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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness. 1t ap-
pears that there are 5000 laundries, en-
ploying 90, 900 people, in this country, not
including 250, 900 Cinnamon who are in the
business, nor the millions of private laun-
dresses.
The Orleans princes, one of whom is the
son of the Comte de Paris, now travelling
in this country, are the richest princes in
the world. They will inherit in about
three months 100000 francs through
the death of the Duke de Montpensier OF
Seville, Spain.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
THE scHooL ArrENDANcE.

The number of children attending the
public schools in the year 1SSS-S9 was IS, ,36S
the number for the year 1SS9-90 was 81, ,939
The difference is only 379. but it is on the
wrong side. With an-increased number of
children of school age, the number in attend
ance upon the public schools would natu-
rally increase. But in place of an increase
we have a falling off of 379. There cer-
tainly must be some reason for this increas-
ing disposition to send children to private
schools. With LA children of school age
but 81, 9S9 are on the publc-school list, and
of course the average attendance is much
smaller. There are, it appears, %, 175 chill
dren of school age who did not attend pub
lie schools last year. The causes OF this
large non-attendaEce should, if possible, be
aseertained. In what respect is our public
school system at fault? Do we teach too
many branches in the public schools or not
branches enough? Do we teach branches
that parents do not consider necessary at
the expense of branches which they do con-
slider necessary? In what respect do the
schools fail to meet public requirements?
With the possible exception of Boston, San
Francisco supports the most costly School
Department in any city in the United States
in proportion to the average attendance.
In Boston the High Schools absorb larger
portion of school money than in this city,
and it is this item which swells the per-
capita cost trifle above the per-capita cost
in this city. Efficiency does not always 60
with liberal allowance of money, but
where it does not the fault lies with the
management 1t would be worth the atten.
tion of school trustees and school-teachers
ents who send their children to private
schools for not participating in the benefits
of a free school system which they help to
maintain
The morning call., 1890-06-08
KEEPING PLEDGES.

We had not looked to the respectable
Alta for an excuse for pledge-breakiDg, yet
we. find one in the Friday issue of that
journal. 1t says circumstances may arise
which will justify the breaking of the letter
of a pledge while conforming to its spirit,
These justifying circumstances are great
emergencies or exigencies which could not
have been foreseen when the pledge was
given. If this country should be invaded,
a Congress pledged to reduce the revenues
would be justified in Increasing them. Our
respected contemporary then draws a COM
parison between the unexpected losses San
Francisco has sustained in the last year and
a nation menaced by hostile armies.
"NOW," says the Alta, we are brought
face to face with emergencies unforeseen at
the time the last nominating conventions
were held. Fire has destroyed the Girls
High School and there is general popular
dem and for the immediate construction of
a new sehool-house. that the important
work of this grand educational ins titution
behot impeded." Not being able to recall
any other catastrophe which warrants
breaking, the Alta imagnes fire in
the City Hall and other public buildings.
Had a number of such fires occurred, a con-
dition Of emergency might have been made
out; but as they have not occurred and are
not especially liable to occur, the illustra-
tion is little lame. Nominating conyen-
tions will soon meet again and new pledge
will be in order. If any convention places
the party it represents before the public
without other pledges in regard to ex-
penditure than the consciences of political
managers impose, the question will come
up if pledges should be made and kept or if
the tax levy shall in the future be what the
bosses think they would like to spend.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
a HnoApER FIELD OF ACTION.

