The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-20
For Cleanliness and Health.

Z or Cleanliness ana t1ealJh.
Charles Dickens reproached Americans
for their "unrefned and vulgar habit of
indiscriminate splitting" The Philadel-
phia board of health has gone a little
further, and adopted strong resolutions
calling upon street car and steam railway
companies and the managers of public
assembling places to enforce the orders
which most of them have issued against
indulgence in the practice.
Besides the objection on the score of
cleanliness that there is to expectoration
upon the floors of street cars and public
halls, the scientific people have learned
that the practice is a serious menace to
the public health. And especially
is this true in the winter season,
when doors and windows must be
closed and ventilation reduced to
a minimum. The sputum of tuberculous
persons, when in its dried state, is COM
mon means of conveying the specific
germs of tuberculosis. Such sputum de-
posted upon car or assembling room
floors when it becomes dry and is trodden
under foot rises in dust, and the air be-
comes laden with living disease germs, to
drift into the nostrils and lungs of all
present.
The fatal charactero of pulmonary tuber-
culosis is too well known to make it nee
essary to urge that every means of pre-
vention be applied in this city as well as
in Philadelphia. 1t is true that our eli
mate does not produce as many consump-
tives as the colder climates of the north.
But there are, even here a number of
! tuberculOus persons who travel in public
conveyances and are more or less given
to the practice inveighed against.
1t seems that that monster Krupp gun
does not belong to the city of Chicago.
/ There was some talk, at the time it was
sent to the fair, of its having been pre-
scented to the city and of its being the
| city's purpose to build n fort for the
/ special accommodation of the gun, which
was to be mounted so as to sweep the
whole of Lake Michigan. 1t is said now.
however, that the federal government
win shortly receive an intimation from
the Krupps that the monster is for sale if
the war department wants it. The
| Krupps prefer to dispose of it in this
country rather than 60 to the expense of
reshipping it to their works in Germany.
And there is talk in the War Department
of the big gun being secured ana mounted
on harbor defense works at New York or
Boston
There is something ludicrous in the
collapse Of the great plate glass trust. Its
| purpose, of course, as is the purpose of all
/ trusts, was to crush opposition and con-
/ troll prices. 1t was capitalized at $40. OOO.-
600, and controlled the great works at
/ Pittsburg, St. Louis, Baltimore and a
/ dozen other places. For a year prices
/ were held up to a top notch, the trust
| meanwhile piling up heavy stocks.
/ Finally the small independent concerns
/ got tired of the trusts methods. and com
menced to cut rates. The trust continued
to maintain a stiff upper lip, and store its
/ products in warehouses for months. until
last week, when it collapsed-the little
/ concerns that were marked for slaughter
had crushed the giant!
| Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor
/ Harrison, of Chicago. has been examined
/ by physicians, who pronounce him sane
and responsible for his acts The jailers
who see the prisoner every day say he is
affected with fendishness and nothing
! else.