The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-08

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Gifted by Cairos peculiar and unequaled
shipping facilities must also be admitted.
If the company establishes itself here and
uses sufficient effort and means to do sue
cessful business, the result will be that
Cairo will gain an important industry
OF which it can and will be proud and the
company will realize large dividends on its
investment.
AT its last meeting the city council
adopted an ordinance, the object OF which
is to prevent the occurrence of accidents on
railroads in this city by preyEting persons
having no connection WITH the railroad
from jumping on or off moving trains
within the city limits, and makes it in
cumbent upon any one who sees another
violate this ordinance to inform against
him. This is just one step, which ought to
be followed up with another. Done, who
has witnessed the recklessness with which
boys who have no business whatever on
trains jump on or off while they are NOV
ing, often at greater speed than the law
allows, will hesitate to pronounce this step
we'll taken, or will fail to hope that it may
be vigorously enforced whenever an occa-
sion presents itself But the council ought
to have taken another step-it ought to
take another step at its next meeting
against the small boy nuisance of the city.
It ought to pass an irOn-clad ordinance
against the detestable habit into which all
the little dirty-taced, ragged scalawags OF
the city have fallen into, of chasing, IN
crowds, every vehicle that passes through
the streets, where they may have con-
gregatcd. They will catch at the wheels,
hang to the tail board or clutch the hind
axle, all the while whooping and kicking
up the dust at fearful rate. At other
times persons tempted by the cool evening
air to take drive through the avenues, are
compelled to pass the gauntlet of numerous
clods of dirt and sticks, thrown by a crowd
of these constituencies youngsters, and are
otherwise treated in shameful manner.
1t is not at all uncommon that ladies in
buggics are covered with dust, thrown az
them while passing crowd of boys; or
that spirited horses are rendered unman
ageable by the antics OF these street Arabs,
endangerlng the lives of the occupants of
the buggy or carriage. 1t is also too CON-
mon that the boys themselves have hair
breadth escapes or are even injured, and
then the public is prone to charge the
driver, with recklessness and want of
due regard for the lives Of the "poor, little,
innocent children" There IS an ordinance
against fast driving, which Marshal Myers
has determined to enforce against all per
sons alike, through this ordinance persons,
whose small kin are endangered by care
less or wild drivers, can obtain reduess;
but for the poor driver or rider, who has
been tormented IN various ways almost be-
yond endurance there is no redress--no
ordinance behind which he can seek refuge,
and which bring his tormentors to grief.
In an account under the head of
police notes, OF the trial of Mr.. James Sum-
merwell, for injuring the shade tree OF Mrs
Phillips, published in yesterdays BULLE-
TIN, it was said that "the case was very
aggravatiLg one" and shat the tree was in
jured in manner that may cause its de-
cay" Mr.. Summerwell denies that Mrs.
Philis asked him more than once to re-
move his rope from the tree; he
asserts that the tree was not in
]ured in a manner to cause its
decay, and the case was, therefore, not an
aggravating one. In these state
ments Mr.. Summerweil is probably
right and to show that THE BULLETIN
wishes to do him no injury, his denial, un-
important as it is in justification of his ac-
ton, IS here published. But Mr.. Sum
merwell said more than this. lie admitted
that he had hitched heavy rope around
the tree by means of which he moved the
house, without asking permission Of Mrs.
Phillips to do so, he also admitted that he
had thereby cut chunks Of bark from the
tree; but he claimed that the tree was not
placed in accordance with the requirements
of the ordinance of the city, and that, there
FORE he had Il right to hitch onto it if that
would serve his purpose. The tree
belonged to the city and was a nuisance, he
said, because 1t was not standing in the
relation to the sidewalk marked on for all
shade trees within the city limits by the
city ordinances, and that, as such nuisance,
he would be justified even in removing it,
This matter, IN itself, is one of no great
consequence; but this is not Mr.. Summer
wells first oifense of this kind. He and
Others engaged in his business have been in