Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1881, Page 4

cymemitesemeenn eter + “ we THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 26, i2 1881-TWENTY PAGES. The Griune. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIFTION. BY MAIL-IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID, Daily edition, one year. Parts ofa. Daily and ‘Toesda and ¥. Puureday. and Eaintday, Monda;, Wednesday, and Friday, ver yea Sunday, 16-page edition, per yezi WEEKLY EDITION—POSIPAID. Fe ve ERASE von ‘Twenty-one copics.. Specimen copies sent free. Givo Post-Ofice address in full, inclnding County and State. Remitrances may bo made either by draft, express, Post-Oflice order, or in rexis ered letter, at our risk. 0 CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Delly, delivered, Sunday excepted. 25 cents per week. Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison uné Dearturn-sts,, Chicego, TI. Pos G Entered at the Post-Office at Ciicagx, IL, as Second- Class Matter. For the benesit of ourpatrons who desire to send single copies of THE TRIBUNE throuzh the mail, we Five herewith tife transient rate uf postaze: Foreign and lt, Eight and Twelve Paxe Eixteen Page Paper. TRIBUNE BL THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has established branch offices for the receipt of subscripuions und advertise- om 29 Tribune Building. F.T. 3ic- ‘Scotland—Allan’s American News ¥Fapp GLASGOW, Agency, SI Rentield-st LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. Henny F.GrLurG, Agent. WASIUNGTO: AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-Tones. Clark street, opposi: uew Court-Houso. Engage- ment of James U'Nelll. “A Celebrated Case. aentre. and Rand@otph. En- agement of the Ideal Star Combination. Varlety en- tertainment. Ati ia brother Muster ited. By order WESPELIA LODGE, NO. Lodue aurplees to some ellaibie pl AMES SMITH, CHAS. lt. BRENAN, Scere! 1, We Me —Speciat Hock. Work on the ster Dexrees, Stated Convocation atSo'clock und work on the Royal Arch. cree. Visiting companions are continlly invited. syorcerof | ARTHUR WAIRKINGTON, HL. J.0. DICKERSON, Secretar: GAUNTLET LODGE, NO. 4, KNIGHTS OF PYTIT- TAS—Special notice—The funeral of our tate brother, Past ChancellorJohn iarris, will take plice to-day {Sunday}, June from Iss West Madison-st.. al 2 Feluck sharp. All brethren are frateraally reuested attend. 4. ACKERMAN, Chuncelior Commander, D.C. CREGIER LODGE, No. 68, A. FL & A. M.— Regular Communication nesday evening, June Bhat 8 o'clock shar, for wore, Vislimg brethren ited. By urder of peramesieh Onier JAMES KEATS, W. 3L. JOHN GINOCHIO, Secretary. CHICAGO COMMANDERY, No. KNIGHTS AR—Special Conclave Monday evening, June TEMPL, Zar zed o'clock. The Urder of the ‘Temple will be conferred. Visiting Sir Knights always welcome. By ordor of WAL POND, ELC DAVID GOODMAN, Recorder. APOLLO COMMANDERY, NO. 1, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR—Special Conclave Tuesday evening. June Bar7o'clock. The Order of the Tempie will be conferred. Visiting Sir Knizhts are welcome. By or- der of the Eminent Commander. Hi S. TIFFANY, Recorder. NO. 23, 0, E. S. LADY WASHINGT hall. southwest, APT! <Wiil give ‘a dime sucial ui un bank id Halsted-sts,, on Tuesday Members and friends of the order ted to attend. 3 A. 1. WHITE, Secretary. A.M.—THERE corner/of ‘Twel evening, June # are cordially fi APOLLO LODGE, NO. 61, A. ‘will be a special Communication of. tits “Lodge Mon- day evening, Juno 2, at the hall, 145 seconds BL Visitors welcome. STANDISL ACRES, W.2L FORT DEARBORN DIVISION, NO. 1, U. It K. of P.—Every member is reanested 10 ‘report tor duty at thelr armory, 12 and 1:1 Washington-st., on Monday evening, June 2, at . : BRAND, Commander. ASHLAR LODGE. No. 3s, A. A. M.—Speciat meeting Tuexday evening, June 3S, in their hall, 73 Monrve-st, for important work. ‘The. fraternity ‘cordiully invited. CHL CHANE, Seeretars. 3. ALF. & A. M.—Rerntar ORIENTAL LODGE. NO. |. Important work, meeting Friday eveniug, ‘Visitors will be welcome, “Lo CHARLES CATLIN LAFAYETTE CHAPT! 0. % HK. A. M.—Stated Convocation Monday evening, June 27. at 8 o'clock, Visiting Cumpanions wel ce nt ee. Wp. WM. J. BRYA, Secreta . - EXCELSIOR LODGE, No. 3k. OF P.-REGULAB Convention Friday evening, July 1. Initiation of off- cers, JAMES WARMINGTON, Chancellor Commander. SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 18S1. A CoRRESPONDENT of a London sporting paper, who has watched and carefully studied the practice rowing of the Cornell University crew, says that they are very strong, row splendidly together, and if allowed to com- pete in the Henley regatta for the Visitors’ Cup they will be able to give a good account of themselves. A-pispatcy from Evansville, Ind., says thata second comet appeared to the people of, that city last. evening in a norihwest di- Tection. It seemed to be about the same size asthe comet which has appeared several mornings in the northeast before sunrise, but has a tail of greater length. ‘Ihe Lvansville people perhaps saw the same comet twice in one night, Tae summer running meeting in this city ‘was begun yesterday under very favorable circumstances, the attendance being large, the weather pleasant, and the racing of a high order. The Inaugural Rush was won by Lizzie S., the Ladies’ Stakes by Lettina, the Board of Trade Handicap by Liahtunah, and the inile-heat race by King Nero. The jockey, Hodges, who pulled Enniskillen in the mile dash, was ruled off the track. _——————— CoxGnressman Money, of Mississippi, who ‘Was Chairman of the Post-Oftice Committee of the last Congress, is quite indignant at being reported to have denounced the star- route investigation as a “smut-machine,” and at its being said that he entirely disap- proves of such investigation. Mr. Money says that he favors investigation, beeause he knows and feels that everything has not been allright in the Post-Oitice Department, and he wants to sce every guilty rogue punished. AMn. Coursrstas, the son-in-law of the famous Myra Clarke Gaines, shot and in- stantly killed Mz. Whitney, the son of Mrs. Gaines by her first. husband, in the Catacazy mansion, Washingion, yesterday. The mur- der was the result of 2 business dispute be- tween Whitney and Christmas, who were Partners in a mattress factory. Christmas hasbeen arrested. It is claimed that Whit- ney, who was drunk at the time of the shoot- ing, provoked the quarrel which ended so tragically. Epwaup Munrruy, alias “Caney” Mur- phy, a wellimown politician of the Seventh ‘Ward, was convicted yesterday of stuffing the ballot-box while acting as judge of elec- tion of ihe Sixth Precinct of the ward in which he resides during the Aldermanic elec tion of 1850, The lowest penalty for: the of- fense is one year’s imprisonment and a fine of $500. Much credit is due to Assistant State’s-Attorney Thomson for the ability and ingenuity with which he conducted theprose- cution. The Seventh Ward, Hildreth’s baili- wick, has earned an .unenviable. notoriet J ao ‘ tor baliot-box stufting. It was time that a halt was called. The conviction of Murphy cannot but have a wholesome effect on the bummer politicians of the district, the noisi- est, most blatant, and pestilent of their kind in this or any other cll; Ex-Senaton Spencer, of Alabama, who has been mentioned as the successor of First- Assistant Postmaster-General Tyner, says that he has not asked for the position, has not been tendered it,and would not have it ifoffered. This isemphatic enough, in all seeming. Mr. Tyner, on being questioned, says he has not resigned, does not intend to resign, has not been asked, nor does he ex- pect to be asked, to resign.