Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1881, Page 9

TRE OVERCOATS) _ For Boys from 10 to 16 Years Ol, e have frem the very cheapest to the medium, and from that to the highest quality. Our assortment. is by far the" greatest. Our popular price Coat, these ages, is $10, and they are very full value goods. Ko suit any parent's good judgment, any boy’s idea. In this department, large as our trade is, we have a little over-antici- pated the market, so, to run them down, have cut on several lots. They are not old goods, nor non-seasonable, merely too many on hand; and this is a rare opportunity to provide your boy with a school or dress suit of our superior make. Among them are a lot. of very fine Scotch goods of those new light grey and brown effects, in heavy weight goods; not so many of! - these as dark colors, but we will move them all together. \ HARVE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, PAGES. Are made to compete with the best custom tailors’ very best productions, we relying on YOUR JUDGMENT | To prove to you that our money and quantity has produced the same garments in every re- spect, very much less in price. in Style Faultiess. NSPECTICN CORD ALLY URGE ‘In Fit Perfect. ' Please don’t get us mixed up with regular ready-made. We are not on that level. OF STATE-ST., 84 A .2te 10 Years. - At our New York house we employ, or rather recently innported, a design- mother, be she er has to the “ er considered the best of London, and his productions fully indorse him. No ever so fastidious, of good taste, or with most excellent ideas of durability, can denonnce our garments in one particular. has been our prime point, and after that, effect, which our London design- Service Queen’s Taste.” The application of Tassels, Buckles, Plush - es, Collars, Cuffs, &c., are inexpensive, yet childish, and what should be on: garments for children, and of course: as the age advances up to 7, 8, 9,-and i 10 we gradually leave them off, until : at about 8-years the garment is a fae- : simile of the older brother's, or per-. haps the father. day a. m. 737 We have on sale Mon- : Overcoats and 1,823: Suits these ages. No matter what your | price is, we have got an assortment of ‘ |lgarments to match if. In all these goods we preserve our previous high reputation. 86. fi r THE TURr. Warm Praise tor Foxhall. The London Tdegraph, which bus the largest circulation of any puper in England, printed, on the day following Foxball's. victory in the Cam~- bridgesuire, 3 lont editoriul on the subject, in the course of which occurs the following: 1t is dithcult to abstain from -moralizing upon the sborisiznvedoess of man wheu we remember the wailing ana weeptuy of which the costly Biue Gown, wuo persacd at sea fst winter, was the object, und reftect that at the same moment his purcbaser wus unconsciously in possession of the best bourse in the wor.d, tor whow, ag a year- hing, be bud given but 10) soverenzns. There will ba no need bencetorward for Mr. J. . Keene to trouble bimself. about searching out some famous English racehorse with # view to intro ducing bim as a stallion into the United Siates, Seeing that, in vie winner of the Cesarc- witch = end. Aunbridyeshire Handicaps, he owns , unquestionably the —_must ¥aluabio quadruped iu existence. Mr. Keene gave 23.5W—at. lexst ms. full value—for Blue Gown, but not many months alter the Derby winner's death on buurd we Victor.a steamsbin of the Anchor Line, Foxball was destined to electrify spurting circles upon both sides of the Auaniic by a performance whic stamps bin as an extruordimury animal, Horsetiest, like every other murketable commodity, is depressed at tbis mument, nor _would-it be ood an animal in any part of the world for which such a price asked for Hubert the Devil after the Cesurewiteu of iazt year Would be readily forth- comms. Weure, however, wibin bounds when wo say that Mr. Keene might bave u,v) guineas tor Foxnall within-a week—probably within a duy—of the time when toe horse was known (ove in -the market at that price; and the same can nurdly be sitid of uny ober. ‘thor- oughbred bourse, it pernaps we except Mr. Ry= mill's Bruce, upon woum bs future enguge- ments bestow au exceptional value. There i: Derbup3, bo other stuilion or rucebu of Enginud, with the excepuon of Bruce, for whom a purcbaser could be fuund at this figure, as the victory of Foxball in the Cambridgeshire lust Tuesday with nine stone on his buck * knucks poles.” us Uie phrase runs, in the performances of Isonomy in the Manchester Cup, sid of Robert the Devil in the Cesarewiteh, Excb of these two lust-vamed ealied tor awhile “the borse of the century,” but that name will now no longer Deupphedioeither. Moreover, we would venture to Warn those who, in the intoxicuuun uf te moment, deem that Foxoall's wonderful per- formance ot