The Chronicle, which is likely to be well
informed as to Christopher A. Buckley's
intentions, says that Mr.. Buckley is think
ing about turning his back upon San Fran
cisco and taking charge of the municipal
affairs of New York. The Tammany leaders
have been caught in their tricks. The
Fassett investigation sent Croker to hos
pital and caused Mayor Grant to limp
badly. 1t is not thought possible to repair
either of these men by an ordinary applica-
tion of whitewaSh. Their bruises reach
close to vital organs. The need of new
boss is the more apparent as all the Tam
many Underlings are more or less implicated
in the affairs that have been so nearly fatal
to the chiefs. But in striking out for
broader field of action in New York Mr..
Buckley should bear in mind that the East
ern public is less patient than the people of
the Pacific Coast. If their moral sense is
not keener they are more impatient under
pecuniary loss. When the discovery is
made that the boss is making free with
public money they rise up against him.
Tweed was in his later years victim of
that tendency and Croker and Grant are
now under a cloud that is not likely to dis
perse. If Buckley goes TO New ork and
carries out his plans as openly as he has in
this State he viii be a short-lved boss
His performances in the way of legislating
for the last Legislature have never been
equaed for boldness and depravity since
the palmy days of carpet-bag rule during
the reconstruction period. 1t is fact,
however, that Buckley is in New York, and
as there is work for him to do in this city
it is fair to presume that he had purpose
in going there. What that purpose may be
is best known to himself and his trusted
counselors, of whom the aspiring proprietor
of the Chronicle is possibly one. The cleo
ton Of a Legislature in California which
will have the privilege of electing United
States Senator to succeed Senator Stanford
would not seem at the first glance to
necessitate a conference between Buckley
and anybody in New York But as
Buekiey's schemes are usually in the way
of keeping the campaign money chest full
he may have concluded that little quiet
and confidential talk with some OF the men
who are not in favor of Mr.. Stanford's re-
election would tend to put the Democratic
party in good fighting trim.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
A CLOUD IN GEKMANY.

European monarches rest on so rickety
a foundation that occurrences which would
possess no political significance in this
country may be fraught with serious con-
sequences on that Continent. 1t is now
announced that the accident which lately
befell the Emperor of Germany is causing
uneasiness. 1t seems that his Majesty fell
on his ear, and that that organ, which has
never been sound, in consequence Of inher-
tied disease, has been so seriously injured
that apprehensions OF constitutional dis
turbance are entertained.
The Emperor inherits disease on both
sides. The cancer of which his father died
was sequel from the inirmities which
several lines had beQueathed TO the Hohen-
zollerns. His mother is descendant of the
Guelphs, VINO, with few exceptions, have
been tainted from the cradle. 1t is law of
heredity that constitutional disease does not
descend to all the issue of the original suf-
ferer. Many escape the taint; it skips
generation, some times two generations; it
strikes down q son or a daughter, and
spares their brothers and sisters. But the
terrible misfortune is almost certain to
mark its vitality by exacting sequence Of
victims. at irregular intervals; and it may
be feared that in the pOsterity of the
Georges, some one win demonstrate, within
a generation or two, that the poison which
destroyed the mind of George III, and the
body of George ~, has not lost its potency.
The Emperor William, if he were not an
Emperor, would be called deformed. There
is something wrong with one of his arms,
and he has an abscess in one of his ears,
which all the skin of physicians, it seems,
cannot cure. AS doctors say, his constitu-
ton indicates the presence Of scrofula.
Such men sometimes live to great ages. and
as was the case with DIR. johnson, possess
strength and vigor of body. But again,
other sufferers from this inherited malady
die young, or the disease attacks the mind
and oYerthrows the intelligence. In case
the Emperor's trouble should take either of
these courses a regency would follow. The
heir of the throne, Prince Frederick Will
lam, is boy of g.; his mother, who would
probably become regent, is lady of 81.
She was SchlesYig- Holstein princess, of
whom the world knows nothing except that
she was distressed during the first years of
her marriage by her husbands actions, and
that she sought consolation from her
mother-in-law, the D0Wager- mpreSs-then
Princess-Victoria.
1t goes without saying that nothing but
the firmeSt hand at the head of the Gov
ernment can maintain the grip which Bis
marck'S military deSpOtism has fastened on
Germany. II the business were confided to
women and court fayorites the Govern
ment's hold would relax and general liqui-
dation would probably ensue. 1t seems odd
that thrones might be overturned. and the
disarmament Of Europe might follow, all
because OF an abscesS in a Young mans ear
But Europe once went to war and thou
sands of lives were sacrificed all on ac-
count Of glass Of water.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
MUNICIPAL FINANCES.
Applications for Increase Made
to the Supervisors.

