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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27
Clarence Kearney's Funeral.

The funeral of the late Clarence
Kearney took place yesterday after
noon, interment being in Anchor
lodge, A. F. and A. NJ. cemetery.
Rev. DIR. Rose officiated with the
ceremonies of the Episcopal church.
The pail bearers were M essrs. G..
w. Caldwell, Ogden Johnson, Gill.
Smith, BEDFORD Sharpe, Percy
Richardson, A. Casket, Charley
Cresson and l.. 3. Washington.
The funeral was one of the larg-
est seen in this city in many years,
and the grave was completely COW
cred with floral tributes from many
friends.
The Electrical Workers Union,
was represented by Mr.. Louis F.
Hall. Deceased had but recently
put in his application for member
ship in the Union.
YOUR TIME HAS NOW COME
To get handsome New Years gift
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

A Jumping statement showing
amount OF money on hand Septem-
Der lst; the amount received up
to November Both; when amount
paid for SALARIES, officers and as
sistsnts" embracing the entire
list of officers and assistants; then
amount paid out for supplies,
merchandise, ETC., then amount
paid to laborers; then amount Of
money on hand, would give the
people a clear understanding of
the situation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

The following arrivals were reg
istered at the various hotels this
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

Under the item, "Paid officers
and assistants" it would be proper
to set forth the name of every
officer and assistant, with salary
attached; instead of only certain
number. Then the people could
see just what our official list con-
sisted of.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

Perhaps no item illustrates more
forcibly the increase of the official
list than "officers and assistants"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

The expenditures for other items
amount to $S5,59l66, exclusive OF
the school department. So it seems
the "officers and assistants" cut a
small figure in the big bill paid by
the city the past month.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

Formerly the city bookkeeping
was performed by the city clerk in
addition to his other duties, now
we have an auditor and assistant
auditor. Formerly the duties OF
the recorders clerk were performed
by the city clerk or his assistant,
now we have a recorders clerk.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

But it is not the official list that
makes up the great bulk OF the city
expenditure, and in this way the
late report Of the city auditor fur
nishes abundant food for reflection
on the part of our taxpayers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

If the people will follow us, we
will try to unravel the auditors
report. 1t ia very dry reading, but
we promise to point out the jokes
as we proceed. One conclusion we
have reached, it is not the "officers
and assistants" who have drained
the treasury dry, of the 100000.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

In fact, the duties and labor of
each department of the city has
been so distributed among assist
ants that there is not a depart
ment that is not chargeable with
being a sinecure.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

YOUR TIME HAS NOW COME
To get a handsome New Years gift
for a song at l.. p. PECK's. 1927 tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

The auditor could then separate
his totals into departments and
particularize each warrant audited
and paid. Perhaps this kind Of a
statement would not be in accord
ance with the scientific methods
of bookkeeping as practiced by our
auditor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27
SHORT STOPS.
what tho People are Saying

The severest criticism upon the
city auditors report of the finan.
cial condition of the city for the
quarter ending Nov. Goth, is that
the people don't understand it.
The auditor is the city book
keeper; he neither makes or incurs
the bills charged up against the city,
therefore is not chargeable with the
expenses except in so fara as his own
department is concerned, en-
braced in the item "paid sala ries
to officers and assistants" to.wit,
his own salary and his assistant.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

We have accounted for $97 ,547.95,
paid out by the treasurer; add to
this the amount paid into the
School fund by the collector for
Septemb Der, October, and Novem-
Der $9,220.2l, and we have a total
of $l06, 76S is, out of the 100000
paid by the taxpayers during the
past six months. A balance of
about 100000 to be accounted for.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-27

