The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-11
NYEINPHILADELPHIA
Food and Water Supply of the
City Practically Unlimited.
COLOR LINE AND HOSPITALS.
Tale OF an Episcopalian Teacher Who
Tried to Snatch q Brand From the
Burning and Got Burned.
fcopyright, 1871. bv Esr,r ". Nve.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Especial Core
spondence.l - Philadelphia is pre-emi-
nently city of homes. The domestic
quality stands first of all with the true
Phlladeiphian, and other matters are
made secondary to il. Somehow this gives
us faith III the Philadelphia and respect
Tor him. Twenty years ago Philadelphia
had over 600 building associations in pros
porous operation. The custom, even then,
OF selling to people of small means lot
and home, to be paid for In the shape of
rent, was quite general and successful.
Everything is done here to foster the
home. The fostering hand of Philadel-
phia has steady job, winter and summer.
The food supply of this city is practically
unlimited. One can always buy things
here for eating purposes, and at reason
able price. The markets are large, album
dant and well supplied with almost every
thing, from stewed terrapin to picked
pemmican.
The water supply is source of great
local pride, and much of the good health
of the community seems to be due to
that. Physicians tell me that open wells
should be looked upon with much sus-
plcion, and | believe that to be true.
Much poison is engendered in open wells
by the decay of insects alone, which fall
IN and are unable to get out again until
decomposition has taken place. Other
animal life also conceals itself in the
bottom of the well, so that the old oaken
bucket, the one-thing- and-another bucket
that hanged in the well, is at times as
productive Of injurious results as the wine
cup.
| remember that we had school well
near the Gothic dugout in which used to
read Horace and Veritas, with my
thoughts far away in the Greek and Ro-
man suburbs and my little soiled toe in
rat hole under my desk. Once the typhoid
fever broke out in our school and carried
off enough of my class in Sallust so that
was almost at the head. guess l would
have been at the head of the class if it had
not occurred to the teacher to have the
water analysed and the well cleaned out
They found at that time, as near as can
recall the circumstance after so long a
time, three moss covered buckets that had
disappeared many years before, gallon
of angle worms that had died in one
another's arms, a venerable dictionory of
the English language, black board eraser,
an old Bay state shawl, a ladder, tin din
former teacher named Rider, who had
disappeared the day before he was to come
to our house to board. And yet we lived
as well at the time as most of the neigh
bors did.
The manufactures of Philadelphia are
very extensive, and said to be greater than
in any other city of the union, extending
all the way along the scale from the iron
hriA sraO of fr, he
ing axe heive of the worksasss !, world It,
is safe to say that the city is one of the
most prosperous in this respect within the
borders of our trim little republic.
The exports of Philadelphia used to
double every five years, but whether this
ratio has been maintained recently | have
not the data at hand for ascertaining, and
on the instructions for pushing the bell
button in my room | do not see any au-
thority which will warrant my ringing for
more data. Each room is supposed to be
supplied with all the data it ought to have
at one time, presume, and if one wishes
to use more he must do it at his own risk
and his own expense.
The Mathilde Adler Loeb Dispensary is
a free-for-all institution founded by Mr.
and Mrs. Abraham Adler. There is also
a Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites,
with a capacity of 100 inmates. do
not know why it should be so large.
The information that there is possibility
of the time coming when there will be 100
Israelites IN this country who cannot take
care of themselves and loan money to
others will come to many of my readers
like a clap of thunder from clear sky.
1t is dedicated to the relief of the sick
and wounded, without regard to creed,
color or nationality" That throws more
light on the subject. did not visit it,
but | will bet new pack of foxhounds
against two-bushel bag of anise seed and
a full cry that the institution is filled with
colored people. No colored man is going