Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-10-05

MR. EplToB;-Haye we not here q municipal
law, or rather police order, 10 prevent the
blocking up of the aisies IN places of amuss-
menti Ii so, why is il not enforoedl NV at
tention was called TO il lately, at one of our
would the audience do in case of Gre, or any
other panic. ia
EDITOR STAR:-wnI you allow me to cor
rect statement in your Saturdays issue that
the public school teachers had received their
pay for the months of August and Septem Der!
They were only paid for the month Of August,
and must let a little Of my wrath boil over in
the columns of your paper, that they have so
much difficulty in obtaining their pay. For a
teacher who has worked hard all the month to
to wait at the City Hall from 9 in the morning
until O'Clock in the afternoon, and in the end
De told she is not TO receive her money, must
certainly be rery provoking. To de deprived
OF the only holiday a teacher has during the
week, or good portion of II, is sone thing to be
thought OF besides being told to wait a month
longer for her salary, and 1 can conceive how
thele might be cases of real ssSs-isg where
there's rent TO pay, or a widowed mother to
help. IL is c,y opinion a teacher works quite
as nard, if not harder. in 9e ling her pay than
SIZE does In earning it, and think it 0sght not be
SO. Why cannot some arrangement be
made for teachers to receive their pay
In their respective districts at the end
OF each month, without having to wait
four or i've hours. like contrabanss at a
soup-house, or soldiers to receive their rations!
hear 1t has alsedys been the case to wait so.
reme0ip0.
right speedily. Teaching is said to be a ..noble
calling" ana de not teachers bring their best
strength Of body and mind to the task, and
spend years in fitting themselves for their
vocation! Why then degrade them to the lie vel
OF common street diggers. and, like them,
obiiee them TO stand in a body ne lrly all day
and then, perhaps, sot like them, receive their
pay, but be put of for a month or twol An
I'm afraid there is something the matter of the
deadlock yet, ina. it is little rusty, or some
thing.
ONE WHO HAS HADTHE FACTS FROM AVrcrIn
+. S.-If any one knows any extenuating cir
oumstanceS, or any good reason scby teachers
should be served in this manner. i shall be
most happy to be set right.
EDITOR STAR BY this mornings C5ro,ic,,
notice that on last Mon6ay night bill was
introduced in the lower board of the Counc ellis
'tgranting permission to George w. Hopkins
ana joan s. Hopkins to keep enclosed por-
uon OF 4 street." Allow me to call the atten-
tor OF property holders Of the city, and espe.
cially OF the First Ward, to This contemplated
action. A great nuisance in the shane of a
briek-yard and kiln, standing and located on
Massachusetts, avenue and r street, and GER
tain property on Goth street, has boen existing
Tor number of years, much te the detrIment
OF property holders in that section Of the CITY,
IN preventing parties from settling in tllht fine
portion of the Metropolis. Now. that the
progress OF the city demands that THIS nuisance
shoulo give way to improvements, the parties
interested desire that law be passed allowing
them to keep enclosed a street Cfrom 10th to 2Ist
street, which has been kept heretofore en-.
closed, in violation Of law, out of which CLAW
has been dug. in some parts several feet below
the grade, and which IL is The duty Of the re-
spective authorities to cause the filling up of
the same instead Of keeping enclosed The
property in that part Of the city will and
can never improve as long as the brick ward
and kiln remain on public streets. II is hoped
that the bill introduced will never pass the
lower board, as a similar, still more dangerous
one was defeated in the Board of Aldermen
last spring by decisive vote.
Respectfully. CHAs. EBERT