has been defrauded out of cent;
only that the bills appear in many
instances to be unnecessarily ex-
travagant and unwarranted.
The people have paid a big sum
into the city treasury and from
this report it has been paid out
again and has gone into general
circulation, thus doing great deal
of good.
One painful reflection remains,
to-wit: That the city is delin-
quent so far as it's wages and sal
aries due to "officers and assist
ants"
A glance over this report shows
the following items strictly under
heard of salaries paid "officers and
assistants :" under general fund
account, salaries" Paid salaries to
officers and assistants for Septem-
Der 1895, $2,4l6.65; paid salaries of
Aldermen Menger, Sinner, Holt,
Guergin, McAllister and Fahey,
$4,000; under police department.,
paid treasurer police pay rolls for
Septem Der, So, 4S2.98, paid Jas. p.
Newcomb, salary for September
1895, 500; under head of health de-
partment, paid pay roll OF sanitary
police for Septem Der, $400 90; paid
r Menger salary for September,
500; paid Frank Roberts salary
for September, $75; under head Of
fire department, paid Jno. w.
Tobin salary for September, 1928 ;
paid roll Of fire department for
September, $2,705.00; under head
OF engineers department, paid l..
B. Washington salary for Septem-
Der, SIS; paid A. G Pancoast salary
for September, $166.66; pay roll
for September, $4,000; under
head OF city markets, paid salaries
of marketmaster (not named) and
assistants, for September, $3.50
paid G. b. Hice, salary for October,
$50; under head OF bitches and
river, paid l.. Layer salary for Sep
The morning times., 1895-09-15
Are Men the Better Hearted?

A woman fell in dead faint in one oftbe
big dry goods stores the other afternoon,
says the Boston Herald, striking her head on
the marble floor. For several seconds there
she lay, every one of her own sex keeping
aloof, turning her head, and not making the
least sign of goirg to her assistance. Sew
eral salesmen sprang and raised her gently,
and then with effort, placed her on the
counter, where, with the greatest kindness,
they famed her and administered such re-
storatives as were at hand Still never a
woman, and there were many in the store,
moved finger or made any offer of as
sistance-at least they had not when the
spectator of the scene was obliged to come
away. The conviction that men are more
kind-hearted than women has been fire.
Quently combatted, but here was a case
where the ''gentler sex" showed in q pitt
ful light, while ''woman's natural enemy"
acted the part of the good Samaritan with
a modern gallantry that bespoke the gen
ueman.
The morning times., 1895-09-15

| at the time of the assassination of Lincoln.
and around here Atzerott waited to add
his part, by the murder of the Vice Presi-
dent to the tragedy of that awful night.
The place was remodeled and used by the
Government as the United States Pension
OFFICE for great many years.
Willards was owned by John Tayloe
who built 1T In 1920. 1t was opened by
John Strothers as the Mansion House.
In 1928 BAIL Williamson became the pro-
prietor, and made many improvements,
adding about one hundred rooms. About
| the year 1881 or 1882 Azariah Fuller be-
came the proprietor and called it the
American. 1t then posses the most
extensive stable accommodations OF any
house In the city. 1t was subsequently
called the City Hotel and alternated names
The Mans ion'' and 1.-THE City, with
the hotel then standing on the opposite cor
ner.
In 1886, after the burning of the gene
raj postoffice, the hotel was rentsJ blythe
Government and used for postoffice pur-
poses during that winter, Amos Kendall
being then Postmaster General. In 1917
e. ID. and II. a. willard rented the property
and after two years II. A. Willard took il
alone. Later j. c. and H. A. Willard
rented it together, and in 1853 the brothers
purchased the property from the TayIoe
heirs. Before his Inauguration President
Lincoln was u guest of this hotel. Charles
Dickens, the English novelist, was also
guest of this house.
WILLARD HOTEL FIRE.
During the war the hotel was partially
destroyed by fire. 1t was a most notable
ff.a.r "a
the older citizens. The Billy Williams Zou-
aves, of New York, were recruited from the
fire organizations of that city. When the
antiquated apparatus of tina day came rum
bling down the Avenue, the Zouaves broke
ranks and took possession of the hand en-
gines. They were perfect athletes and con-
tortionists, and formed ladders of their
bodies, up which their companions ran
with the agility of trained monkeys. They
sat on the window sills, turned handsprngs
and somersaults from one window to the
other, carrying the hose with them and de-
lighting the hundreds gathered on the
streets.
The gaudy Oriental uniform added to the
effect. They Were accomplished firemen
as wen as marvellous acrobats. When the
fire was extinguished, they screamed them
selves hoarse, turned somersaults over one
another in the streets, and altogether gave
free exhibition OF fun and Prov ess not wit
messed twice in a lifetime. The proprietor
entertained them and thanked them, and
again the cheers We're deafening.
The Globe Hotel, at the corner of Twelfth
and f streets, which is also one of the Oldest
in the city, was opened in 1927 by James
Maher, and was familiarly called Jimmie
Maher's Tavern. When the Government
began to make treaties with the various In
dian tribes the tribal representatives were
boarded there, and it was the recognized In
dian headquarters. This gave 1t a promi-
nence, and the small boy OF those days can
well remember the noble savages, in all the
paraphernalia Of war paint and feathers,
with only the blankets OF their national COS
tune as coverings.
The morning times., 1895-09-15
HUMBLED BY A BOoTBLACK.
The Professor Tried to Joke with
a Boy, but He Was Too Clever.
From the Philadelphia Times.

