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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

corDoration can count ON a continuance OF pres
emit conditions. New inventions, the abolition of
grade crossings, increased speed and greater
Safety, means Increased expenditure. C5mpeti.
tion which is always pressing, new lines, new
methods OF transportation mean diminished earn.
ings increased capital becomes a burden. Either
rates must be raised, wages cut down, facilities
diminished and repairs neglected or dividends
must DC reduced Lowered wages may be fol-
iow t Dy strikes and these by increased losses.
Inc managers of a corporation between the
demands OF their stockholders who make aud un-
rH. tnem, and the demands of the public are
hot apt 70 lend peculiarly attentive ear TO the
idlter, ana IN the struggle to make both ends
meet, ths public first, and the stockholders next
must suffer, for when the public finds itself neg
iected, II makes its demands felt in legislation
through which stockholders are injured. Some
OF our Massachusetts corporations today are
suong and rich, but so few years ago were the
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe, and the Union
racine railroads. He would be a bold man who
would say that the causes which have impover-
lsned these great systems operate in the West
alone. Like effects follow like causes every
where, and the laws of finance are as immutable
as the laws of mortals.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28
The Man For Ward One.

To the Editor OF the Press:
Melville A. Floyd. Esq, the Republican
candidate for Alderman in Ward /, is a
young man in every way qualified for the
position.
Born in the ward his neighbors, school
mates and friends have nominated him to
represent in the Board of Aldermen, he is
known and esteemed as an honest, capable,
fearless, Intelligent and progressive citizen.
Educated in the public schools of Portland
and B0wdoin College, for two terms mem
Der of the Common Council, prominently
identified will different temperance organi-
cations. and for many years and efficient
member of the Republican city committee,
Mr.. Floyd will bring to the discharge of the
duties Of the Office a liberal intelligent mind,
practical knowledge Of the requirements
of the city and a lively desire to promote its
interests. We confidently predict that Mr.
Floyd will receive the united support of the
Republicans of Ward and be trfumphantly
elected next Monday.
L WARD ONE REPUBLICAN.
Portland, Feb. 9th. 1891.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

The government OF the new city of West
brook will consist Of a mayor and council
OF thirteen, the members of which will be
styled aldermen. The mayor and three of
the aldermen are to be elected by the whole
city by a plurality of votes, and so is the city
clerk. The remaining ten aldermen will be
chosen by wards, of which there are
to be five, two in each ward, also by
plurality vote. There is to be a school com.
mittee consisting Of ten members, two from
each ward, to be elected annually. The
power of the mayor under the charter ap-
pears to be much more extensive than that
of the mayor of Portland. He is made the
sole executive officer, and nearly all the
subordinate officials are to be appointed by
him and to be removable by him on writ
ten order for any reason which in his dis.
erection he may deem sufficient, the reason
to be stated in the order of removal. His
salary is fixed at $500 per annum. The
school committee are empowered to elect a
superintendent of schools. There is to be a
board Of five assessors elected by the civ
council. The mayor may be removed for
official misconduct or neglect of duty by the
affirmative vote OF three -fourths of the mem
bers Of the city council.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

The Liberals appear to have got Sir John
Macdonald in tight place. He and his
supporters have been accusing them
Of treason to the Dominion because some of
them had met members of Congress in
Washington and discussed the ques-
tion Of unrestricted reciprocity. The
Liberals have now fairly turned the tables
on Sir John by producing letter written by
him in 1890 for the express purpose of influ-
encing members of Congress In favor of
reciprocity in coal and iron ores. The letter
was sent Mr.. S. j. Richie, and he was in
formed that he was at liberty to show 1t to
such members of Congress or the govern
ment as he thought proper. The existence
of such letter was limited at some time ago,
but Sir Charles Upper has been assuring
his audiences that the story was a vile cal
umny. The production of the letter, the
genuineness of which cannot be denied, is
making it very uncomfortable for Sir Charles
as well as for Sir John.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