- This seems con- elusive, and yet there prevails an impression that Tyner will soon step down and out, and that Spencer will step into his place. M. Esme Onnivinr, of whom we have heard little of late years, and who was fondly imagined to have been overwhelmed in the Sedan disaster, and buried politically and beyond redemption in the collapse of the Second Empire, has presented himself as a eandidate for the French Chambers to the voters of Ajaccio, Corsica. Corsica has been Bourbonish, so to say, in its devotion to Bonapartisw, but Ajaccio will searcely per- mit itself to be represented by the man to whom popular opinion attributes the defeat of France by Germany. Perer Ry“Anp, a Radical member of the British Parliament, made. a motion in the Mouse of Commons yesterday which led to a rather interesting discussion, during which Mr. Gladstone denounced the conduct of the late Tory Government with almost ante- election fervor. Le said that the conduct of England with regard to Cyprus was inde- fensible, and that the example set in that. case had rendered England powerless to protest when France interfered in Tunisian affairs. Sir Charles Dilke spoke in the samo vein, and the Tories seemed to be completely nonplnsed. ‘Cheir only spokesinan and de- fender was one of the ‘“‘featherheads,” Sir Henry Drummond Wolf. Tue Island of Great Britain, by the new census just taken, is found to contain thirty millions of inhabitants. This is an enor- mous number of souls to be crowded upon a space no larger than INinois and Indiana, and whose agricultural capabilities are much less. Illinois alone, preperly farmed, has inore food-producing power than England, Scotland, and Wales combined, although she. now supports only three millions of inhab- itants, against ten times that number on the British Isle, While Great. Britam has in- creased some four millions during the past decade, the sister island—Ireland—has actu- ally sunk down a quarter of a million. Ire- Jand is considerably more than-one-third as Jarge as Great Britain, but has barely one- sixth as many inhabitauts. The natural capability of Lreland to support population is fully as great as that of the larger island; but, under the accursed Jand laws established and enforced by the Bristish Government, there is the phenomenon of a poverty- stricken, decaying people gradually wiltiag away and becoming extinet in the land of their fathers. The English landlords have got in their work on poor Pat. Tue Tripeye prints in the local columns this morning a comparative statement of its circulation and that of the Chicago Times in the most important routes of the city. These returns are cumplete for all the identical districts,—i. ¢., those in which both papers are circulated by the same carriers. We are not disposed to boast of the showing made in this statement. * The facts .have. always been known to well- informed persons. They are known to no- body better than to Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, who has sought to conceal them from the public by raising a clamor about other matters. Aside from the proofs furnished this morning, there were two prima facie reasons for believing that Tue Tun- tye had much the larger circulation in the City of Chicago. One reason was that it had, and has always had, the bulk of the responsible, paying advertisements. Adver- tisers are not foots. There is no shrewder set of men in the world. They would not continue to invest their money as liber- ally as they do in Tue Tripu space if they were not tisfied that they got abundant returns for it, And they do get such returns. Everybody who has tried it knows that they do. Secing is believing, and trying is the best way to find out the truth in this matter. The other reason disinterested persons have for knowing that the Tue Trisuxe has much the larger circulation in the City of Chicago is the passionate declarations of Mr. Wilbur F. Storey that it has not. If it had not he would not be in such a fury to as- sert that it had not. What can possibly ail that venerable lunatic if not a conscious- ness of the inferiority of his own newspaper in any respect to Tim Tumune? Every frenzied appeal that he makes for patronage is moral evidence that he recognizes 2 more Prosperous rival in this journal, and that it is constantly gaining ground, while he is losing. But we do not.ask the public to be content with moral evidence. The facts and figures arein the Jocal columns. They ai mathematical evidence that Tur Trmuxr‘is as much superior to the Limes in its city cir- culation as it is in its advertising, or ftsnews, or its sense of decency, or its common sense. HOW TO INCREASE THE WATER-SUPPLY. The return of hot weather brings with it the renewal of the complaints of the insuf- ficient water-supply,—complaints which have become so urgent of Iate that the Council or- dered the Jetting of contracts for the pur- chase of two new pumping-engines at the West Side Works. The difliculty is that the water has not pressure enough, It doesn’t gouphigh enough. In order to forceit higher, these additional engines have been ordered. One great cause for this deficiency Is the enor- mous quantity of water used in the busi- ness part of the city for power purposes. It was a mistake originally for the Water Department to grant permits for the use of water to run machinery by the em- ployment of the drinkinz-water supply of the city. The Department overreached itself in undertaking to do this. The pipes have a certain capacity; they cannot be driven over that, and the fair, legitimate demand for water for domestic purposes is at nearly all times equal to the full capacity of the pipes todeliver water. When anything more than that is