At the meeting of the Supervisors FL
nance Committee yesterday morning, Fire
Commissioner Maurice Schmitt and Chief
Scannell appeared to urge an increase la
the appropriation for the Fire Department.
Mr.. Schmitt represented that the Auditor
had not allowed sufficient sum to pay the
salaries of the firemeD, having allowed only
$3.50. 600. The salary account next year will
amount to S262, go and, therefore, the de-
partment will start with deficit of Sl2, ,220
Among the salaries added this year are
S46S0 for the new water-tower and S4620 for
the new chemical engine. MIR. Schmitt
gave the salary account of the department
in detail, believing that the amount allowed
for running expenses, $4,000, which Is
limited by law, would be sufficient, if the
Commissioners were not compelled to build
new engine-houses out of it. That expense,
he eontended, should be provided for out of
the Building Fund.
Chief Scannell said public opinion favored
a liberal appropriation. 1t is the duty of
the fremen to protect the taxable property
of the city and if there are not sufficient
men to do it it may be swept away by fire.
The Auditor had also failed to make any
allowance for the Firemen's Pension Fund.
The Chief and Mr.. Schmitt were asked by
Chairman Boyd to point out some way by
which the committee can increase the ap-
preparation tor the Fire Department and
yet keep within their dollar-liInit pledge.
They were unable to comply and then with
drew with the assurance the committee
would do the best it could for the depart
ment.
Tax-Collector Thomas O'Brien appeared
to object to have his appropriation reduced
from $50, 600 last year to $4,000, which had
been done by the Auditor. He did not see
how he could run his office any more
economically than he had.
Chairman Boyd assured him that the
committee would do the best it could to
allow the Tax-Collector sum sufficient to
carry on the business of the Office.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
THINGS WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE.

The other day when an engineer ran
train of cars into gap made by the opening
of drawbridge in broad daylight, with
danger signals directing attention to the
condition of the bridge, THE CALL said
that such catastrophe5 could not properly
be cassed as accidents. The walls on the
Larkin-street side of the new City Hall now
present similar problem for the public to
consider. The filling for these walls with
debris is not an accident. 1t cannot be the
work of one man. There were the con-
tractor, the sub contractor, the Superlnten-
dent of construction and foremen of gangs
of worhmen who it would seem must have
known something about the manner in
which the work was being done. Men in
the upper stories of the City Hall looked
down upon the work and saw men dumping
debris into space that should have been
filled with solid masonry. One of these
men tells contemporary that he had known
what was going on for long time. The
thought had even occurred to him that the
City Hall Commissioners ought to be in
formed of the nature of work that was be-
ing done in their own official residence.
But whenever this conscientious young man
started to inform one of the Commissioners
something happened to detain him. He
was diverted from the high and noble pur-
pose he had formed. He had taken great
deal of interest in the matter, but not
enough apparently to sustain him IN the
long exploration in the direction of the Of
fee of one of the Commissioners. Then
there was the Superintendent of Construc-
ton, whose especial business 1t was to see
that that did not happen which was happen
ing all the time. The Superintendent says
the distance around the City Hall is so
great that he could not see everything that
was going on. Evidently he did not. The
value of the services of a Superintendent
whom the contractor could so easily impose
upon is more apparent in his relation to the
contractor than to the city which pays him
his salary. There is great deal of inno-
cence and considerable astonishment about
the City Hall at the present time. but it
does not deceive the public more than the
assurance of Engineer Dunn that he did not
know the draw was open would have con-
vinced the public that he was blameless in
that matter.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
A NEW RAILROAD.

