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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16
NO. 20.
Duties Too Heavy

General A. z. Martin, chairman Of
the Board of Police Commissioners,
has for a long time advocated diminu.
tion or the duties of the board. He
has been particularly desirous Of rele-
eating such duties which he thinks do
not properly belong to such COM
mission as that Of which he is chair
man to some subordinate body, to be
a sort of police cnurt-martial. Chief
among these duties which he thinks
Ought to BE- relegated from the board
are those OF a judicial nature. The
Board of Police commissioners is now
virtually bench for certain kinds Of
cases-a tribunal. There are times
when the three commissioners
sit as a Judicial body. beyond
which there is no appeal. Gen
eral Martin thinks that the best
interests of the city of Boston and of
the Commonwealth, can be better
supervised by delegating these judicial
functions which the board now has to
some other body, court OF commission,
TO be specially organized to the pur
pose. The chairman recommends the
appointment of a special body or court
by the board, to consist OF the super
intendent, or deputy, and two
or more captains, and to be
modelled entirely upon the mill.
tary system OF courts martial.
He suggests that such court be ac-
corded the services of all hearings OF
paid attorney, which be likens to a
Judge advocate general in court
marshal OF the United States army.
This court, with the regular board re-
tanning sort OF supervisory power,
and if need be, to be a court of appeal
when occasion necessitates, could then
hear all cases where charges against
inferior officers were involved. As an
administrative body the boards time
should be used entirely in formulating
plans, discussing ways and means, to
meet these conditions. But the board
should not be called upon to consider
and Judge upon acts that are past aud
cannot be undone Like all old SOL
diers in civil life, General Martin sees
the virtus of inoculating a little mill
tarism IN many of our municipal de-
partmeuts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16
New Titles for Sub-Oftices.

That announcement that the Boston
postal stations will be known here
after by letters and numbers proba-
bly, has caused people to wonder just
what that new designation of stations
is for and how it is to be used. In
speaking of the matter recently,
Postmaster Coveney said that it is the
intention of the Postmaster General
to establish a new general system by
which to designate the post offices in
the United States in all official COM
munications. The system of letter.
ing and numbering was adopted some
time ago, and on April 29 the list of
the new names for the Boston postal
stations was mailed to Postmaster Co.
veney, to go into effect ON July |. In
some cities, as for instance New York
where all post stations are within the
city limits the system can be used to
advantage, but in place like Boston,
where cities and towns outside Boston
are included in the Boston Postal Dis
taict, but little attention will be paid
to it by the public. While it is not
necessary in sending letter to Cam
bridge to write Station F." it is
safer to do so than to write simply
"Cambridge." " On the placard stat
ing the changes, which is now dis
played in the Boston post office, there
is list of stations as follows: {:
Allston, East Somerville, Roxbury
Crossing, Somerset Hill IA new sta.
ton on Huron avenue, near Concord
avenue, Cambridge, fremont, Up
hams Corner, West Somerville and
Winter Hill, numbered consecutively
l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8. 1t should be
understood that these stations are only
for registered matter and for domestic
money orders, and not for the posting
of letters. BEN MARcATo.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16
WAS TOO CONFIDING
DR.. Bradford Talked Loud in
Pennington, Me.
Admitted That He Knew the New
York Counterfeiters.

Almost five years ago tha secret of the ap-
parent affueuce Of DR.. Orlando T.. Bradford
OF New York city. who was arrested by l. ;.
Inspector Haven of the s-crec' service, IN
company with the notorious Bill Brnckway,
on a charge of counterfeiting. As known 10
certain OF his relatives in Pennington. Ne.
At that time three people in West Farm
ingtOn. a small village across the river from
there. were aware Of the fact that Dr. Landy
as he is called there. was in with gang Of
eounterieiters. DR.. Bradford never thought
that this illgiumate alliance was known by
any one in West Pennington but his elder
brother. Augustine. but. IN boasting OF the
easily duplicated government notes the doc.
tor talked too loud. Enough Of his ronver-
sation was overheard to convince the listener
Of the source Of the dentists revenue. But
all the parties to whom this very important
and discriminating Information was impaired
We're sworn never 10 revea! word or even
drop an intimatiOn Of il.
or the three who could have placed the au-
thorities in possession Of valuable evidence
one is dead and the other kept his promise
until recently when he let it drop when
reading Of the doctors alleged completely
with gang of detected engravers.
DR. Bradford is well but hardly iavorably
known in Pennington, and Mrs. Libbie
Smith, also arrested a. an alleged participant
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

