The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-22
NOTE AND COMMENT.

There is among the several candidates
and their friends debate as to who
originated and brought to success GER
tain notable reforms, especially those
under which the bituminized street sys-
tenn was introduced, the old post avn
irgs removed, and the resolution finally
reached by city and county govern
ments to make no more Indifferent
city highways. The history of these re-
forms settles the question of credit.
For our bituminized street system we
are wholly indebted to J. W. Wilson.
The anti-post awning movement orig
mated with the Record Union, and one
of its colleagues from the outset in that
movement was ]. w. Wilson. The per-
manent or good road movement began
in this office and had its advocacy in the
Record Union when not another public
influence in the State was out for it.
One of the little handful of undespair-
ing men who called and promoted the
first good road convention ever held on
the Pacific Coast, and the first good
read convention held in this county,
was J. w Wilson. The Record Union is
in a position it will be conceded, we
doubt not, to speak upon these ques-
tons and not meet with challenge of
it's statements It is because Mr.. Will
son is representative of the party that
the Record Union as an Independent
journal prefers, when it comes to a
question of party, and because he has
been and is a progressive man and sue
cessful in his progressive efforts, that
the Record Union supports Mr.. Wilson,
believing him to be for the highest and
best interests of good government, and
that he should be elected Mayor, as he
will be.
The fawniug. cringing and nervous anxiety
of certain newspapers of the East over the APP
preaching wedding of one of the Vanderbilt
girls to a titled Epglishman is sickening. We
would wager q fortune, were it at command.
to penny rust-eaten that the exhibition
these papers are making of themselves is as
disfasteful 10 the Vanderbilt girl and her
prospective husband as it 10 to other people,
who see no reason for going into mysteries
over the mating Of the couple.
Law order and decency have triumphed.
The rnuch-talk ea-of priZe-hght between two
noted bruisers has been declared off. Reason:
the Governors of the only two States In
which 1t was thought possible to hold the
font have proved equal 10 the enforcement OF
the laws. II is time to cheer for decency.
Evidently the hour OF the bruiser has struck.
Tho Reconciliation has urged the increase
~ street lights. and has shown that to aug
,,.p1 the number by two-thirds Will not In
a,ea the cost over what the city now pays,
whom tho new contract takes effect. The new
and redueed rate for lighting should be an
economy 10 the city in the way oil more hght'
rather than of lessened output JOE hShtlhg
the streets. The public expression since the
Record-IJnion called attention to this mat
tar has been almost unanimous In favor Oh
the increase of street lights. All through the
4hiclsIy settled sections we should have IN
tersectlon lights at every street crossing. Lei
the Trustees tonight respond to the wish OF
the people in this matter.
IT'S odd that none of the news associations
can find time or interest TO give the public
some account of the doings of the National
Road Parliament that met at Atlanta on the
18th. 18th and 10TH. Columns are hiled
with trash about crime, prize fighters, scan
daI and political matter, but not line ID
given by the newsgatherers. or mas been, to
any one of the notable convocations at AT
lanta during this month.
The petaluma Argus repeats the item from
the Record Union that q Sacramento County
grape-2rower recently made nearly thou
sand dollars net on shipment of grapes to
the East, and that he had frequently made
such gains. The Argus then asks without. II
SAYS. doubling the reliability of the Record
Union. what kind of variety of grapes were
grown and shipped with such success. We
reply. Tokav and Cornichon, and that the
grower is one of the most prominent and pro
gressfve citizens of the county, a man muct
in the public eye. But since his last ship
nents other cargoes OF grapes from Sacra