty they sugwest Gurfield sbull secure to himself " the tight Lo drink un- limited chumpagne at other people’s housns. He shall secure to himself the right to drink what he pleases in the White House,—cham- pugne, claret, Germao wine, or Ohlo whisky,—so loug as there'ls no_state-dinner; and be shall finully secure to bimself the right to give un- Jimited rum-punch ut state-diuners, but blud himself to serve no wine on such State oc- casions. In return for this, total-ubstinence horesare to give himn u certilicate that be s ns great an exumple of - temperance as Hayes, and that he is one of the noblest of his rice. Bug there arc othor people in Ohlo who hope thut Gartield will not ullow himselt to be bullied into a countenance of the ridiculous hypocrisy which hus made the White House people laughine stock in the Inst four yeart. ‘These Bf.‘uple Say that the total abstizence cause is rought into contempt by such cmpty pretenses s huve prevailed in' the White House under Mr. Hayces: that the Huyes plan of refusing wine to his guests und drinking it when he is the fuest of others is to be attribured, not to regurd Tor the total abstincace cause, but to long nxed habits of # somewhat too rigid economy. ang that if Garfield wunts to setn renl example of tolal abstinence his true course will be to retuse todrink wine or spiritous liguors, even rumn punch, ut all times bimself, whether in bis own house or eisewhere, but to observe the common customs and decencies of Society by enabling his guests, esoecially on occasions of state din- ners, to follow their own rules or habits. ‘What advice Messrs. Cornell, }’lenc!mnn Fen- ton, and Platt bave given him on this tronble- Some question they huve kept to themselves, but those Tew hereabouts who know must aceuritely Wwhat Is going on ut Mentor are positive that the great wine ut state diuners question gives more trouble there than would the formation of u dozen or u hundred Cahinets, and us Gartield bus, nccording 10 common report, sought eagerly for expressions of public upinion 1o regasd to bis Cubinet, there can be little doubt that he would hall with sutisfaction some expression of public opinfon on the wine question which might serve him as u guide in his dealings with the people whourge him to drink as inuch as he wauts to himself but rive none to others. -~ il Mo iegony PARENTAL DEPRAVITY. Joseph Feo, a stout. able-bodied Italian of 30 years, Is locked up nt the Armory charged with violation of the crimiral code in purting his child, Peter Feo, a_deformed ana misshapen young-. ster of ouly § vears, qut in the streets to beg T6r money. The boy, in company with Michuel Comfart, ouly T years of aye,was picked up early 1n Lhe evening while cryving and bepging near the corner of Sture und Washingtonstreers. Pea came to the stution to see why his child baa been taken into custody, and was himself incar- cerated. The parents or guardian of the Com- fort boy will be similarly treated if found. ‘St. Louis among thre¢ rouds; THE RAILROADS. A Slight Decrease in East-Bound Freight Traffic. - > N Proposed Pooling of Passenger Business in the Southwest. Another Trunk Line on the Oarpet Be- tween Ohicago and Oleveland. EAST-BOUND FREIGHT. A FALLING OFF. The roads Jeading east fromn this city still con= tinue to don heavy frelght business, but the profits from the tratfic are not by any means as lurge as they were jast year. In the first place, the rates this winter are five cents per 100 pounds jower than they were last, and, in the 8sccond, it custs the rouds much more this winter to do the -business, Last winter was an un- usuully mild one, and the expenses were little more thah they were during the summer months. But this winter hus been an unprece- dentedly severe one. Not only has the weather been colder than for mauy years past, but the snow-falls have also Leen uunusually heavy, causing much expense on account of delays and to remove the snow-drifts. There ure many who think the snow-blockades are the most serious difliculties the railronds have to contend with, and cause the heaviest extra ex- penses. Yet, while this s true as far a3 passen- ger-trains nre concerned, it i3 not so with frelght-trains. The freight-traing do not suffer half'somuch from snow-blockades us from severo cold weather, and the unusual cold that pre- vailed so tur this winter has made the expenso of huuling the traflic unusually henvy. Freight- traius have always to mnke way for passeuger- trainy, and have to be side-tracked at many sta- tlons to allow the passenger-irains to pass. And tns 1S what causes the expense for baulimg frelght in severe cold weather. While the freight-trains are standiog on tho eide-tracks the utmost care must be tuken to keep up the steam. Stémin fuvariably gues down and the journuls become cold, and, when the trains start out agalu, their engines cannot pull bulf the amount of freight they could huve aoue had the trains becn kept ia motlon, and therefore ln severely cold weather the freight-trains bhave to ruw much lignter thun they would in ordinary weather. Hud there been such a winter as lust year, the ronds could huve handled much woré trelght thun they did, and they would now have pleuty of 1d)¢ ears. it no doudbt creates surprise that under such circumstances the ruilroads should charge a lower rate thun they did lust winter. Twis I8 not to be attributed to uny mugoanimity on the part of the munugers, but’ because cireumstunces have arisen st make it impossi= ble for them to udvance rutes above the