last Tuesday will never be surpas: and perbaps never puraileled, ie the fuvure: that there {sno sucb word as tinahty im the records of men or of aulmuis. As an exempiiteation of this truth, we might turn to wbat 1s culled * the trotting world" in the United States. Thus wen, in inst, Flora Temple trotted ber mile in two uunttes and nineteen seconds at Kulama- £00, 10 the Suite of Miebizay, it was entuusiast- ically predicted that sue would uever be di Re ed trom her tbrope as the Queen of Trotters, Wht yours Inter, however, Dexter knocked olf two seconds from Flora Tetaple’s record, and in Jér3 Goldsmith Maid tur surpassed the best Ume of Dexter. in the list three years, Kuru: St. Julien, and Maud 5. bave thrown EF! Temple, Dexter, and Goldsuitt Muid_ entirely into the shade, and who can venture to predict that within tbe present century sume trotuug prodigy may uot be found eapuble of covering & mile tn two minutes? Yet, altnuurh it cannot be denied, with respect to both men aud horses, What what they bave ul- ready daue is, a5 the Poet Laureate puts it, but earnest of the things thut tney shall do,” En- g shoen will not be slow to admit wat Mr. year. ‘eene’s Foxbull-bas just ‘taught them a start~ ling tesson. ‘Khat a Ss year-old shuuld be the best horse of any age in. Englund, certainly over the Casurewiten, und probably over the Cambridge- shire Course, bus rarcly, if ever, happened be- fore in the jon and splendid bistory of the Brit- isb turf. When we read that upon the receipt in New York of the tidmes that Foxball bad won the Cambr dg -=bire, the first impu: eot our excitable ‘k.us.nen Was to eXclaim that. greatas bud been the success of thelr borses this year io Europe, it. was the determinadon ot Mr. Keene, Mr. Lorillard, and their covgeners w make It “still butter for England” in the Tuture. we cannot afford to regard toose threats as empty boxsts. Track Talk. The stables of Messrs. Dwyer and Keene are at Sheepshead Bay. The brother to Foxhall 1s re- ported to be very well. Jersey Boy, record 2:2153, bas finally passed into the possessioy of Jack Phillips by purchase, having been in that driver's stable for several seusons. M.J. Daly, of Hartford, bas bought the 3-year- old filly Bernardine, by Bonnie Scotiand. whien means that she will hereafter be put to hurdle- jumping. ‘The well-known running mare Prairie Rose, by Uncle Vie, dam Prairie Bird,bas been pur- chased by Wiley Buckles, Springteld, Ll. and Will be put breeding. After Foxhall had won the Cambriagesbire, be was folluwed nto the Town of Newmarket by Qo admiricg crowd, and in proof of bis good temper itis cited that he submitted ta the most familiur sttempts, and some ardent worshipers ; puiled hairs out of bis tail in memory of the great occasion. ‘The Dwyer Brothers bave purchnsed the 8- yeur-old ehestnut horse Kenny, which would in- dieate that they tntend competing in races over the timber next season. The racehorse Uucas, who was sent to Eu- gland by Mr. Corillard and ran in the Derby of 18:0, is expected to be on the turt again next ear. He went amiss early this season, but bus been fired, aud stunas ull right on bis Jegs. John E. Turuer. bus received from Mr. J. W- Shawa very handsouie chrovometer as a recog- niuon of the way in which he bas bandied Trin- wet during the past season. The latest addidon to ‘Turner's staole is Churlic Champlin, record Tomorrow the Kentucky Association will hold a@ mocting at-the Phoenix Hotel, Lexmgton, which is sure to be a very important one. Among other business transacted will be in all probability ine in Weizuts, in accordance with the folluwimg sebedute: y Fuur-vear. Five-sear-ol Slr and aged. Not by His Dec It would seem at first sight that the question of a man’s citizenstip, espec.ally if he were an American and living all the time bere, would be eusilg settled, but Mr. H. W. Bishop, Muster in Chancery in thu United States Courts, bas been engaged some weeks in hearing evidence to set- tle a mutter of ibis kind in which William P. Watson is the party specially interested. Lust summer J.C. Short and William P. Watson filed a bill in tno Circuit Court aguinst the New York, New England & . Western Investment Company churging that they were stockholders in the company, wno were likely to lose their rights uniess ussisted by the court, and asking to have the company’s affairs wound up; on the ground that 1 had forfeited its chur- ter by leaving tne State of Ilinois and Jocatine: {tg olice in the City of New York. Soon after the case was Uansferred to the Federal Court by the defendant, on the allegation that. Wat- son, one of the ptaintif’s, was a resident of the State of New Yura, aud that tbe suit was suco a. controversy between citizens of dif ferent States as_ gave the Federal tribu- nal jurisdiction. This was disputed, and Judge Drummond i Aucust