Inc Boston Executive Business AssocIa.
ton have sent to the committee on railroads
ofthe Massachusetts, legislature long COM
munication setting forth some of the reason
why in case railroads are permitted to in
crease their stock it should be made condi-
tion that the stock be disposed of at its mar
ket value. Among other things the Associa-
tion say:
If the corporation can by selling its stock get
shares for less. Sound business policy requires
the corporation to determine how much money
il needs and then Issue shares enough AZ me
market price to obtain this sum. To issue shares
TO stockholders at less than their fair value is
like giving The stockholders its notes to sell for
their own benefit. Toe corporation undertakes
to pay dividends on all the shares which It issues
1t may be easy to do so this year. but no railroad
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

Up. sHATTUCK respectfully soliets the at
te1tion and consideration OF the voters OF the
town OF Deerlng In bis behalf with reference to an
Abatement or partial abatement, OF his tax for the
wear 1890, the reason he urges for the same be-
OF (s5 ,OO0) five thousand dollars by fire August
81.
He claims also having paid for series OF years
prOvements," from which he has received no hen.
ents, directly or indirectly. And as he mas cheer
fully paid the demands on him, he respectfully
soicts the votes OF the citizens for an abatement
OF his tax for the year 1890. j. p. SHATTUCK.
East Deering, Feb. 10, 1891. feb23diw
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

Our esteemed contemporary the Bangor
Wing has convicted the PRESS of the
terrible inconsistency of expressing the
opinion that the defeat Of the Australian
system would be preferable to establishing
two systems in the State, and afterwards
modifying that opinion to the extent of adj
hitting that the small towns might be ex
empted from the system without fatal injury
to it. Our contemporary is~ welcome to all
the capital 1t can make out Of that,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

Probably Gov. Hills refusal to honor the
requisition of Gov. Buckley of Connecticut
on the ground that the latter is not the law
full governor Of the state is nothing more
than a bid for the support of the Connecti-
cut Democracy in the next national Demo-
cratic convention. 1t goes to show that he
has not taken Henry Watterson's advice and
put away ambition to be the Democratic can
didates in 1892, but is still scheming in dema-
gogical ways to that end
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

Mr.. William II. Macdonald is the Demo-
cratic candidate for school committee in
Ward and the Argus alleges that If he is
elected there will be DO ''star chamber bust
ness" and sour citizens will be given an
opportunity to know some of the why's and
wherefores of the transactions of this body
who yearly approve the large bills sent to
the city treasury for liquidation, and whose
expenditures would not infrcquently be open
to sharp criticism were the actual facts
known outside the school board" Mr.. Pat
rick MCGOWAN has been ON the school COM
mttee for many years past, and he is
Democrat. Why has not Mr.. MCGOWAN put
an end to this ''star chamber business" and
given "Cur citizens an opportunity to know
some of the why's and wherefores?" Is Mr..
MCGOWAN in the alleged ring. or is the Argus
simply INDUCING In buncombe?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

The Democrats ask that the control and
management of the municipal affairs of
Portland be taken from the hands of the
Republicans where they have been for
many years past, and turned over to them.
What reason do they present in support of
such changer Do they show that the Re-
publicans have mismanaged the affairs Of
the city, that they have wasted the city's
revenues or been guilty of extravaganza or
dishonesty? Nothing Of the kind. They
offer not one solitary reason that is good for
ANYTHING
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28
The letter of acceptance of the Hon
George W. True Is q model

Since the Hon. William Fl. Clifford closed
his literary bureau nothing finer in the shape
of biography has made Its appearance than
the sketch of Mr.. Darius lngraham publish
ed in yesterdays Argus. The head of Mr..
lngraham's bureau must be poet.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ss.

We do not read anonymous letters ana conlinu.
nications The name and address OF the wIit .eI
are in all cases indispensable, not necessary ioi
publication but as guarantee Of good iaill.
We cannot undertake TO retain or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28
STATE OF MAINE.
TO THE ELECTORS
- OF THE -
City of Portland.

