Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-14
a. st aeorre. gave the ens.rtasnmens and h.d

at St. George. gave the entertainments and had a host of good fellows present Although B!ondin Is sixty-flve years of ege and has SecI performing the most dangerous exploits on tight ropes for thepast flfty-aye years, he doesn't seem to be moro than forty years oli. In his shirt front he wore three brilliant diamonds as large us robins eggs, while on
 his massive chest he sported dozen large gold medals. Tho finest medal which he ex-
 hilited weighed nearly pound and was pre- scn;cd to him by the English people at the
 opening of the Crystal Palace Two of the
 others were given him by the citizens of Ni-
 a.,ara Falls and Philadelphia. gold Greek
 cross was presented him by Queen Isabella of S.sain. 1t is this badge which gives him tho
 rank of a Cheyalicr of the Legion of Honor of
 Sl.ain. Blondin is very reserved and talked
 reluctantly of his wonderful performances.
 -.r. Eiralfy is endcavoring to secure tho
 two tail electric masis that have been stand
 ing in the Madison Square and Union Square
 parks for several years past. The city does
 not usc them any more, and if they can bc
 had MT. Kiralfy will have them erected on tho grounds at St. George for the purpose of stretching Blondin's rope.
 We are getting rather weary of Mayor He wits repeated explanations and protcsta- tions on tho subject of tho removals of tho poles and wires from tho streets where elcc- trical subways have bccn provided. There is no manner of dorh' that the Legislature sup posed it was providing an efficient means of
 securing their removal when it declared that | if the companies did not remove them within | ninety days after notice from the Board of | Electrical Control the Commissioners or luhlic Works should do so through the | Bureau of Incumbrances lon written order from the Mayor" It in effect makes theso | poles and wires unlawful incumbrances upon
 the streets, and the supposition was plain that | the Mayor would order their removal as | matter of course as the only means of carry | ing out the purpose of the law. The pretext
 that there is no money available for this | special purpose is ridiculous, for any money | appropriated to the use of the Bureau Of In- | cumbranccs can Of course be used for any | purpose which the law makes it the business l of the bureau to carry out The Mayor is
 solely responsible for the delay in removing
 these Instructions, and if he had acted in &C., | cordnncc with the plain purpose of the law | there is little doubt that the companies which | own the poles and wires would themselves
 have hastened to remove them, for they are
 worth the trouble and expense, and they would
 not have been left for the Bureau of Incum-
 brances to carry of.
 II | was n Harvard undergraduate, got together
 one evening last week and discussed at length
 the innovation to be made at Cornell Uni-
 versity next fall-that of introducing a chair
 of journalism. 1t is a pity that the governing
 Board of that institution, or at least the pro-
 lessor who was to occupy the chair, could not
 have been present. Many suggestions were
 made that would have proved of value. For
 instance, it was agreed that the young gentle
 AL. n
 space" and compelled to pay their way
 through college on what they earned; that
 they should be assigned to night police work,
 Interviewing prominent men on subjects
 upon which they did not care to talk, and in- . vcstigating criminal mysteries; that those
 most advanced should wicld the blue pencil
 and be compelled to condense column
 story 10 ten lines; and that man should b. : suspended without pay unless the phantom paper went to press promptly at o'clock
 every morning.
 Tho more serious side of the question was equally interesting. While it is true tha, some of the young men who would otherwise seek fame in the newspaper world will gel , quite enough of it in the college course and ! look in other directions after graduation, fl , is very probable that there will be any mum. , ber who will think they are comforting a favol ' upon journalism in general, and the news , paper of their connection in particular, bI } their association with it. They may be ap, to look down upon the editor, who has work. r cd his way up and has everything at his fin. 7 gers ends. Such things arc natural to al academic preparation, but nowhere is tht , conceit knocked out of man quicker than ir ? the practical work of a newspaper ofice and nowhere else docs really valuable discipline ' come into use so quickly.
 HAS the man who works at night my rights which the man who gets up at o'clock in the morning is bound to respect7 This is a
 question which should be put up for debate
 by some societies of publicists. Very much more of the work of city like New York
 than is imagined by the minimizing tens oi
 thousands who lead conventional lives is done at hours which compel Q faithful and
 useful majority to sleep by day. Editors, re- , porters, compositors, pressmen, electro . typers, telegraph operators, bakers, police men, railroad employees and hundreds oi
 other occupations must bring rest to their
 tired eyes and weary limbs when most of the world is awake and -thoughtless too, with the brutality of the money pursuit and what may befal those who are not as they IT 10 o uS Ih"s huodoiiNs oA sno AiSub ONis
 get home before 2, 3, or 4 o'clock in the morn ing, but they are tired and nervous, not I sleepy. Who would be sleepy immediately ] | after leaving his work7 How would a bank clerk feel about resting at o'clock in tho afternoon? They settle down in a conscien- tious effort to take the sleep that is as neccs- sary as medicine to a sick man, and after an hour or two of tossing, drowse oil. It is not two hours later when they hear a shriek from tin horn, and are at once wide awake. However good tho chance of again dropping off right here, it is effectually disposed of by
 the procession of peddlers, each uttering his
 discordant call. These shaggy foreigners pass within hearing of each other, uttering discordant yells and endeavoring to buy rags, , sell bananas for twenty-five cents dozen, , and so on. No man of ordinary sensitiveness cain sleep through all that, and nobody should . | expect him to. These vendors should be kept