Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-25

the lowest man selected. There Is now a
row about the matter but II IL likely that
noshing will come Of II.
Not long since the lady teachers Ia ONT
OF the principal schools OF the city were
seriously annoyed by ianitor who hgt
the bad taste 10 come into the building
almost daily 30 drunk he didn't hnoW
desks from scholars. He frequently
made use Of obscene language and die
other disgusting things. Naturally ths
outcome was disturbance, Ia which
business man Of the neighborhood wa,
called IN 10 protect the ladies' from Oh,
drunken iRnitor, When the matter cam,
before the schooa conmitiee Tor invest
( CATION vote o. censure was passed upon
/ the conduct OF the lady teachers IL
/ creating disturbance, and no
a wcrd was said 10 the ianitor, though
II was privately said that he has promised
the board 10 reform. One Of the lsdies
bdder than the rest, told the board thor
and there that the reason the ignitoT wal
not removed, or even ccneured, was be
cause he carried the politics Of his ware
I'm his brceches pocket. What did the
board say to thatl Why, they promptly
Z discharged the lady for her temerlty
these american officials Of the greal
American city.
Tho fact Is, that ~ this city, every
branch Of the school control IS directly
under the thumbs Of the politicians, Not
q teacher, ianltor, or any other official
however petty, can be hired except NJ
the beck OF the ward workers. This
political scrfdom extends 20 every de.
partment-the purchase Of books and
every variety Of supplies, the erection OF
new buildings and the payment OF
teachers wages Such, In one OF the
most important departments, Is American
control OF an American city's school
Affairs.
! IN conversation had with the city
/ superintendent iow days ago, he used
the following vigorous language 81
have now been In charge OF the phlla.
| delphia public schools for period OF
three years, During that time u great
deal has been effected ia the way OF much
needed improvements, yet more remains
10 be done. The baneful influence Of poll.
\ tics controls everything. You may safely
say as coming from mo that the schools
OF Philadelphia are az least twenty years
/ behind the times. / know that this IN q
Illuminating admission, but 10 is the truth.
/ There are not nearly enough buildings TO
accommodate the pupils who clambor for
admittancc; the course of study In near
ly every department is obsolete and ue-
hind the times, and every school In the city
Is sadly lacking In apparatus suchas ~
supplied 10 schools In every other city OF
any prcten7ions IN the country. Tho pro-
feseors In the high school were
perhaps good instructors quarter
OF century ago but they are
not now up with the times, nor with the
spirit OF the age. Yet, nothing can be
done. Every man among them has hts
political bacbcr, and In every case he Is
! hacker who bncks, as any one will speed
ny learn who attempts 20 disturb one OF
them. In the contracts for furnishing
supplies TO the schools little or nothing
goes through that HASN'T lob of some
sort In H. lnplcgsant2 VOL that NJ d
modest name 10 call g. ! have had ok.
penence IN other parts OF the country
and tell you that such political control
aud iobbefy with go important depart.
ment as the public schools would not be
tolerated IN any city IN the West or South
nor anywhere else for that matter out.
side Of Philadelphia
Let me say that the reason | have
quoted this topic AT the length / have Is
TO show GAZETTE renders how Ameri
cans who pride themselves on their OK
clusiyeness control the affairs Of this
American city,
TIM rEpREAENrATivE AMERICAN PIlY-
StCtAN.
DR. Rcniamln Rush, the mau whom the
medical profession OF the United States
has selected as its representative, and to
whose memory tho physicians Of the
country are about To DO appealed to for
money with which 10 erect monument
m Washington was PcnnsylyanIan by
blrth, whose ancestors were English and
came over with William Penn. The
Sweeds who settled PENNSYLVANIA were a
thrifty race but they did not know much |
about selecting sites for great cities. /
Ihey Thought low spot Of land at the /
mouth OF small creek preferable TO high
ground at the junction OF two consider. |
able rivers, and acting upon this false idea
thcy lnld out the site OF the great Penn
sylVaniA city upon n spot that IN now Il /
farm When the great Quaker had gotten
MS bearings, had muukud little (
with the Indians and had made a
certain tree famous by making a treaty |
under it,lo showed the SWedes a sort of n |
torerunnor of tho since famous Yankee
trick. lie laid out Philadelphia Whcro n
ought 70 have been in the lrst place and
LETT tho Swede specuRt0rs In hole [
Some ot these Swedes were the ancestors
OF the able physlcian VINO has lust boon
selected the representative American
medical man Numerically small as tho
Quakers arc, 10 IL Il little singular that
this extraordinary honor should have
fallen 20 one ol their number. In l7l5. /
when benjamin Rush was born, IL was 4
necessary for the young man who sought
fame and fortune In the medical world Ia
80 TO Europe for his mental euiipment
" could not az that early day be procured
~ this country, Young Rush graduated
at the then newly Incorporated university
NJ Princeton before no had completed his
fifteenth year. and then went TO Glasgow.
scotland, whore he spent
year, The following twelve
months he spent IN London aud
Paris Returning to this country he next
did shrcwd thing--he married we'll.
VRe lady Of his choice was Miss Stock
ton, She was from the famous Stockton
family 81 New Jersey, one ofwhom signed
ne Declaration Of Independence, and am
other, Commodore Stockton, Afterwards
gained q questionable fame az The al
'lgner and builder OF the war shin
'PnncetonN This Inflated vessel was
constructed at Philadelphia, and had anon
\ gun msde OF wrought iron. II Was a
not IDEA OF some OF the statesmen OF the
'ar'y part OF the century that guns OF
ieaNy eali0er could be safely east OF
Nropghtlrop Whom the vessel aud gun
we're READY plan WIS land Tor bringing
ne experiment before the country. Inc
mp was taken to Washington, and
Measure party arranged to 20 down tho