The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-10-13

tiOu. NOW, III tue INepuOiiCGuS Ouis
had sense and energy enough to put
a proper ticket into the field, aud
work for it, they could slide in be-
tween these warring factions and get
possession of the city But they will
not do it.
BROOKLYN
Brooklyn is suffering quite as much
as New York for wan, of good gov
ernment--indeed, if any difference,
the Democratic ring in that city is
the more rapacious of the two. For
the year 1915, $4,000, 900 was col
lected for city expenses This mon.
ey is all gone, and three months re-
main to be provided for. The tax
levy next year will have TO be not
less than sl5, 900, ,0O0 which is seven
per cent on the valuation. The way
the money goes is frightful In '67
SlT5,0O0 was appropriated for the
WallabOut Bay improvement The
next year the commission got s385, 900
more, and in eight years they swell.
ed the expenditure to 81, 100000
The big bridge is another swindle.
The cost was originally placed at
100000, bat the way money is be-
ing expended upon it, it will cost
$4,000, GOO to finish it. Prospect
Park. which was to cost $500, 900,
has already reached an expenditure
of sl0, ,0o0, 900, and it is not yet half
finished. Paving has been made the
vehicle for very big steals, Nearly
q million of dollars have been paid
for paving on three streets, which any
honsst contractor would have been
glad to have done for S200, 600.
Is it any wonder that 5000 houses
are standing empty in Brooklyn, and
that q mans poverty is estimated by
the amount of real estate that be
owns? Ten principles, one hundred
lieutenants, and about two thousand
strikers, have stolen all this money
from the taxpayers And yet there
are Republicans who look for reform
by an alliance with the men who are,
aud have been for years, doing this
kind of work.
HOME AGAIN.
The cold weather has brought
back to their homes the thousands of
families who have been feasting and
flirting at the various summer resorts
for the past four months. When it is
pleasantly cool here it is very cold on
the seashore and up in the mount
aims, and there is precious little fun
in flirting on hotel piszzas IN over
coats and fgrs And so back they
come lsom uncomfortable quarters, 10
which fashion drives them once a
year. to their comfortable homes in
the city, where they would have been
better off all the season. They come
back wearied, tired, and sick. Not
rested by season of rest, but weari-
ed by the season Of dissipation.
They will rest in their own homes d
month, to get strength to go through
the dissipation Of the winter that is
before them. But With the return of
tse Eashionables, New York looks
once more like New York. The
Streets are full OF pretty women
prettily dressed, the Avenue and the
Park shine again with handsome
equipsges, and the long deserted
houses uptown are once more open
ed to admit the light of heaven. The
theatres and places of amusement be-
gin to show the effect of the incoming
food and so do the retail stores.
The traders-aud for tsas matter
everybody else--ase glad to see them
home, for II means a resumption Of
business, aud an eud Of the regular
summer stagnation.
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD,
great preparations are being made
for a vigorous campaign this fall and
winter. Beeeber will make Ply
mouth Church unusually lively, that
public attention may be taken from
his late troubles. Fulton is organic
ing terrible raid gpoa the sinners,
because it Is ais nature to, and the
elergymeD, and more active laymen.
are girding up their loins for season
of active, earnest. aggressive war
fare. Moody and Ssnkey are to be
here to assist, and all the churches
have determined to stand behind these
now famous evangelizers, and give
them all the help possible
1t is probable that "a enormous
building, something like Barnum's
Hippodrome, will be erected for these
men, which will be the centre Of re-
ligious action for the city. That
they can do a vast good here there
can be no doubt If they can con-
vert the Democratic leaders of the
city, it would be result for which,
as in the old times, they would have
been canonized II they work with
as much zeal and effect as they did
in England, they will make it possi-
bic for the Redublicans to carry the
city next year. If the rum mills
could only be closed, their chances
of effecting something wosld be bet
ter. But with thousands of bars
kept up and made a power by thous-
ands of thieving politicians, the ten
dency downward is terrible Howev-
er, if Moody and Sankey can stir up
the decent men of the city to an or
ganized movement on the rum shops,
they will have accomplished work
that will entitle them to the gratitude
of the city for all time to come.
They cannot but do good, and they
cannot commence too soon.
BUSINESS
still continues fair, and, if anything,
is improving. There are large num-
bers OF merchants from all over the
country here. and they are buying
with tolerable freedom While it Is
not the old-time rush, business is so
much better than it has been, that
ever body feels encouraged. The
jobbers look for q still better trade
later in the season.
ISFLATIoN IN THE CITY.
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