ligures now chared. The eust-bound pool I8 nut prove {ngs 0 Success by any means, and the compeiition between the various lines remaing ny Ve 23 it no poolisg wrrangement wasin_cxistence. Were it uotforthe fact thatall the Eustern lines buve usmuch businessus they can well bandie rates would huve been cut by some of them betore now. Tt is therefore good poliey to keep the ratesus low as possible und prevent cutting, and thus give the impression wuat it is the pool which cnuses the strict adherence to turlll rates. There |3 another cuuse which torces the ruilronds to maintain low rates. This {3 the establishment of barge lines on the Mississippi by Jay.Gould, and the conse- quent diversion of business 1o that point. As Dbusiness cun be shipped much lower that way than by ail-rail, the Jutter must muke rutes that will ennble shippers to send thelr business by the old routes. ‘The total snipments by the various Eastern lines from this city for the week ending Feb.5 amounted to 51,170 tons nerinst 54.699 tons the week previous, u decreuse of 4,520 tuns, which Is a very smul falling off considering the heavy snow-storms that emburcassed the ratirouds duriny the week. ‘The tollowing statement shows the amount of business done durlug the week by the various roads leuding east frowm this cit; Grain, Proos, tons nfitons of | Total 2000 W. 2000 . | tons. Flour, ris. Michigan Central 1,558 Luke Shore, Yort Wayne, Pan-Hand) Bultimore & Ohlo. Grand Tronk Total.. A PQOL PROPOSED. CHICAGO,\$T. TOUTS & KANSAS CITY. ‘The Generul -?.asseugcr and Ticket Agents, who were instpucted by their General Manugers to prepure a plan for settling the difticulties re- garding the Western passenger business, held another meeting yesterday at the office of the ‘Western Ruilway Weighing Association, in Ash- land Block, to further’ discuss the subject sub- mitted for their action. Besides those present at Friday's meeting, there was ir. Jogeph F. Tucker, of the General Manugers' Com- mittee, who bud been requested to attend this meetivg to ald the General Passenger Agents in their task. The subject was uwain discussed at great lengthb, and the conclusion was finnlly reached that no permanent peuce could be possibly established unless the busi- ness between Chicago. St. Loufs.and Kuusas City was pooled. Tho question of whbat busi- ness should g6 into such & pool Was then con- sidered, und it was found that a pool iucluding the Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City busi- ness only, us proposed at the New York meeting some 81X months ago, would not do, but that the business from- futermediate competing points must also be pooled to make the arrungement elfective. ., A resojution was finally introduced and adopt- ed that it.be recommended to form n wraund pool of thawgross pussenger business pussing hrough Chicago snd uny other poinis be- tween the two pluces and 3issouri River points. The figures upon which such pool is to b ranged sbould be upon tbe basis ot fust year's business. Uhere shall be three divisions, ohe for Uhicago, une for St. Louis, and one for luterme- dinte points, Then the business 18 awuln to be subdivided among the lines lewding from those points. Thus the business from Chicago would buve to be divided umong [our roads, thut from from Peorin amoug three rouds; {rom Spriagtield among two Touds; und the Decatur business to be taken by the Wubash ad the [iloomington tratic by the Iton. 1t was also recommended that a commissioner be appointed to take charge of the pool, and see 1o the division of the business. The pool ns above provosed is very similar to the Southwestern frefght pool. No sction was taken rexurdmg the disposition to be made of the outstunding unlimited tickets, there being 0o tigures upon which to base soy geton. 1t is generuily conceded that this unlimited ticket ditliculty will prove a bad stumbling-block in the way of the arrangement. The Wubush re- | Tuses to submit u stutementshowing the amount .of unlimited tickets it sold during the late war and at the rates they were disposed of untilu poal has been rormed, und severul of the roads declure emphaticaliy that they will not submit 1o a pooling arrungement until n statement hus been submitted by ull the roads showing the number of unlimited tickets now in the hands of outsiders. But pesides this, it will be no easy matter to form a pool 18 proposed by the General Passenger Agents, and the General Mauagers will find it a hard job Lo get the ronds to agree upon percentuges. " The Wubash did no business of any account bLetween Chicago and Missour] River points last year, and consequently can submit none upon which its basis of percentage cun be based. The Rock Island also refuses Lo have its percentage bunsed upon st year's husi- ness, cluming that its Kunsas City fino was not fully established then sud that it is entitled to much more than those figures would indicate. Should u pool be formed, which. bowever, is still very problematical, and a Commissfoner be ap- polnted, as proposed, it is very likely that it will be offered to Mr. James Charlton, Geoeral Fassenger and” Ticket Agent of the Chicugo & Alton Ttailrond. ~ There 13 no other gentle- man who would prove as satisfuctory to all the roads as Mr. Charlton, as he is unusuully well qualified for the duties of such a positiofn, tr. Churlton’s reputation as #n uble Generul. Pussenger Agent {3 second to none in the country. Itis by nu means certain, bow=- ever, that” Mr. Charlton would accept a pluce which might not prove