DURSUANT to warrants from the Mayor and
il Aldermen of the City Of Portland, / here
by warn and notify the inhabitants OF said City OF
Portland. qualified according to law, to meet at
their respective Ward Rooms, on the
first MONDAY OF March, being the
second day of said month, at ten O'Clock In the
forenoon. then and there to give In their votes for
Mayor, one Alderman. three Common Councilmen,
Warden, Clerk, and two City Constables, resi-
dents OF said ward Except the Island Wards
which may each elect one Constable).
Also In Wards Two, Four, Six and Seven, to
give In their votes for one member Of the Supern-
tending School Committee, resident in said
Wards, to serve two years.
The polls on such day of election to remain
open until four o'clock In the afternoon, when
they shall be closed.
also give notice to said inhabitants that the
Aldermen OF said city will be In open session at the
Aldermen's Room, In City Building, from nine till
twelve O'Clock In the forenoon, and from two to
five O'Clock In the afternoon, on each Of the four
secular days next preceding such day OF election,
Tor the purpose OF receiving evidence Of the quail
ncation OF voters whose names have not been en-
tered on the lists OF qualified voters in and for the
several Wards, and for correcting said lists
GEO. @. BURGESS, City Clerk.
City OF Portland, February Is, 1891. febl sdtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28

CITY ADvERTIsEmENTs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28
OPENING SPRING DRESS GOODS,

Of Goods
which
serg Chalies checks and Fancy Home.puns One Of
picking chocs coiorngs together with bIeuding
The Washing Fabrics elaborate
manufacture variety OF Outings
he
prices
the assortment 10
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-02-28
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria is 80 wen adapted to children that
recommend itas superior to any prescription
Known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, N. D.,
Ill So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10
MORE SUBSCRIBERS.
rive FIreproof Edifces, Each to
be Sixteen Stories in
Height.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-Chicago, al
ready known throughout the world
as the Getty of commercial pal
aces, is in no danger of having
that well-earned title wrested from
her so long as money clrculates or
men amass wealth. Ground for
i've more magnificent fireproof
structures, sixteen stories in height
and ranging in cost of construction
from 100000 to 100000 will be
broken not later than May ], 1892.
Permits for their construction
were issued to-day by the building
department, as follows: To the
Marquette Building Company, six
teen, story building, stores and Off
ces, corner Of Adams and Dearborn
streets, cost 100000: to Francis
Bartlett, sixteen-story building,
stores and offices, 80 Van Buren,
street, cost 100000; to Byron L.
Smith, sixteen story building,
stores and offices at southeast cor
ner of Michigan avenue and Wash
ingtOn street, cost 100000; David
b. Bradley, sixteen-story building,
stores and offices, 70 to 80 Jackson
street and Is to 20 Quincy street,
cost 100000; Mrs. Sara l.. Brooks,
sixteen story building, stores and
Offices, 1914 to 210 Dearborn street,
cost 100000. The contracting
firm of George A. Fuller 4 Co. has
full charge of work on all the
buildings.
Alderman Kent had threatened
to introduce an ordinance at the
Council meeting instructing the
Commissioner of Buildings to re-
fuse permits for structures more
than twelve stories high. While
Mr.. Fuller does not believe the
courts would maintain tho consti-
nationality of such an ordinance,
he considered 1T a stroke of policy
to be armed with legal authority
to carry out the designs Of his
clients. All but one of the build
ings are to be built within a block
of the Government building, dis
trict that within the past three
years has become the center for
"sky-scrapers."
@. G. Heisen, owner of the Mo-
non Office building, in this city, has
sold it, with the land on which it
stands, for S675, 900 cash. The
purchasers are a syndicate of four
capitalists living In New York,
San Francisco, Topeka and Chi
cago, but Heisen will not give
their names.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10
MEN WHO CREATE.

I like the men of the Revolution
who fought the war, made an elias
tic Constitution that could be
amended, and then went away,
leaving the country to children
who would take care of it. That
was fine piece of work done that
Jefferson and Adams saw with
closing eyes. A country born and
set on it's feet and going alone,
with Constitution that fitted not
like fetter, but like skin.
Why should man die with a
faint hope that his intentions may
be carried out by his heirs? Why
not begin earlier and carry them
out himself? Say, like Caesar Au-
gustus, ri found Rome baked mud
and left it marble"
Money is helpless stuff in the
hands of the careless, the inditfer-
ent and the feeble minded. The
text says man piles it up and he
cannot tell who shall gather it.
The newspaper says the same thing
in its reports of suits brought to
break wills.
desire Mr.. Stanford of Cali
fornia to hurry his $4,000, 900 uni
verslty-there is no one who can
or will attend to that thing for him
as we'll as he can for himself. The
man who endowed our manual
training school is alive. Mr. Cogs,
we'll of San Francisco last year put
81. OOO, 900 into school for his city.
He is alive and is overseeing the
business. Living men of San Diego ego
ora now building a 100000
school for children of all ages and
both sexes. mainly, but not exclu-
siveIv of the dependent" class,
intended to equip them for work IN
all directions.
for to build an observatory, buy
the telescope and hang it and look
through it a few times myself Whlle
am under the stars, to the ola
method of leaving the money to an
Executor to the thing for me W vi n
I am gone beyond the stars. WY J,
not have the joy of doing the tning :;
that it has been done, and a Prooa -
b f that it has not been :. done AZ
III oIn' and that the plaintiff or de-
fandant has moved for new trial
MRev. Myron W. Reed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10
HE had $40 GIRLS.
ana Therefore He Had to Make
II5S Visits a Week,