Lots of hard and tedious work for
the various members of the Boston
police department must be done until
the middle of next October. The
officers of the department will be fre-
quently drilled, III preparation for
the great event of October l. next
when the department will turn out
once again in public parade. Captain
Dennis Donovan of Station ,, the
drill master of the department, will
have charge of the drilling. and that
is sufficient to warrant the prediction
that when the men appear on the
streets of this city in theI fall uni
forms to stand the gaze OF thousands
of persons, they will make a most
creditable showing. The men are to
be drilled by companies, officers be-
ing daily sent to the captain from the
different stations, excepting Station s,
commonly known as the harbor police.
Two companies, composed Of forty
patrolmen, lieutenant and sergeant
will be drilled daily from this time
out until the time of the parade, ex-
cepting the period when the Masonic
visitors are in this city, and the police
are required to do extra duty. There
will be two bands of music in the pa
rade of this year, which in itself will
be large Improvement over the pa
rade of few years ago, when there
was but one band, and the police in
the rear part of the procession were
therefore badly handicapped. The
route that the officers will be compelled
to march over will not be very long,
being made as short as possible, SO as
not to tire out the men, many of whom
will be compelled to go on duty as
soon as the event is over.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16
NEW YORK LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. ]

A somewhat remarkable strike is
coming tn au end in New York. aud
its outcome Is no less decidedly in
favor of the strikers than on the side
OF social ami sanitary reform. In
striking against the task work and
sweating systems 5000 tailors Of New
York aud It's neignborhood have ap.
pealed very strongly to the svm-
pathles of their fellOw-meu. Ia re-
fusing to make any terms with the
tenement house contractors they have
dealt a fatal blow to an abuse
which legislation has been powerless
to abolish. The combination between
the sweating system and the nat
ural evils of crowded tenements was
productive of oppression more fla
grant than that which Charles Kings
ley revealed to the last generation in
"Alton Locke. New York tenement
houses have furnished, perhaps, the
foulest refuge of poverty aud toll
known to the civilized world. They
have demonstrated how, i'll the midst
of free institutions, aud side by side
with some Of the most brilliant achieve
ments of human progress, there may
exist conditions OF the most abjrct
wretchedness and squalor. No human
abodes more unwholesome can be
found in the London Whitechapel, in
the Josefstadt of Prague, or the rue
Sainte Marguerite OF Paris than in the
lower tenement house district of New
York.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16
Many Prisoners at Deer Island.

Mayor Curtis is alarmed over the
rapidly increasing number of prison
ers at Deer Island. At the present
there are l, ,629, or about five hundred
more than there are accommodations
for. The mayor recently called at the
office of the commissioners of
Public Institutions and had long
conference with DR.. Heath. Su-
perintendent Gerrish was also present.
The act recently passed by the Legis-
lsture provides that no prisoners shall
be pardoned unless by and with the
consent of the judge sentencing them.
This necessarily makes very few par
dons, and the consequence is that the
House of Industry is rapidly filling
up. To obviate this and provide a
remedy WAS the purpose of the mayors
visit to the commissioner.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

Purroy has again taken charge OF a
Tammauy Hail district He gava up
being a district leader several years
ago, but has retained his control on
the two trans Harlem dlstrictN and
generally one down town. He has
kept his place in the Tnmmany Exec
utive Council as an eX-officio member.
For the first time since shortly after
he reached his majority, Richard Cro-
ker is now ont of Iammany Hall. BY
his own request his name this year has
been left off even the General Commit
tee or District Committee lists. He has
said repeatedly that he had no intention
of returning to the leadership of Tam
many or to any participation in poll
ties, except that which Is incumbent
upon every citizen. His more iudicious
friends take him at his word, and
have urged that if this is true he stay
on the other side for the present and
not add to the perplexities of the situa-
ton by coming home just now, when
even his presence here will lead thou
sands of democrats opposed to him
personally to wayer in their determine
ton to drop factional feeling this fall
for the good OF the party.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

The French Navy Department has
lecided to build two large cruisers TO
compete with the Columbia of the
United States and the Terrible and
Powerful OF the British navy, as well
As to overtake the Atlantic grey
hounds, which would be used rs auxil-
lary cruisers in time of war.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

The health authorities of La Porte, Ind,
have been advised that the horse slaughter
houses near Hammond are again in opera
tlon aud that Chicago and other western
markets are being supplied with roasts.
steaks, corned horse beef aud sausages made
from old and diseased horses. This ls dis
'tinctly Hoosier industry, and as the laws
OF the state do not prohibit the killing and
selling Of horses, hundreds of worn out ami
mails are being sold from 81 to Sl.50 and
bsi1e driven to the slaughter house.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

General Miles strongly advocates
extending the use of the bicycle in
the United States Army. The Signal
Corps is now making II good deal OF
speciality of wheeling, and its use iE
this branch of the service is to be still
further developel.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

A 'second folio" of Shakespeare
sold in London the other day for
S270O This is the record price paid
for this edition of the immortal bard's
works
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

The value of foreign timber i'm
ported into England annually is not
less than SIS, 600, 900, not to speak of
tons of paper manufactured from
wood pulp.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