permanent, and give up his position with the Alton, It woich be is giving” 50 mueh satisfuction to his superiors. ANOTHER TRUNK LINE. A PROPOSED RIVAL TO TIE LAKE SHORE. Another new trunk-line projget hus been tele- grapbed from New York., Thitime a lfve is to be constructed fromw New York to Chicugo and St. Louis. The company has been orzanized under the laws of the Stute of Indiana, withan authorized eapital of $16,000,000. The road from Cleveland west hus been surveyed, and the con- tract for coustruction fs saia to bave been awarded to Brown, Howard & Co., of this city. The main linc is to rua from Cleveland to Chica- g9, 0 distunce- of 840 miles, which is sixteen iniles shorter than thepresent Luke Shore route, anu this partis 1o be constructed during the present year, At Fort Wayse Junction, twenty wiles wost of Fort Wayne, u_brauch is to leave the main line and go to St Louis, a distunce ot 35 mites. This is 10 be Bnished by July, 182, - ‘THe buckers of this scheme are Mr. C. K. Cpm< mings, President of the Lake Erle & Western, &nd 4 pumber of others, several of whom ~ure interested In this road. Tt looked rathergueer that the dispatch should state IhaTlit'was pro~ tfrsedulnms tinie to make the Igke Erie & Western a part_of the new lineibut that has been abundoned. The question:wns generally naked why should Mr. Cummings and thuse as- - Miumi Division. sociated with him build & line in direct compe- tition with the one they alrendy owned. This question wns answered by ru- mors which came into circulation yesterday. that 'the Lake Erie & Western hus pussed out of the hund4 of {ts owners and been gobbled up by Vanderbiit. It wus known for som time past thut there was a contest for the possession of the Lake Erie & Western hetween Vanderbilt and _the Boston people who own the Burlington & Qulnes'. The stuck of - the Com- pany has run up suddenly from about 30 to 55, which was no doubt caused by the contest wuged for its control. Vaunderbilt wanted it to tit out of the way as & competitor with the nke Shore, and use it ns a Western outlet via Bluominglon and _the Chicago & Alton. It would have proved valunble to the Burlington to be utilized hle:llm)e of its proposed line fiom Peoria and Toledo. The rumor that Van- derbtlt bhas finelly secured the con- trul of the roud scems to be substantinted by the announcement inthe New York dis- patch above referred to that Mr. Cummings and his associates in the new scheme had no use for the Luke Erie & Westgrn in connection with the new line, and the [act that these parties claim to huve awurded the contriet for buildmg that portion ot their line from Clevelund to Chi- cago, which would run almost purallel und be in direct cowpetition with the Lake Shore. 1t is generully belfeved in railway circies bere that the new scheme is intended us & bluff against Vanderbiit toobtain certain concessions from that magnate. 1t was learned yesterday from & . party connected with the new schewe that the ine “from Cleveland east will probably not be built for the present, which further in- divnies that the scheme hus been announced to blutf Vanderbilt. Still it is probable that the pitrties bucking the new-scheme, baving lost the Lake Erie & Western, mean to build a new road from Cleveland to Chiea, and they have cer- tainly the means to doit, but it is areued that such'a line would hardly prove u pay ng {nvest~ ment, ns there are alrepdy more lines intersect~ iug cliat part of the countvy than are needed or can be made to pay; and the fwcl that the Bur~ lington rather hesitates to build its proposed linc¢ from Peoriu to Toledo midway between the Whabash and the Luke Erie & Western, and would have preferred tosecure the lutter and utilize it for such purpose, because the business of that territory would not warrant another such line, is cited to warrant the above ussertion. Mr. Cummiogs, President of the Luke Erie & Western, und Mr. Howurd. of Brown, Howard & Co., both of whom reside in this city, are in New York in connection with the new scheme, and betore thelr retura it cannot well be ascertained what their objects reaily are. BIG TIME NEXT MONTH. PROGRESS OF TIE PLANS FOR THE INAUGU- RATION OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD—WHAT HAS BEEN DONE FOR THE PERFECT AC- COMMODATION OF THE THRONG FROM ABROAD. The preparations for the {nauguraton of President Gurfield on the 4th of March are be- ing carried forward fn Washington with u vim and earncstness which bespeak un eveut pos- sibly the greatest In the history of the National Cupitul. There appears to be any amount of money to perfect details on & very grand scale, andIf the weather is auspicious the probabili- ties are that the spectacle will be fine beyond description. Those who have been in Wusbington muy appreciate the extraordinary advantages Pennsylvaniu avenue presents for decorations and displays in military parudes. 