The record-union., 1895-09-19
NOTE AND COMMENT.


We have it upon official authority that
Street Superintendent Murray actually urged
Contractor Labs to put a sandy, clayey coat
ing of fine matter that comes from the Cor
della quarry, sort OF siftings, upon the
top of the Eleventh-street macadam, and did
not wish the street accepted until this was
done. Thereupon Labs appealed to members
of the Board OF Trustees, who told him to
stick TO his specifications. Nothing was
found in the specifications for the placing OF
earthly matter upon the macadam and 1t was
not done Yet here we have a Street Superin-
tendent who defieS all expert road-builders,
flies in the face of common experience, and
insists upon coating macadam with mud,
certain means for its destruction. 1t is about
time that The Trustees called Murray down,
and gave him to understand that when
specifications are written and contracts are
let thereon, his simple duty is to stand by
them, regardless of his erroneous personal
views as TO how good street is to be made.
The State Board of Health says to all COM
munities ''clean up: the cholera, the yellow
fever and smallpox threaten us ON four sides;
clean up: disinfect; correct your drainage;
boil the water you drink; eat only freshly
cooked food" This is directed as well to Sac
ramentans as to others. and because we live
in a hot valley and have not an efficient
drainage system it applies little more
sharply to us. 1t will not do to put off this
warning. The time TO act is in the present
and not at the eleventh hour.
According to the dispatches of the San
Francisco Examiner Mr.. c. 2. Huntington, in
denying the silly story that the Southern Pa
cific Company is preparing to reduce the
service over the Central Pacific line TO in
efficiency and inadequacy for the business
Offering, INDUCED in an expletiye that is
ranked as cursing, but which Judge Coon in
his day on the police bench of San Francisco
ruled is not an oath. Mr.. Huntington is not
to be censured for the vigor OF his language.
If indeed, he did denounce the story as
damned lie," he did precisely the right
thing since any mider form than that of
slang would have been inadequate for the oc-
casion, There are times in the lives of all
men when if they do not utter it, they think
damn it," The average sensational news
paper of the day with its constant discovery
of mares nests is really responsible Tor about
twothirds OF all the vigorous, not to say pro-
fame, expletives that are uttered.
Philadelphia is wrestling with the garbage
disposal question. 1t has an imperfect sys-
tenn now that causes the matter 10 be boated
down the Delaware and be dumped into the
navigable channel. This has now become a
nuisance. Scientists agree that incineration
is the one proper method for garbage disposal,
although it involves an expensive plant.
To believe the demagogue he is the chief
lover of the people. Ali his effort is for their
economy and happiness. His work is purely
disinterested. But somehow the people
sooner or later find the fellow out and fathom
his shallow pretense.
The Alameda Daily EUening EReildI has
just entered upon its twenty-seventh year.
It's veteran editor, Fred b. krauth, who has
spent the best years OF his life in assisting to
bring Alameda TO its present enviable posi-
ton among the cities OF the State, is still at
his post always working for the public good.
If the people OF that city do not ap-
preciate the valuable services OF Mr.. Krauth
and his paper they are indeed ungrateful.
When the EncindL was established Alameda
was a Wilderness and n man has done more
for the city than the editor OF that paper.
Long life and prosperity to both krauth and
the EactllaL.
The St. Helena Star, one Of the best Of our
interior exchanges, has entered upon its
twenty-second year. The star has done and
is doing good work in the building up and de-
velopment of the Napa Valley.