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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

During the kite-hving experiments
Of Mr.. William A. Eddy of Bayonne,
\. j., at Blue Hill Observatory, some
high-level temperatures have been
taken, which, it is thought, will be OF
much service in meteorologv. The
highest kite altitude this year was
recorded on Aug. 23-2, 907 feet above
the sea level or ,, 26j feet above the
hill. The power to maintain kites
and instruments in the air almost
daily has been shown, and the main
tenance of small observatory in the
air at height from 4S3 to 1916 feet
has resulted in tue collection of data
of Importance. 1t has been found
that the advance of cooler weather is
disclosed by an abuormally cool tenn
perature aloft--a GOODNESS in excess of
the usual diminution of one degree for
every 250 feet of altitude. 1t is said
that if these high level temperatures
can thus be obtained dailv it will be
valuable aid to correct forecasting.
Mr.. Ferguson of the observatory has
drawn the design, and will soon have
completed an instrument which, when
raised, will record in ink the temper
ature, barometric pressure, the wind
velocity and the humidity.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

There appears to be rational ground
for belief that anti-toXlne is to take
high position asa specific for diph.
theria, and that it WILL in time, de-
prive the dread disease of much Of its
terror. There Is, of course, constant
danger that a substitute or al inferior
article, may for a time, be foisted upon
the public, but in the hands of reputa-
BILE physicians, and with the anti
toxine carefully produced under the
supervision OF recognized authorities,
there is little ground for apprehension
on this score. AutI-toXine has been
produced under the direction of the
Boston health authorities, and the re-
suits at the city hospital are most en-
couraging. 1t has been used in 1l3
cases there, aud OF these there have
been ninety recOveries and twenty
three deaths. The average mortality
from diphtheria has been about fifty
per cent where anti-toXlne is not used.
OF the twenty-three deaths fifteen
were hopeless cases when admitted,
SO that the actual results are that of
ninety eight case treated in season
only eight were lost,o OF less than eight
per cent.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20
BOSTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
The Masonic Temple.

The partial destruction Of the Ma
sonic Temple by fire naturally raises
the question OF its removal to a more
desirable location. The present build
ing succeeded the old Winthrop
House, which also was destroyed by
fire. 1t was dedicated on ST. johns
day, in June, 1866, and was the occa-
sion of great celebration and pa
rade, in which President Johnson
took part-the greatest Masonic fes-
tivity held in Boston until the recent
Knights Templars' conclave. The
temple was popularity regarded in its
day as a phenomenally fine piece of
architecture, but it never commended
itself to good taste, with its curious
tumble of rOmanesque, gothic and
medieval styles. Mr.. Wheelock, the
architect, wus eccentric. He died be-
fore the building was taken in hand,
and his design was radically
revised to make 1t practicable. For
a long time the building was out of
the current of trade, whose movement
was anticipated in its construction,
and tenants did losing business.
But now il is one of the most valuable
commercial sites in the city, and it
could be sold to great advantage. Its
central location for meeting purposes
presents about the only good reason
for its retention. The Masonic
Temple at Chicago is in the heart of
the business section, and is a sky
scraping structure, chiefly devoted to
office purposes and yielding large
revenue. The same thing might be
seem to be to sell the property and
invest the proceeds in stately new
building somewhere on the Back Bay
tprritpry
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

