The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-18

4 duu lllUcTHdI u!oecuslous a NAoASNA W :"
ministration of this long mis- governed city and
all good New Workers are waiting with anxiety
to see whether it will prove any improvement
upon the old political machinery.
1t promises well at the outset. The govern
ment is centralized, at least in form the Mayor
(Oakey Hal) is made the nominal ruler of the
city, the power Of appointment to all the depart
ments under the new charter being placed in his
hands. All the complicated departments of the
i old regime are broken up and IN their place we
have the following ten, correlated under a central
head
/. Department of Docks.
.. Park Commissioners.
3. Commissioners Of Charities and Correction.
. 4. Health Department.
). Fire Department.
6. Police Department.
I. Excise Commissioners.
8. Department Of Buildings.
9. Commissioner of Public Works.
10. City Chamberlain.
The most lucrative Office. that Of Commissioner
of Public Works, is reserved by the master
spirit of New York politics, W. N. Tweed, for
himself. Tweed has never been content with
stealing less than 500 ,00Q at a time he is the
ruler Of the ring, the real organizer Of the new
government, the { . boss " of the Mayor and of all
the departments and as the head Of this great
Bureau, which includes the care of the CrotOn
water-supply, of the streets, sewerage, and drain
age of the city, of the construction and repair Of
all public buildings, of the laying out, %construc-
ton, repairing, lighting, and cleaning of all
streets, roads, and avenues in this great city, he
will have a chance to make a handsome fortune
during each and every month of his incumbency.
And the chances that w. NJ. Tweed lets slip
through his hands are not worth much.
Such is the constitution of the new city gov
mere speculation as yet. 1t has the advantage of
retaining several Of the greatest rogues in Office,
men who have already conveyed" so much
Of the public money to their own private pockets
that they are possibly s%omewhat glutted with the
spoils, and do not come empty and hungry to the
plumber, as the new appOintees come. On the
New York Central Railroad the directors do not
dismiss their older conductors, il is said, when
they catch them stealing for these conductors,
having builded themselves houses and bought
gold watches out of their little perquisites in the
matter of railway fares, experience, sometimes,
a reaction in favor Of honesty. But the new
appointees would at once to supply
themselves with houses and gold watches at the
company's expense. So the company winks at
the elegant establishments which their employees
keep up, ostensibly, ON salaries of $4,000 per
year; and everything goes along as smoothly and
az little scandal as the recent Investigation
of the 90 Irregularities in the Methodist Book
Concern, where 800, 600 mysteriously disap-
peared, and the investigating committee very
courteously refused to find any one to blame.
l recently made a visit to the Erie Railway
buildings in this city, under the guidance of a
courteous employe. The property, consisting o.
offices and opera house, is valued at $500, 600,
and is the property of Jim Fisk, Jr. The Offices
are the most splendid in America, three stories
Of magnificent apartments, finished in mahogany
and rosewood, luxuriOusly carpeted and uphol-
stored. A spacious basement is filled with print
ing presses, upon which all the tickets, bills, and
blanks used by the company are printed. The
great theatre adjoining is fitted up with the same
avIsh expense. In the green-rooms | saw heaps
IF the costly dresses and properties belonging to
the spectacular play of the "Twelve Tempta-
now upon these boards, thrown around
n the most careless keeping; only the leading
lctors' rooms had the safeguard of locks and
throughout the long labyrinths of passages, apart
Dents, scenery, wardrobes, and the innumerable
,araphernalia Of the stage appointments, the gas
olazes brightly all day and all night the year
ound. What need Of economy where Fisk is the
proprietor? But it was sad to reflect that all
his lavish expense represented no productive
nergy in the world, but only the success Of
ucky hits in stock speculation. All this tinsel
nd splendor and waste represent the loss or ruin
f n thousand families whose fortunes have been
rawn into the vortex of Fisk, this maelstrom of
man. The success of a successful farmer means
nat he has created a million dinners the manu-
lcturer has spun thread enough to reach to the j
loon, or woven it into garments for a multitude, i
r created some other form of material COM t
Tt upon a gigantic scale. Professional and
usiness success in general means the production
T value, in one form or another. But the sue s
ss of the stock-broker commonly means the d
under Of one man by another the success of E
or Jim Fisk means the plumber and =
Lisery of many to satisfy the rapacity, the greed, a
lie cunning of an individual. Day and night, t
ear in and year out, the gas flames before the Y
tars Of Moloch in the Grand Opera House and =
" and night continues the worship of I" jim r
kism." n
Holy Week has been celebrated with the usual %
Iurch ~sOlemnities. Good Friday is yearly more =.
ID more observed in New York, and this year G
e press calls quite unanimously for its recogni- 81
On as a legal holiday. The Easter services have d
en brilliant. In many churches the choirs ',
sre doubled or trebled and decorations of n
wers, often very expesiye, were made. In Mr.. -
church, the second Unitarian, the d.
lue of the floral offerings exceeded $500. The "
larry of this euJs-nan, by the way, is but h
500. n ring tie last month he has become Of
ite 'ro-.as a. rev5p@per eOntroversialist q
~ tha question Of sic Pi5:s n schools, taking @
las cudgeis Justify upeE - Protestant side. .,
) popularity lF e Urea men gJntinues.
This : the begi-r'sr u the musical year, the fl
lsyb whan FL the church singers are in search -
NV enn1 ---uents for the next twelve months =.