The people Of Fresno, who have been ex-
tending their railroad facilities with con-
siderable enterprise, now propose to build
line due west from Fresno to Monterey,
crossing the eastern portion of Fresno
County, San BeIito, ard Monterey County.
Capital not being forthcoming for the en-
terprise, they propose to appeal to the
Su peryisors of the three counties for the
means to undertake the work. A Joint
meeting of the three Boards of Supervisors
is expected to be held shortly at Salinas, to
consider the project.
A large proportion of the Eastern roads
were constructed with means obtained
from counties, and considerable portion
of the original capital in the Central Pa
cific was derived from the same source.
A road from Fresno to Monterey would
bring into use large section OF country
which is now barren. OF the vast stretch
Of land lying between Fresno City and the
Coast Range. very little is cultivated. The
range itself is of course so much lost
ground. and in San Benito and Monterey
the proposed new line would open up con-
siderable waste land. 1t is not easy to
reckon how many acres the line would add
to the cultivated area OF the State, but the
addition would be considerable. Every
such enterprise swells the wealth. and en-
larges the resources Of the State
The morning call., 1890-06-08
THE GovERNMENr OF CITIES.

There is a general complaint that popular
government has not worked we'll in large
cities. Even in the oldest and best regu-
lated of American cities there is waste and
extravaganza, not to say downright theft.
There are commissions which do little or
nothing but issue handsomely bound annual
reports, There are clerks employed whose
principal service is performed in running
elections and controlling conventions. There
are contracts given out in favor of friends
and in violation Of law. There is a vast
amount of useless advertising given to sheets
without general circulation. There are, in
q short. a thousand ways by which the money
WTung from the people is Squandered. The
fact that all American cities are more or
less subject to depredations of this nature
raises the question if the weak spot Of
popular government is not in the govern
.Fnent of our cities. There is an article in
tie June number of Harper's Magazine
which declares that the English city of
Birmingham is the best governed city in
the world" Birmingham, as most of our
young and some of our older readers know,
is a city of $4,000 inhabitants. Ii has had
eight centuries in which to experiment
upun the problem of municipal government
Tie feature to which the comparative sue
cess is attributed is The assumption by the
city of functions usually left to local en-
lerprise. The city owns its water works.
manufactures and sells its gas, builds and
manages its own street railroads, owns a
big municipal farm, which provides food not
only for the charitable institutions sup
ported by the city, but large portion of
the people, markets its own supplies, builds
and manages art museums and bathing
establishments, and buys real estate and
makes improvements on the same, and in
many other ways does things which other
cities leave to private enterprise. The
writer of the Earper's article attributes the
excellence of the city government to the
peeuliarities we have mentioned. 1t is
mere probable, however. that whatever
superiority the government Of the city may
possess is due to the existence of public
sentiment which makes peeulation impos-
sble. There is nothing in the fact OF the
municipal government doing things that in
most other cities are done by the people
that prevents waste and dishonesty. Public
sentiment in Birmingham keeps boodlers
in the background. Public spirited citizens
have acquired and maintained an ascend
ercy. There would be no grass in Birming-
hams pastures for Buckley's lambs if there
was Buckley ready to offer his services.
The ownership and control of things which
in this city are outside of the recognized
province of municipal government would
not prevent waste if self-respecting men
were not at the helm. A public sentiment
which condemns robbing the public as
vigorously as it condemns the robbery Of
an individual would soon clean San Fran
cisco Of the clique of politicians which
absorb about one-third of the revenues of
this city
The morning call., 1890-06-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Silver Bill, which was passed by the
House by vote of 135 to 119, is known as
COBger's caucus measure. 1t directs the
Secretary Of the Treasury to purchase
81 500, 900 worth of fine silver each month
at market prices, not exceeding 81 for 371.25
grains of pure silver, payment being made
in Treasury notes redeemable on demand
in coin, which are declared legal tenders
for the payment of all debts except where
otherwise stipulated by contract Such
portions of the bullion purchased are to be
coined as may be necessary to provide for
the redemption of the Treasury notes pro-
yided for Whenever the market price of sill
yer is 81 for S71.25 grains Of pure silver the
bill declares it shall be lawful for the owner
Of any silver bullion to deposit the same at
any mint of the United States to be coined
into standard silver dollars.
Though ice is now scarce in Eastern
cities and sold at eXorbitant prices, ocean
steamers in the North Atlantic have had
more than the usual number of harbreath
escapes owing to the presence of ice foes
and gigantic bergs. The record has been a
startling one and shipmasters have debated
the possibility of detecting the presence of
these dangerous impediments TO navigation
by noting fall in the temperature of the
water. There are some, however, who
doubt whether this method would prove of
much avail to the navigator.
In the New Zealand frozen meat trade
are steamers capable of carrying thirty,
forty and fifty thousand carcasses of frozen
mutton, but these are to be dstanced by
the new steamer Morayshire, whose equip
ment is so extensive and complete that she
will be able to carry 10000 carcasses in the
cold-air chambers. The steamer has two
engines capable of freezing $4,000 cubic
feet of air per hour. The risks of carrying
such perishable freight to England are
great, but successful voyage and favor
able market result in great profit.
A citizen of New South Wales, adjudged
in contempt of court for failure to pay costs
amounting to Els IS, was detained in the
Darlinghurst Prison for nearly four years.
1t required a special meeting of the Colo
niaI Cabinet to effect his release; otherwise
he might have languished in debtors
prison until the walls crumbled.
South Australian wheat-growers must be
figuring on narrow margins of profit. for
the average yield of the crop of 1SS9-90 was
only seven and half bushels to the acre,
the area cultivated being 1,Si2, ,961 acres and
the yield Of grain 14,577, ,35S bushels.
The Divorce Extension Act now law In
Victoria is under legislative consideration
in New South Wales, which is also devot-
ing much attention to the Colonial fedora
tion scheme.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
THE CAUCUS SILVER BILL PASSED.