required of them, especially in the thickly-seitled portions of the city, it is:accomptished at the expense of. the householders. When the city uudertakes to furnish.power to run machinery and water elevators out of the water supply, it wastes inillions of gallons which should be devoted A domestic use. ‘The result of trying to do so much is, that the city keeps its contract neither with the public at large nor with those to whom it professes to furnish water for power purposes. Since 1871, large numbers of warehouses, stores, hotels, and business blocks on the South Side have been to large expense in putting in water-clevators connected with the water-maius by four and six inch pipes. They now find that they have not force adequate to run ‘their machinery; that, if it is a passenger elevator, it can carry but half the number of persons that the con- tractor said it could; if itis a freight eleva- tor, that the load is but half what it should be. The more of these elevators that are put into the First Ward, the worse it is for all the water-consumers of that ward and of the immediate vicinity. “There are probably now 100 of these elevators in use, and all of them are failures, so far as they de- pend upon a direct Supply from the street- mains. There is, however, one way In which they can be utilized, and that is by doing what Tue Trinune has done, Ittriedat first a direct connection. Itrequired about forty-five pounds of pressure, which is equivalent to ninety feet of head, but it obtained throuch the middle of the day, when the eleva- tor'was most needed, and during the sum- mer, when it had the most carrying to do, only about twenty pounds of pressure, or forty feet of head. So another method was. adopted. Having steam-power in the building for other purposes, a force-pump was attached. ‘There were some Jarge iron tanks on the top story of the build- ing next to the roof, at a hight of nearly 100 feet above the basement floor. By means of this pump of only five or six horse-power, consuming very little fuel, running constant- jy and keeping the tanks tull, the water is discharged into the top of the water cylinders, and a head obtained equal to about 100 feet, or a pressure of from forty- five to fifty pounds. The same water is used over and over again, there being but a very slight wastage, and therefore Tr ‘Trip- une has now a_ steady lifting power of from forty-five to fifty pounds, ir- respective of the condition of the city water-supply or its pressure, with no further expense than that involved in pump- ing up the water by the use of the force pup, whieh costs not more than one-half to one-third of what uje city charges for the water consumed in obtaining ah Mg power of twenty pounds, Tue Trust gets now five times the work that it did when it was taking water directly from. the city, and we recommend this to everybody who has gone to tho expense of puttng in these machines. If they have a boiler Ict them attach a little pump to it and put ‘some large iron tanks in the highest position in their building,—on top if possible, or at some point where there fs a strong wall that will hold them secure! 0 that they can get an elevation of from cighty to 100 feet above the bottom of the basement. They can then count on a pressure of forty to. forty-five pounds independent - of the water in the mains. This litile pump, running all the time, will keep the tank full, as the water is only discharged intermittently. For this reason it will answer their purposes quite as well as a fifteen or twenty horse-power engine if direct steam were used. The result of the general adoption of this suggestion, which Ti Trav: experience has shown to be practicable and protita- ble, will be to relieve the pump- ing-works of an enormous demand, to increase the supply to the consumer at large, putting an end to these constant com- plaints which are heard all over the city of an insufficient water-supply, and dolug away with the necessity for the purchase of large and costly engine: THE EOARD OF 1RADE'S HEW QUAR- TERS. The order of the Council widening Sher- man and Pacific avenues and vacating La Salle street between Jackson and Van Buren streets assures the transfer of the Board of ‘Trade from its present cramped quarters to the large vacant lot facing Jackson street, with Sherman street on one side and Pacific avenue on the other. The talk of Injunc- tlons and other hindrances will only exeite suspicion of improper motives, and no efforts of this kind can prevent the contemplated removal. Nothing stays the march of prog- ress in Chicago, and the removal of the Board of Trade four biocks suuth of its present lo- cation hardly anticipates, but rather follows, the necessary enlargement of the business district of the ci All the opposition which this project of re- moval has encountered has been of a selfish character. To all those who not specific- ally interested in rents in the neighborhood of the present Chamber of Commerce the advantages of removal have been obvious from the very first suggestion of the “ Scott property.” ‘The quarters now occupied by the Board have been growing too contracted in every way. Not only is the present. build- ing wholly inadequate to the Gemands and proper conveniences of the great produce market-place of the Northwest, but the sur- rounding accommodations have become in- sufficient, and they wiil be seriously so in the near future. The Chamber of Commerce now fronts upon what will be the political centre of the county as soon as the new Court-House and City-Hall shall be occupied, and the adjacent buildings wii! not be able to accommodate both the commercial and professional offices that will crowd around the present location. ‘Lhe imost prosperous institution of the most prosperous city on the continent may fairly claim ample quar- ters. In removing to Jackson street, the Board of Trade will secure room for a splen- did and spacious building (175x225 feet in dimensions), and the members will have abundant, airy, and healthful offices opened up to them. ‘The Board of Trade is merely following the extension of the business district to the south. Its removal does not signify an abandonment, but an enlargement, of the present business circle, The population of Chicago cannot grow at the rate of 50,000 a year, which is probably the rate of increase now, nor the volume of business enlarge in the same proportion, without requiring more space for operating. The business district is bounded on the east by the lake, and on the north and west by the river. It can reach out only toward the south. The move to be taken by the Board of ‘Trade will serve to give authority and strength to the