New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-18
TOPICS IN THREE CITIES.
BOSTON,.
BUTLER'S MOvEs-wATER SUPPLY-RELlG-
IOUS-MUSICAL.
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| Boston, Feb. 1.-THE sequel OF Governor Dill
lers sudden decapitation Of Warden Earle, OF inc
State Prison, with its comically iDapt ana ihaoe-
quate explanation that Earle had " lost inc conh-
dence" of the convlcts, appears in the
of ex- United States Marshal Roland G. Usher as his
successor. There is little doubt that the desire "
find place for Usher was the father OF 'he iue"
that the State Prison needed new warden. 0'lii'
the assent of the Republican Executive CouhcH'
which was necessary to accomplish the uiSPiaoe-
ment of Earle gives color to the rumor VnaI ''io
has been something wrong in his administra-
ton. For the Council, though not OF the
material that goes to the stake Ior
princinle is sufficiently independent to
have forced the Governor 10 take the back track
in two of his proposed remOvals-that OF William
Endcott IT, from his long-held honorary position
of trustee of the Massachusetts, General HoSpltal
MIR Endicott having always given freely OF MS
wealth aud of his rare investigating ability TO the
6pbt AGAINST Butlerism as to all other good works
enlistng the public-sDirited men of the community
and that of the keeper of the prison at SherDun'
Usher is a leading Lynn Methodist, with all the
! popular following that that implies. lie ana eN-
Collector Simmons organized and led the KepuD-
lican support of Butler in times past, ana Win
Colonel French and Butler himself. constitute to-
State. As Insurance Commissioner Clarke
gives place to another and inferior
worker III Observation-Disclosures by
name-the demonstration is growing strong
that Butler is recognizing his old guard with the
officer that he vacates and is not going to depend
on the regular Bourbon Democracy any more IMAM
he has ever done since the Charleston Convention.
At the same time that Butler thus makes places
for trusty henchmen, he calculates to lay up store
of good opinion for future use by picking out some
what lame ducks for removal. Ii Is supposed that
neither Earle nor Clarke is in position 10 make
any resistance, one of them would have done So
Several tral-judges that are indicated as victims
are also understood to be really not unimpeachable
So the "Old Man" is coming out quite to the
delight and satisfaction of the boys. thongh
measured by any standard of craftsmanship or pub
lie service, it is but petty detective sort OF bus
mess with all the " sashng around OF 1t.
The commission on the impurities in the
water supply has made an able and ontspoke re-
port in which all that is popularity believed about
the pollution of Lake Cochituate by town and
manufacturing drains and of the Ludbnry basin
by the decay of the muck bottom, is confirmed. The
commissions recommendations are radical, and
seriously impeach tine position the Water Board has
taken on these points The removal of the sources
of trouble may, therefore, begin with the Board
itself as this was of the issues on which DR..
Green was opposed and Mr. Palmer supported at
the last election for Mayor.
The Rev Joseph Cooks grapple with the theo-
logians of Andover, who irving to shake of the
ironclad pledge of that institution TO ultra Calvin
ism. bids fair to leave him in worse case than
any scuflle he has ever had with the positivists
or materialIsts. The Rev. Egbcrt Smyth re-
spends TO his last in four-coiumn article to-day.
which leaves Cook with the appearance OF worse
cha1latan IN theology than III science.
The regular saturday Symphony concert tonight
was turued INTO a Wagner memorial, with the pro-
cramme changed 10 pieces Of the master solely and
solos by Nine Bocma, MT Adams ana Nj iiehschel'
IL was a memorable event III the annals OF the
Music Hall.