1t is propused, nmou%; other things, to erect an arch for each State in the Union, and, as far as practicable, these arches will present features of the dilferent Commonwealths distinctive of their 1008t Jiportant interests. In addition to these arches, there will be a grand ttjumphal arch at the Capltol end of the avenue, and aa- other ot the Treasury end. And the different public bulldings in the clty will be profusely decorated, and o general bave the eftizens be- come luterested in the sucenss of the event that there is no question but that the private dis- pluys will compare most favorably with thase of the public buildings. The matter of sccommo- dating the vast throng which will be in attend- -ance has been most happily settled by confer- ence between the General Committee and the oflicials of the DBaltimore & Ohio loud. The Baltimore & Ohio bas the only double track between Washiugton und Baltimore, and its running time between the two citles i3 but one hour. ~ This practicaily throws open the Spacious hotels of the Monumental City for the eutertuinment of the people in attendabice ubon the inpuguration. Couferences with the Baltl- wore hotel-keepers have resulted in all pledging on thewr part that no Increase will be inade on the reguinr churgos at thelr hotels, and as these areupon the most reasonable busis compared witk those of any large city in the country, it is likely thut one can puy the nominal fure of 60 centy from Washington to Baltimore and live as cheaply ns if stopping at the Washington hotels. Fust trnins will be run every bulf bour between - the two cities, and, with the very extensive equipment of the Baltimore & Oble Road, there i can be no question of accommudating any num- berof people. The road is makidg elaborite preparations for the running of fustirains from Chicago to Washington, it huving the only direct track from Chicago to the National Capital, and facilities which no other route can commend. Its depot in Washington is just across the street from the Capitol Grounds, and this makes it by far the most ndvantugeous route for those who go to attend the Innugural. Very low round- wrip rates will be mude with tickets good for a ‘week or more, and they will be placed upon sale in time for all who desire to obtain them in good geason. The new dining-car line in and out of Chicago will meet the demands of the most ex- meting in the way of perfeetly appointed meuls at the uniform rate of 75 cents. For the infor- mution of those desiring it the Baitimore & Obio bave had pritfed a neat copy of the ome..:! pro- gram of the innugurntion: it alsogives th: Pres- jdents in regular order, beginning with Wash- ington. Persons desiring it can obtain copies from uny of the Company’s agents or by writing to C. K. Lord, General Passenger Agent, Balti- more, Md. BY TELEGRAPH, 3. M. ASHLEY. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Terepo, 0., Feb. 5.—In regard to the attach- ment issued yesterdny in New York by Judze Barrett aguinst the Toledo & Ann Arbor Rail- way Company et al, &t the suit of the New York, New England & Western Investment Cowmpany, Gov. Asbley, Presideut of the defend- ant Company, Wis interviewed to-day. He says the claim for $236,750 is for commisgion claimed for placing the stock of the Ann Arbor Koad. ‘This stock remuined u foog time in tbe hands of the pluintiff, but, as they did not sell it, it wus taken away froi them and sold by other par- ties. Now they elaim a commission. A DETERMINED FIGHT. Spectal Dispatehs to The Chicagn Tridune. BavrTivore, Feb. 5.—The milroad blockade continues at Cumberlund, though to-day tho Buttimors & Ohio Company have made an ag- gressive move against the Peansyvivanis. They bave lnid a mile of track near the Cumberiund viuduet paraliel with their main trucks, adjoin- fu the Cumberland & Pennsylvanin Ruiirond maiu treeks. The siding runs directly in front of the present terminus of the Pennsyivanin Road, and forms an obstrucdon to the proposed crossing by the former over the Baitimore & Onhio muin tracks.: The siding is bulit on the Baltimore & Okio Railrond property, and {8 now oecupled by u train of camp caps. 1t will Le seen by this move on the part of the. Baltl- more & Ohio people that they are determined to obstruct the further progress of the new road, which nims to reach the Chesapenke & Ohio Canul, and thenee to the West. The blockade has now continued for three weeks, and bath Compunics put on o bold_and determined front, thoueh the Baitimore & Ohio people are decided- 1y the mare aggressive. 1TEMS. PERSONAL AND OTIERWISE. Mr. F. C. Nicholas, for muny years ¢lerk and Intely cashier in the local freight office of the Michigan Central Railroad, has been promoted to the position of Assistant Local Frelght Agent and Cbiet Clerk of the Local Department in charge’of the ofices. Mr. Nicholas has proven hlmself a falthtul and ellicient otficial, and hus well eurned the promotion. General Manager H. E. Sargent, of the North- ern Pucitic Ralroad, has just‘issued the follow- ing circular: * It baving been constdered expedient tosepa- rate the General Freight and Pussenger De- partments of the Northera Pacific Railway Cotn- puny, Mr. J. M. Hannaford hag received the up- polotment of General Freight Agent, and will nereufter conduct the dutlesof that depart- ment, with headquarters at St. Paul. Mr, George 1. Barnes bas been appointed General Pussen- ger und Ticket Agent, uiso with hesdguarters at St. Puul. Mr. Baraes, iu addition. to the duties of General Pussenger and Tieket Agent, will have churge of abl advertising connected with his depurtment, and-ull outside pussenger und truvellng agents in the employ of this Com- pany.” Mr. D. W. Caldwell, General Manager of the Pan-Handle Ruilrond, has jssued u efrculur an- nouncing the folluwing changes: Col. Joseph Hill i3 relieved from all care as Superintendent of tie Second und ‘Third Divis- ion of tho Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis, and will devote bis entire time t0 the Vundaha in- terests. The portion of the ubove divisions Iylng between Logunsport . and Richmond “an Logunsport and Bradford Junction comes under