neces- sary enlargement, and in two or three years from now the large business interests of Chi- cago will occupy practically all the space as far south as Harrison street. The new Board of Trade building at Jackson street will be the geographical centre of Chicago’s busi- ness district within a few years, when that district shall extend as far south as Twelfth street. The utilization of property that has Jain idle and dead ever since the fire of 1S71, and before that time was occupied by disgraceful and dangerous pine shanties, is not the least valuable element of the change. Several millions of dollars will be expended in im- provements incident to the removal. The Board of Trade, or the building association which shall represent it in this case, has ob- tained its new site at a nominal price, and it may and will expend a million of dollars upon the new structure, with a positive assurance of making the investment. pay. Handsome buildings will spring up on all the neighboring property for the accommo- dation of the banks, the commission offices, and the various vocations that depend upon the Board. The location of the Government Building, already occupied, in the same neighborhood, further guarantees the value and permanency of the improvements’ to which the Board of Trade will lead. The expenditure of several millions of dol- lars in improyements will benefit all the in- terests in the city. The working classes will enjoy the distribution of 50 or 9 per cent thereof. for the Gost of what is called ma- terial is made up mainly in the wages paid in getting it outand shaping it for building pur- poses. New building enterprise on a large seale assures good times to the laboring mon, and their prosperity will be shared by the men who: furnish them with their sup- plies. The increase of taxable property by several millions of dollars will be of great benefit to the local -governments and to the schools. In addition, the city will be the beneficiary, because it. is a large owner of property in the new region of activity. By. the time the Municipal Government shall be ready to vacate the present rookery on the corner of Adams and La Salle streets it will be able to seli that property at a large ‘price. In fact, there is no point of view from which the removal of the Board of Trade can be contemplated which does not reveal some tangible benefit to the people. ‘The location just opposit the Michigan Southern and [ovk Island Railroad De- pot will also have the effect of. increas- ing the demand for residence property in the southern’ part of the city and sub- urbs, and enhancing the value there- of. In a few years the suburban trains running from that station will be as numer ous as those which now leave the North- western Station. Business-men living aloug Wabash and Michigan and other parallel avenues between Thirty-first street and En- glewood will have better and quicker facili- ties for going between their homes and offices than those living in the northern suburbs or on the south shore of the lake, beeause their trains, equally accessible from their resi- dences, will bring them directly to their busi ness location, and thus enable them to avoid the distance, delay, and annoyances which attend going to the Iinois Central and North- western Depots. ‘The effect- upon the ample residence. property still unoccupied in the southern portion of the city cannot fail to be very marked, ¢ building which the Board of Trade quits and the business structures in the neighborhood will not suffer anything like the detriment from the change which their owners apprehend. The present Chamber of Commerce may be used to advantage without altering jts present character. A. new exchange, devoted to the combined and cognate interests of the iron, coal, and lum- ber trade, would from the very start be able to utilize all the accommodations of the old building, and would gather around it a pros- perous and thriving community, which would find a decided advantage in concentration. ‘he Court-ilouse and City-Hall business will supply tenants enough for all the buildings in the vicinity of the Public Square, which will continue in any event to be a central and Hvely quarter. Altogether, great thin: may be expected from the Board of Trade re- moval,.and nobody will be seriously hurt by tite change. NUISANCES IX DWELLING-HOUSES. The rights aud privileges of tenants vecu- pylng and paying rent for dwellings and other premi: which, from faulty construc- tion, neglect, accident, or other cause, have becume pestilen and dangerous to the health, not merely of the occupants of the premises, but generally of the public, must soon receive legislative detinition and pro- tection. A few days ago a tenant who lived in a house so afflicted with faulty sewerage as to be foul with gases from the sewers and drains, one of whose children died from blood-poisoning, pronounced to be the result of sewer-gas, and other members of whose family were prostrated with like disease, and who was advised by his medical counsel to remove from the premises, did so remove be- fore the expiration of his lease. ‘The landlord. sucd him for the rent, and one of our city Justices rendered’judgiment for the-claim, de- nying that the tenant was released from pay- ing the rent because compelled to move out of the premises when only one member of the family had been poisoned to deatlr there- in, It is now a notorious fact that a large pro- portion of the dwelling-houses in this city have imperfect drainage,—that this drainage has been badly constructed, or has been dis- turbed or broken after construction. No matter what the cause, the stench and vapor, be it great or less, is perilous to health, and to persons of weak constitution is positively fatal. We take, for illustration, a few cases, out of long lists published weekly, of prem- ises of this kind: ‘fate street, two-story and basement ‘10 fect, thirty rooms, occupied by persons. Plumbine and’ drainage very privies overflowing. Place filthy in the ex- Filth and gurbuge fill the area under the ik. and sturnant water from the waste- pipes under the hatlway of the basement. ‘The waste-pipes are untrapped. ‘Tnere is scarcely any ventilation for the twenty-nine persons.who liye in the basement. The walls are blnck us night, und the whole premises are a disgrace to civilization. Nas. — and — Clark street, three-story and basement frame rookeries, containing twenty~ cizht rooms, in which live forty-one persons. Phumnbing work leaky and untrapped. Drainage stopped up, privies overilowing, reeking, und foul yard strewn with garbuxe; roof leaky and walls dirty. ‘Three three-story frame dwellings, thirty-four rooms, oceupied by titty-four pers Water- pipes broken, drainage bud, ard privies full and overllowing.' “The ‘waste-pipes do not con- neet with the sewer. ‘The waste water sprends itself over the surface of the ground under tho building, where {t remains stagnant, emitting toul and’ offensive vapor. ‘The yards ure full ot ashes and garbage. ‘he cateh-basing have not been cleaned for three years. The walls are biack end grimy, and the waste-pipes are un- trapped. 