The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-12
INDIGNANT .4THACKMEN.

Attorney Have Preferred Charges Against Patrolman.
 The actions of certain of the hack men at the Union depot is attracting the attention of the public in general and at last steps are being taken to keep them within bounds, At present when a, passenger reaches the steps of the station he is caught by half a dozen rival hackmen at the same time and pulled and hauled toward the hacks until nearly breathless he man. ages to gasp out that he does not want a hack, when immediately all leave him and rush to some other traveller. In fact at the present time the hackmen so so far as to solicit business in the waiting room at the station.
 Recently this state Of affairs has be- come so intolerable that vigorous meth- ods of dealing with the offending hack | probably result at the next meeting of the board of aldermen in the passage main on the curb in front of the sta- l ton or take the consequences. Two patrolmen are on duty at the station every day to keep the hackmen within bounds, but as soon as the officers 1 backs are turned the men are all over the station again,
 l At the meeting of the board of alder men Tuesday night, when the proposed new hack ordinance was up for con- sideration, Alderman Bromley argued | strenuously in favor of the incorpora- ton of a section restricting the hack men at the depot to a certain place on the sidewalk outside of the station. He denounced in vigorous terms the man ner in which the hackmen conduct themselves at the depot at present and argued in favor of some steps being taken in the matter at once. He l claimed that at the present time the traveling public was subjected to in l dignities the like of which they were not compelled to submit to in any other city in this or any other coun- | try.
 1 As a result of Alderman Bromley's s argument the whole matter was laid on 1 the table until the next meeting of ] the board when the alderman announc- ed he would introduce and support an amendment to the ordinance with a view to restricting the hackmen to their proper places.
 At the present time Patrolman Louis D. Bixby, who is detailed on day duty at the depot, has had charges preferred against him to the police commission CTS by a number of the hackmen and these charges are to be Investigated and the patrolman given a hearing at the next meeting of the board next Tuesday night In the opinion of a number of reputable citizens the charg- es have been preferred against the pa- trolman simply as matter of spite 1 because he has tried to do his duty at the depot and keep the hackmen where they belong and prevent them from running over the travelling public at the station.
 City Attorney Matthewman has re- ceived numerous complaints from pri- vaIte citizens as to the manner in which they have been treated at the station while coming from trains by the hack men at the station. The city attorney denounces in no unmeasured terms the manner in which the hackmen conduct 1 themselves at the depot and will, it is said, be present at the meeting of the police commissioners and express hic Jria cl1l,ient q a time.
 BROMLEY FAVORS PURE ENG-
 LISH.
 At the last meeting of the board of aldermen Alderman Bromley of the First ward called attention to the fact that in the journal of the court of com mon council Latin phrases were used instead of pure English. He argued that this ought not to be and said: q notice in our journals the words | ordinance de street sprinkling,' 'ordi- nance de this and ordinance de that The word de we all know is Latin and means about or concerning. The Latin language is dead and ought to have been buried by this time and I shall move that hereafter in the journal and other records of public business we drop the Latin phraseology and confine ourselves to pure simple English. Let's drop the Latin de and eonine ourselves ito its English equivalent about or con- cerning."
 Alderman Macdonald stated that in his opinion the point was well taken and said that it might be well to also eliminate the words let al" in petitions. etc He said that recently he had met a man who in all earnestness asked him who the devil this man Get aP' was. whose name was signed to nearly every petition presented to the court of common council. This provoked a general laugh among the members of the board and as the hour was late, it was decided to postpone action on the question until the next meeting, when Alderman Bromley will present a resolution prohibiting the use of Latin phraseology in the records of the court of common council.
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