An Oriental dispatch casually
mentions the fact that the King
OF AMMAN has at present $40 wives.
Inns leads an analytical Jacques in
the Minneapolis Tribune to moralize
as follows: Consider for a moment
what this statement entails. Clan
eng back few years in the life Of
the king 1t is evident that at one
time, not long past, Annam's ruler
must have had 579 sweethearts. IF
he had visited each one a whole
evening 1t would have been impossi-
BILE to go through the list in a year.
Now no self-respecting girl will be
satisfied with a lover who calls once
a year. Twice a week is a good
average. On this basis let us do a
little figuring.
The King Of AMMAN visited 579
girls twice week. That would be
1853 visits week, or, counting Sun
days, l65 visits night. To anyone
who knows how hard it is to tear
himself away from the front gate,
under the circumstances in which
AMMAN must have found himself,
the terrible wear On the kings con
stltutlOn is evident at a glance. Be-
sides keeping On the jump to cover
the l65 assignments, there was on
each evening 165 cases of mental
anguish occasioned by the "tearing
himself away" process.
Suppose, next, that AMMAN said to
each girl: Il love you, dearest.
You are the ioveiiest woman in the
world" Suppose, if you can, that
he said this only. That is twelve
words TO each woman, 1880 words
each evening, That is over a col
umn and half Of minion type, such
as this paper is printed in.
Again, if each of the $40 papas
kept bulldogs, rs all self respecting
papas are supposed by the news
paper photographers to do, there were
l65 bulldogs per night to be guarded
against.
But the worst is not yet. AMMAN
has 579 mothers-in-law. Every spring
he has, instead Of one, 579 bills for
Easter bonnets; every winter he has
$40 bills for sealskin sacks. Multi
ply your household expenses by 579
and you will understand the quality
of the soup Annam's ruler has drop
ped into.
Compared with this, who will say
that the life Of the young married
citizen of the free republic of North
America is not happy one? Is the
King Of AMMAN 579 times happier
than you are?- Elk.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10
suIatiOns Regarding Exhibits
o. the Chicago Worlds Fair.

IAe following information, taken
n Brad8treets, will be Of SER
'&to those who intend shipping
F'allan products for exhibition
le Columbia Fair.
Regulations governing the free
o'tatIons of articles intended
t&hlbltion at the Worlds Fair
nIcago have been issued by the
1;;pry Department, They are
VI upon the general design to
''e expedition and security to
racles imported for exhibition
ro0t the exactions of customs
~ lees or charges, and to ar
y The n proceedings on entry so
"a aIIord the utmost convenience
NJ lIspatch. 1t IS provided that
3aeF to obtain the benefits in
%a every package destined for
IN +S'on must have affixed to it
il r' Foreign shipper one or more
,, s representing the flag of the
fy TO which it belongs, and in
tIOl De marked as an exhibit
H. exposition, with the address
a. s collector at Chicago, the
:oo VI The consignee Or agent at
a ~. OF trst arrival in the Uni
qi %seS' the shipping marks and
&s wy OF the exhibitor and his
-, and address. In addition,
ssf h. exhibitors must prepare IN
in statement in the form
fasolce signed by them show
Q5ss r names and the marks and
e s5ra Of their tn packages, with a
al sGon OF their contents and a
tet r ro7 OF the quantity and the
ssof ,SI ~ of each separate kind
On ~ 'ne country of produc-
esoitttes,o OF the invoices is to be
qsto" reu BY mail to the collector
te en ~ at Chicago and the other
'pSlgnee of the goods at
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10

the hrst port of arrival. 1t is rec
ommended as a matter of conven-
fence t that all packages intended
.oi the exposition be consigned to
an agent or forwarder at the port
OF hrst arrival, who will attend to
Tue customs business incidental to
inc transfer of packages from the
Importing vessel to a bonded route
LOT transmission to Chicago"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10
Nrm advertisements.
The Pacific Hardware Go.
FORT STREET. HONOLULU,

