New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-02
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Lis It certainly is. Never single ship owned OF
built by Brooklyn or by tho capital of the people Of
Brooklyn, moors at her fourteen miles OF water
'front.' lined with storehouses owned elsewhere
and filed with the necessities and lururies from
every other part Of tho world except her own manu-
factories and fields great port Of entry, without
| any commerce of its own it is but the storehouse
of New-York's wealth great resort of strangers,
she is full Of private boarding houses and with hardly
o single hotel. contradiction oil city 1t always
has BEEN and now it is about TO put forward hhal
and conclusive claim to be considered paradox OF
a city. Some fifteen Of It's Aldermen are about 10
be sent to Jail By order of Court for contempt OF Its
INJUNCTION prohibiting them from voting away val
liable franchises without consideration, under cir
cumstances which strongly indicated corruption
aud bribery. This will be unhestatlngly pronounced
eccentric, even in municipality whose affairs are
conducted on business principles by Mayor who
hes no idea of reelection. The proposition Is fu1
of most peculiar paradoxes When, to what virtu-
ous official and under what strange circumstances
did IL first occur that the voting away of valuable
franchises was not an naIienable right of Aldermen
of n great city like Brooklyn OF New-Yorki Then
again. how did it happenthat Brooklyn, OF all cities
in the country had justices honest enough to punish
delinuuen. ofcialsY Or tor that matter, courts Tor
whom it was wrong to express contemptf Bat more
singular STILL it Is told that the city actually pos
sesses plain, matter-of-fact Sheriff. who tells the
cOntemptuous Aldermen that when they get INTO
his official clutches they will not be permitted to
roam around the city and sleep at homo under the
projecting care of his deputies. strange place,
Brooklyn; very strange city! BY the way, wouldn't
IL be capital idea for NewYorlI TO require its own
Aldermen to sleep in Brooklyn, and thus be under
the jurisdiction Of these same courts
The liberal view Of smoking recently promul-
gated by The London Lancet will commend Itself as
reasonable TO most laymen of unbiased judgment
But It would have broken the heart OF George
Trask and other opponents of the deadly effects OF
oil of tobacco as illustrated upon unfortunate cats
to have heard the admission from so eminent an
authority that properly and moderately enJoyed
tobacco smoking is not a baneful habit" Inc eau
lions added by The Lancet that those untayorably
effected and the young should refrain, and that no
cigars should be smoked for more than three
quarters of their length will be accepted by all
reasonable smokers, although some may doubt that
cigars are preferable to pipes. Two of the greatest
evils in connection with this hablt-inhaling the
smoke into the lungs and the use Of tobacco by
the young-are pointed ont by the writer with
timely words OF warning The disgustngy com
mon practice of cigarette smoking by boys and
mere children appears spreading TO an alarming ex-
tent recent investigation in Boston discloses some
significant and unpleasant facts. The head master
of the Latin School reports that tobacco Is used by
half the boys in tho upper classes whose ages range
from fourteen to eighteen. Other masters state
that tobacco is in use to greater or less extent
among their pupils, while the principal OF the
Harvard Grammar School iii Charestown says
Cut of 800 boys find very few
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time in their mouths" and about 40 per cent
use tobacco habitually,' The prevalence of the
evil in the schools and the streets of this city has
been inveighed against again ard again, but thus
far without auy practical results. One thing GER
tainlv is demanded-that all teachers should be
obliged to use the sternest measures in their power
to root out this vice among their pupils. Whether
any legislative restrictions should be placed upon
the sale of tobacco to minors Is a debatabie qles-
ton. But surely some remedy should be devised
for the growing evil.
Miss Charlotte O'Bren, who seems to have not
only hearty desire to help her poor conntrywomen
but very practical ideas of how to do it, has hit
upon a scheme which promises to be useful TO them
in the future 1t IS to establish society which
should act as a mddeman between the employer
IN the West and the newly-landed immigrant in
the East, advancing railroad fares and thereby
securing permanent work and higher wages lot Uue
Irish man or womah and helping to drain the
Atlantic cities of class OF possible paupers. AS 1t
is now, two-thlrds of the emgrants from ireland to
this country stop near the seabOard, the large
majority of them in this State. Bishop Ireland who
has already done 80 much to establish them Sc
curoly in tho West, having founded Que or two
colonies exclusively of Irish Catholics, is, it is
stated interested in this plan of Miss O'Briens. 1t
is strange that agencies of this kind have not been
established before for other natiohaities than
the Irish Throughout the Middle and Western
States fam and domestic labor is scarce and well
paid We know villages and rural neighborhoods
not ten hours from New York where honest, indus
trous men and women would Especially If Pro-
t,,tauts DO welcomed AS a boon aud settled in com
Portable homes Yet every day precisely this class
of immigrants, Germans, Swedes and Norwegans
land on our wharves and wander blindly wherever
chance happens to lead them. An acquaintance
who has preceded them is usually their only sheet
anchor on this side of the ocean. The EmlSrant
Aid Societies at present existing 10 not furnish
the help which We suggest. 1t should be Is KIND OF
Interstate Intelligence Office. and ii honestly con
Quoted would be not only Invaluable to employers
and immigrants but profitable to its managers.
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