Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-27

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 the people
 There is some such rivalry between Liver
 pool and Glasgow as exists between Chicago
 and St. Louis While the Prince of Wales
 was at Liverpool he unguardedly remarked
 that everybody knew that Liverpool, after London, was s'the second greatest town in
 the United Kingdom When this statement
 was read in Glasgow. which has long claimed
 to be t'the second city in the Empire, near
 iy everybody is said, by the P0U MaU G0-
 eette to have either 'tgrown pale'' or to have
 ''become black in the face with inarticulate
 rage" One of the Glasgow newspapers
 argues that by calling Liverpool the 'sec-
 ond'' greatest, the Prince meant that Glas-
 gow was the 'tfrst'' greatest after London.
 Certain citizens of Glasgow calmly declared
 that the question must be measured, not by
 the number of people, but by their quality,
 (which, :" remarks the PaU MGU, ssof course
 is unanswerable. As matter of fact the
 late census returned for Liverpool 549, ,000
 inhabitants, and for Glasgow only 5000
 This was for districts within the city limits
 only; but Glasgow claims that if the SUI
 DurDS W0E6 IuCiuuCO, tab GACJ oAO All bAS A-OA4
 don returns, she would outstrip her rival by 7O4, GOO people against 6S1, ,934.
 The New York 1Imaes has an interesting
 and rather important quarrel with some of
 the high toned turfmen of New York city.
 The 1Ines' reporter of sporting matters dis
 pleased the executive committee of the Coney
 Island Jockey club, and was forcibly ejected from the grounds of that association at their
 last racing meeting. For this wrong suit
 has been instituted against those responsible for it. As the Tunes had no reason to be dissatisfied with it's representative. and as it is not the custom in the Times office to make change in the staff at the dietation of any outsiders, the same reporter was sent to at tend the meeting at Jerome Park Saturday. He was not allowed to enter the grounds, outrage. It says: ''There are some young men with apparently more money than brains who are connected with both tracks, and who seem to think that they can lord it in this free country with more 1nsolent arro- gance than they would dare to show in any public place of the most despotic of European States In the public interest and their own we propose to give these gilded youth esson which they are not likely to forget. Mean while, our reporter will duly present himself at the next race meeting at Jerome Park, and MT. Belmont may find it expedient to exam inc the legal status of his club before again allowing his young men to bring themselves within reach of the arm of the law" Every
 self respecting writer for newspapers will be
 glad to see the powerful Tunes enforce its
 rights and the rights of it's employees.
 The largest prison in Europe is the House
 of Detention at Berlin, which has just been opened There are six different buildings,
 the mems prison being four stories high,
 with 732 single cells, several large rooms,
 holding in all 195 prisoners, 40 rooms for the warders, and sleeping accommodations for 11S other employees. Each of the cells has a window ten feet high and an arched roof, the furniture consisting of bed and stool fixed to the wall, and washing apparatus. There
 are also an electric bell, cupboard, closet and gas-burner placed above small table The prisoners can, if they please, read or write all night long. On the ground foo r are 26 cells for prisoners accused of murder, or known to belong to the criminal class. and in these there is plank bed. There are half dozen cells underground for prisoners who
 are guilty of breaches of discipline, and in
 the infrmary ring there are nine rooms for
 prisoners of good positions in society (should any ever come there) which are furnished with some approach to luxury. There are also two or three suites of apartments re-
 served for persons who are awaiting trial for political offenses and who are allowed to fur nish them according to their own taste. The
 kitchens, baths and heating apparatus are all on the area floor, and the interior of the
 building, which is of iron, is so constructed
 as to form large hall in the centre, which
 reaches right up to the roof. There is a telephone between the prison and the Assize Court, so that prisoners can be sent there
 without having to wait. The prison for women contains 70 single cells and 15 large dormitories, there being accommodation for 22O women altogether. The dormitories are partitioned of, so that each occupant can
 be placed under lock and key for the night; and there are three or four large work rooms in which they will be employed in daytime, under the surveillance of female warders As in the mems prison, there is 8 spacious exercise ground and separate