Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-09-10
New Series, Vol. 81, No 81

tunately provided? Why offend and dis
gust the eyes of the world by such exhi-
bitions? Why do not the regulations of
the seaside resorts limit the age and
avoirdupois with which bathing suit
may be publicly worn?
Xxx
The Park Place disaster continues in
the public eye. Mayor Grant is good
man in his impulses. Tammany has him
fast, but he sometimes kicks clear
and clean of their harness. He did
this when he came home few days ago,
and saw the criminal slowness which has
marked the cleaning up of the ruins, and
the search for the dead bodies. When
Emerson read that Washington at one
time swore furiously, he said he was glad
of it, for it marked the great patriot as
genuinely human and warm-hearted So
most of us viii be glad to know that
our Mayor roundly swore when he saw
the Park Place work going so slowly that
the bodies found later actually stank
from putrefaction. He voiced the senti-
ment of every man who has observed
from day to day the shamefully dilatory
and aimless way in which this work has
been carried on. In any other city in
this country of over $4,000 people, every
plank and brick in these ruins would
have been turned over, and every body
recovered in less than 4S hours. Yet in
the great metropolis, by reason of the
rule of a corrupt ring, two weeks must
crawl away before the workman cease to
| find rotted and unrecognizable remains.
~
| 1t is very strongly doubted by many peo-
| pie that there ever was a street in this
town known as Broadway. There is a
long, vile trench just where legends say
the street used to be. The trench is red
olent of thousand smells, and where one
can see down it, there is maze of twin
ing pipes, and conduits. To the casual
observer, it seems impossible that the
workers should ever find any passage for
the cable that is to draw the cars up and
down the long street. But they do get
through somehow, for the road is already
completed from the Battery up to Cort-
landt street. When the Post-office is
passed, the greatest inconvenience will
be over. And for the increased room
there will be on the street-if it is ever
restored-by the removal of the car
horses, and the increased rapidity of get
ting about, we can afford to be at some
trouble now.
The new cable cars are to be the finest
and completest thing of the kind ever
made. No expense is to be spared on
them, and from being open in summer,
compartments for smokers, we may ex-
pect to ride with some. degree of com
fort.
Horses are to be replaced by the cable
all over the city. In year there will not
be in town an important line on which
horses will be used. This sudden and
wholesale removal will fill the horse mar
ket in this city with some thousands of
those animals.
On the Broadway and other Overerowd
ed lines, the average life of good, sound
horse after he is put on the service issey-
en- months. The best of them, of course,
last longer. Two or three years is some
times reached. But the excessively hard
work soon wears them out. The compa-
nies are not unkind or cruel either. But
there come crowded moments every day,
and the cars must go; the poor horse is
| the sufferer. JOHN FOkD.