The silver bill known as the caucus bill
has passed the House by the aid of several
Democr ats. The fiual vote stood 135 ayes
to 119 noes. The bin as passed retains what
is known as the bullion redemption clause.
1t was this provision Of the bill which set
silver men against it. The bullion re-
demption clause in the bill certainly impairs
Its value as measure to appreciate the
price of silver The silver bought one
month may be sold when il should be the
interest of sellers to call for it, The silver
men would have been satisfied with bill
which made silver purchases final by pro-
yiding for the use of silver only in the form
ofrstandard dollars or certificates payable
IN coin. The blll goes to the Senate, where
it may be amended. Probably some silver
men voted for the bin in the hope that the
Senate would strike cut the Objectionable
bullion redemption provision.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
STRONG ACCUSATIONS,
C. C. Butler Charged With Fraud In

c. c. Butler Charged With Fraud In the
Point Lobos Company.
Suit has been commenced by Lloyd
Tevis, Henry Wadsworth and j. B. Hag-
gin, as Trustees of the creditors and stock
holders of the San Francisco and Point
Lohos Road Company, for the removal of C.
c. Butler, Trustee of the company. They
charge that he tried to defraud the credit
ors and stockholders out Of 5000. and col
lected a large amount of rents. The plaint-
ifs ask for an accounting and a winding
up of the cOmpany's affairs.
The morning call., 1890-06-08

SIGNAL SERVICE, U, 5. ABaY,)
DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC,
san Francisco, June 7, lSsO-5 P. NJ
synopsi. for the Past Twenty-four Hours.
The barometer is highest off the coast OF North
ern California and is lowest is Eastern Washington;
the temperature has risen slightly in the eastern
portions Of oregon and Washington and along the
coast Of Northern California and has fallen else
where; the weather has everywhere been fair.
Forecast Till L. M, Sunday.
For Calfornia-Fair weather; westerly Winds
cooler in tie southern portion: nearly stationary
temperature ia the northern portion.
Tor Oregon and Washington Fair weather.
westerly winds; slightly cooler.
j. E MAxFIELD.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
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525 montgomery street. near Clay, open until IL
o clock p NJ BRANCH OFFICES: 10 Market
street. near Kearny. open until u O'Clock midnight;
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Mission street, open until O'Clock P. NJ.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
Hoitt A Esigns.

Ira G. Hoitt, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, has filed an assignment
of all his real and personal property to Dor
veil Libby for the benefit of creditors.
The morning call., 1890-06-08
sUNDAY...................... JUNE 8, 1880
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