New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-18

"of the country and their allies as represents
"ing more than one-half of the people may
"perform their fair share of public duty, the
"time, in my Judgment will have arrived for
ga new departure upon the question OF public
patronage, and for adoption OF permanent
"system of low salaries" In other words,
Mr.. Hoadly is in favor of putting Democrats
into the offices before he will consent that the
desired reform shall begin. The Republicans
have begun it already and mean to uphold it.
That is the issue, on that subject.
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The erection of model tenements for the working
classes is profitable Investment IN London. The
Artisans, Laborers' and General Dwellings Com
pany is now paying annual dividend OF per
cent on its earliest nvestments-the Shaftesbury
Park and Queens Park estates, comprising $500
houses in the aggregate. 1t is also extending Its
work to North London where it has secured an ex-
tensive area of 100 acres This will be known as
Noel Park, and will comprise 1900 houses and
recreation ground Of eight As these building
operations will not DO hampered by the embarrass-
ments attending the earlier ventures, a larger re-
turn than per cent is confidently expected as
soon as the scheme is carried into effect The best
friend the tenement population of New York could
have would be the man to build several blocks Of
sanitary appointments aud we'll lighted and well
ventilated end to make 10 or ~ per cent from the
Investment Let one man succeed in doing this,
and fair share of the capital now going into the
luxurious apartment houses of the rich would be
invested in habitalons for humble laborers and
their families.
Judge "Jere Black has hosts of friends all over
the Union, who will rejoice to hear that he is be-
lieyed TO be out of danger. The Judge is IN his
seventy fourth year. but his intellectual vgor is as
great as ever and every body will hope to see him
engaged in many fierce but good-natured contro-
versy vet.
TRIBUNE readers will remember Charles Reades
hero, who saved many lves from drowning, and
II whose behalf the warm he arted novelist addressed
the American public nearly ten years ago. But III
Philadelphia they have just discovered a modest
young man of about thirty who. If his exploits are
10 be measured simply by the number of lives he
has saved, is greater hero than James Lambert.
Freddy" shannon who IL a hard-workng steyedore
in Philadelphia. living IN a humble frame teneme at
in "Crooked-alley" near the whlrves, is credited
with an astonishing number of rescues-of no less
than 1853 men and boys. He says he never "got a
woman in his life. which is partly to be accounted
for by the fact that his lfe-saving work seems to
have been done about the wharyes He began
WUtu nc " aS ten years Oiu, uuu DCtl ~ ~
since, because. as he SAID modesty to a reporters:
Its my nature TO drop IN if l sees anybody in
trouble and have pulled out tidy few" But he
remarked deprecatIngy: "It looks as though some
BODY was making a fuss about nothing" They are
always tumbling IN about here" he sad land /
never got more than thank you from any Of them,
and sometimes l didn't even get that The first
thing man does when he's brought ashore is 70
shout for his hat He explained that they were
usually poor men and he wanted nothing. Ii was a
strange irony of fortune that Shannon, who
saved so many from the water, lost his SIX
yesr-old son by drowning. The boy seemed
to have inherited his fathers liking for the
water bat got beyond his depth, and drowned
with hundred men and boys looking on who did
not realize that no not in sport Congressman
ONeill is interesting himself 10 obtain Govern
ment medal Tor shannon who is modestly grateful
for this and other attentions. but seems disposed to
think that the chance to earn more than $l2 week
for his wife aud four children would be pleasanter
reward than many medals
A reader of thIrty-one years standing gives a
different account of the origin OF the word Nave
rick" from that already suggested in these columns.
He says that Spanish general by the name of
Maverick the first man the Gulf coast who
raised beef-cattle a large scale. As he was the
cattle. Later on, when others engaged in cattle
raising, they had to mark theirs and all unbranded
beeves were known as Mavericks The CORE
spondent states that the name is now in common
use in Wyoming Colorado and Monta If Nave
rick County. Texas, received its name from this
pioneer stock raiser of the Gulf coast there will be
common ground for the two theories in regard TO
the origin of the word. 1t may be that Range
man can settle this point also.
1t is said that more good swimmers are TO DO seen
among the women and girls at seaside resorts this
year than in previous seasons. 1t Is easier than il
used to be for ladies TO learn to swim, and they
cannot have more useful accomplishment Some
of the resorts have teachers of swimming, and in
several of the large cities there are private swim
ming schools centrally sit uated, and designed with
especial reference to women ana children.
Civil Service Commissioner Eaton Is reported as
saying that the first duty of the Commission now
will be 10 frame rules for the government of pro-
motions to be submitted to the President next
month. 1t is seen now that there was little occa-
sion for the general fear pressed some weeks ago
that the permission given to the Secretary of the
Treasury to promote a single clerk without com
pehtive examination would have disastrous conse-
quences. The number of changes in the Civil Ser-
vice since the law respecting appointments went
into effect has been very small. Having disposed
successfully of the problem of appointments the
Commission now deal moro easily with that of
promotions.
PERSONAL.
Rear-Admral Preble is spending short time IN
Maine.