Evening star., 1886-11-05
District Government Amairs.


The District Commissioners have received
a communication from an Anonymous writer
as to the manner in which the police en-
iorce the law in regard TO the game Of pool
now played in billiard rooms. He says
"rnis pool game H. considered 10y some To be
quite different from gambling: but II you will
lake the trouble TO fiud out, you will that it
il much worse. For example: Suppose crowd
OF boys, from fourteen TO eighteen, were seen in
drinking saloon playing cards for cigars,
whisky, beer, aud sometimes for one dollar a
game, you would cal it gambling and IL would
also iook very bad" He then goes on TO state
that in a pool room not many blocks from
police headquarters he saw on Monday night
last, at eleven O'Clock, four boys play ing pool,
five or six boys looking on, one man drunk
tnat he could not stand up another sleeping in
a cn.,ir-supposed 10 be drunk, also. One OF
the boys that Was look ing at the game was not
walk and looked at these boys, surrounded
win everything TO ruin their Iuture. There
was the Old drunkard the whisky, the cigars,
beer and the Fascinating game OF pool. said
10 my sell, hat disgrace 10 The capital oil The
naLion.
wAsHINGroN CONSUMES 141.7O7 BARRELS o.
FLOUR A YEAR.
j. Ii. Welch, flour inspector, has submitted
his annual report, stating that he inspected
14l,s barrels oI Hour from June lst, 1850, 10
June Isl, 1856.
THE WOOD MEAsURERs REPORT.
Mr.. Henry Burrows, inspector aud measurer
OF wood, Rock creek district, has submitted uis
annual report, showing that during The fiscal
year ending June 30, SS6, he Inspected aud
measured $3.50 cords oi wood which arrived
from Maryland and EIrgI Iuia ABOUT one-fiflh OF
IL by way OF the canal lie says "Tnere seems
to be n growing tendency towards coiiusion
between the captains of wood vessels and wood
corders TO cord the wood in such manner as To
make it appear that the ranks contain more
wood than the measurer finds them, on inspec-
tion, To contain. As this collision must neces-
sarily lead 10 corruption, would respectfully
suggest that some measure be adopted to pre-
vent the payment 10y the vessel Captains 10 the
corders ior "A greater number OF cords than 10
certified 10y the measurer AS having been corded
in each Instance.
MIscELLANEoUs
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, president Of the Wo.
mans Industrial league, writes 10 the Commits.
sioners requesting that the laundry work in all
Tlre department., be given TO the league Tor the
benefit OF the wage women. She aiso suggests
that they be given all the scruObing, cleaning
and sweeping Oh the school rooms.
The app. .icaJion Of Elizabeth Stubener, 1901
X street northeast, Tor "A liquor license has been
Collector John F. Cook has transmitted q re-
port of the real estate i'm the District OF Colum.
bia sold at tax sale september 2Sth ~ October
10Th, 1856, under the act OF Congress approved
June 27th, 1879, and requests that IL be Tor.
warded to the recorder OF deeds, In compliance
with provisions OF Law.
Gen. Loga. On the Elections.
HE LIKES MAYORS WITH BACKBONE AND
wARNs HIS PAKrY TO BEwAxE OF FOOL
THEORIES.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says that Gen.
Logan, while chatting with friends et the
Grand Pacific hotel Wednesday, said In his
opinion, 4: was becoming just ~ Important
~ elect good mayors ior the great clues a. 70
elect good governors for the states In many
INSTANCES, he said, the mayor oI q great city
Was called ON To exercise nucn more Judgment
and nerve than the governor. Tae frequent
RIOTS tue mutlenngs OF socialism and anAr.
chisin. All these were but arg uments Tor the
esection OF good. strong Mayors, and mayors
wno are responsible " = strong, united party
for tseir conduct In has opinion, tue re-
publican party needs 10 steer clear OF
ali tue "isIns' ana iooi theories that are
arioal. To Inject socialist ideas into its plat
form; TO panaer 10 any element however
strOng IL may appear ON the lace Of
the returns, whicn does not regard the
.acredness OF lie, liberty and property; 70
aUanaou = single one OF the principles OF the
republican party, would De ~ cosn .ait q great
mlssaske. Let tne democratic party panoer 20
sii the low elements and sociAlistic ideas, but
let the Republicans stand On their old platforrn-
There Il no reason" Gen. Logan sad, ''why
the republicans cannot eject the mayor q:
Chicago next spriuy." He strongly advocated
The uorn inatlon OF -Conyressman Charles h
Earwell - the republic noLniuee for mayor
Ex~PkE5IDkNT ARTAUk WAS PAIRKD.-The
New York Saa to-day says: Il was said ~
PresideDL Artnur's hspuse Last evening that he
had been better ever since he returned from
New London. and WAS Mp and around the house.
The doctor comes - see hiln nearly every day.
The REASON he dad moi vote was because ~ w.