let me tell you good one on myself
said the professor, when he got back home
from his summer trip. II was at Hot
Springs for a week or two during my va
cation, and every morning as passed do wn
the street to my bath 4 certain little boot
black on the corner accosted me with Shine,
sir?' Now, my plan is to have my shoes
polished when they need it, so for a day
or two / passed the little negro in silence.
Toward the end OF the week, however. /
thought my shoes needed a little attention,
and feeling a bit lonely and anxious for
some fun, stopped when the boy sung ou.
his usual salutatioD and said, with as
much ferocity as / could command: Look
here, boy; you've been hollooing at me
for a week; now I'd like to know what you
mean by itr'
"'0h, Dothin' tall, sir; nothin' tan.
dess wanted to blackin' your shoes, sir, the
boy explained, eagerly.
"'Oh, you want to blacken my shoes, do
your said. Well, why didn't you say so?;
.'Thereupon 1 sat down on the stand and
the little fellow gave me- n pretty sleek
shine. When it was over -p without a
word and started down the street. When
I'd gone about half a square felt the urchin
at my elbow.
Boss he said, gentlemen allus pays me
ten cents, but I'll let you off wild a nickel
at is needless to say he got his dime.
Ny reputation was at stake"
The morning times., 1895-09-15

ing afwulness Of detestable odor, she openly
and aggressively violates the laws of mine
and thine.
The New Woman doesn't like to hear her
sister harangued for anything when, as
she asserts, quite as fragrant a violation
Of that law of mine and thine exists among
the ranks of the Old Adam who smile and
make merry at the onslaught on the sum-
mer girl.
Therefore she rises up at this Juneture
to declare that the complaint lodged
against the use of musk is more than Offset,
if not altogether annulcd, by the visible
and invisible use of intoxicants by the
men who permeate the whole car with the
fumes of liquor, and compel even the most
rabid of total abstinence people to breathe
in the nauseous odor with which they are
fairly reeking.
The New Woman is right in this after all,
as she is in most things.
GLORIANA GADABOUT.
The morning times., 1895-09-15
LIFE IS SHORT.

