Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-15

house, are as fruitful OF malaria as if The
occupants lived on the edge of a swamp.
Comparatively few even of the first rate
| hotels and boarding houses have any
thing like proper ventilation. The pass
ages smell musty, the air from bundled
close bedrooms pouring into them, while
not windows, opened in the halls from
October till May Not a pleasant subject
10 speak of, but one of vital importance,
not only to residents, but TO property
holders in New York, for it is a serious
question where to find q healthy placeto
live within dozen miles of this city, and
the most rigid sanitary conditions must
be learned and enforced wheressso many
Thousand dwellers are crowded together,
oFliying in ihe city Is notsto be thought
ct. i viii say that families who keep
well ordered, well ventilated houses, find
nothing 10 complain q IN New York
more than in other citiess.=
DEFEcTIvE FLUEs
The recent IRE on Fifth Avenue. in
which fine family house caught from an
overheated flue, has led To- strict search
ings into cause and effect, which show
the facilities modern houses afford for
getting US burned in our beds. The joists |
and floors Of the finest houses are care
lessly laid, so that the ends come in con-
tact with fire 1ues, which the heat chars,
aud prepares the material for confagra-
ton st a moments notice. The STEINER
mansion, oaned by rich Jew tea mer-
chant, took fire last year from this cause, !
and the mother and daughter of wealthy
aud happy. family lost their lives. The |
magnificent synagogue on Fifth Avenue |
took fire from a red hot nail heated by |
the fnes into which it was driven. As |
one cannot with any assurance of success |
inspect every nail head about the house |
every night before going 10 bed-the
feelings with which timid people lay |
their heads upon their pillows, may be
described as the reverse of soothing.
NEW YEARS CALLS tt
The young swells of New York made
their calls New Years Day in the regul |
lation stiff shirt fronts, white neck-ties, |
with waxed moutaches. 1t was as cold as |
Greenland's icy mountains, and the |
young gentlemen had hard time of it.
Despite the appeals of the Temperance
Union to the ladies not to offer their ,call- |
ers wine, it strikes me great deal of ar
dent liquors must have been consumed. |
For toward night the young gentlemen
wobbled in terrific manner, and as they |
went from the doors to their carriages
they complained of slippery sidewalks,
where there was no ice, and they showed |
an inclination to sleep that betokened
exhaustion. And their tongues were
thick, and their breathing heaVY-in 4
short, had they been anywhere else, 1
should have pronounced them fairly on
the road to drunkard's bed Pity It's,
tits true I
MAYOR WICKHAM 4
starts we'll, and that he may hold out is
the ardent prayer of every good New
Yorker. His first act was to remove Della
field Smith, the corporation counsel. The
Mayor charges him with having actually
aided and abetted the ring. He claims
that his defense of the city against fraud
ulent claims was willIully weak that
for five months he failed to prosecute the
city suits against Ithe ring-in brief, that
the interests of the city demand man
not tainted, in that especial place. OIL
course Smith denies all the charges, and
there will be the usual fight over it.
The chief significance of this is the i'm
piled promise of the Mayor, that he Will
use the power vested in him for the peo-
pie and against the plunderers. If he
does it, he will be the most popular man
the city ever put in place But am not
going into extacies over it just now.
remember how I hurrahed oyer Have
meyer and how afterwsrd I didn't hurrah
SO much. There is a fatality attending
Reform Mayors in this city, for the Ring
seems to be aIl-powerful, and have means
almost Satanic for the corruption of men.
But Wickham is good man, and hope
that he may hold out faithful to the end.
He commences well, at all events.
THE WEATHER
is cold and pleasant. Business keeps up
very well, and the prospect is good for a
fair late winter trade. PIETRo.
New York, Jan. 10, 1875. -lGal 4