Postmaster Coveney of Boston
wants to add very considerably to the
postoffice area of Boston, and he has
made an important recommendation
to that effect TO the postoffice depart
ment. He has suggested that the
postoflices at Lynn, Maiden, Newton,
Waltham, Quincy, Everett, Medford,
Woburn, Melrose, Hyde Park, Wake
field, Arlington, Stoneham, Nahant,
Winchester, Milton, Saugus, Lexing-
ton and Belmont be dispensed with as
independent offices and made branch
Offices Of the Boston Office, and super
intendents appointed to take charge
of them, instead of postmasters as at
present. Mr.. Covenev believes that
by bringing these offices under the
control of the Boston Office it would
result in superior service and
saving of money, so that the
public rs we'll as the department
would profit by the change. Inas-
much as the general public, with the
exception of the few interested per-
bOuby Cul llItIC W htlltI lut DluCS
from which their mail is served is an
independent office or the branch office
of the chief city of the state, but does
care great deal about having its mail
delivered quicker and in some in
stances more frequently than it does
now, Mr.. Coveney believes that the
change would meet with the approval
of the general public and create al
most no opposition. The postal
radius of Chicago is about us large as
that of Boston would be if Mr.. Gov
eney's ideas are carried out, and in
Chicago it has been found advanta-
geous to have the postotlices of the
suburbs branches of the central office.
BEN MARcATo.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20
NEW YORK LETTER.
Especial CORRESPONDENCE.

The Police Commissioners, in re-
solving not to appoint any man as an
election inspector this year who is not
both honest and intelligent, are rem
dering more important public service
to the whole body of our citizens irre-
spectiye of party. Under provision
OF the new constitution, registration
and election boards are required to be
non-partlzan, except at town and vii
lage elections, and the two political
parties which polled the highest and
the next highest number of votes at
the preceding election are entitled to
equal representation on these boards.
ln accordance with the law the Off
cial organizations OF these two parties
are empowered to name the inspectors,
but it Is made the duty of the Polica
Department to see that the persons so
named are duly qualified before certi-
ticates of appointment are issued to
them. The standard Of qualification
this year is the highest We have had
IN many years, but it is not
too high. The Chief of the Bureau
of Elections insists that the per.
sons offering themselves as cleo
ton officers shall know the law in the
administration of which they are to
take part, and that in addition they
shall be men of good character. These
certainly are not harsh requirements,
but SO far as | can remember they
have never before been cXucted, ex-
cept in a degree that made the thing Il
mockery. Commissioner Roosevelt,
in an address on the subject the other
evening said: 1--WE think poll clerk
should know that two and two make
four, and not minus one. We think
that a person should be able to read,
so that he will not declare that the
votes were unanimously cast one way
when, as matter Of fact, half OF
them were cast the other way. We
also think it right that no person
shall be appointed an election officer
who has been previously convicted of
crime. We want men appointed in
whose proximity we can SIT without
keeping our hands in our pockets lest
they should be picked or our watches
stolen.
There are in all 1000 of these otii-
GERS to be appointed this year, and II
the old order Of atluirs obtained it is
certain that large percentage of this
great army of election officials would
be made up of the dangerous
classes" In hundreds and thousands
of instances political heelers were
placed in these positions because they
could be depended on, if the exigen.
cies of Tammany required it, to falsity
returns or to perpetrate any other
electoral iniquity they were ordered
to commit They added to or they
subtracted from the honest vote cast.
They destroyed ballots or stuffed
the boxes with bogus ones. They
bulldozed timid citizens suspected
of being opposed to their masters aud,
in word, made mockery of our
elections. 1t is a great gain for the
cause of good government that these
political bravos will not have anything
/ to do with the next election. The
Police Commission is resolved that It
shall be, as far rs possible, in the
hands of men who are honest and in
telligent and who Will faithfully per-
form their duty.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20
Startling Discoveries.

