Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-06-02
OUR BROOKLYN LETTER.
BROOKLYN, May 20, 1888.

BROOKLYN, May 20, 1888.
 It is rumored that fares are to be raised on all the elevated roads in New York, and the excuse for this is the over crowding of the trains At present there Is no comfort on any Of these roads excepting in the middle of the day, and one almost might say no safety. or course ten cent fare would effect per cepii6ie thinning out. The growth of New York has been SO phenomenal in the last few years that the expected re- lief from thIs aerial method of transit has not been realized. and now capita lists and wide-awske citizens generally are much interested ID ths Arcadia Broadway Railroad, scheme that cir cumstance has held ID aboyanoe many years. Active work is to commence i'm medistely upon this under ground, four tracked rspId transit road, and appears to be just what the people want.
 The perfechon of the phoEograph is certainly one of the grea.es; achieve ments or modern times. There can be nothing more uncanny, and certainly there Is nothing more wonderful than this mechanical reproduction OG Guman speech. If a spook had suddenly ap- pesre3 and requested me to wnte from his dio'ation and had then and there be- gan to reel 1t of, my back bone could not have felt much more frigid than when l seated myself Bt Remington type writ or and began my task of writing out the matter that had been stored up by this marvellous machine. The voice was hu' man. scd yet withal so weird and so mOnotOncus ss tO constantly suggest a yensriloquAl performance. A gentleman lsughin gly told me that although he had had considerable experience In the course of these famous experiments, he not yet come to the place where he haul kerei to be left alone with the uncanny machine. The fear that the use of the tue perfected phonOgrsph will make stenography vRlueless IS doubtless un- founded, though it will be likely to spoil the business of th8se who Gre not | .airly expert. But if will make Hn extra demand for competent type writers, and type writing, as 1 have said many times before, is the pTettiest thing n the world, and will now be more than ever lucrative. The completion of the Pho nogrsph hgs already had marked effect urou the scale of Rem gtons It k al- most impossible to tur2 out these magi- cal machines fast enough. In many re- | spects the photograph Is a better dicta- | tor than a human being. One soon req | lizrs that the instrument can not get tired to begin with, and that is n great | gain. Then one hasn't to repeat the last | word uttered which Is a crazy perfor- | mgucs which continued for an hour or two. Turn a screw, and the voice grows | faster or slower, or repeats LuiOm stically
 and most graciously. But if there is q person who csn sit down to type writer and take dio:AtiOn from a phonogrsph l without feeling creepy, ther thst person has DC nerves.
 May every man who fights moropo!ieF
 and hates liars, bs gwen strength to | strike straight from the sh, uldeT.
 1 Dr. Harrison A. tucker, trustee of Dr
 Talnace's Tabernacle, has been obliged
 to confess himself sDi.i'!st, acting
 unerr the control of bis Cuo!e, long
 time dWeller in the spirit world. BJ
 means fl the kindly disposed relative
 Dr. Tucker has made hundreds ot thou
 sands Of dollars. This medium is fear
 ful that this Tumpus will make cool
 ness between himself and Dr. TalmBge | He need not worry. The IebSrnacl' l needs money, and as long es the trano' | medium is willing to keep hls vast earn lngs m active circul6ticn, be vlll con | tinue to be a corner stone. ConsIsiencl | and charity? Where shall we find them The New York World advises May yo | Chapln to Appon nt women to the Brook lyn Board of Educshon, and declare | that the reason against such appoint
 ment gre purely political, and conse | auently unworthy. Just sc. But th
 purely or impurely political has hs' everything its own way Tor long time
 and then Boss Mclaughlin lives i
 Brooklyn, and he knows that women o
 the Board politician on the grid-lror
 And he's right. When that time arrives
 these gentlemen will he boil d, baked
 steved and fricsssed. There are wome
 oi meaus, education, wisdom and cnl
 ,ure m this town to-day. who are exam ining the city's political kitchen, an | v1Il intimately be heard from as expeI
 political cooks.
 The avidity with which people devou | all the news ID rclahitu tp hno AHh-H Scofield tragedy shows that there I | nothing in life so interesting as disgrac and death. The Scofield residence 6 6l West 2Oth St, is surrounded all ds long by the moIbidly curious, and shos
 who are permitted 10 peep into th
 yard where the Wall Street broker la dead and bleeding, feel themselves par ,icnIarly favored. The general imprei sion is that there IS a secret here whic , onlv the most astute detective csn pol
 ubly reach, and the singular revelation
 og Inc pas. few days show cOnclusivel
 that there IS something deeply, dark and desperately hidden, No charactt mn "A dream was ever regarded with mol curiosity thsn Mrs. Scofeld's trienu , David 0. Ferris. That he should ha, . | psid n detective to watch Mrs. Scotel
 and Hatch at Madame Fanny's resssu
 ant the night of the tragedy, gives |.
 whole occurrence Gn air of mystei {, | scarcely ever found outside Of one a Gabouresu's novels. s The Atlantic for June is chsrmiT !, number. "Yons Santo, Child ot J = p4p. by E. II. House, of which ha' r spoken before, IS sn excellent story, aI inc ooems are unusually good.
 o ELEANOR KIRK.