3 Uere is the way the Inspector reports another case, a three-story brick, 20 by 30 teet, in which pen there are twenty-three rooms, occupied by twenty-seven persons, eleven of whom are children under 15 years old: It fs almost impossible to descrine the actual degree of tilthiness of these premises. The ground floor is in itselt a mass of reeling, stink ing, sickening filth. One of the catch-bisins is solid‘with retuse, and the other fs horribly filthy, Some of the waste-pipes do not connect with the sewer, but empty on to the floor, and the contents ure thus allowed to roam around pro- miscuously, at their own stinking will, until they reach’ the cateh-pnsin, if they ever suc- ced tn doing so. The svil-pipe is defective, and the box jn which it is inclosed acts as a'ven- tilator for the cellar, but curries all the foul air to the rooms above, making the stench in them unbearable. There are perhaps 6,900 habitations in this city where drainage and other conveniences of the premises are defective, ranging from extreme cases like those given in the list down to cases where there is a hole in the il-pipe just large enough to fill the sleep- ing-apartments with gas from the sewer. Landlords deny that they are ‘under any legal obligation to remedy these evils, or to keep the houses in habitable condition; and they are now inserting iti iheir leases that the tenants must protect their premises fromany defects in plumbing or sewerage. We published a few weeks ago the report of atrial before an English Court, where a tenant moved out of a dwelling into which sewer-gas found’ ‘its way, The Court re- leased him from paying rent, and required tho landlord to psy some $800 damages, in- eluding doctors’ bills fur attendance on per- sons supposed to-have been made ill from sewer-gas, : ‘There does not'seem to have been any law established in this country on this question, as to whether a contract to pay rent for a dwelling-house so constructed or so out of repair. as to be dangerous or fatal to heaith can be. enforced. Is not a con- tract of renting.a dwelling, no matter what Its terms,. void when the premises are unfit, unsafe, for human habitation? Is itnot an essential part of the hiring of a dwelling that it shall be habitable; shall be free of avoidable dangers to the life and health of the occupants; and can the lessee waive this inberent consideration in the con- tract? Moreover, has not the City Government a right of control in such matters? Have an owner and a- tenant by contract between themselves aright to maintain a nuisance dangerous to human life and perilous to pub- lichealth? The law of the State confers upon the City Government full power to pro- tect the health of the inhabitants, and, where the health of the city is threatened by any- thing done or omitted to be done, to take summary action to abatethe nuisance. With- out going into detail, it is sufficient to refer to the cases of pestilential premises stated as clearly-established nuisances within the power of the city to abate by summary proc- cess. Among the specific powers of the city the charter confers authorit; ‘To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the same; and to impose fines upon partics arho, ay create, continue, or suffer nuisances “fo do'all acts and make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the prowmo- tion of Rewith and the suppressiqn of disease. In a recent case, King vs. Davenport, de- cided by the Supreme Court of {Illinois in danuary last, concerning the power of acity to prohibit tne erection of wooden buildings,- the head-notes of the decision are as follows: NcE—Power to prevent the erection and ildings of combustible material. The delegution of legishitive power ton city to pro- hible tho erection, pluctug. or repairing of wooden buildings ‘within Hmits prescribed by ordinance without permission, and_to direct and preseribe that all buildings within the limits Prescribed shutl be made or constructed of tire proof materials, and generally to define and de- clare what shail be nuisances, and to authorize and direct the xenmary ahatement thereof. cte., i: within the competency of legislative power, and authorizes the passage of an ordinance probib- iting te erection or repriring of any building within the tire-tinits with combustible matc- riitls, and providing for the summary abutement or removal of the sume. 2. NUISANCE—Hhat may be interdicted in_pop- utous tons aitd cities. Unwholesome trades, sluughter-houses, operations vifensive to tha senses, the deposit of powder, the application of steam-power to propel cars, the Uu:lding with combustible materiuis, and ‘the burial of the dead may be probibited in the midst of de musses of pdpulution, on the general prince’ that every pyrson Ought to so use his. prope: asnotto infure bis neighbor, and that private rights must he subservient to the generat intcrests of the community. 3. Saste—Swamary abatement without previous trial by Jury. As the summery abatement of nuisances is a remedy which bas ever exjsted in tho law, its exer nunot be regarded as in conthet ‘with constitutional provisions for me proteetion of the rights of private property and giving a trial by jury. Formal teyat proceedings and trial by juryare not appropriate, and have fn xueh cuscs. ower is the sole judge for summary abate- and when, if nt ull, It ment of public nutsance: will exereise the right to enact such Jaws, but the enactment must be a reasonable poljee rew- ulation, made in goud taith, for the public good. Ilas the owner of any building or the ten- ant thereof any right by contract to main- tain a nuisance? What, then, is the remedy, which the Court ‘3 should be sununary, which will cover the cases where owners hire out premises which are hot-beds of dis- ease, which aretilled with pestilential gases, which spread the seeds of disease and swell the mortality lists? If avarice will not per- init these owners to abate these nulsances, then is the law powerless to. protect the pub- lic? ‘The City Council has declared by Jaw what shall be treated as a nuisance, and when in any residence the drains, sewerage-pipes, and other plumbing arrangements shall become foul and otherwise dangerous to health, and the