The Bulfinch front on Becon Hill Is
a very interesting place to visit and
inspect in its present condition. The
reason is the condition of the cross
walls recently discovered by the con-
tractor for underpinning. The dis
coveries made in this and other direc-
tions reflect more or less on the re-
port made by the commission APP
pointed by the Governor last spring
for the preservation of the Bultinch
front. 1t will be remembered that
they reported, among other things,
that the foundation of the four inner
or cross walls was underpinned; that
the masonry was good, etc. Now the
contractor for underpinning the
rear walls makes another and far
different finding. In exposing the
rear walls and proceeding in
ward, he finds that the cross walls
have no foundation at all, but are
built directly on the ground. A clay
that crumbles at the touch supports
the walls, and nothing else There is
no underpinning, as the commission
ers referred to above said there was.
This ground or soil on which the walls
rest is only from one to four courses
of brick below the tile floor. The
wall that supports the Senate, which
the commissioners reported should
be saved, and which they thought
could support steel construction is
found to be four inches of brick on
either side, filled in with sand. There
were many other surprises for the ex-
posing party i'll their work. For in
stance, the wall, or rather the support
for one corner of the dome, is merely
a circular brick shaft, composed of
two courses of brick. The now fa-
nous crack that seems to have split
the front in two will be examined by
architects some day. A stage is being
put up on the Mt. Vernon street side,
1t is understood that there is evidence
enough 20 more than prove that the
crack is an old one, and was there for
months before the Bultinch front was
touched. A survey of the portions of
the work below the basement shows
that outside the outer walls about the
only things supported properly were
the statues which stood in Doric Hall.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

A prominent electrical engineer
claims that twenty to thirty miles is
about the limit for electrical trans
mission to obtain economical and sat
isfactorv results. The same engineer
also states that Notwithstanding the
fact that electricity is comparatively
new, it is more advanced than any
other branch of engineering.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

As the brown October days APP
proach, the rod is carefully wiped and
laid away for another season and the
shotgun and rife taken from their
cases, the plug removed and course
of Frightening and oiling gone
through. The whir Of partridge, the
honk of mallard or the snort of a
frightened deer comes to mind, and
it seems but yesterday that the
camping trip Of last season was bro.
ken. The big game killed last year in
the state of Maine, has brought into
greater prominence that part of our
country, which is unquestionably a
sportsmans paradise, for he can paddle
his canoe in the solitude of the I'M
broken wilderness for hundreds of
miles and see no sign whatever of civ
llization. Great preparation has been
made the past summer for the enter
tainment of guests during October and
November, and the great number OF
inquiries for information is an evidence
OF the growing popularity of such an
outing season. The number of deer
and moose seen this summer along
the streams and bogs of the Rangeley,
Dead River, Moosehead, Penobscot,
and Masardis regions of Maine have
been surprisingly large and the Off
cials of the Maine Central Railroad,
which reaches all points as described
in their excellent publication on
shooting and fishing, tell us that all
eyes are turned toward the Pine Tree
State for fall sport, for so great part
of it is in the wilderness. The Maine
Central publishes guidebook and
folders which we understand are free
on application to the general pas.
senger agent at Portland, Me.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

No more wasteful or unjustitiable
misuse of public money has been just
" chargeabe to the present city ad-
ministration than the item of 500, 900
for the alleged extra expenses Of the
Commissioners of Accounts. 1t has
been included in the budget for this
wear. The recent Legislature, by
chapter 1908 of the Laws of 1895, au-
thorized the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment to increase the former
APPROPRIATION for the Commissioners
Of Accounts from $32, 500 to $l32, 500.
No public eXigency and no revealed
benefit justified such an unusual in
crease. This department at 1882, 500,
now costs the people more than the
MAYORS office and the Common Coun-
ell combined. 1t costs more than is
appropriated by the city in a year for
the maintenance of the Registers Of
flee for all the title deeds of property
in New York, more than than the
Sherif''s Office costs, more than twice
as much as the Coroners' Office, and
more than the city pays annually in
satisfaction of judgments recovered
against it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

The utilization of the phonograph
to give the complete burial service of
the Episcopal Church, including the
hymns, in the absence of a clergyman,
marked the forethought and enter
prise of a New York Coroner a day or
two 400
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

A traveller just returned from China
expresses surprise because there are
only 100 doctors in a population of 4O0,-
100000 people. In view of the fact
that the Chinese hold physician per-
sonally responsible for the death of any
patient in his hands it is remarkable
that there should be so many doctors
there @-.~A. = De, N..
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