the supervision of Jubn F. Miller, which makes him Superintendent of the 409 miles of road,, ipeluding the Indianapolis Di- vision, which'-extends from Indinnapolis to Columbs, .0, The portions ‘of the Pittsburg Cincinmtid St Louls lyiog between Logays- port and the State line and Logunsport and Chi- cago,'will_ be under the supervision of Halph Peters, lute clerk iothe oftice of S, M. Felton, Jr..Superintendent of the Piitsburg Division of th¢irond. This makes r. Peters Superintend- eavof 168 miles of roud. C.C. Waite succeeds <D, Ellison ns Superintendent of the Littie Jfr. Waite for some years past has been Superintendent of the Clnclunati & lh:skhaxum Road. His successor is yet to be ap- pointed. et e A Mistake. Detrnit Hree Press. A genuine_exumiple of undilited wit, which could come from none but & son of the Emer- ald Isle, reached the Poet-Olfice yesterdny in the shupa of 4 unique direction on & lotter. It was om a point in Northern Michizan, evidently :::rluen v & laborer. and destined to a point in this State. The man wrote the name of the (ady he wished to send the letter to, but transposed her first and lust names. Then, too indolent to write another envelope, he sunply Indorsed the word * mistake " below it, lenving the long suf- faring Superintendent of 3luils to uaravel the roblem. g Thas the envelope read like thia: “Mrs. Kelly Kuty,. mistbake * 3t. Pleasant, * Mich. “ Isabella Co.” THREE DOLLARS A TICKET. Why Her Majesty’s Manager, Maple= son, Charges So Much—The Gallant Colone! Rises and Explains in En- glish Undefiled, and Untranslated into"American, Interviewed by a Journal Reporter. Col. Maplesou Is more jnposing than @ brown- stone frovt on the avenne. He is blufl and Eo- glish, and literally * immense,” and tears dowa upon you with the mujestic force of an ava- lanche. He isnot exactly nine feet high nor four feet broad, but ke looks ua if he.wus; his voice souncs as if he was; his chest expands as if he was; and he wears 2 big cape on his over- coat that hangs about his broad shoulders with an awful and colossal mognificence. *Hello,” he roared, “how do?" as he flung ‘back his cape and tore open an envelope, and everybody in the Pacific Hotel rotunda looked up and gazed wpon the impressive grandeur of the reat manager of Her Majesty’s Opera Com- pany. “['dlike to have an interview with you, Colon- el,” piped & small Journal reporter, somewhere down uround the leviathan's kaees. His Prodigiousness gazed over his chest and il the way down the expanse of his vest front, and, looking around oun the Hagging, at last found the reporter, and sald: “Hahl I eawn't do 't, me boy. Busy, you see? Got to go to the theatre this very hinstant an’ "tend to- my Ruropesan correspoandence, you know." 5 Notwithstanding this overwhelming refusal, falling, as it were, like 8 bowlder from some lofty castled crag, the reporter threw out 2 cable, and, getting up steam, towed the Colonel with some effort iuto u coruer. *Tnis great American public wants to know what in the world s the reason, Colonel, that you charge Such furously high prices 1o see Yourshow. [su't $3 about $1.50 too much? W'y, bless your soul, me boy! will you listen to me now while Itell you w'arsthe reason 1 charge &. Hit's simply this: I 'uve to pay these beggarly Singers twice ns much-in this country us 1 doin the Hold World, und 1 only churge for admission about ’alf w'at we charge hover there!™ The Colonel ends each of his sentences Wll!l an exclamation point or an interrogudon mark, and, continuing thus, with a iuit of languuge like thut of a farm-wagon going overa fetd tull of hummocks, be proceeded to forget all about his Europeun engagements and goud-naturedly pour his Interviewer full of the trals of an opera-munsger, relleving the harangue with oc- nal bits of anecdote and humor. < W'y demme. me bLOy. don’t you kmow hit’s an awful expense {0 run an opera company? W'y, my outluy is exnctly §3600 « day, an’ Hi've ot to get hit back somew’ere, ‘aven't Hi? Well, Hi coutd d;)[ llltd le H.!T'lld 5 35.030 K;u'ieb::e!r{l ight lik 1’nd last Tuesday evenin's cu K ike Hi'nd lawst cawn't if Hi 'ave a ‘ouse Weduesday, can Hi? *What IS the reason you don't stay in Europe, then, if you can make s0 much more mopey there?” 5 Now, thair you go azainl W'y, w'at ignor- ance, Muster Reporter! Don't you know that 8 man cawn't live always on the same vezetuble? Hi cawn’t "ave my people sing all the time in Lun'or or Paris, you know."” “ Why do you biave to puy them twice as much in America as {n Europe? Isn’t this about us -good 8 country 4§ you csn trout out over there?” *To-be-sure ‘t 13, me boy; but"—and the Colonel winked bis left eye and pushed buack his handsome mutton-chop whiskers Impressively, 214 punched his ponderous taumb (encwsed in Dlack ** undressed ** kid) into the reporter's most sensitive rib—" but hit’s the sea—the hocean, m' boy, don't you see? The broad Atlantic rolis between, and every mother's son of "em thinks ee’s goln” to the bottom before ce gets ‘ere. HI ciwn't get ‘em to stir a step bunless 1 give ‘em double pay, and then every blessed ope of ‘em gues and makes ’is will and bids ball'is friends a teartul farewell before "ee’il consent to come. ‘Three dollars, Master Reporter?