law declares the existence of a nuisance, it should be at once abated. When cases of small-pox are found in a dwellin: Jaw directs the removal of the afllict- ed person, and the vacation of the premises if necessary. So, when own- ers of dwelling-houses suffer the bulld- ing to become foul with stenches and health- destroying gases from filth or bad dr: age, the city should by law provide for post- ing a conspicuous placard on the outer front of that building as a notice to the public that the house is adeclared nuisance; aud should also at the same time require the immediate vacation of the building by all its occupants, and no person be allowed to occupy the same again until all the defects therein shall be repaired to the satisfaction of the Health Officer, and the house rendered fit as a resi- dence, There scems to be no other means left to bring landlords to any realizing sense that tenants have some of the rights common to humanity, and that when they discover that they have rented a dwelling given over to sewer-gas and pestilence, and the owner re- fuses to remedy the evil, they should have the right to appeal to the law, and find the protection to which every citizen is entitled. When any houseshall be declared and posted. asa nuisance, and therefore uninhabitable, and to be avoided, owners of such buildings may learn there is one law of the land which provides that no man is at tiberty to use his property or his privileges to the injury of his neighbor or of the public. Then they will Jearn that by cut-throat leases they cannot compel mento pay rent on breoding-houses of disease, nor to live in an atmosphero of poisonous gases. THE SAENGERFEST. The preparations for the Sangerfest, wnich occurs this week at the Exposition Building, are rapidly approaching completion, and but two more working days remain before we shall be Jaunched upon the vigorous tides of harmony from many hundreds of lusty Ger- man throats. The work has been done so thoroughly and systematically that, so far as comfort and convenience are concerned, the public will have no room for complaint. The Exposition Building itself will be in holi- day dress, and will look charmingly with its flags, banners, devices, portraits, and eyer- greens, and even imposing when its vast au- ditorium is full of people and its stage swarms with singers and players. For- tunately, the acoustic properties of the build- ing have been sufficiently tested to make it ' sure that the music will sound well in any part of it. The concerts of the Thomas Or- chestra in 1877, and the Republican. Conven- tion last year, both of which occupied substan- tially the same area as is now set apart forthe Fest, satisfactorily settled that question. At no previous Fest has there been manifested such a determination to appeal to and minis- ter to the comfort and pleasure of the whole public, nor has the Bund ever before been so lavish in its use of money to make its meet- ing attractive. If it had done nothing else, the remarkable group of soloists it nas brought here would have been 2 notable feature, and one long to beremembered. In their indi- vidual ability and in their adaptability to the important works that are to be performed, it is doubtful whether they could be improved upon if the Committee had searched the world over. So far as the mass chorus is concerned, it is impossible to predicate what its work will be; but one thing 1s certain: it will be better than it has ever been before, for the reason that the preparatory Iabor has been more earnest and the discipline been more severe than ever before. The chorus, however, will speak for itself, and it ought to speak-out with no uncertain sound, as much depends upon it in the future welfare if not the existence of these festivals, Itisa notable event of this Festival that the Germans’ have abandoned many of its distinctively national features and have sought to make it a general municipal affair, in which Americans can also take part, The Americans have shown a disposition to ayail themselves of the invitation. For tho firsttime in the records of theBund, two prominent American societies will take part in the pro- gtams, and the patronage will also be largely «American.- There is another. way in which Americans can help to make the Festival at- tractive, and that is by assisting the work of private decoration. As great crowds of people will be here, the city should be make as attractive as _possi- ble and appear to them-in something like holiday attire. This can be done in an inex- pensive and yet very handsome manner by the display of the flags of the two nations or other bright bits of color which wit! set-off the somewhat sombre appearance of our streets, leaving to the Germans the more elaborate work of decoration, which there is no doubt they will do in very hantlsome style. in ordgs,to make any effect, however, in our principal streets at least there should be some general «fort displayed. ‘Scattered decorations here and there are always lost. ‘To the German singers who will come here during the next two ‘or, three days Chicago will unquestionably exfend a. hearty wel- come, and will second her German citizens in any effort to make their stay a pieasant one, while al) classes of her citizens will join in the wish that the Fest may be a success in + every particula : THE FRANCO-ITALIAN COMPLICATION, As the.days go by since the return of the French troops from Tunis and the mobbing outrage inflicted upon the Italians in Mar- seilles, the relations between the tWo people do not grow anymore cordial. ‘The new Ad- ministration in Italy has shown a remark- able degree of patience in suppressing all manifestation of hostility towards the French in Italy and the inclination of Italians to re- taliate upon them for the outrages at Mar- seilles, but the popular indignation -has be- j eome so intense, and itis so aggravated by the provocations constantly ofered by the Freneh, and especially by. the French Gov- ermnent, that the Iialian Government may not be able to restrain its people nmiuch oceur in Jonger, Should an outbreak Italy, war will almost inevitably re- sult, for the Freuch are not only not disinclined for war, but they have an idea that the Italians are too weak to fight them,” and. consequentiy that they have them at | their mercy. In this, however, the French may find themselves mistaken. Italy is a weaker Power than France in both men and | money, but the Italians are gallant and des- perate fighters, and have proved their courage and heroism upon more than one bloudy field. ‘There is still another element to be taken into accuunt. Italy is wise enough not to inaugurate a war; but, should