Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-11-21
PHILADELPHIA, November 18th.

PHILADELPHIA, November 18th.
People are complaining of our conservative
Mayor. His public course of late has given any,
thing but satisfaction, and his veto Of the bin
providing for the widening of the payements on
Broad street. caps the climax, and gives occasion
for very general cry Of disapproval. The facts
are that Broad street Is one of the noblcst av-
enues in the world; that all the accommodation
we can possibly give the rapidly increasing de-
mands upon 1t will scarcely be beyond the mark |:
that the sidewalks south of Poplar street are
some twenty-five feet narrower than those north
of the same point, and that the ordinance re-
ferrcd to-but which is now as dead as a mack
ercl-proposed to widen the southern end, and
make one uniform and noble width of pave,
throughout the street. This necessary improve
ment has been defeated by the Mayors veto.
] have on the other hand to inform You of a
recent public act which gives universal satisfac-
ton. II Is tho contemplated building of a Pbila-
dclphia House of Correction. The matter has
been .agitatcd long time in Councils, not a ses-
sion being held for perhaps ten years past in
which II has not been debated. Finally il has
| passed, and everybodyis glad. The county prison
will now be relieved of the crowds of Migrants
who in winter time have made OF ii a comfortable
| home. Now ii they want this plethora Of warmth
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more loafing. And am much mistaken il loafers
| do not soon discover the differ nee between an
| almshousc, or county prison. and House of Cor
| rection. Thus the new ordinance NAV work
| great good in many ways. The appropriation for
| the purpose, however, is ridiculously small Ono
hundred thousand dollars is not fourth sufficient
for the purpose. The new public selioo building
| on Sixth street, near my house is To cost s75 OW5
| A round half million should have been set apnrt
| at once for the House of Correction which will
cost more than that possibly before Ii is finished
1t is 10 be erected on the large lot back of Nova.
mensing Prison.
Do you know anything of the "Sanitariu,n'' nj
| Media Delaware Co. Though few miles from
Philadelphia 1t Is supported here and so NAV be
considered a tair subject in this correspondence.
1t is benevolent association, formed by DR.,
Joseph Parrish Jay Cooke, John VI. Maris and
other generous spirited citizens to reclaim drunk.
ards, opium eaters, &c. Representatives of the
Philadelphia papers were invited 10 the institu,
ton on Saturday last, to inspect the workings Of
the association, &c. The invitation was general.
ly accepted, and the opinion expressed by those
| present of the usefulness of the s'Sanitarinm'
was universal. DIR. Parrish informed his visitors
that the great majority of the eases he has Ind
have been permanently cured, and that no drunk.
ard, however debased, is beyond hope. This Il
strikes me Is greater news than it is possible ID
imagine in anything POLITICAL artistic or literary.
1t is greater than would have been Garibaldi'e
| snccess, or than Republican triumph in New
York would have been, 1t Is greater than the fact
that Dickens Is coming yet this little S.luitn-
| rum" struggles ON in its out Of the way corner.
nobody notices 1t, and of the people ii II design
it, or If they have never given i a trial. But If