One year passes away and the horse is
at the period of its beet service TO the depart
ment.
.Another year passes and the horse begins
to show signs of weakening. The end of the
third year and his career of usefulness is
over. In come cares the period may be
little longer, but the horse seldom sees the
fourth year of work in the service.
Then comes the final act Separation
from the fire laddics who have taken such
good care of the horse must come. The
department has no further use for the
horse The chief turns the animal over
to the property clerk to be disposed of.
When the injury is not so severe as TO in
capacitate the horse it is sometimes sent
to the workAouse and employed in the
fields around there.
In other cases the veteran cannot.
be thus utilized and is put up at public
auction and gold to the hiehCst bidder.
Often a horse is hurt either while going
to OF at a fire ard may have to be killed.
mischievous 10y recently turned in an
alarm. and one of the most highly-prized
horses in the service was hurt so badly n
responding 10 the alarm that ii had to be
killed.
Chief Paris is particularly pleased with
a pair of magnificent bays that he has re-
Gently secured for No. D hose carriage.
They replace team of grays that have seen
much service. AT the Deyer's mill fire
in 1890 these grays were driven close up
TO the building Suddenly the wind changed
and the two horses were in the midst of a
fiery furnace. They were gotten out, but
not without receiving terrible burns, the
scars of which they carry to this day.
ARE DELICATE CREATURES.
In some sections of the city where fires
are not very numerous the horses are
occurs also when the men neglect to give
the horses sufficient exercise.
The firemen become greatly attached
to their dumb friends, and the feeling is
reciprocated by the intelligent horses.
They begin to look for the Jumps of sugar
and pieces OF apple which are always put
aside for them. If rot forthcoming at tn,
regular time they make the fact speedily
known by most eloquent neighng.
1t is a rare thing to discover hostier
or private in the fire department mistreat-
ing a horse. A few months ago an eX
fireman who had gone to the dogs was
staggering along Pennsylvania avenue,
when suddenly a decrepit, emaciaeed horse
standing in a cart by the curb ueighed
loudly, and, jumping up on the pavement,
rubbed its face tenderly against that of
the drunken man. 1t was all that was left
of a once noble fire department horse to
which the men had been much attached.
The morning times., 1895-09-15
A Matrimonial Mark.

Bridget McGavin-Yer ovid inimy, tn
owldest McNulty gurrl, is mahrried.
Mary Ann Casey-Oi knew it.
Bridget McGavin-How did yez know't,
whin none av yez is on sphakin' turrums?
Mary Ann Casey-Didn't Oh mate her on
Tinth avenny wild black eye?-Judge.
The morning times., 1895-09-15

Breaches of Etiquette in China.
1t is q gross breach of etiquette for q
Chinaman to wear eyeglasses or specta-
cles In company, and 1t is equally impolite
to enter a room with the hat off. A gen.
tleman from the celestial kingdom always
remains covered to show bis respect,
The morning times., 1895-09-15
PUT IN TRANING.

The first thing done is TO give it period
OF grazing and exercising. Then in q week
or so follow the iniatory exercises. First
the horse goes to one of the engine or truck
houses and there is made acquainted with
the stall. The gong then sounds, the door
is thrown open by an electrical cnntrivance
and the horse led down to its place at the
pole. This is done four or five times and then
the harness fitted on after each perform
ance.
After several days of this instruction
the horse will, of its own accord, at the
stroke OF the bell and the opening of the
door gallnp to its place. The run to the
fire is then practiced, which completes the
training.
Then follows the daily duties of the
animal, the exercise runs and the mad
rushcs to the fire. and the monotonous
stable life. The strain will tell in time
upon even such powerful animals as these,
and before long the effect Of the work
becomes manifest
The morning times., 1895-09-15

DR.. Shade, lung and throat specialist.
1889 Fourteenth street, has returned 10 the
city and will be ready to receive patients
ON the 18th instant, Monday. Consultation
and examinat ton free.
The morning times., 1895-09-15
Fire Service Horses and How
They Are Trained
THREE YEARS THEIR LIMIT
WashingtOn's Supply Comes Largely
From BaItimore-High Standard
Teaching the Brutes Their Duties.
Careers That End in Cart Shafts.

