The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-01


f4ipOS9 for repairing and furnishing, s2O3,894 for
salaries Of suporlntendents, clerks, jantOrs, AMI
other employees OF the School Board other than
teachers ti5i and for the vague and inevitable
'incdentals not less than siSl ,T45 The expenses
OF the ensuing year are estimated at s2,3520OO only
or more than half million less than the past year.
The number OF children OF suitable school age in the
city not attending school any portion Of the year Is
variously estimated at from 16 900 to 0O0 There
in operation, including high schools, thirty
one evening schools, seventeen for male and eleven
for female pupils, the attendance on which averages
about 2,OOO The figures relating to the colored
schools how decrease in the registered number OF
AGO and in the average attendance OF 1i5 from 1854
when they were first established. Among other
things, the superintendent In the report gives as
his opinion that no absolute necessity exists for
continuance OF the practice Of INJECTING corporal
punishment upon pupils, and recommends its
adjustment. There will be found few sensible
people who will not endorse this recommendation.
The oldfashioned method OF teaching the young
idea how to shoot which was in such high repute
with cur ancestors is about played out.
II is but short step from the subject OF education
to that OF crime, and simultaneously with the school
report comes the report OF the Police Commissioners
The total OF the force whose operations were re-
strcted to New York city was, at the close OF the
year ending october 81, 1868, llows:-Captains,
"a; sergeants, 1872; doormen, ~; and patrolmen,
1916. At the close of the year ending october 81,
1872; doormen, IT; patrolmen 1880. The total of the
force In the whole Metropolitan District s captains,
DC; sergeants, l83 doormen, 102; patrolmen, 23iS:
making the grand total OF the force 2679 The num-
her OF arrests made during the year ending October
81 1862 % Co.'S against 45l during the previous
year, which leaves balance In favor OF the present
year of 4S43. majority OF the arrests were for such
'misdemeanors as intoXcation and dsorderly c9n-
duct, and they do not show any material change in
the number of grave crimes The report shows no
diminution in the number OF vagrants APP
plying at the Station Houses for lodgings,
and repeats the recommendations OF
former years, as to this useless and burdensome
GLASS; that lodging houses should be provided nde-
pendent of the police sufficient to accommodate the
outcast population Of the city, On the whole, the
report establishes the fact that the metropolitan
police OF New York is nearly equal to the demands
Of public safety could be expected, and infinitely
superior to any force that would be given to the city
by the corrupt party which is overwhelmingly in
the majority. Yet it is the declared purpose of the
Democratic politicians OF the State who have at last
secured control OF the Legislature as well OF the
executive and judicial branches of the government.
to overturn the whole metropolitan police system
and substitute for it force under the complete
sway OF the sachems OF Tammany Hall.
Despite the fact that New York Is the most uu-
comfortable place on the continent to live in, there
is great activity in the way of the erection of new
buildings, the number OF specifications filed during
the year just closed being 1928, or 304 more than
during the year 1868. The majority were for dwell
ling houses the larger number being what termed,
in the pGrlance of Gotham, "nrst-cass" houses and
tenements. There 312 OF the latter and S2J OF
the former and only GAO dwellings ranking
class such as would afford decent and comforta-
bic accommodations for persons In moderate cir
cumstances. Only the very rich or the very poor
can live and thrive in The modern Babylon, a fact
which these statements go far towards substau-
tiatIng. During the year, but SO stores have been
erected There were also IS factories, foundries,
planning mills 10S stables and coach-houses, is places
OF worship, schOo-houses benevolent nstitu-
tions, and station-houses or prisons From all OF
Which, it win be that despite all its iniquites
and dscomforts, our sister city is still growing.
Philadelphia is doing likewise as the yearly exhibit
soon to appear will show but New York can not be
made either to realize or understand this marvellous
fact