referrcd te mutter to Mr. Bishop to lke testimouy and report. A supplemental bili was also led to-restruin ‘the pany trum issumg more stock, and It was dismissed by Judge Drummond. OVER 1,3W PAGES OF TESTIMON bave been tuken to decide where Mr. Watsoa hives, mucb of the evidence being taken in New York by deposition, and yesterday Mr. [isbup filed bis report im watch be reaches the cou- clusion that Watson is a restdent. ot New York. Watson, ur several years prior to 1878, as it ap- peared, was a bunk examiner here in Chicnyo, and in July of the above year be became inter- ested with J. C. Short “in the New York, ew Euland & Western Investment Com: opened an’ olfice bere, the company having beeo—ebartered’| by spect act of ‘the IMrois | Lesislaure, and then after a time upened a branch olfice in New Yours, to which the bulk of their business wus transterred, and where the company bxs been doluy a lurge.and increasing business ever since. Sbort was elected President and Watson retary and ‘Treasurer. The lutter bis always ined he was x resident of I!inois, and that be had never changed bis residence and did_uotin- tend to cbange ft. ‘The directory of Chicuxo ever since 19 has alwayssbown Watson's name as of No, 14 Calumet avenue, Chicago, and the New York Uirectory during the same yeurs bas represented the same gentleman ag bav- in. an .olfice at 31 and 33 Pine street, New York, “pou: Chicago.” The testimony. of Watson also showed that he invariably registered himself us of Chicago, and that when traveling be took out insurance and accident-insurance poli- cies always a5 living in Chivazo. THAT HE NEVER VOTED OR ATTEMPTED TO VOTE in New York, but that he persistently and inva- rlabiy asserted that be wes from Itlinois. itfurther appeared, on the other side, that No. 123 Calumet s¥euue, was a buurding-house bere Watsun bourded previous to gomg to New York to enguge in the business of the company.” Since April 6, 18%), se hud never slept at Ne, 123" Calu- met avenue. His wife and family went to New York some two years azo, and never have been in Chicao or out of the State of New York since. Since April, 1880, also Watson has only veen in Chicago four or six times prior’ to thy commencement of the present suit, and then at the expense of the company and on its busts, stopping at the Palmer House, to attend some Stockbolders’_or directors’ meetings, and then returning to New York. He, bowever, always registered nimself us of Chicago. Going etl farther into Mr, Watson's life, it was proved that he bad no business here other thun bis business for and thitt he. had no property, nor: property in- terests. here outside’ of the company. A lotter was produced ou tho exatnination, written to Watson previous to bis xoing to New York ‘permanently, and his reply, iu which be said he did not like the idea of going to Now York toremain permanentiy. but be wns then going to stay for un indetinit time. In June last Short and Watson were deposed from their po- sitions, und opened an atlice at No. 107 Nassau street on their own uccount as the American Finance Company. Itwas contended by the defendants, repre- idge & Tonrtellotte, that ed in chitiining a citizeuship here the charter of the compuny, oue of the Directors Tho Master, after hearing wor three days’ argument on both sides on the testimony, gave an ‘extended oral opinivn, holding that the statements of a party as to his citizcnshIp were of no account when his acts were diametrically oppused to bis words, A maa liv'ng in New York with his famn- jy and having all big interests there was neces- sarily a citizen of New York, no matter bow persistently be asserted the contrar ty this, ruling the case will remain in the Federal Courts, to be heurd there. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. SUI Engaged in Printing Bogus Ads. To the Editor-of The Chiengo Tribune, Cuicazo, Nov. 12.—In last Saturday's issue of the Chicago Times there.were two advertise- ments of * Room to Kent"—two that I know of —one No. 5{South Peoria strect, the other wus No. ji Randolph street. Atthese two places there were no such numbers to be found. Now, gir, why Is thig I would ask? It cannot be for sport, to send people on such a wild couse chase Jooking for rooms and numbers that bad no renl~ ity in fact; and nut only the long walk and bunt- ing to and fro, but the disturbing the immediute neighbors ju ringiug their dovr-be ing inguiry for suid numbers. Oue 1: that was the third that sume.errand. Would you call shis a nuisance’ or wout would sou call it? or why does such mean- ness come in play? or who is to blue for trifling with the peopic? It is a shume, whoever is re- sponsible, and tues will meet thetr just retribu- tion souner or luter—the pit they prepared for others they may possibly full into themselves. By giving thisan insertion tn your valuable paper you mmty assist im putting a stop to this kind of.business, ang oblige one Who was duped. Lam, dear sir, respectfully you digbent BLACK, South Desplaines street. the company, to protect which required - that should be a resident of [uinois No. An Outrace. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Curcaco, Nov. fhe attempt that is being made through the Common Council to set aside the fireurdinance in favor of. Messrs. Armour, “Dole & Co. to enuble them to erect a hignuly com- pustible and dungerous grain elevator in tbe western purt of the city is an outrage on the entire community. What are “facts? Here cumes 4 firm that is known to be one of the wealthiest grain-clevator firms in the world, and backed, too, by the great Chicago, Burlingtun & Quincy Bailrond, and in order to save themselves atew thousand dollurs ask from the city whut would be instantly refused to any pour man who wished to-build a small cottage to shelter his wife and children. 7 Jt is a shame for such a firm to ask any such concession, and a stil! greater shame that men can be found who were elected to protect the interests of the community who will uoblush- ly ask to have the Nirg ordinance set aside mm a caseus this. ‘The building which it is proposed to erect is to be upwurds Of 1,0 feet lung, and wide in pro- poruon, will require millivns of feet ot tamper iu its construcuon, and it is to be located in the gouthwestero partof the city—our must danger- ous quarter. It i8.in u puri of the city were, during tmuch of the ycur. the streets ure wholly impassuble for fire-eugines, and whieb, under the most favorable circumstauces, could not be reached by more than a smult portion of our Fire Department without great delay. Alsou, it 1s pes cultarly exposed to dancer from locomouves that are cunstuntly pussiny, nigbt and day. Jf that busiding once gets on tire it will in all probability cause a widespread condagration, euch us bas not been seen im Coicago since te memorably ¥th duy of October, loiL And yet tbis 18 the kind of feast to which the peuple of Chicago are invited by sume of our City Alder- men. If a sufficient number of them have becn “seen” to carry this infamy through. it is to be hoped that M. Harrison will squeten it et- tectually by bis all-powerful veto. ‘The only reason assigned for favoring this project is that the building Is required {umedi- ately to increase the grain storage capacity of the city, and that to erect # substuntiul and reasonably safe building woult require 100 much delay. ‘This is just no reason at all. ‘The grain storage capacity of the city has been va increased during the present season (including cleyators now [if process of erection and which will be completed at an early day) by uiore than siz millon bushels, whieh is likely to be all the additional room that will be required for some. years to-come. Besides, our present elevators are far from being rll, and everything indicates that the Eastern demand will fully equal the light receipts we ure. hkely to buve during tho wioter: also at the close of navigation there will be # large tleet of vessels here that can be utile ized for storage purposes if necessary. But, even if this Were not all so, there is no good te why the sitfety of the city should be jeopardized and a bad precedent establisned tn connection witn our viluuble tire ordinances in order to meet whut can at most bo ouly a tem~ porary need. "fhe grain-storage business in Chicago hus al~ ways been 2 highly profitable ‘business, und it can sately he left to our capitalists to supply all stonize room—wen who ure willing to erect in the future as in the past good, sate, and substantial elevarors, und not such dangerous fire-breeders us the one proposed. OBSERVEIL The New Chicazo, Burlington & Quincy Elevator. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Curcaco, Nov. 12,—The article m last Tues- day's ‘Tuipus: under tbe ubove beading and signed “Board of ‘Trade’ had. the true ring to it. Messrs. Armofir, Dole & Co. have made a good many oiiliion of. dollars in the gram elevator business in Chicago, and if they tind that they need more storuge enpacity to necommodate the inereasing business of tue Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Roxd they can well aiford to put up a first-cluss elevator and not one that will bea continunl nuisunce to the grain-dealing public. ‘The burid:ng should be located on the river, where sbipments cin be mude both by lake and rail, Their plun to deliver grain through some one of their other houses when luke ship- mts are required, is neither feasible nor legal, and will prove & constant annoyance to purties storing in tho new house. Such a house sbould never bemude “resular’ by the Board of Trade. -Also, there are otner objections. such as high rates of insurance, ete., that will readily sugwest theinseives to ail parties who are fumilur with the grain trade of Chicago. 