No grand or more exciting sight could
be imagined than the spectacle presented
by the fireapparatusre responding to analarm
1t is a sight which never loses interest for
the street GRO wd, and inspires even the most
phlegmatic.
The powerful animals seem to know that
lives and property depend on them and
they strain and struggle to get to the fire
as soon as possible. Often the horses
receive injury in their frantic efforts to
draw the heavy apparatus, yet they keep
on and on and the trouble may not be dis
covered until after the destination is
reached.
horses in its fire department. In this city,
where there are SO many public build
iDgs filled with documents which IL de-
stroyed could never be replaced, and so
many handsome residences, it is essential
that an efficient fire service be maintained.
The horses are not the least item in import
ance of fire-fighting apparatus.
The selection and care of the horses is
of no small moment in rendering the fire
seTVlce Oh Ine city cIiICIent.
WHERE HORSES ARE BOUGHT.
Many places have been tried as lead
quarters from which to obtain the ami
mails for our fire service, but 1t has been
found from experience that the horse
Iarkets OF Baltimore afford the most sat
isfactory results. A regular agent is en-
ployed, who keeps his eyes open for horses
that seem to be suitable. When a
likely-iooking nimaI has been obtained the
fact is reported to Chief Paris
Should the reply be favorable, veterinary
surgeon, who is regularly employed for this
purpose, examines the applicant for fire
fighting honors. This examination is most
rigid The slightest defect either in body,
limb or action is sufficient TO justify the
horse being declared ineligible. The points
upon which the horse must be especially
strong are speed, wind, sta ying and drawing
power.
In all of these respects the nimal must
be perfect. and If there is the IiGhtest doubt
entertained in any one particular the sur
gcon viii pronounce IL unfit.
Itwill not do to have a horse that might at
any moment break down. AT the most
critical moment the horse might succumb
and lives sacrificed and probably lost.
II everything is satisfactory, and the
horse be reported all right by the SURGEON,
Fire Chief Paris takes a IoDk at IL and
tries il before the deal Is closed. Then the
animal is bought and brought To the Capt.
The morning times., 1895-09-15
I'll SOC.

4o-Inch Mohair and Wool Novelties, in half
hun lred different styles; also 52-inch Water.
proof Storm serges, a quality never befor-
offered for less than 75c
The morning times., 1895-09-15
Carpets.
III HALF Price.

We've a small lot of Carpets, Rugs, etc, left
from the JOHNSON, GARNER s. co. Stock and
we've marked them at prices that will give u
the room they occupy in a hurry.
PC Ingram Stair Carpet for I5o
37Ihc Ingram Carpet for..---.----........... 10
37,Sc Cottage Carpet for.----.-...-.-.....-. 20
t5o Atwood Stair Carpet, q inch.....-.---s71<o
Soc Tapestry Brussels Carpe. for. 49c
81 and s. so Skin Rugs-choice. ice.-.......-..--ei.2s
7sc Brussels Hassocks for cr...........--.----. 4oo
Not enough Of the Brussels Carpet for a large
room, but il you have a small or medium sized
room to carpet, this is an extraordinary oppors
tunity.
The morning times., 1895-09-15
ALWAYS CROPPING OUT.

The New Woman versus the Old Adam
is continually cropping out in the course
of street car ride. 1t eyinces itself at
every turn. From the masculine stand
point it applies with telling force against
the woman, who in preference to going
to such portion of the car as she belongs
invariably crowds herself back into the
seats reserved for the smokers, and then
brings all the gall and vinegar OF ner com
position into play by outward and visible
objections to the tobacco smoke.
So far so good. Admitted that when
there is plenty o. room elsewhere Il woman
should in preference locate herself in any
seat other than those reserved at the
rear OF the car for smokers.
Stop right here for moment AMI do
little thinking. Is this not another in
stance of sex against sex? Why have
seats for smokers any more thanfor women
who wish to chew gum OF load themselves
up with bundles or saddle themselves with
a nursery + young ones TO take out for an
airing?
They are all real, live actualties, just
Ike the tobacco smoking, and 1t is what
exists rather than what should have place
only in theory that provisions are sup
posed to be made for the comfort and con-
venience OF travellers on the street cars.
This suggestion is not, OF course, meant
10 create a revolution in the matter of street
car regul ations OF the future. 1t is
merely thrown out for what It is worth.
Perhaps some man may read 1t and the next
time he is inclined to rail gainst woman
nsr seating herself in the smokers rescrva-
tion, his criticisms may be tinged with
pity, seeing she has no special reservation
of her own throughout the length and
breath OF that car for her gum chewing,
bundie-carrying and portable nursery pro-
uansiffes
The morning times., 1895-09-15
New Dress Goods.

The most fashionable fabrics in Colored
Dress Goods in all the newest weaves An as
tonishing array of magnificent materials, made
in the most modern designs and marked ~
money-saving prices