France be unwise enough to do it, Germany would { certainly interfere, as is shown already by nunierous indications. marek has as much: as intimated that France shall uot attack Italy, Should she persist in doing it, Italy would find a powerful ally in Ger- many, and of course in Austria, as the two latter Powers are now closely bound togeth- er, In fact, it is not easy to. see where France can look for sympathy. Russia feels friendly to her, but Russia dare not risk a social revolution at home for the sake of helping her. An Emperor who is virtually a prisoner in his own palace, who is not sure of. the allegiance of his own army, and whose subjects are rapidly nearing the verge of revolution, is not in a condition to embark ina foreign war. England has not regarded the French- occupation of Tunis with any- thing like friendly feeling, and, if there had been any prospect of a united European intervention, would have been among the firstto have entered her indig- | nant protest. If Italy, therefore, should be dragged into a war with France, she would have the strong moral help of En- gland and, without doubt, the material aid of Germany. The Italians are prudent, therefore, in restraining themselves and com- pelling France, if war must-come, to assume the responsibility. The French Government. Sor some time past has declared its desire to be at peace with European nations. The present situation will ‘show whether it is really in earnest in making such declaration. BEADY AND MULHOOLY. nose who have read the politi entitled ‘Solid for Mulbooly” will find no difliculty in tracing a parallel between the trial for libel described in that satire and the haste with which Brady, late Assistant Post- inaster-General, has ‘sought to rush his trial on the star-route charges. Mike Mulhooly was a’ Tammany candidate for Congr He had begun life in Ameri- ea asa porter in a lowsaloon where ward poli- “ticians were in the habit of meeting. He soon got into politics. He first commended himself to the attention of the “leaders ””-by casting a fraudulent.vote before he became of age, and afterwards further ingratiated himself in the esteem of those gentlemen by managing a squad of repeaters. Atter this his progress was rapid. He soon became “ Boss*’ of his precinct, then of his ward, and then of several wards. Ife became a member of the City Central Committee, and then of the City Council. He grew rich in an office to which no salary was attached. Finally his aspira- tions reached out to Congress, and heseeured the nomination of his party by packing the Convention. At this point there was a public protest. A respectable Democrat, who had been cheated out of the rezular nomination, ran as an independent candidate, A respect- able newspaper—the Truth-Teiler, alias the World—supported the Independent candi- date, and told in very plain language the true story of Muthooly’s career. The Boss decided that something must be done, and the editor was arrested for libel,—that is, for telling the naked truth. The arrest was made on Saturday, and the editor was summoned before one of the ring Judges on Monday. The panel for jury- men had been selected from minor city of- ficials and other Dersons subject to the dicta- tion and control of the Boss. . Mulhooly de- manded that the trial proceed at onee. The editor and his counsel demanded 2 few days to prepare the defense, and promised to substantiate by abundant evidence the truth of every word that had been printed about Mulhooly. This apparently Yreasunable de- mand was denounced by Mulhooly’s counsel —two noted criminal lawyers who under- stood how to “fix” juries for acquittal or conviction—to be “an attempt to trifle with justice.” The prosecuting attorney, also a member of the ring, backed up Mulltboly’s attorneys, and the ring Judge likewise grew indignant at this flagrant effort tor “trifle with justice.” ‘The result was that.the edit- or was “raflroaded” through to a verdict of “guilty,” and the Judge only. suspended sentence under warning fromthe “ Boss” that he was in danger of going too far. After that, however, the editinued attacks upon the ring which the’ fruth-Teller printed were treated with silent contempt by the Boss and his underlings because they emanated from a man‘yhé was already a convicted libeler of thé; pure and. virtuous Mulhooly. feat Brady has shovyii AlivSelf to be as. anxious for a speedy triakaswAlulhooly was,” -He has been accustompf'ty” “expedite? the star- routes, and svants:lo expedite justice in the same style’: i annot wait to be indicted. wnie dias been tarnished by reek- Jess newspaper attacks. Ue is panting for vindication. Delay in his case is a palpable attempt to “trifle with justice,” because it ist asked for no other purpose than to collect the’ evidence against him. Brady is of the opin- ion that it is an injustice to collect evidence against him. He desires that his case be brought before the Grand Jury beforetheey dence is ready. He wants to be white’ washed, Fortunately, the Washington Judge Nov, let us have peace. -is not subject to the control of the ring. He. has refused to instruct. the Grand TUTy ty take up Bra-ly’s case until Somebody present’ it. The gentlemen who represent the Gor. ernment say they are not ready to Dresenj any case against Brady. They have uoteyey: announced that any case against kim Shalj. be presented at any time. But Brady is in? portunate.° Ife cannot stand up under tha destructive effects in business and socfat Tite of an unwarranted procrastination,” Pro crastination might produce witnesses, docu: ments, and facts which cannot be shown at this time. Brady is anxious to meet any charges against him before the dence can be collected. There is to member of the star-route ring or any other official ring who will not Tecog. nize his demand as very reasonable and proper. If it has come to such a pass Grand Juries will not hear cases unti the prosecutors are ready to present them, and Judges will not order trials before the ey. dence against people charged with Offictay corruption can be collected, then the Coutts are prostituted and the good old days of i. munity for robbing the Government are plainly at an end. Gen. Brady has at his command a couple of newspapers, doth daiiy, —bought. perhaps, with star-route funds to defend him against newspaper attacks from other quarters, but that is cleap, aot enough. Ie wants to be discharged from * proseéution before the evidence against bin can be xot together. Perhaps he does nog see any other way of escape; in that ease his precipitate demand for justice on the Tail. road plan is entirely comprehensibie, Smn Wintiax Tromson, ina very interest. inz letter