1tis to be hoped that Messrs. Armour, Dole & Co. and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rutil- road will reconsider the {ntention of locating this builduy before proceeding further with 1t. Grain RECELVER. » Undercround Telerraph Cables. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cuicaco, Nov. Tae TRIBONE, in referring recently to a propysed ordinance for under- ground telegraph wires or cxbles, seemed to be Of the opinion that it could discern the handi- work of the Western Union in some of the pro- visions of the proposed ordinance, and specitied the third and fourth sections thereof. So tar ns the Western Union fs coucerned, I know from a personal fact that neither that company nor any Of its officers were the projectors or wutuors of the proposed oruinuuce. whieh f believe to be 4 good and proper one nevertneless. Jt would be 2 very simple matier tur the Cotnmon Council or its committee to ascertain to its sutisfacuon whether uny cable which 1s proposed to be hud in the streets 13 of “ap approved practical and durable kind” or not. ‘The burden of proor will lay With the party applying for the privi- lege, and it would net be ~ necessary. for anyone to go. abroad. to obtain” tes- umons or opinions of competent or expert clec- tricians to decide the matter, so lone as we huve right here In Chicago in the telegraph fraternity such geatlemen as Gen. Stuger. Prof. Gray, Prot. Sunmers, Prof. Barrett, und any number of others who ure nbove reproach, and of good antbority on the question. ‘The fourth section of the proposed ordinance was not leveled at the, Mutual Cron any more than it was at the Western Indiana Kaltroad Company and others whu have lately been per- mitted to lay telegraph cavles in a surt of go-xs- you-please way, without putting them in pipes or conduits. It dues not seem right and proper to alwww those parties to be frequently Isterter- ing with the streets and pavements, as will beapt to be the case in order the keep their cables in repair, and it is reasonable totnfer that it will generally seem decidedly more arousing if the City autuorities do allow:thera to do this, than it will if they prohibit them from 60 doing. Unxpexcdousp. Eoman Catholic Clerical Politicians. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Brupcrrort, CuicaGo, Nov. .12,—Last Sun- day'sediifon of your puper contained a protest from a citizen of the Town of Lake against the interference of the Hev. Futhers Dorney and Flannigan in the politics of their respective lo- calities.” I wish his protest extended to another noisy polemic named the Rev. Father Grogan, who is the vicegerentof the Lord in this. be- nighted region. He bas made bimself so ob- noxious to the Irish Catholics of Bridgeport that bis removal would be regarded as.a blessing. Not only in regard to the Biblo, which he threw from the train-window some years ago, and- which disgraceful act covered ‘him with'igno- ming, but with regard to his interference with our Land-League Club of Bridgeport, dues he merit the condemnation of ‘every patriotic Irish Catholic. ‘The _intemper= ance of bistancuage in deauncittion of those who dissent from bis opiuions Is something that exceeds ull bounds of credulity, exeept atone those who have the mortification of bearing his blasphemous attacks on Protestants in his Sun- day sermons. Tam a tirm adherent of the Cuth- olic Chureb, but [sometimes imugine there ts something wrong in it when our priests are furced to such extremities as to actually mis- represent actual! tucts in order to retain their hold on the Irish people. Every effort made by our. poor peuple to ilieviate the sufferings of our countrymen in Ireland is discountenuaced by the Cutholie clerzy when our contributions are diverted trom their own pockets. Lneed only refer to Archbishops McCabe und Croke to prove this. T'ucse.worthies -bied all the money they could out of our poor people; they now abandon our country to her fate like a lot of rats deserting a drowning ship, becuuse the “Se- cret-Service Fund” of England will be an am: ple recompense fur the rservices.._ Is litle poli lician Grogan, of Bridgeport, gome to follow thoir Infamous example? WiLLIAM GLEESON. The Condition of Wabash Avenue. To the Edttor of The Chicago Tribune, Cur0AGo, Nov. 12.