The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-04-06
COLUMBUS CHAT.
Municipal MIDDLE at the Head
Centre.
Cosby Letter from our Regular State
Capital Correspondent, Who Knows
a Thing or Two.
special Correspondence ]

professional career DeBhn at canton
under the head of "BOnifaces l have
met" and the thought occurred that its
reproduction might interest many of
your readers:
"Unassuming, unpretentiOus, cOnserY-
ative and dignifed-such man is Mr..
Samuel Hawk, senior proprietor of the
Windsor, and, as he has been called, the
NestOr of the hotel fraternity. His has
been a long career and no man has
greater or more thorough experience.
The life he has led has been useful
life, an exemplary life and one that
helps to elevate the hotel profession
for the art of hotel keeping is, indeed, a
profession as it is science. While
we have time let us do good unto all
men, says the pTayer-bOOk, and l have
often thought that this scriptural sug-
gestiOn was acted upon throughout Mr..
Hawks life. ] never heaTd-I do not
knOw-that he has an enemy and of
how few can this be said. He is always
quoted as an authority, we speak of him,
not familiarly as is usually the case
among hotel men, but as Mr.. Hawk, and
no one is more entitled to this respect.
OF his many deeds of charity it is not
everyone that knows, for he is very un-
OstentatiOus in all things, and now in
the evening of life, surrounded by his
books, his pictures and his few chosen
friends, and with a handsome fortune
realized by labor and energy, he takes
time leisurely and pleasantly, partici-
pating methOdically in the active man
agement of the great hotel and taking
a lively interest, in current events.
Only the ignorant or the prejudiced
ever assert that all our American hotel
prOpTietOrs are an avariciOus, money
chasing thTOng, needless of earthly OBJ
legations and future responsibilities"
The redistricting bill uppermOst to-
day is said to have been shaped by the
Governor who, whilst he has an ire
sistible affinity for Major Mckinley,
would like to clip the wings of the
vaulting Keeffer.
1t is scarcely worth while to follow
the meandering map lines as furnished
by the Vigilant Governor, but the terri
tory to be utilized by the graceful, the
elegant Major, will be Stark, COlumbi-
ana and MahOning, majority in round
numbers 1000. No one here questions
the Majors ability to rally the clans,
and head off any spasmOdic demOnstra-
tiOn in favor of Laubie, partly because
of McKinley's peculiar magnetism, and
partly because of Fosters interest in
his behalf.
Columbus is agitated over police
and fire department difficulties, and the
IIOuDlb WdAbS IbICb anu Lie
Democratic Mayor SuSpendS Republi-
can chief for alleged inefficiency, and
appoints a Democratic eX-chief in
whose capacity, industry and vigilance,
even the Republicans seem to have
complete confidence. When an alarm
is sounded, both chiefs invoke the aid
of equine power, and generally the issue
as to which gets to the nozzle first is
determined by their respective distances
from the scene of action and the fleet
ness of the hOrse-hesh impressed in the
service. Democratic agility in all feats
of athletic exercise, except getting to
their respective precincts in time to Or
ganize the polls and vote the whole
ticket is prOverbial, so the new chief
generally comes in neck or two ahead,
and has a firm grip on the squirting
machinery, when his rival "spheaks NIT
his horn" The real facts are regard
ing the pendant quarrel, it was the Re-
publicanS who inauguTated the war.
When the city of Columbus Topped over
from Democratic control, the machine
thought it policy to conduct all the de-
partments on partisan plans, and
whilst no fault can be found, the fact
remains, that they removed an incOr-
ruptible chief with valuable expert
ence, and substituted an inefficient one
because he was Republican.
FULL TEXT OF THE POND BILL.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
every person engaged in the traffic in
Intoxicating liquors shall, within thirty
days after the passage of this act, and
in the first week in May in each sue
ceeding year thereafter; and every per-
son hereafter engaging in such traffic
ri in
the first week in each succeeding year
thereafter, during his continuance in
such traffic, pay into the treasury Of the
proper county, upon the certificate of
the county auditor, as follows, tO-wit:
When his place of business is located
not within any village or city, nor with
in one mile thereof, 800; when within
village having a population of less
than 1000 by the next preceding Federal
census, or within one mile thereof, $3.50;
when within any other village or city
having population of less than 10000
inhabitants or within one mile thereof,
5000; when within any city of the sec
ond class, having population of 10000
Inhabitants or more, or within two
miles thereof, $3.50; and when within
any city of the first class, or within two
miles thereof, $500.
Sec. 2. Every person engaged in such
Jrafhc, and every person hereafter en-
gaging therein, shall, at the time fixed
by the preceding section for making
said payment into the county treasury,
execute to the State of Ohio his penal
bond in the sum of one thousand dol
lars, with at least two sureties, residents
of the county, and each owning therein
freehold estate, not exempt from execu-
tiOn, worth at least double the amount
of the. bond above membranes, which
bond shall have indOrsed thereon
pertinent description of the lot
or premises wherein said traffic is
or shall be carried on, together
with the name of its owner; and the
suTeties thereon shall be to the accept
ance of the probate judge of the county
who shall keep and record the same, to-
gether with the endorsement thereon,
in book to, be by him kept for that
purpose, which bond shall be cOndi-
toned for the faithful performance of
all, and singular, the requirements of
this act, and the Probate Judge shall
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