Beg that they have opened their ART ROOMS the
second their NeW Building Whre Exhibition
articles
Of the FOLLOWING Wares Limoges Boston, Rose Du6arry, Newport
IVoy BisQue Windsor Worcester
Royal Hungarian, Tulip, Orchid, Bohemian, Etc, Etc.
They hare Just Receved fine Of of
PICTURE MOULDING Mirrors Engrovings Echngs, Photogra
PdStes, Autotypes publications;
asets in s0ood and bamboo; Tables Chandeliers
and Banquet Lamps Souees Articles
OIL PAINTINGS By local Artiss-Nrs Wells Mesrs
field, Hitchcock, Mrs. Pauis, and Others
BAs soon shet0iag the first
open Line Of HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Agate Japaned
and IL" Ware They trust their friends U appreciate disap
ponnent they to
Store fitted completely
entrance IS unotr0cire afford
foor
VISIT to their Art Rooms wiIl they trust, be repaid.
Soliciting continuance Of the patronage literally
enjoyed IN the past they wW pains to fill
care and pronaptess.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10

49, Read the Pacific Hard
wore CO.'S advertisement about
The "Vistas of Hawaii" the
r,rett;est souvenir in blue ana
cold and silk ever printed 'H9'
he thing for Xmas.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-10

No better or more acceptable
ERS holiday present to lady than
a pack of the beautiful Visiting
Cards, such as printed SO neatly every
day at the Gazette Office, 46 Merchant st.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06
,RoYAL vlorlMs


or tho bankrupt bankers In Bcrlin-Tho
Impress one OF the Losers.
BERLIN, Nov. 5.-rhc suspension yes
tcrday OF the firm OF Hirschfeld & Wolf,
tho bankers, OF this city, caused n sen.
sation in financial circles, but 1t was as
nothing to tho Developments to-day.
1t was reported Mt the time tho failure
was announced that the Empress Of
Germany and Prince Henry, OF Prussia,
were liable to lose u large amount by
the failure, and that the minister Of
public worship, DR.. Won Gossler, had
lost his entire fortune, and that many
members OF the most uristocratic fam
lilies were involycdin the firms troubles.
Undersuch circumstances u rigid ill.,
vestigation into the affairs OF Hirsch-
field Il Wolf was only natural.
This inquiry into the bankers bust.
ness methods commenced yesterday,
and resulted this morning in the arrest
OF Herr Wolf, head OF the firm OF
llirschield & Wolf, on n charge OF u
most serious nature, tho particulars OF
which have not yet been made public.
This financial upheaval is the only
thing being talked about to-day in Bcr-
lin and further and more startling de-
vclopmcnts are expected when the full
facts become known. Tho amount OF
the firms liabilities is not yet known,
but it Is understood that 1t is very big.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-06

Special Dispatch 70 lie lntaVircNccr.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 5.-Wcst
Virginia pension: Original-Jas. W.
Anderson, Morgan Morrison, Oliver
underwood, Jos. Mason, Enoch A.
1iaeer, jas. I. Bower, FAC Dunn, Geo,
W. Sherrard, John Morcum. Additional
j. J. Lemon and NJ. W. Ely. Renewal
and reissue-Jos. Grim. Increase
Hiram a. Grimm, VIM. NJ. Junkins,
Levi Swisher, Chas. D. Watson, Lath.
rop Phillips, Francis N. Fleming, Hugh
Henry, Michael w. Miller. Isaac J.
Lewis, Charles NJ. Rollyson, John Sher.
wood. Reissue-Albert Luts. VIM. II.
Smith, John NJ. Brown. Reissue and
incrcasc-Isaac r. Richmond.