—There is certainly a great need ut sumothing being done at once with Wa- bash avenue from Tweuty-second to ‘ihirty- fifth street. It is now almost impussable on account of the terrible condition of the roud- bed. Action ought to be taken at once by the property-owsers looking to a permuncnt im- provement, instead of ono that would be only temporury and only lasting a few years ana conunuaily out af order, as bas been the experi- ence in wooden-biock pavements. There iy no rerson why Wabash avenue and the adjoining cross streets should not vecome the Very choicest residence property in the city, if proverty-owners uloug the avenue would petition the Council to have the street put in tne same permanent condition that Michigan uvenue boulevard is. to pe, with arde- walks, curbstones, uniform size of elm tree: and parks. ete., including ‘Thirty-Utth street, from Wabush to Michigan aveaue. 1 would add uniform Iron ferces und gates, with stone foun~ dations, on both sides of tho street—the im provements to be paid iu fourequal annual pay- ments (by special assessments on ull the prop- erty benefited), and bave it completed dunng next year. After the street is ordered itu- proved, the property w}l increase tn value more than enougo to pay tor ali the suprove- ments. before the work is commenced, and in less than one year the property alum. suid avenues could sod tor double the amount that it. will now. bring. ‘That the property-owners. may get a more per- muneat job trom the contractor, they should let the contract ty him to keep it in repair for twenty-five yours, and the cost of such repair and keeping the street sleun and sprinkied be paid tor by -speciat ussessment every year. By this method we will bave a guod clean street, always in repair, at a trithng expense. This improvement, with ‘the Grand boulevard ou the one side and the cable ruiiroad on | the other, will make Wabash avenue the choicest and most desirable residence property in the celts. C.D. stusHER. Pay of Letter-Carriers. To the Editut of The Chicago Tvtbune, Cicaco. Nov. 12.—Whben one enters the car- rier-service he is pluced at the foot of the sub- stitute list. His duty ts todeliver mail in any district when tho currler of itis absent through sickness or other cause, and he receives the reg- ulur’s puy for such time us he works. The ob- Jeet of this class is twofold: First, in case of any carrier’s absence bis mail roust bedelivered; second, to have those who have acquired expe- “fience in carrying to fill vacuncies occurring ia the reguiarturce. If u substitute proves capa: bie and able to deliver mull properly and intelli- gently, be 13 cuatinued on the list till such time as bis turn for appointment arrives, which is when all gubs longer on the list thun he bas been ure appointed. If he fg not up to the re~ quirements..ne 13 discharged fur incompetence BS 8000 a8 the fact is ascertained. Ttrequires in Chicago from eighteen months to twu years to pass trough the substitute list, and aman {gs regularly uppuinted. He is dex clared fitted by bis experience fn pernups 100 ditferent districts during bis two years’ proba- tion to take oue, und perform all duties and as- sume ali responsibility he Is ever asked to. no mutter bow long he may remain in service, an ives the only bond be {3 ever required to. He js first, appointed to the third class. and at tne tout of it, aud must wuit till all wbove bim*are appointed to the second class. In Chicugo thts requires sbout the samo time as the substitute hist, nearly two -years. When be enters the eccond grade no extra lubor, respo! sibility, or. bond fs required. He pusses through this the aume as the third, which in Coleago, according to. the record of vacancies occurring siuce the bill became a law, averuging about four per year, would require twenty-one und one-half years. There are twenty in the third, elzbty-three in the second, and 108 in the first grades in this city. ‘Phe third cluss—koown a8 auxillary—is paid, +8100; the second, $800; and the first, $1.000 ver year: yet exch is reanired to perfurm identically the saine amount of lubor, furnish the same bond, assume the same responsibility, and must ‘be cquaily as good curriers. “Then why this dif- ference in galaries? It must be the result of a luck of proper examination Into the service, and its requirements of the carriers. After numer- ous meetings and a considerable amount of cor- respondence the carricrs“of the first. second, and third class, regardless af cluss, of Chicazo. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Wa3sbineton, and of all cities of 75,000 and ‘over, huve untsed in 2 petition to Congress 90 to logisiate as to make but two classes of carriers, substitute and carrier; that when the substi- tute receives bly appointment as a regular be shall receive $1,000 per annum so lung ns be shall continue in the service, and they’ respect- fully nsk the press and public to nia them in this reusornmble request. If the question coutd | be submitted to the public they woutd have no fear of the verdict; it would be chat all should re- cnive the same pay, and that should be ut least S100 a yeu ‘Think of your own postman, as be comes to you every day ftom Janunry to December, ex- cept Sutiday, and even chat is not bis own, for