—$3 too much{ W'y, bit's only # wonder ‘ow Hi live at all! Look at the people Hi 'ave to take care of,—160 of "em, includin’ wives and chhdren, for, you must kuow, every one of ‘em brings 'is wife "and hall *Is bebies an’ 11i 'ave to louk after em. ‘Hi en- gauge these people by the year, you know, and wen Higet 'em HI'ave to make ‘em puy. Sups pose Hi want to rest a feusun—durin’ the ot wonths. you know? Well, if L don't want to support ‘em at the seaside or at the wate places, you know, [ send Gerster off to St. Petera- burg and Hi let Campuniol tuke a few nights fu Mascow and somebody else go somewhere etse. Then I cansit back an’ smoke me cigar, me boy, un’ make me 31000 a week, but (f 1 bring them to this country bit's a different thing —hay very different thing, Master. Hi get’em hover "ere un’ then 1'm bound by contract to get back "ome again, an’ they kuow thes've pot me, the rascals. Hi cannot get ‘em to cancel. W'y, 1'ad a fellow named Bulterini once hung about my neck for three years. I says to 'im once, My dear Biilterinf, now Hi wish "you'd cancel, you koow.' *Hob, no. Signor Mupleson, me no cancel,’ sed’ee. * Well, tnen, my dear Bulteri- ni.’ ses I, * you see youdon't seem to tuke 'ere in Lun’on, an’ you krow I've got to wake you pay, so Hi've decided to send you off to Rio Janerio; a0’ they say the yeliow-fever is very bad thair, an’ Hi've decided to send you in a sailing vessel, which takes about three mouths to wmake the trip.” Well, do you know, Muster Reporter, ‘ce told me—the beggnri—that 'ee’d been thinkin® ‘ee'd like' to take a irip to South'America. He'd been exposed to yellow-fever, and he thought the salt sea hair would do ’im good for about three months. Thul's the wuy they. stick you when you want to get rid of em, un’ then, on the othier huad, when they’re good an’ you want to keep ‘em, then they act like spolled children, an’ you 'ave to pet 'em to get along with 'em at all, you Enow. Now, 'ere's Campanini—he wants more pay all the time, and the begyur ’as gone and got A wife to briug along with 'im. An’ 'ere’s Gerster—I'm givin’ ‘er $1,000 a nigot, and she's got a "usband, an” 1wo malds, an’ a poodle.” This last was too. fuuny for the loquacious Colonel, and he violently exploded at the thought. of the poodle. **Now. just to show you ‘ow they Act some- times, there was poor Mux Strakosch 'ad the life pretty near worried out of 'im by Nilsson one time.- She got ‘ulfy at "fm, an’ she'd have botties uf cdamprgne broke in ‘er room for ‘er guests, wether they wanted to drink hit or not, an’ poor Strach’ "ud to pay for bit, do you see? ‘That's the way they muke hit lively for us man- agers—the beggers! " *Well, why don’t you bring out some new stars? " “New stars! Bring ‘em out! W'y thair are mone, me boy. I'd give $10.000 for a good dramatic woman this instant, but 1 cawn'r find ber, you know. 'Aven't 1 brouxht out new ones, and "avent’t 1 used tue dend ones until they're no use any more? Now, there's Brignoli; ee’s » good fellow, but he cawn't sing’ in time, and whenever ce comes onto the stage ee walks like this"—und the Colonel illustrated the great tenor’s well-kuown guit with un clephuntine pirouette on the marble flugging. “Itefl you Hi've used all the deud meu and brought out nearly all the live ones, o’ now T'm at my wits end to know wot to do for more. There's Cumpaniul. Hi heard of 'lm nine yeurs ago w'en’e wns singin’ iu an obscure theatra down in Italy. T got on the curs an’ started after tm from Lun’on. Manager Joy 'eard of ’im about the sume time, an’ ‘e started after 'im 100, but Hi was the quickest traveler. Hi got there an’ was in "is dressin’-room an’ 'nd signed the contruct with "t when Joy arrived.” ** Well, now, since {ou‘\*e expluined all these things, perbups you'll tell why it i you man- agers seldom bring out any new operas: "Tisn't us, me boy; hit's the publie. I'vegot sixty operas Hi'd liké to put on the boards, but the public won't ‘ave ‘em. The public is contin- ually callin’ for new operas and w'en we give ‘em 1o "em, bless your soul, they won't come to ‘ear 'em—un’ it's & great expec3e to get up an opera, you know. Now, it costs me S5,5A) to mount * Loheugrin,’ and there's "Afda’s got to curry the trnpplugs for that opera wherever L 20, and the cxpense i3 enormous. Down in St. Louis, where the theatre is small, two years ago the procession "ad to form in the suloon across the alley and march in onto the Stage an’ then back agmin, an’ oue night the vroperty-mun came runain’ to we an’ suvs he: *Master Muple- son, they*ve locked the saloon up and the-bout's Inside.” " Break bopen the door,’ ses [, und tkey broke bit hopen, but o cunsn%rle came along and arrested them. . We got tae bbat out an' outo the stage, though, an’ the audience didn't know the dilterence. But that'y the renpson—as I wus tellin” you—w'y I don’t bring out new operas. - It costs uboyt $5,000 or $6,60, und the people won't 0 to "ear ‘em. But, my goovduess, 1 forgot Twas usy! I'll 'uve to leuve you? Good-by, me boy, guod-by“—and the Sundemus and good- natured Colonel rumbled awuy down the cor- ridor with all the pomp aud gorgeousuess of one of his own 1aust brilliant * spectacular effects.” ———— . A CHEEKY FOOTPAD, Frank Hurtlep, 17 years. of awe. was arrested at 2:8) yesterday afterncon by Officers Campbell and Fitzeernid, of the Cottnge Grove Avenue Station, upon a description furnished by Mrs. F. 0. Cook, of No. 90 Twenty-firth street. When captured the young man was perambulating to and fro on Cuiumet avenue, between Twenty~ sixth and Twenty-niuth streets. Along about noou Mrs. Cook had met hitn at the corner of Twenty-ninth street #na Indiana avenue, and bad recognized bim as the thief who had robbed ber on Forest avenue, near- Thirty-seventh street, some duys before. She promply notitied the police, and furnished them with the thief’s descriptdon. The robbers of Mrs. Cook was a champion of 1ts kipd. Stepping up to her, young. Hartle placed n revolver very olose 1o her beaud, and exclaimed, * Your muuey or your life.” She handed over to him ber purse, which contained only abo, In cash and some pnpers, whercnpoy 1he o fowered his weapon and’ exnmined the g f 8 few steps was. The pupers wepe cymlims and Mrs. Covk courageousiy stood nep .