1t Is forty years since the over
crowding, the insufficient light and
ventilation, and the bad sanitary ar
rangements generally which prevailed
in the housing of the laboring people
of New York began to attract leglsls-
tive attention. A commission sitting
in 1856 has left on record descrip-
ton of tenement house evils as
graphic as that which lately aroused
public attention. A large body Of
restrictive legislation has been enacted
from time to time to provide against
the worst abuses OF Overcrowding aud
other unsauitary conditions. But tho
real difficulty in the way of permanent
Improvement is with the people them
selves. As the president of the health
department OF eight years ago pointed
ont in communication to Mayor
Hewitt. the typical New York tene-
ment house changes character with
Kaleidoscope facility. 1t may be
thoroughly overhauled and put in pet-
feet order on the lst OF January, and
by the lst of March be in a condition
dangerous to life or detrimental To
health. The tenants are ignorant and
indifferent, and often seek immedl-
ate convenience at the expense Of
safety and decency. 1t is not at all un-
usual to find the waste pipes soLldIy
filled with ashes, which are thrown
into them by people unwilling to take
the trouble of carrying them to the
gronnd floor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

What do the Brooklyn trolley man
ayers care about the verdicts of the
coroners' juries that were returned
against them Us a result of lnvestiga-
ton into the recent killing of three
person beneath the wheels of their
murderous conveyances? Nothing.
The official pigeonholes in our sister
city are bursting with documents of
this kind, together with presentations
of grand juries; but it makes no differ
ence to the trolley slaughterers They
laugh at the law, and do just as they
please in grinding out dividends on
millions of dollars of watered stock.
They decline to compensate the
parents they have robbed of
their children, and the chllden
they have made fatherless and
motherless. They object to equip
ping their cars with proper life-saving
apparatus; and, in word, they act as
if they owned Brooklyn, and the peo-
pie had no rights they are bound to
respect. This shamful condition of
affairs in our sister city is due to the
vacillating, incompetent Schieren adj
ministration. If the mayor were a
man of pluck and determination, he
could bring the trolley corporations
to their knees in week. He could
tie them up until they obeyed the law
and lived up to the obligations of their
charters. Trolley will be king in
Brooklyn as long as Mayor Schieren
is mayor. His administration, fortu-
nately, is coming to close, but I
fear many more trolley murders will
be added to the crimson record before
he gives place to Republican who
will see that the law is enforced.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

The disposal of the garbage OF New
York and Brooklyn by dumping it in
the ocean just outside of the hsrbor
is relic of ignorance and barbarian.
Other cities have found more salts
factory ways of disposing of all street
refuse, and the crematory method
seems to be the best Still it must be
borne in mind that the recent investi-
CATION of the subject undertaken by
the Board of Aldermen was not en-
couraging, and it must also be re-
membered that a crematory in the
centre of thickly settled residence
district may be failure. No crema-
tory has been invented that is in any
danger of being mistaken for manu-
factory of altar of roses, and we do
not want to exchange the nuisance of
the garbage scow for nuisance on
land.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

Minnesota has developed more rap.
idly than any other Northwestern
State. Its assessed valuation is $685.
01s, ,6S7.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

The way to succeed in business is
to advise others and advertise your
self, " maintains the New Orleans Plea
yune
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16
SCHOOLS REOPEN SEPT. "a.
Essex County Herald.
The Chicago Drainage Canal is de.
scribed as Thirty Miles OF Crime"

There are over twenty-five foreign.
ers to the square mile in the State OF
New York.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

Somebody has written an ode in
praise of the tailor's strike in New
York. A distich would have been
more appropriate, although there is
not wholly infelicitous connection
between tailor's bill and owed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

The law passed by the last legisla-
ture forbidding the opening of barber
shops on Sunday except in New York
City and Saratoga, where II Is per-
mltted until one p. m, Is meeting the
fate that might have been predicted for
it. A barber in Rochester was arrested
for violation of the statute, but the
jury refused to convict him. A barber
at Alexandria Bay was brought into
court for shaving man on Sunday
morning, aud was acquitted by the
jury. Two BARRIERS in Buffalo we're
arrested for keeping their shops
open, and they we're brought
before Police Justice King, a magis-
trate noted for his common sense, he
discharged them aud said 'Fhat law
was passed by lot of crazy politicians.
No copy of it has been sent here.
We've asked for one, but we couldn't
get it." Here we have case of new
law just put upon the statute book
which is treated with contempt by
judges AMI iuries alike. 1t is
no small wonder that this is
the case. Reason is the life of the
law wrote Coke three centuries ago
''the law" he said further, sis per-
fectiou of reason. But every citi-
zen sees that there is no reason what
ever in a law which makes thing
legal at the west end Of the bridge
across the East River, but illegal at
the other end; legal at Saratoga but
illegal at Richheld Springs, Alexau-
dria Bay or Niagara Falls The re.
suit is that nobody has any respect
for the statute; juries refuse to con-
Wet men who have plainly broken it,
and Justice does not hesitate to
characterize it correctly as the work
of 'crazy politicians.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16
Assistant Secretary Curtis, of the