One of the few countries in the world
where patents cannot be protected at
present is Japan, and the clever peo-
pie of that island may take unlimited
advantage Of American genius. 1t
will be different, however, when the
treaties of 1899 go into effect.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

A feature Of the new ballot will be
a circle printed at the top of each reg
ular party list of candidates, looking
very much like the wheel of a pneu
matte tired bicycle. A mark made
within this circle will suffice to give
one vote to every man on the straight
ticket. Each party will have to
adopt some pictorial emblem to be
printed directly over this circle.
These emblem5 are to be selected by
the State conventions of the several
parties. In other States the Repub-
lican party has frequently adopted
the screaming eagle and the shield of
the Union, while growing rooster
has been a favorite Democratic de-
vice. New York, however, should be
be able able to produce something
more original and suggestive. 1t is
time to be thinking about it.
kNICKERBOCKER,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

John II. Hernandez, a we'll. known Com
mercial street cigar-dealer. shot himse t at
Portland, Me-, as the result of sensational
robbery case. DR.. Fessenden, who was
called, said that there was no hope. The VIC
tim was unconscious until death relieved
him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

eff the enforcement of the excise law
is continued 40 percent of the saloon
keepers in this city will be without a
livelihood before the Legislature can
convene and afford them any relief,
said "A man recently who is informed
on excise matters. The statement
made by lawyer House before Recor-
der Gotf, to the effect that nine-tenths
of the liquor dealers are bankrupt,
is true. The business was never in
such Il demoralized condition as it is
now. The swell saloon keepers can
not hold out much longer, and will
60 to smash altogether. Even the big
saloon keepers, who are popularity
supposed to be prosperous, are car
ried along now by the brewers, who
are even paving their rents. The
Sunday trade has gone to other towns
and people who want beer on Sunday
get their dinners out Of town, too.
The butchers and bakers are feeling
it. The saloon keepers and small
tradesmen together are losing on an
average $500, 600 week. 1t is a dead
loss and can never be got back. The
records of the county clerks office
will prove the bankruptcy of the
saloon keepers OF the 10, 600 licensed
places in the city, 5000 are mort
gagged to the brewers, and at least
700 are unable to keep up the in
terest on the mortgages. The records
of the registers Office show that over
81, 200, 900 worth of mortgages on
saloon fixtures have been filed since
June |, on saloons in various parts of
the city.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

The Pennsylvania Railroad must be
doing a good business. Its recent re-
port says that the receipts are $1,000
an hour better than they were last
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

Berlin is short 1900 people of
what she was supposed to have. A
just completed census gives her l.
61e3S1
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

Director of the Mint Preston says
that the Government proposes to coin
its whole stock of gold bullion as rap
idly as convenient.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

1t only cost the people of the Uni
ted States about IS! cents apiece, men,
women and children, to be counted in
1901
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

We are less than two months from
the next election day, which will be
famous among other things for the
introduction of the new form of
blanket ballot, as we'll as for an i'm
proved body of more intelligent and
honest election inspectors. 1t will
not be necessary this year for the
average voter to spend ten minutes or
more in a voting booth puzzling over
a dozen different ballot papers, select
ing the one he wants to vote, and
folding it as we'll as all the rest in just
the prescribed shape. That sort of
thing made voting a burden and a
nuisance at the last election. The
blanket ballot will have the candidates
names ruled off in separate columns,
and each column will be plainly en-
titled "Republican Ticket" "Demo-
cratic Ticket, " and so on for all the
other tickets. There will be besides
a final column, with the title of each
office to be voted for printed therein,
and blank spaces left in which the
voter can write in the names he pleases
and thus vote a complete ticket OF his
own choosing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