he must be at the ollice from 9 a. m. till 12:30 p. i. to Serve you if you call for your mail. See him tramping through the rain and mud, or wading through snow waist deep, or nearly frozen, with the mercury 20 degrees below zero, or ready to melt in the hut sun of July. Think of bis climbing tlight after flight of stairs down town with great loads of muit_on bis back: think how long flesh and “blood can stand such demands upon it; consider that when be is brokea down, ashe surely inust be if he con- tinues in the Service, there is no place fur bim in the Government service where be can per- form less severe duties uod earn.» living, nor 1s there a pension awutins nim. No, like a faith~ ful horse tbat is or nu further use to {ts muster, he is turned out to shift fur himself: therefore he should have at least 2 comfortuble sulary while he does labor. ‘We must consider, too, that they are nearly all men of family, aad’ we Know how rents. fuel, and provisions have udvanced, besides they aro required tu fitrnish two uaifurins per year, at 2 cost of at lexst $5. The Po: ter-General’s report fur the year -ending June i), 188), suows 2705020 surplug earnings of the free delivery I ice turned into the Treasury after deduct- tng all the expenses of the service. showing it to be fur more than self-supporting, and at least that the burdest worked class in it should recoive a fair compensation from its own ear- nings. Think of this, and say is 1,00 a year too mueb for your * Letter-oy "2 Haze. The Citizens’ Association and. Other : Critics of Our Public Schools, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cmeaco, Nov. 12.—That our schudis do not accomplish al that {s desirabl wil be admitted by everybody. Probabty no other clus is so. thoroly consious of this as the teuchers. They xppre- ciate us wel-as anybody the mengernes uf their own attainments. aud non kaow better than thoy how litt! of what they buy they ar able, un- der the circutnstances, to fmparc. Itis an easy mutter to criticize teachers. tosuy they ar weded to certain methods from which they wil not de- part, and to make other cbarges of an equally general and intangibl caracter; but that our critics, or any others, cud do better can be shown only by their going into scoot-rooms3 and making the test. No dout more cud be accom-_ plisnt if those only were einployd who buv a genius for other things 23 wel, anc to find # Held for the exercise of their powers which is at the same time fea barusaing and more protitable than the scoo!-room. It is, however, not my purpose in this com- munication to go over the ground in defens of teachers, but to point cut one great source of waste in our educationul proceses, and to ask. jour wid und cudperauon In correcting the evil. You demand nsical training, ethical training, and practical trufuing. ‘To ve of general value these inust cum in the primary grades, for the great mus of pupils never Ket beyond these. Now, louk over the cours of study in these yrudes and point out, if possibl, what can vo pinitted to make room for yur demunas. Read- gpelling, riting, the fundsinental procescs ofarithinetic, a taste of geogrufy, und som oral Couebing in regard to efhieal and. to practical af- furs make up the list, Walch of these can be gpared? Phualy nut ans. Since the ist is wo meagre, why. do not more pupils get beyond these grades? It may beaskt. I wil endevor to fuser. and in doing 60 Wil show wher the waste coins in. kes the averdLechild four years of scool time to idmn to read, and that but inditferently Wel So great ar the difficulties in ucquiring this crt that itis regarded ug being In itself, 10 ibm sens, ag edueadon. It la the dividing line between the iterate and the illiterate in our stanstics; and no Jes than if per cent. of sradult population, the country over, never Required it. - Leruing to spet is stil more diti- agit and occuples a very larze purt of the tine Cf these primary crades. These ditticulties crow Gut of the exceeding irregularity of our spelling. qusrmul part of the time dow given to reading Jad giv far better results than we now got, wer Sur ritten Iapguage the counterpart of our osoken. AS for spelling, it shud be nothing qnore than a careful analysis of speech sounds; in. other words, lerning to” spél shud"corisist ~~ aimply in lerning to distinguish between formal and correct speech and cotloquialism. You say. truly, that * chlidreo shud be taut to reson una to thin! But the tusk of Iurning to read aud spel our language at it now ig cun-be approxcht only thru the mem- ory. It presents to the child a uever-endias series of puzzis, contradictions, una absurditie: ty, as yet but little awaken: and nveding heithy sttinulus for its develop ment, is represt, stunted and dwarft, und hit innate Sens of consistency is perpetually out- raged. The hole