Assistant Secretary Curtis, of the
Treasury-''W ordering Willie, some
call him-is back again. He went
to London, you know, to deliver
those 4 per cent bonds to the Roth
schild- Belmont Morgan syndicate, and
it took him six weeks exactly to COM
plete the job, although he had young
Logan Carlisle, the Secretary's hope
full, to help him. Great personages,
like large bodies, move slowly. There
is one thing about sending Curtis
away from the department, however: !:
it makes no more of vacuum than
keeping him there does.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

No great change for the better can
be effected in the physical surround
ings of such a population until there
is an Improvement in their tastes and
habits. But neither are likely to be
refined while they continue TO be the
slaves of the Sweater, and the
rooms where they live are made to
serve also as the workshops in which,
by toiling night and day, they can
earn bare subsistence. The prompt
and complete success Of the tailors'
strike is an encouraging evidence that
the time was ripe for change, and
the sudden inversion of the relation
between the contractors and the work
people indicates the dawn of better
day for the tenement house population
more clearly than the drafting OF
reams of new statutes. Conditions OF
life amid which 80 per cent OF all the
babies die IN their first year suggest
evils more obstinate than any that can
be reached by legislation. however
drastic.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

Col. Waring is getting all the money
he wants for cleaning New York's
streets, aud his wants are not partic-
ularly moderate either. Besides $50,
638. 66 for use in August, the health
board has given him s2S, O95. so to
make up deficiency for July. 1t is
costing New York a pretty penny to
be clean. kNICKERBoCkER.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-16

Personal liberty includes the right
TO think as We please, to eat and drink
what We please, and to do that which
pleases rs if, as Herbert Spencer puts
1t, we Infringe not the equal freedom
Of any other man. This liberty is in
vaded and abridged when the law, or
al arbitrary and oppressive execution
of the law, prescrlbes that large bodies
of the people shall not be permitted to
drink on one day in the week the bev-
erage which not custom alone but the
law sustains them in drinking on the
other six days. The state has law
full right to obtain a revenue from the
liquor traffic by means of excise laws.
1t has a right to impose such restric-
tlons upon 1t as are required for the
maintenance OF order. 1t has to right
to say that the customary beverage OF
citizens shall not be sold at all
on Sunday. Especially has it
no right to add insulting discrim-
ination to injurious iterference in
saying that members of clubs and
guests at hotels and restaurants may
buy and drink what they please, but
that the hundred times larger and less
favored class of citizens shall go
dry" President Woolsey sums up
the whole matter in saying that 'ff
there is any such thing as a just state,
one OF its offices consists in protecting
personal rights. Personal rights are
not protected in New York when a
Police Commissioner, for the sake of
"discipliniug the force, assumes to
dictate to majority of the people
what they shall drink on Sunday.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-02
commits .ioners Anpointed.

In the probate court yesterday morn
ing Henry G. Newton and David CAL
lahan were appointed commissioners on
the insolvent estate of James T. Dunn
proprietor of the Monopole, in Church
street
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-02
severely bruised. pr. u. q. Ian is at-

severely bruised, DR.. f, e. Hall is at
tending her. ,,......
William McCabe of Houston street, a
tea dealer well known about town, is
confined to the house with a severe
cold,
Lester Mallory, wife and daughter,
and Wells Bray have gone to Niagara
Falls.
The funeral of Captain John G, Her.
vey was held from the East Pearl street
M. u, church Wednesday morning at II
a, M. Rev, N, G. Cheney. the pastor
officiating. A quartet composed of Mrs.
Chapman, Miss Carrie Curtiss, Mr.. Ste
venson and George Dadman sang two
selections, The floral offerings were
many and beautiful, The bearers were
Captain Avery, Captain Ellis, Captain
Pond, Isaac Mallory, w. M. King and
William butcher, all members of Adel-
phi lodge of Masons, Of which the de-
ceased was a member. Among the rel
atives present were the son, William
Hervey of Corona, L. l., also Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith of the same place, Mrs
Flagg and Mrs. Sisson of Stamford and
Mrs. Hotchkiss of Branford. The inter-
ment was in the Union cemetery.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-02
New Medical Examiner.

DR.. George H. Joslyn of Hamden has
been appointed medical examiner of
that town to succeed DR.. E. D. Swift,
who resigned recently.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-02
wins a Prize.

Milton We'll Of the firm OF Paul We'll
& Son, of Chapel street, won yesterday
the third prize Of s25 for solving puzzle
No. 8 in thesNew York Morning Journal
contest.