Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-03
COTHAM'S WACGlNG TONGUES
Perfectly Satisfied with a Multlplic-
ity of Sensations.
MAYOR HEwlTr's cRooKEDNEss.
The Great Storm-A Good Thing IL
Accomplished aud the Laugh
OF the Brouklynitcs- Tho
Great Walking Match.

| rCSpOndCnce of TIE BEE. This city
is never happy except when it is enjoy
| ing big sensation. Our happiness,
then. can be imagined when we havc
several. We have ON hand metcoro-
logical excitement in the shape OF Il
! northeastern gale that blew from Hall
| fax to Hattcrls and played the mischief
with the coast, and more particularly
| with the south side of Long Island,
! whore New Gort's pleasure grounds
| lie. We have a political excitement
| caused by an attempt OF Mayor Hewitt
! to cheat Tammnny out OF the spoils OF
| victory by unconstitutional means. We
| have a great pedestrian contest, pre-
| sided over by the most noble, the
Marquis of bloomsbury, and we have
the prospect Of a fight between Jack
| Dempsey and Charlie Mitchell. The
| consequence of all this is that Gotham
feels lively throughout its island, and
everybody is enjoying himself in spite
of the beastly weather. Tho adjective
is risky, know, but as the marquis is
here, it must be allowed, as it is very
| English. and we have an extra English
spasm at this time.
| MAYOR HEWTrT'S CROOKEDNEss.
| Abraham s. Hewitt has done a very
scaly thing with regard to the commits
sionership of public works, and his best
friends are compelled to admit that he
is 50 carried away by his combativeness
as to be incapable of comprehending
| that there is a line between what is
| permissible and what cannot be per-
| mitted. He has shown this repeatedly
u; NNhnDrnn
| writes to him Hewitt will write back,
| and if he cannot tackle his man fairly,
| he will do it unfairly, leaving unnoticed
| the gist of complaint and fastening
upon some unimpOrtant sentence which
| offers him an opportunity of Contradlc-
| tion or Of uncivil comment His offcnse
| on this occasion is that he accepted
| General Ncwton's resignation as COM
| missioner of the public works depart
meme, and immediately appointed TO the
/ position d. Lowber Smith, who is no.
| toriously Il tool of the contractors
against whom Hewitt pretended to be
so anxious to combat in the interest of
the public. Grover Cleveland has APP
pointed General Newton to be the head
of the Coast Survey, so that he is out of
politics in the city for good. But if he
had cared for his own honor he would
not have resigned, but would have
completed his term Of Office which ends
with the year. If he had done this,
then Mayor-Elect Grant would have
nominated his successor in due course.
But he resigned, to enable Mayor
Hewitt to do very dirty and cOntemp-
tible action. for he has appointed Smith
to the place without any statement that
it is only to the expiration of General
Newton's term, and the county democ-
racy are loudly eXulting and swearing
that he will stay In the Office as long as
the law will let him. There would not
be so much disgust at this if Newton
and Hewitt had not put on such airs of
superior gentility and superior virtue.
Hewitt may be quite sure that his polit-
ical ca"eer has closed definitely.
THE GREAT STORM
The telegraphic dispatches of THE
BEE will have informed your readers of
all the moving accidents by flood, along
the coast. But probably the disasters
of Coney Island have not been sent to
the great west. In Brooklyn we are
talking of nothing else, but we are
overjoycd with what has happened,
which we look upon as Nemesis,a real
old-fashioned Presbyterian judgement.
That part of Long Island which is called
Coney Island is in reality two beaches,
or rather, was two beaches, for it is
Beach and Brighton Beach. The for
mer belonged to the Long Island rail
road, which is a monopolistic lnstitu-
tion owned by a banker named Austin
Corbin, who is the incarnation OF arrO-
gance and selfishne5s. .IIe has always
run things TO suit himself and
carried matters with high hand.
He took advantage OF the
short inlet between the two beaches to
4 Il
and charged every one five cents for
carrying them from the eastern end of
Brighton Beach to the western end
of Mauhattcn Beach, u few hundred
yards. Now working people in New
York like TO save their nickel, for one
will buy twenty bridge promenade tick
cts. and therefore n great many persons
walked around the inlet which was not
difficult, for ii did not extend very far
to the rear. Then this millionaire built
high fence of wood, topped with
barbed wire, around the inlet, but car
ried it very far back to the maGshy land,
ana eXulted in his victory. Next he
built bulkheads to fOrtify Manhattan
Beach from the attacks of the ocean,
though he was demonstrated with by all
the gentlemen connected with the
Brighton Beach improvement company,
and the Hotel Brighton and the Brigh-
ton Beach race course, who had been
studying the changes Of the beach for
years and knew we'll what would be the
result. But he would not listen TO them |
and curtly told them to look after their |
affairs and he would attend TO his own.
MAJOR HEAPS DISCOVERY.
II must be told that something very |
curious is happening on the eastern
coast of America which was first dis |
covered by Major Heap, the United |
States inspector of light houses for the |
harbor OF New York and the coast of |
New Jersey, and which is at the bot
tom of the troubles at COney island. |
Major Heap found out that, in the long |
line of beaches along the Jersey shore, |
which like the southern beaches Of
Long Island are strips Of islands, a
gradual change has taken place. The
north ends were being swept away, and
the south ends were being prolonged
Barnegat light house
has already been shifted once. and
preparations are being made to shift IL
again in consequence OF this action
which is unintermitted | learned this
from Major Hoap, and Immediately
communicated il to the secretary OF the
BIipht0n Beach ImDrOVement COMPANY, |