, 1877-01-21


had their glce, 4 husbands reputation, no lcs'
than wi'e's, is irrccovcrably sunk-and What
of ita The pe'ys at Grace Church of Sunday
are just as full, the grand masquc ball at tht
| Academy will still occur on Monday night. aIo
the yachting season next summer promises te
be yet moro lively than the last. Whether thls
| would be in any sense consequence Of the IL
| yorcc disclosures, time alone can tell.
SIMPSONS BILL OF SUPPRESSION
hlr. Simpson, c1-Aldermap. OF Twcnty-Gfth
| street, proposes to draft and forward TO Albany
| q bill for the suppression OF unemployed per-
sons in this city. Careful statEticians, he says,
| have, by actual count or otherwise, computed
that there are rot less than 100 900 such persons
| in New York. To be unemployed, he argues, Is
| to be idle. To be Idle is to waste time. 10
| waste time is to waste money. ANY man who
| wastes money in these days Of depression ought
to be suppressed. Hence, both by logic
aud good sense, unemployed persons ought
| to be suppressed. Moreover, It Is cry
| ing shame for men not to work, while their
| families are destitute OF fire and food
| Ills bill will provide in an elaborate manner for
| the punishment OF the unemployed, and will be
pushed with all rigor. The only drawback to
its passage, he thinks, is that thu Republicans
have majority III the Legislature, and are by
principle aud politics opposed to reform OF any
character. Should they outyote him, hc will
call a mass-lnceting, under the advice OF emil
nent Democrats, and obtain a remonstrance
from those who now pay taxes for relief socie-
ties, which would be no longer needed when the
unemployed were done away with. 1t is apropos
to say that Mr.. Simpson was moved to bis
action by the fact that, at once after the
last snowfall, he was waited up
on successfully by 1909 Of MS fellow
citizens who begged the honor Of shoreling his
walk To suppress this class OF the uncmploy-
ed Is one OF the main objects Of his bill. and
success at Albany, Mr. SIMPSON will introduce
into the Common Council M ordinance to sup
press, on and after the date of passage, tho TALL
Of snow on Manhattan Island. This would ac-
complish the double purpose OF not only caus-
etoops and sidewalks in New York. but i'm
measurable envy to the Inhabitants OF Brook
lyn and New Jersey.
HEATING THE HoRsE-cARs.
The strcet-rai1way companies, by their annual
exceptions, making money ont Of pocket. This
being the case the Common Council considered
it a good time to increase the expenses Of the
companies by requiring them to heat their cars.
They might then experience woes equal in weight
if not in kind to those Of the travelling public,
ana become more philanthropic, to say nothin!,
of furnishing fresh straw for each round trip.
A Council Committee began to hold ses-
s;ous. At the first, some hundreds, more
or less, Of inventors were on hand with
their patent processes, cyery one Of which was
the best and cheapest. When present inventors
had been disposed Of, and the police ordered to
arrest every person found in tile City-uall with
d patent under his arm, the railroad officials
were allowed to divert the Aldermen. They OBJ
jected to heating the ears, not because it would
cost moncy,-that was always the last thing
considered By them,-but beca'1se it would Gil
danger the health Of passengers. They had
doctor with them WHO testified that the eonl-
n,ingling of hot air with the vaporous exhala-
tions, etc., would produce consequences
frightful to contemplate when translated
into medical Latin. Still the Aldermen
were stubborn about it, and regarded
heat as good thing to keep the cold out with.
The travelling public, meanwhile. woud take
much more interest in the subject if not SO well
drilled to expect the regular result-nothng.
In this connection it is significant that the
Elevated Railway has handsomely paid foritse1f
The rolliny-ftock has been increased and other
not light expenses incurred, yet the investment
Is profitable. What part Of the receipts is due
to the warmth and comfort Of the coach, s,
rather than to gain in time which is offset by
the inaccessibility Of the depots to many East
Sicc residents. might be profitable study for
the Directors OF the street lines that yield no
dividends. H..