Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-09
LETTERS FRoFA raE People.


10 The Editor Of the Commercial inl ., ..- %
There seems to be decided advantage In pur
chasing property in the Northwestern part of
this city more especially If the site be close to
the Brandywine creek. The advantage gained
by the purchasers is that you avoid the ordinance
prohibiting the erection OF frame dwellings, You
first build q stable. and afterwards convert il
into dwellings, for human beings 1t seems,
lately, that in certain sections OF the city any
thing with q few exceptions can be done As
for police, you would hardly know how to con-
tain yourself II you were to one and there are
numbers Of citizens that don't know there is a
Commissioner IN that portion, much less his
duty, TAX PAYER.
DIsAPPRovAL OF THE Park PURCHASE
To the Editor OF he Commercial:
again crave small space in your paper,
Even at the expense OF appearing ridiculous.
will venture to make a few remarks on the pro-
ceedings Of the City Council was utterly sur
prised that body Of men should be so regard
less of law that they are sworn to support as TO
buy park when they knew it was in violation
OF law and the fact that they knew it they refus-
ed to get the City Solicitors written opinion, and
he one Of their own partisans, even afraid of him.
The plain Interpretation of any law is, IL the
law prohibits you from doing lesser thing You
cant do greater il it allows you to do a great
er, you MAJ do q smaller. Now you cannot alter
the grade of Il street without town meeting,
vet the gentlemen propose to run in debt eighty
one thousand dollars for park, without the
CONSENT of the taxpayers |, as one OF them, OBJ
ject to few partisAns rewardng their friends
and relatives at the expense Of the widow aud
the orphan. This very land they talk Of buying
hasn't produced anything i'll my time For 20
years it has not been worth fencing: the trees
have never grown any that can perceive. Some
Of the trees have died out but no new ones ever
came in their places.
Now 1 propose to call town meeting to de-
nounce the whole thing as a swindle. / never
nj a frnI mn M -,
buy park A few Interested parties have boon
harping at it for years. but it was none other
than the holders OF the land. We had a TO Sn
meeting on it, once, aud it refused a part of
this same land at fourteen Thousand dollars. We
we're told then this was the last chance to get it.
Parties were then waiting TO take it at twenty
i've thousand dollars but the same parties come
back after ten years have elapsed persuading
Council to take it, but don't let . us have any
town meeting; they will serve us as they did be-
fore. Don't let the City Solicitor give his opini ~
although we pay him for Il, for he will be against
us
have examined the assessment list and find
1t the most unfair assessment have ever exam
ined. l find men assessed too high and some
very low, ahi under very peculiar circumstances.
and part of the park don't think IL assessed at
all don't know whether it has ever been as
sessed, but feel conf lent it is not now
JOHN W. HAWKINS.
CRITIC AGAIN CRITICISED.
To tie Editor Of The Commercial
In this city, about year ago, there wac formed
singing society under the title of the m m
dlessohn Choral Union, whose principal idea was
to encourage and foster the amateur talent o (
our city. With this lauiable object in view, from
lime to time they have given several public per-
tormances which have been generally received
with much satisfaction by the hearers. Lo
and behold, at the last concert there arose a
most remarkable prodigy of music signing him
-ef iced who, after working himself into a
OF Il no (Wnat work
that must have BEEN poor fellow y told the
people that they knew nothing about music
their Judgment was not of any account, and
furthermore that all the music thai wa m Isle in
Wilmington, contained in his mo I learne brain
which II the case must not surprise us tn mat
member with such q load should cause the own
err ideas to wander, therefore he should not be
held fully accountable for what he saws But
this poor Urlah Heep says he Is very "humble,
and says he knows very little about music, vet
pretends to critlclse the same, which only proves
that old trite proverb to be true the more igno-
rant the man the greater the critic"
This amataer opera, he very facetlously styles
the STRAW Cutters" Now the word stTdlo was
not used during the whele evening, which name,
like many other things in his Communication,
was found only in most fertile imagination,
for he seemed to have straw OH the brain. or
something very strong imbibed through "a .tr4w.
How would he like, after singing before pubic
audience IN the place where he lives to be drag
ged out into unenvtable publicity through the
press, hpeclneu III particular manner 30
That every person who knew you at all
after reading the article would know who wa
meant, and then say your voice sounded like
squalling baby, (Which no doubt it would d.,
judging from your lnfantile discretion in indulg-
ING IN decided personalities Of the different mem
beers % an amateur singing society, which would
be anevidence ofvery bad taste even when applied
to professionals. who travel the country round
particularly when so decidedly 1t has very much
the appearance of some hidden motive. Poor
fellow, he seems to think it very funny that a
leader should use his baton in leading the music
which makes believe that he never attended
an opera Of any kind. You must be careful when
you sing, again, that your mouth ID properly
hxed ia the prism or prunlsh STYLE as that il
more important than the sinBing-so says our
critic. NJ