New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-08

houses have cost has gone fraudulently into the
pockets of the Jerry builders? That is matter
of finance The matter of health is even more
serious. Drainage is not new subject. sam
tary science has reached stage when 1t Is
humancy possible TO carry the germs of typhoiu
elsewhere than into school-rooms and bedrooms
But the builders of some of the board schools
have not grasped this elementary proposition
1t PAYS better to lay pipes without joints, some
Of them running the wrong way, some OF them
dischargng into the soil some OF them ieadlng
nowhere some of them cracked, and whole systems
of them left unventilated. Before you can al
tract attention to such matters you must Keep
a headline standing for days IN the papers
Poisoning the Children After some days OF
inquiry the expert announces that about three
fourths of the London School Board buildings are
badly constructed. And Mr. Jennings tell us 'ha'
il has long been known that the Board ocnoois
are in many instances mere breeding places Vi
fever lie believes that the cases may be mum
bered by hundreds.
Again | say, all this concerns the sixty OF
seventy thousand Americans who yearly com,
abroad They do not go to Board Schools pu'
they live in hotels and lodgings, TO the CON
strucction of some of which the British buiiu''
and Contractor and Plumber have apphed ,n'
same nop"i pi'no,Ple9 na f.,,or trans. TIE
Public buildings of London are so many oy-""i,
for unhealthiness. Mr. Richie, pres .deh' % '''
Local Government Board, has Just oven .',i'N9
the Plumbers Company at dinner 'ilar -
will rome TO his room, at the House Oh O"i""'|'''
the foul smells will drive them away III nv
minutes Lord Justice OF Appear - III H0
the poisonous atmosphere OF the Law OoulU': "iu
- HOY
wears unavailngly ,
r1,o plumbers and the Tradesmen are in the same
hoat. the same morality prevails in Building as in
p,siness. and the Retail Trade of London is
matter which does interest a great proportion OF
thot Tourist army of Americans which yearly visits
Iordcn Most of them buy something in London.
They probably believe they can buy better goods
and cheaper than at home. l don't know what
they can buy at home but il is only fair to warn
them that the one maxim which the London
tradesnan recognizes as the foudaton OF his moral
ty and the law OF his dealings is caveat emptor' :
Let the buyer look out for himself To make
fortune and to make it quickly is his one object
in life; after him the deluge. To establish busi-
ness 10 deserve a reputation for fair dealing, 10
hand down an honorable name TO his descendants
or successors-such ambitions as these, IL 'hey
ever existed, have ceased to exist. The Sweater
has come to the 'front.' and he sweats his customers
as we'll as his working men and women. The
quality of his wares has gone down and his prices
have gone up.
They have gone up higher for Americans, as eX-
planned the other day. but have gone up for every
body. and stayed up. The quality has deterlordted
in the very goods which were once supposed 10
be the pride of the Englist market; fabrics oil
woollen and cotton and leather and steel, and OF
other metals | will take a humble illustration
Where in London can you buy paper of good pms
I do not know Perhaps the whole social struct-
ure of this kingdom does not depend on pms
something else holds it together, but the luustra-
ton humble as it is is good one, and IT Is TYP
ical. You may repeat the question about hun
dred other articles of universal necessity. and the
answer will be the same. The trade of London is
rotten from end TO end. Whether the manufact-
ures of England are any better than the morals OF
her merchants is, to say the least, an open qucS
ton From the pins that soften 10 the finger, TO
the 0ton guns that burst in the firing, the road
is long one and it is strewn at every step with
similar examples; with the wrecks of great rcpu-
tations. and with monuments Of systematic ana
| almost, if not quite, universal dishonesty.
G. w. S.