The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-06
A Cbeck on the "8us,Iers. 5,

! Check on the "Hustlers."
| II reports sent out from W Washington are
to be credited the 'hustlers" are not going
to get all the offices under the incoming ad-
| miulstration. The modest people who, as a
rule, are the mere deserving, are going to
stand a chance to get fair share of them
1t is stated that Col. Lamont, who, as
! Secretary Of War, will have good
dsal Of spare time, is to give Mr..
! Cleveland assistance in distributing
the patronage, which will be
so distributed that each section of the coun-
| try will get JUS fair share. The men who
| are the most persistent and persevering are,
| as a general thing, the ones who are sue
| Cessful in getting Offices for themselves or
their friends. They are "hustlers" who per-
nit nothing to stand in the way Of success.
! They do not depend upon merit or party
| services to gain their object, but upon the
| influence they manage to bring to bear in
their behalf aud the CHECK" they display in
urging their claims.
| The number of those who are preparing
to apply to Mr. Cleveland for offices is,
| there is reason to believe, extraordinarily
| large, and the great majority Of them are
| going to be disappointed. Mr. Cleveland
will not have nearly so many Offices at his
| disposal as he had when he was inaugurated
! President eight years ago. Thousands of
| the offices have been placed under the civil
service regulations since then, and can only
| be filed in the way marked out by the
civil service regulations. There are at a
safe calculation a dozen applications for
| yla ~,
gift 1t is easy to see. therefore, that the
number who are bound to be disappointed
will be equal to a small army.
When Mr.. Cleveland first became Presi-
dent be was estimated to be worth less THAI
! $4,000. At the beginning of his second
! term he is estimated to be worth about
S250,0O0. The increase in his property has
not been due to Operations in Wall street,
or anything of the kind, as has besn al
legged. The Philadelphia Press. a republican
paper, says on the subject Of manipulating
stocks THAT is pursuit which has had no
fascination for Mr.. Cleveland. A belief
prevails that Mr.. Benedict, who is reputei
to have made SIS, 900 900 or 81, OGO, 900 by his
connection with she Chicago gas trust would
| gladly have taken Mr.. Cleveland into some
Of those mysterious pools which have
skinned the cream in these gas stock
transactions. But il he made such sug-
gestions to Mr.. Cleveland they were de-
| clined. The PresideDu-elect owns some
bank stock, or did, and his property is per-
manently invested IN directions toward
which federal legislation cannot point. He
went out of the white house $3.50, 900 richer
| tbap ba ar,+ara6 unafpI,.
nate real estate investmentin Washington.
Hisinvestments have yielded incomes
| to be reinvested, and the general Impress on
is that he is now worth S35O,O0O Mrs.
Cleveland. who is richer than he, controls
her own property"
Philadelphia is taking wise precautions
! against the coming of cholera this spring
An emergency fund of 100000 has been
recommended by the health COMMITTEES OF
city council to be set aside, which will DO
done, besides which pavilion hospitals,
crematories and disinfecting chambers are
TO be built at once. The time to prepare to
combat cholera is the present, when there is
none in this country. Thrse or four months
from now may be too late. Talking on the
subject, day or two ago one OF the city
physicians Of this city said he was appre-
hensive that cholera would force an en-
trance to this country this summer, and
that acting on that belief, he was prepar-
ing for it, He has provided himself with
apparatus for the treatment Of patients by
the process that DR.. Elmer Lee used with so
much success in Europe last summer.
"Mohammed" Webb, the Missouri Mus
sulman, 10 not the first American to become
fascinated with tue religious teachings of
the orientals and renounce Christianity.
Seven or eight years ago Prof Coues, of
the Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
after a trip to Europe, astonished his friends
by announcing his conversion to theosophy.
He became an enthusiast on the subject
and wrote q number of papers defending
his belief. Gradually, however, his ardor
! cooled, and year or two ago he proclaimed
theosophy humoug. The New York Press
says OF the two men: prof Coues was
everywhere recognized as very able man.
Mobammed Webb. of Missouri, is differ
ent-he has limited intelligence and edu-
cation"
The breeziest tale OF the week comes from
| Chicago. 1t tells how Pat Cunningham was
blown from the roof of one of the worlds
fair buildings by lake zephyr, velocity
| forty miles an hour, and alighted unhurs,
astride horse. The distance of Pats fall
was sixty feet, but neither he nor the horse
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