New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-31
CHICAGO.
CRINIYAL-POLITICAL-PERsONAL.
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| CHICAGO. Dee 3O.-There IL no cessation of tho
street ass ,uts aud rootcries which vex Chicago,
Not a night passe, that does not furnish u
long report Of victims of the sandbag other
pom and many bold assaults are committed upon
ladies' in the broad daylight and in the best quar-
ters of the city. The police are npOn the
aert, but they have not yet succeeded
in making any important arrests or in re-
ducing the number Of assaults. The city
Is fairly infested with criminals aud the authorities
are delled with impuniy Even the Mayor by his
own confession carries knife with him for protec-
ton. and with 50 distinguished an example before
them the ordinance against carrying concealed
deadly weapons is likely to be violated by the
whole city ere long
The prevalence of crime is due, In part to the
large numbers of the criminal classes who poured
in here from other cities during the
cent railroad war; IN part TO the
sympathy and protection which the city has
tended to the vicious classes long in part the
smalncss Of the police force aud to the lack Of
funds in tue city treasury with which TO increase
the police force. In the ab,encc of any other or
better hOds for raising money, the Aldermen re-
uctantly begin to appreciate that the liquor licenses
must be raised. The License Committee have a
resolution before them to prepare an ordinance for
raising funds and another proposing TO ix the
yearly license at 500, or just double the present
rate. The Citizens Association held meeting last
night and scathingly censurei the city government
for indifference To the present outbreak of crime.
The association attribute this outbreak TO several
reasons; among them the apathy OF the better
classes of citizens to pubic affairs the absurd ex
isting system Of taxation, and the refusal OF tho
Council 10 provide the funds for increasing the pO-
D. I. af AT Ina
association also threaten that if these evils not
corrected they will call a general mass meeting to
consider the situation from popular standpoint
Among the measures OF local legislation which
will come before the Legislature this winter will he
bills for raising more money for the OF the
pubic library for relieving the people of Chicago
FROM the annoyance of being sued in remote parts
OF the county for the amendment of the criminal
code; ; for consolidating North, South and West
Chicago, and for correcting the present vicious
mode of assessments.
The ordinance granting the right Of way to an
elevated railroad company II elIciting much dis
cussiOn and is also meeting with much opposition
from property owners Iha incorporators offer to
use electricity and 10 construct the road at once
Meanwhile articles of Incorporation have been
granted to still another elevated railroad company,
the incorporat0rs OF which are from Ney .YorK. No
route has yet been decided upon, and no steps have
yet been taken to secure right of way.
The latest gossip in the Senatorial campaign Is
that Collector Spaulding and Mr.. Farwol have con-
cluded offensive and defensive allan H. by which
in an emergency either can throw his strength to
the other. The Legislature meets on Wednesday.