+ 180le, and asked bim 10 return the pupers, wh o LX valucless to bim. He did 20, ut the' same T8 ceutloning her to *inove on. ond s about it." 3irs. Cooks identilive the ‘oume :ln ut once upon meeting him, bly be mistaen. P 0 83d 8h8 ciangt oy GREECE AND THE POWERg, - The Timid Polics of France—Tho r, lenic People Beserted by Thelr purr Friends—Try o Wom'fi the Lor In Conlerence-Germany apt TFurkey. b PARiS, Jan. 17.-M. Barthélem, / dipidmatic aircular s & disugreeuil?:wfln:::::“' fur those ‘Freuch IOLUS- xKers who hse sy bered ou 1o fancicd securits, on the fu th of ge, suraaces by Emlie de GIrurdin and others wpy desire peace, that war i3 imposeible. The situadon i sitply tbis: The Pawers, pegg, Ing the Porte’s reply to thelr proposu for s tration, have not oflicially consulted the Cabinet at Athens: when the reply shail hav celved they will talk 10 3. Counonmpe™ Nothlog o this wuy doue at pre do aught bus compromite " the " saold of negotintions with Turkey. If, on g th contrary, the Porte should accept ur Grecue may possibly deen It prudont 1 0% stitf-neoked. Tuis, ut lenst. 1S the only ey rewaining of u llceful sulution of the frans question, und IPmust be contessyd tharst chunce i§ An uncommonly slim oue. The tyy), terested purties start froi different buses ol Greeks, by the volce ot their prime Ministor malutain that the text of the thirteenth protugy of the Berlin treuty SeCUres their riguts to n oy tain territorial aggrandizement, &t the €Xpensq ot Turkey, which was strictly detlned by tae lay Conlerence. They suy toe tue of the new fryu: fer was guaranteed L0 them by the Powers, will not udmit that tbe Powers ean llow thep signatures to be protected. They are pot trightened by the prospect of war, con: sider Europe, not they, us responsible forjy consequences, however 'dire these muy * Weuire not as lsoluted und abandoned ny i lcuses certain politicians to pretend,” agds 1. Coumoundouros, and ‘“come what wmay Greece will not be derelict to_her civilizing mig. slon and to her duty of enforcing respeet for those signatures which Europe uppended to thg treaty of Berlin.” There is no doubt that, whey the Confereuce Iast summer sssigned to G the Provinces which ste now cliims, the fnteqe tion of tne Plenipotentiaries were 10 muke this cession ubsolute. AL present, it suits diplomycy o interpret the articlé s u mere busis for fawry arraugements for whieh, it called upon, Europs would cousent to offer ber mediation. Since thy Conference the atfuir of Duicigno oceurred, wity its wholesome warniog that tue European con cert might not hold together, If unything beyord & mere naval demonstration With unstotted guns shoutd become nceessary, and the most enthusk astic Philbetlenes judged that prudence iy so much the better part of valor tht not to engage in any similur enter rise would ~ be the sufest policy, rance bad so inconsiderately tuken thy fend in the Greek questiod that some foop-hols for escape must be sought for, znd, us none other is practicable, this last, uu erroneous interpreta- tion of tho meuniug of the proctocol, was adopted. This does notsuit the Greeks, but It does suit the Turks, who, beln? inflnitly more clever than all the statesmenof Europe com- bined, leaving out the Russian and German Chandetlors, uubesitutingly adhere to the last enunciated opinion. A otficious declaration of the Ottoman Governmant, communicated to Admiral Hobnrt, * to be communicated by him to his friends,” meaning the British public, leaves no doubt that Turkey will not, excepting under coercion—who i3 to coerce?—surrender Jan‘as and_Metzovo, while its tone is so mod- erate, 50 free from the braggudocio of the Greeks, that it must proauce an excellent im~ pression. It does not positively ngree to arbi tration, but neither does it refuse arbitraton. It does pot threaten, but when it says that *the patience of the Turkish people may finslly be taxed beyond endurunce by 4 prolongation of the situation, and result in a terrible confliet,” it utters a note of warning to the Greeks which is very signilicant. That Greece or Tarkey is acting without some distinct promise of ulterior support {8 tacitly admiited by all wno bavestud- fed the question: who are their respective backs + ers yet remains a mystery. I cannot believe that France Is seriously compromised. England 18 80 busy in thesisterisl and und atthe Capethat, except by subsidies. she will scurcely_Intefere. Russia bas other fish to fry nearer home,and only Italy remuins, which would seem a very broken reed to lean upon. Still, be assured thas Greece has ao ally in the background, who will appear when wuited. About Turkey's friecd there can be no uncertainty; we need only point to one fucl to be cdified on that point. The Ber lin bankers huve lonned within the last week 92,000.000 of marks to the Sultun on the security of the vakoufs and of the mines in Thessaly and Macedonia, of which the Epglish bud vainly asked the concession. The surrender of the ec clesiustical property speaks volumes, but that Turkey should give to the Germans what she refused to John