tothe London ines, points out that the uew discovery made by M. Faure for tho Storugwof electric force will enable tne engines witich produce electric force to work when ft ig bot wanted for immedinte consumption, as well a3 when‘it is so wanted; go thar, for instance, in the electric lietting of a cit: the requis as at night, until the xecutnulator—the electrig cistern, as we may call it—is full. accumulator, always kept charged from the ene gine by the house-supply wire. with a proper automatic stop tocheck the supply when the accumuliton {3 full, will be always ready at any’ hour of the day or night -to give whatever light is required.” In tho same way, if this force ts used for setting ensines in motion, you mas, by this method of both storing ana transferring it, accumulate your force where you ‘will, a3 well’ as when you will, and always have au enormoos supply ri for use. We might conceivably, for instance, says the Spectator, accumulate dur’ ing periods of wind aud aurricane, or, for thar j matter, if proper machinery could but bede vised, during every ebbing and flowing tide, enough electric force to turn all the maoufact- uring engiues in England, without any use of conl and steam. .And were that possible, what might we not gain for the purity and whol. someness of soviul life? a Asipe from the passing unpleasantries with France the feuding quesuon jn Etaly is tha proposition to extend the suffrage. The new Mintstry husintroduced a bill which confers the suffraze on all wno pay twenty franes of direct taxes and can read und write. At present the votersare persons who pay forty francs of direct tuxes,und in some provinces who can read or write, or who pay arent for a store or workshop, the amount of which varies accord- ing Lo the population of the locality in which it is situated. Consequently, the reform bill,’ though It will increase the constituency consid- erably, will not Increase ft enormously. An at- tempt to strike out the taxation qualification was defeated by a heavy majority; also an at- tempt to reduce the amount from twenty tw ten: francs; alsoun amendment in favor of univere sal suffrage and female suffrage. The last seems to find no favor among Italians at all, for only one member voted for it. The strongest argu- ment against it with the Italian Radicals is the influence of the priests on the women. This. says an exchanze, is probably the most effective argument aginst it ia every country in which, Catholic women are aumerou: Messrs. Porter & Coates have issued an edition of the revised New Testament which is in many respects the most convenient that has’ yet scen the light. The old and new versions are printed in parallel columns in such a-manner. that they correspond line for line. The type is of good size, and the printing and binding suit- able. Few persons are sulliciently. acquainted with the New Testament to detect all the changes in the revision from memory. It is usually. necessary in order to read it intelligently tohold the old version und the new together; and if” they arc in separate volumes the comparison must be rathera painful process. The Porter& Coates edition does away with this difficulty at once. It is even better than the printing of the. two versions on oppusit pages, which has been.- done by the American Book Exchange. ‘The parallel columns save the edge. This edition, moreover, has the merit of possessing all the original annotations and variations. <a Tne New York City Directory for 1951-8 is out, and contains 28,477 names, an increase over the previous year of 11,761. ‘The popula- tion of the city is estimated at 1,257,354, or 50,98 more than when the census was taken. We have not much faith in directory censuses, but pre- sume that New York City has increased during the past yerr fully as much as is eluimed. The muss of the European emigrants to this coun- try land at Castle Garden, und great numbers of them remain in New York, especially the Irish, who become Democratic voters there right of. Chicago bas increased between 30,000 and 8,000 during the past twelve months. $< A New Yors Sun special from Long: Branch, dated Friday. says: “Tne President and Gen. Grant bave met at Inst. The Presi- dent and his wife and boy were just starting out for a drive atSo'clock. Gen. Grant, at the sutne interesting moment, eharced to be strolle ing over the lawn at his son Jesse's cottage. He” was goiug toward the roadway as the Presl- dent's carriage passed. The salute which was exchanxed was spontuncous, simultaneous, and, to all outward appearances, cordial, though not * familiar. The President drove on, and the Gen eral resumed his strol!. The news of the meet- | ing and the grectinz was abroad in an instant.” (ORNELL, of New York, has vetoed singular gill providing pensions for the public~ Echool teachers of New York City and Brooklyn. He says there is nothing extra-hazurdous In the teacher's vocation, and it docs not involve per sonul saerifice or require great ability or ardu- ' ous preparation. He objects, further, that the Di not only would entail a great charge upon the gencrai taxpayer, but would take away the’ tencher’s ambition to quit his calling for “other and more protitable dutie: ae on One W. P. Plant, of Adrian, Mich., 1s either avery thoughtless or avery mean, stingy: ungrateful man, He lost a pocket-book con- tain 31,009 at Mendota, IL, the other day. A ™ young man connected with the hotel, having found it, returned it tothe owner, who walked off without offering to reward the honest finder PERSONALS. r Thomas Nast has gone to the Black Hills, . where he owns a mine. * 3 “T decline to sit up nights and gaze at the - sky. Nobody can comet over me that way."— S.J. Titden. ae Emerson frequently makes a concise state . ment, which at once begins to circulate throughe out the country. His latest is about religion, which he says bas become “ pew-holding.” A New York paper says that “Mr. Follen » isto take charge of Mrs. Lealie’s publishing business,” and identifies tne gentleman by say . ing tuat he is the husband of MaudGranger. Prince Rudolph of Austria and his young wife will spend the summer at an Austriad , watering-pizce with.a name go jong that very: few of our readers would baye time to peruseit Miss Blanche Nevin, of Lancaster, Pay: who received the contract from the State of Pennsylvania for making the statue of Mublen- _ Lerg, has sent 2 model to St. Louis, to enter the competition for the Gen. Blair statue. ‘ The personal estate of the late James T Fields nas been appraised at $124,472. It con sists of shares, notes, and bonds in tha Bigelow’. Carpet Company, Pepperelf” Manufacturing. ‘ pompany, Kearsarge Mills, and Western rai