Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-12

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Special oorrespondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YoRK. March 10. 1897.
TT Is A VERY UNUSUAL AND A sENsA-
l. tiousl thing for the bar association OF the
state to make a formal inquiry into the moral
fitness Of . man occupying . seat in the court
Of appeals to hold that lofty Office. and hence
the Investigation into the record OF Judge
Maynard has occasioned an extraordinary STIR
In the upper strata Of metropolitan life The
residence Of Judge Maynard for several years
In Washington lends this matter additional in
terest there, and 50 few words on this painful
episode are not out OF place.
That the offense OF which the judge is said to
have been guilty is connected with a heated
controversy over election returns will. at the
very start. furnish many with a ready excuse
in his behalf. We have grown so blunted IN
fixing the full measure of blame in transactions
OF this kind, especially where they are success
fol. that 1t is difficult 20 attach the proper
penalty or even TO weigh testimony with any-
thing like justice. The record of some Of the
men who stand among the highest in our polit-
ical annals is stained by episodes Of rough-shod
methods In political crises. 1t is not with the
to this episode that would be theirs were the
offense OF another character. Nevertheless the
action taken by the bar association reflects a
profound indignation and a determined resolu-
ton TO put the blame on the right shoulders
and in full measure.
1t takes good deal TO move a body OF law
yers 10 initiate public and formal inquiry
into the moral fitness of judge before whom
they are constantly called 30 t.y cases. And
the fact that the bar association by almost a
nt ov,,,. A. L.. 4.l-
almost q condemnation. Similar action a few
years ago precipitatei the resignation of
judge, and it would not be at all unlikely il
Judge Maynard retired from active service on
the bench till the pending investigation Is con-
cluded. OF course it will be charged that the
whole thing is political persecution, but the
sufficient reply TO that claim is that the leading
spirits in the matter are democrats. Nor, over,
the high personal and professional character OF
the committee who have charge Of the nqury
precludes any idea Of intrigue.
FRIESDLEss WORLDS FAIR BILL
The worlds fair appropriation bill is being
kicked about in the Albany legislature for oil
the world as If it hadn't any friends. And 70
tell the honest. plain cold truth that is Just the
reason. The state did really try TO get up n
little enthusiasm when the bill was introduced
but the interest was artificial. perfunctory and
ephemeral. New York the more shame to her,
doesn Z care two straws about the worlds fair.
1t ism even resentful or hostile, though the
shoe is already beginning to pinch, and il Is
sure TO keep on pinching harder and harder.
For every man whom Won could find year
ago willing to admit it was a mistake to let the
fair escape. you can now find ten. Business is
undeliably dull and the merchants can be
heard whispering Chicago" as the real eK-
PLANTATION.
TOO COMMON TYPE.
The Charity Organization Society of this city
publishes a book OF about 500 pages. in which
it enumerates the charities Of the city with q
few lines descriptive of the scope OF each one.
Any one looking over this book would naturally
think there could be no form of want or dis
tress for which special assistance was not pro-
vided. An infant could begin its career in any
one of half dozen founding asylums. 60
through every possible grade of shelter, school
and reformatory and end its days serenely in
the home for respectable. aged, INDECENT
females, il it happened to be a female. The
insane, the blind, the crippled the deaf, the
dumb and the drunk are all lavishly provided
for, and this great network OF charities is
classified by the accurate system OF the Charity
Organization Society which gives the most
minute and intelligent care to the investigation
of cases Of poverty and refers them to the
proper channel for assistance.
But there are constantly coming under the
notice of those who work among the poor cases
that battle the most astute, that refuse TO be
classified, and that make one utterly skeptical
as to the existence OF any real specimens Of the
class long known as 1.-THE worthy poor" Here
is an Englishman, q tall, fine-looking, we'll
appearing man, who has. according to his own
story, lived since last fall with a wife and four
children with no work of any kind and no in
come at ALL The wife is pretty little young
creature, with a refined manner, a sweet, low
English voice and an accent which suggests that
she might add to the family resources by CIV
ing lessons in talking English to New
Yorks young Anglomaniacs The children
are exceptionally plump and solid little
specimens, who manage to mysteriously fatteu
and flourish on nothing a week. The Oldest, 9
most guiIeless and mountaineering little
creature. is sent daily on . regular route with
begging letters, written in well-chosen Ian
guege and containing q variety Of appealing
arguments why money should at once be sent
to the head Of the family. Since day before
yesterday at a. m. none of the family have
tasted food. Or at 1890 tomorrow morning
they will be forcibly elected from their present
quarters with no place else to go. The limo
cent baby face backs up the appeal, and the
money is usually forthcoming.
One charitable lady was shocked at the ap-
pearance at her house, a long distance from the
residence of this family, of the little girl alone
about o'clock at night. The appeal this time
was that they had just moved, but had no fur
niture, cooking utensils or bedding until y. 80
was advanced to get their boxes" from the
express Office. The lady asked the little one
Indignantly:
what did your mother mean by sending you
SO far after dark alone? Why did she not
come herseif2'
"Oh i know me wy" said the child. 'Did
you think l didn't know me WYE"
She said she had had a slice Of bread that
day, but was very reluctant in her consent to
sit down and eat something. The reluctance
was explained when the servant came in and
reported that tine mother was waiting for her
outside.
We sit uueasily and await the weather news
from the wild west Are we doomed to another
blizzard? All, that awful March zero tempest
and cloud-bursti 1t is one Of the few things
which had power enough to plough into the
memory of this great town and make itself an
epoch-marker.
More tough citizens: At a fire this morning
threw out her two children Sand then dropped
to the ground herself without serious injury to
any of the three. The crowd below assisted by
catching the @roiites as well they could.
Who shall say that base ball is not q worthy in
stitution? A nation that develops men willing
and able to face modern pitching easily pro-
duces a crowd who think little of stopping such
a projectile a full-grown woman hurting her
self down from a fifth-story window.
Marvellous is metropolitan journalism Its
latest exploit is to undertake to shame the
STRENGTHENING department by putting its re-
porters at work on certain streets that particu-
LARRY needed a rake and shovel But alas for