In my humble opinion Dunraven
has done the very proper and true
sportsmanlike thing, in giving up
Tuesdays contest and refusing to race
in New York waters, besides taking
exception to what Bret Harte would
call peculiar treatment at the hands
of the regatta committee in
general and the great public in par
ticular. The trouble with most New
Workers and I'm ashamed to admit it,
is, that those who do not want the
earth want decidedly too much
comes to fair play in sport.
Certainly some little degree of consid-
Grafton should be shown a visitor who
come to our shores, bringing yacht
embodying the best skill of England,
and engages IN friendly contest
highest talent America can produce.
Yachting is one of the noblest sports,
and while happily free from such con-
Eliminating influences that surround
the track and land races of most
kinds, it is painfully apparent that its
great popularity is i'll Il good way to
be destroyed by the disgraceiul and
contemptible conduct OF "a very
greedy public. Dunraven comes here
after spending thousands of dollars on
his yacht and is really unable to make
fair start or get free wind on ac-
&
small craft and excursion steamers
that have persisted III crowding the
racers and obliging them to run a
gauntlet of boat that kick up a sea
and take all the wind. And these
people, mind you, have only paid
their fifty or seventy-tiv cents to see
the race, but apparently are not salts
fed If they cannot sail alongside
the yachts over the entire course and
still "hOwl' the loudest about fair
play" the sporting spirit, and all
that sort of thing. This international
yacht race has been perfect farce, a
tiasco, q grave reflection on the fair
ness and honor Of the American public,
and | glory in the spirit that Dunraven
has shown and the sand he displayed
in turning his back on the crowd the
other day and refusing to race. | am
sorry to see him 60 home in huff, but
| hope he or anyone else will not re-
turn until the yachting enthusiast"
on this side have learned lesson or
two in politeness, fairness and what
constitutes fair play.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20
Essex County Herald.
1t will cost $3S, 500, 900 to run the
city Of New York next year.

The military authorities of England
have dropped Latin from the examina.
tions for the military schools.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-09-20

Everybody is interested travelling
and learning about and seeing the
beauties of nature. Here is what "a
distinguished writer says of the
magnificent ST. Lawrence River, the
shores of which are skirted by the
1.-The Popular Route, - the lnterco-
lonial Railway; There is in North
America mighty river, having its
head in remote lakes, which, though
many in number, are yet so great that
one Of them is known rs the largest
body of fresh water on the globe,
with flow as placid aud puIselesS rs
the great Pacific itself, yet as swift IN
places as the average speed OF rail-
way train. Its waters are pure and
azure hued, no matter how many tur-
bid streams attempt to detile them. 1t
Is a river that never knew treshet
nor any drying up no matter how
great the rain "A river so
rapid and yet 50 placid AS 10 en-
chant every traveler-so great and yet
SO lovingly beautiful rs to euthrall
every apprecintlve soul which rises
in a fresh water sea, and ends in the
great Atlantic-some places sixty
miles wide, Mt others less than mile;
river that never has yet had re-
spectacle history, nor scarcely more
than an occasional artist to delineate
its beauties.
at lies for thousand miles, between
two great nations, yet neglected by
both, though neither could be as
great without it; a river as grand as
the La Plata, as picturesque as the
Rhine, as pure as the Lakes of Swift
erland Need We say that this Won
derful stream is the ST. Lawrence, the
noblest, the purest, most enchanting
river on all Gods "beautiful earth.
The herald., 1895-05-04

engineer he instructed to present the nee
esSary ordinance of intention therefor,
under the Nrooman act;
That the petition of J. j. Ayres and
others in regard to sewer on Ottawa
street bs referred to the city engineer
with instructions to report the proper
means for the sewering OF, Ottawa and
Georgia Bell streets between Tenth and
Eleventh streets;
That the communication from the health
officer calling attention to the sanitary
necessity Of constructing sewer on Fifth
street between Fremont avenue and Pearl
street be referred to the city engineer
with request that he report on the prac-
ticability of the same -5s
That the city engineer be instructed to
present an ordinanee-of Intention to con
struct sewer on Los Angeles street from
First street to Seventh street:
That the city engineer be Instructed to
report on the practicability OF construct
ing sewers on Elmira street west of New
Main street for about 800 feet and also on
Downey avenue from Griffin avenue to
Thomas street.