The sun., 1873-12-18

keeper, whose duties consist i'm keeping an
| account Of the sales of the Cuv Record,
which according TO the last published re-
| port amounted to about S12 n month, is a
| young gentleman from Senator WooDIN s
| district, the son of q personal friend of
that distinguished member of TwEED's
| Senate. Tho messenger who carries the
! copy for the City Record from the sumptu-
| ous Office of Supervisor DIsBECKER in
the City Hall to the printing office in
Murray street at u salary of $1,000 n
year ~ also from Senator WooDIN's dis
trict OF course the stoppage of this OFF,
Cnl journal would interfere with the
friends of the Senator from the Twenty
firth District, if not with the pcrquisites of
thia gentleman himself, for it Is to be pre-
suined that his sinCcurists understand Ad-
dition, Division, and Silence.
The waste of money in the publication
of this CitB Record is not the only injury
the people of this city suffer from its pub
licntion. The charter provides that all
notices of street openings and iriprovc-
mcnts shall he advertised in the CitJ
Record. Notice was recently given in its
columns of au intention to open and cX-
tend the boulevard ut the upper end of
the island, and the owners of the lots to be
affected thereby, over six thousand in
number, were notified to appear on ccr-
tain day and state their objections to such
extension Not one of the nvc thousand
citizens whose property was affected Ivy
this proposed movement saw that notice,
and the extension was ordered aud the
proceedings confirmed without objection.
subsequently one Of those property own
ers heard OF the contemplated improve
mcnt, and waiting upon the lawyer who
had been employed IN behalf of the OPEN
ing, said ne understood thar such a thing
was contemplated, and desired TO know
when he could have an opportunity 20 he
heard in opposition to II. lie was of
course very much surprised when in-
formed that the matter was not contem-
plated, but was n fixed fact. and the ex-
tension ordered. lie desired to know why
the matter had not been advertised, say
ing that he took all the daily papers, aud
had not seen in any of them Il notice OF
the proposed extension. When informed
that II had been duly advertised in the
cay Record, hc declared his ignorance of
the existence of any such paper. aud ex-
pressed the belief that not one of the
property owners affected Ivy this improve
ment ever saw on heard of the Ilper.
The lawyer agreed with him entirely, but
at the same time ooolly assured him that
the lawyers ana contractors knew all
about II, ana found it II splendid place to
hide away advertisements OF this kind
when they had any Jobs to put through.
BY all means let the Legislature do It's
duty aud repeal the clause creating tins
useless and expensive official organ. even
if il does disturb few friends of the Hon.
WILLIAM B. WooDGN. senator from the
Cnyugn aud Wayne district Aud il GOV.
DIN, TnUELow WEED, and Mayor HAVE
MEYER have not put this down among the
needed amendments 10 the charter let
them do so at once. If the Reform gov
ernnent of the city must huN e an official
organ, n Tammany had its Transcript,
and canhot afford 10 pay tho rates charged
10y THE SvN, whore everybody would be
sure 10 see lie advertising. let II bc gwen
TO some Of the party organs Of limited
circulation, who would be glad to take IL
nj figure considerably les than s37 eco n
yeal.