Bull is conclusive evidence that the wires of Government at Coostantinople are in direct communication with the banks of the Spree, whence England's: intiue ence o the East bas been checkmated, Greece and Turkey have, for two years past, been like two dogs growling over a bone; Greecs bas snarled uud snapped, doing its best to pro~ voke its adversary, o waich, bemg a good-ug- tured mastilt, conscious of his own streogth, Turkey bas oaly replied by an occasionalano- dyne bark. The spectacle was curious; why Is the mastff so long-sutfering? asked lookers-on; why does he not show his teeth and howl with anger? The answer was simple: the mastif was willing enough to bite, but he was fuimshed; i stomuch was empty, bis legs were weak, whers was no foud In his platter, whereas the sualler dog was fut and in good condition; he had al- ready devoured a couple of jouns and hos a third 1in perspective. Now n change bas come; a very fine bone has been sent down to revive the mas- tiff's tuiling energies, and, exhausted naiure be- ing restored, his old couruge returns, and be sharpens his teeth prior to makiog use of them. Inotaer words, Turkey has had'no money where= with tv arm, feed, and pay her truops, and was therefore obliged to keep guiet; now b she has gotten money. she will ussert berscif. "This 1s the situation: M. Barthélemy St. Hiluire | knew.it. appreciated the luevitable consequences of a commencement of hostilities, und besought all Freneh diplomatic agents to persunde th European Cabinets that prevention is breferabls 0 cure, and. becanse he has so done, every juur- nalist in France racks his‘lj‘lr:fln “:h:n(‘}ele)gr‘:fi Etrong euough to_reprobute ** cDmmgunhmn%n" of which the only fault (s its e aote, but ot fmediate; thers War is probable, will yet be . truce of threeor four wmonils during which diplomacy will work e to settle and only suceeed. in embroilicg. OF its resut noone cug speuk, as new factors must bela volved by circumstances a8 it proceeds, Tl Greeks bave about 65.00 mea withi Qurm; tance of the froatier, und their resentl!‘”cfl, furnish periiaps 40.000 more. but_neitder olicers nor men have ever heard the woistleof 8 u;:be? bullet. The Turks are massing (o the BUmDE of ubout 80,00u—Nlzams and reserves—in Epiry and among these ure those veteruns wh;r s at bay ufi the forees of )lusccvyrfgl ] months In the troncbes of Plevna Tl :‘Kon., things Into consideration, it I3 about ten e on tne Turks, and_the layer will mmexfl?le ] much the bestof it. Greece. out of 136 BT Philbellenes at any price, has few |Ilr(d 30t u‘uew\ even they might hesitute in coaddiog £oR Provinces to hands so unskillful a3 lllmcl T 1hs bave directed the destinics of Greece Jnm pust half century. Greece will nevergetlh 0 Bosphorus, unless it huppens that this [ slon of ‘Grecian limits showd .sult plans of the ow orderd / oune man who T whether there suall be ~peace 0 war In Earope. Bismarcx scems to Want .t ‘;'ll a3 check tv Social agitations in the B0 und when the propitious hour shall Bave ST on the pulitical clock not a_million 3uc! Yorelan lurs us thut of the French Minister orPrInM 3 Affalrs will delay the explosion. The Pritf 1 great man; be has greater {nteligenct 'Ry even the first Bonaparte, for be knows wbel pull up and rest. and, though his uspirgoriec, 48 vast as those of the Corsicun soldier, b8 020 compromises u Scheine's success DY O recipitancy of exceution. He g0t 5B 5, ulturkampf to prove to the Camalnsm ntie ' was their master: he bus fomeut w:: They Semitic movement to warn tho Jew!d adent must not dreuin of being eatirely l"é?fmb‘l i of his control: be will put u stop to ough 10 - violence 8 soon us It pas gooe fur c('.‘:ermfl'» make lsruel sue for terms. The e Tally whether subjects of the Eiapire of BOWITo owing allegiunce to the Hapsburgs, follol o lond of the “ Iron Chancellor,” even ¥! ly, be- have every reason to hate him pemmfic;," ol - cuuse they cun appreciate that bis poiicY Sy, - at making the Teutonic race mntn“afi Pat by Enstern World, not only by the sword, 555 the arts of peact ——————— A SHARP SHOPLIFTER. i Early last evening Detective Costello dv upin the streotsa known shoplifter l’fl 'flh‘;’ eral soeak-thief numed Mlcbael Lzees, !; & possession he found a shawl and fllfl;nre g goods. The fellow was locked up, &1 p"ll!fl‘“n 5 tions were made to adverLise for 4n OWne Al The nature of the theft was made "‘nguurm- 3 police at the West Jl:mbun—stn.-%m“n frit Alougs ebout 5 a’clock i young TG ommfflr' . 1 borse and cutter toihe store of - entering fer, No. 6+ West Randoiph street. and 80 lg asked to be shown some sbawls, Oue vl S8.50 was cbosen. and _he mude arnln!;_ 4 part- buve a_ecleck dcoompany him 10 B (i meunts near the Chawber of ol!l; > order to collect the money. UPORaf™oye at the place designated the e tomer lett seumf in the cutter, while hiS o wentup stairs with the “sbuwl He Foq shortly and told.the clerk 10 arive 0 the Srory of one Powell, No, 50 North Wells sl dld“fi- pod he would et his money. The clerk 4 Poows was promptiy placed under urrest by 3ePoig ell. The borse and cutter belon; w’ 0 e was stolen during toe day. The_ulerl;gs g“ s but s bfs story seetned ns gauzy aytBcSeRE ally told by crooks when cuught, be i ger of bein locked up for the ight. fina"“-' o & policemun uccompanled him to the stot tede employer, where his Story Wwas mflmbcl et Mr. Oberadorf amd his clerk will no do! Dievist tify Breen us their sharp-witted hl;"n'dmm customer, and Mr. Powell i3 sure o the chap Who stole his horse and cutter.