proces, whieh mirot be an casy task und unade up of a series of delightful sur- prizes, 1s tedius ano distasterul drudgery: and isoften accomplisht, so far a3 accomplisht ac al. thru teurs, wenrines, and bedukes. What the world bag‘tust becaus of the unnecessary difficulties that present themselves at the very threspold of lerning can never: be known. Doubtles many naturally eifted minds bav been turnd by these barrtes into’ commonplace chan- nels and bay gone thru litem obscurity. that ols hud aided in the forward mareb of bumaaity. - Speaking of the four primary srdes, beyond which (allow me to repest tt) the great majority of our pupils never get, I'deem it quite within Dounds to sity that Fully one-third of the eatire scool tine of al children fs wasted—or wore—by the creat divergence between the spoken and the ritten wort. Our alfanet consist nominally of twenty-six letters: really, of about thre bundred letters and combinations which serv aa letters, used without rule, and inainly without renson, except 80 far us _bistorical antecedents tay be supposed to furnish areason. Ourspelt- in Is universally pronounced by scolurs who hay given the éubjret thotful attention to be the worst in the world. Every Englisn-speking child ig placed nt a disndvantage inthe race of life by it. Must be be thug hundicupt forever ? Itcertainly 13 not noeerssary.. ‘To bring our spelling tua fonetic basis ‘is practicubl, gud wud pay for itself in a generauon. Indeed. every counge in the direction of sunpliication wud pay for itself us soon #3 made. Nor ar such changes without precedent. Tne stolars of Spain did this work for their natiy tung thoroly Biore than haf a century ago. ‘Those of Holland effected a great reform, but made the mistake of purtialls retaining historical spelling. Vol- taifre ted in Improving the French spelling. ‘Those who buv visited the public cools of Germany tel me that the German tad of twelv years seems decidedly more apt and cupub! than the American bo7 of the same age. The Ger- man language catt be absolutely aiustered ws to its reading and spelling with far les fabur than our primury pupily mast giv for the very im- yerfect results. they achiev in English, t the scolars of Germany ar moving in tter of simplifying their spelling. Ours needs this tenfold more thin theirs; and an er- nest effort, ted by the best scolarsbip of Engiand and America, I3 being made at the present time to make x bexinning. How many of. those who eriticize our ecouls beeaus {hey uccomplish #0 fittlar witling to aid in this work? How wnuay’ of them ur willing to do so much éven—or 80 Hitt rather—as to uniformly spel the word tha with thre tetters fo their private and pablic cor- respondencez How many ar giving such news- Papers and mauzines as bav ventured to adopt a few simplitied spellings encuragement to con- tinue these and to enlanze the List? It wil not do to guy this ebud be left to tho scools. The ecvols always teach what ts ae- manded by public sentiment, os far as possivl. Besides, it is charzed bythe critics that the teachers ar wedded to the past. If this be tru in anything it is tru in this matter. Witn regret.1e must be coufest that amongst teachers and econ! superintendents many ar jnditferent to thia refurm, and a few ar hostilto it. It must be prest upon them from without. The ensiest and must suitebl place to commence {3 tn carre- spondence, private and public: the newspapers wud soon foltow, then the dictionaries, and last- ly the scvois. 4 ‘The time to make a beginning in this matter is noo; the piace here. There is no cutr- munity’ in the world better fitted to lead “in it than the inbabitaats of Cl- cago; and in. Chicago who 80, compe tent fo take the lead a3 the Citizens’ Assoc: tion? We bav here the enferprise and the inde~ pendence to feud the Enslisn-speaking world ia this reform if ooly our attention cun be turad tw {t long eaut to se Its necessity. Help, O ye critics, {0 this work. Then may you bupe, oay, be sire, that sometime, if not how, a place thay be fund in the scouls fur the additional work you wisi them to do. e BLoomzne. ee Perhaps there is no modern industry so chaifacterized by rivalry, by bitter and feal- ous rivalry, as. that of piavo-making. The only manufacturers-in the United States who seem to be free fromthe envy of their contemporaries are Hallet, Davis & Co., of Boston, the recognition of their instruments as inimitable and unapproachadle in their permanent points of superiority by the unii- ed judgment of the whole musical world seemuy: tu.place them out of the ‘arena of contention, and. leaving the little army of competitors for second or third rank to Gght it out among themselves. ——_————_— Winchester fypopnosphites will cure consumpiicn. couges, weak lun, brou- chitis,andzenerul depility, Esteblished-3 years not to memorize.” i