The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-08-09

the Comptroller, all the while, constituting
the power behind the throne-he threw up
his portfolio in manly disgust. Fortunately
for the community he retains his seat in the
Board for the present, so that it cannot be
occupied just yet by some pliable incumbent
ready TO vote and act in accordance with the
wishes of the Havemeyer-Charlickj unto.
But these little devices of housing poll
ticians, whereby men of superior caste are
literally worried out of places to which they
bring eminent capacity, and a reputation
which inspires general confidence, caLnot be
too severely reprehended. The loss of such
man as Stebbins is irreparable. 1t not only
takes out of municipal administration the
most competent person that was connected
with it, but it belttles the service, deters
good men from engaging in it, and encour-
ages creatures of small calibre to scramble for
preferment. The Park Commission has hith-
erto been lifted up above the rivalries engen-
dered by the prevailing greed for patronage, be
cause its members received no compensation.
But there are signs that it is gravitating to-
wards the common degeneracy. 1t affords a
field for the employment Of large numbers of
laborers and other employees, and is in con-
sequence :, tempting theatre of operations for
partizan managers. There are jobs and con-
tracts enough about it to make it paying
place for an INSCRIPTIONS chief 1t is natural
therefore that sensitive citizens with vivid
recollections of past mal-admsistration in To-
cal affairs, should view with alarm, the resig-
nation OF the most popular, efficient and trust
ed member of the city government. 1t bodies
no good.
That select circle which keeps itself aloof
from the common herd under the generic
name of society received a painful shock
recently on the discovery that one of its mem
har, had hao,, r1,f oh OF ardo
offender was instantly expelled from one club,
forced to resign from another, and is as dead
socially as if his body were lying six feet I'M
der ground.
The famous DR.. Aver, of Lowell, whose
cherry-pectoral has made him the Croesus of
New England, is about to lose a valuable
tenant. The appraisers stores on Greenwich
street have hitherto been rented by the
government at pretty high figure. 9th
er quarters have now been secured, and
the old premises will presently be vacated.
People who are ia the habit of reading the
Tribune may have noticed that every once in
while it contains startling story about a
warehouse job out of which somebody is
to realize a million or so. 1t always con-
! meets Mr.. Murphy's name with the project,
because it has grown into the habit of
| attributing all manner of evil to that
gentleman, from cholera to an earthquake
The plot has been consummated, though
perhaps it is superfuous to say that Mr.. Muir
ply bad no part nor lot in the matter. In
| fact he didn't even advocate the substitution.
But the government has selected the new To-
| cation on better terms than those on which
| the old one was leased. The anmus of the
Tribune 8 denunciation of the change, is OBJ
vious enough. DR.. Aver is one of its share
| holders. You generally find that the Trib-
unes explosive clamors against the sins of the
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or selfishness. Readers who get ideas of the
conduct of public affairs from that journal,
will be continually cropping in hopeless igno-
rance of facts. YARMOUTH,