Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-11-04

The fact was mentioned in this column few
days since that Alexander Delmar, ex-chief Of
the Statistical Bureau Of the Treasury Depart
ment, was cyphering up the public debt Of
the city of Brooklyn, and the opinion was ex-
pressed that debt and Delmar together would
prove too heavy An affiictiOn for the " CITY of
Churches" to bear. The STAR was right as
usual. Alexander, after confounding the Brook
lyHites with his formidable columns Of figures,
sighed, like his namesake of old, for more worlds
to conquer, but unfortunately for him dropped
statistics, and "went for the school marms'
This was a bad move. He didn't stop to calcu-
late the effect OF his slanderous assaults and the
result is that Brooklyn is too hot to hold him
The story Is briefly this About three weeks ago
new paper was started in Brooklyn. Its pub
Usher is Professor j. II. K. Wilcox, also well
known in this city, he having been Delmar's
lieutenant when the latter was chief of the
bureau here. He also figured prominently in
woman suffrage and labor reform meetings in
this city. The editor of the new paper, which is
called the City Of Brooklyn, is Mr.. Alexander
Delm&r. The first week it was a commonplace
Sunday paper. The second week il began
giving its extraordinary figures about the debt
of Brooklyn, heretofore referred to- This week
the third, it succeeded in creating a decided
sensation in Brooklyn by publishing the follow
ing paragraph:
"Tbe department of public instruction is
another wastefnl body. The salaries aggregate
no eSs than 1886 ,425, large portion OF which is
VIGOROUSLY paid 10 women employed to suit the
purposes, not of education, but of the vie men
in power"
1t will be seen that this article in effect charges
that the female teachers in the public schools
are persons of vile character, and employed for
the basest purposes. There was tremendous
excitement about this publication, Of course
The flame was agitated by an interview in the
Office of the mayor (Kalbfeisch) on Wednesday
when the committee from the democratic gem
eral committee accused him of being the hacker
of the organ in which the scandaloss article
apGeared-one of the interviewers going so far
as 10 accuse him of being the direct cause of its
publication. In the meantime public indigna-
ton increased, and threats of vengeance were
msde.on the authors. The excitement reached
such a pitch that some of the members
of the board of education deemed il
advisable to take some action in regard
to the matter. They met on Thursday
and prepared a circular, to be signed BY the
principals and teachers, appealing to the public
to vindicate them against the villainous SANDER
At subsequent meeting OF the board, a COM
munication from Mayor Kalbfeisch was read
repudating ON his part any responsibility for the
published statement Mr.. Hennessey, one of
the members of the board, said he would not
suggest that the slanderers ears be pinned to a
pump, nor, indeed, that he be pelted with rotten
eggs, but he would suggest that the matter be
referred to the brothers of the slandered ladies'
a hint which, in the present temper of the
Brooklyn people, is likely to make it very lively
for both Delmar and Wilcox.