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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12
BOSTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. !


Apart from the important matters
arising ont of BOston's city charter,
the opening of July witnesses the ini-
tiation of work laid ont by the Legis.
lature OF this year touching insurance,
prisons and more or less collateral
subjects, in the interest of what sociolo.
gists call the "dependent, delinquent
and defective classes" Perhaps the
legislation affecting the greatest num-
her OF persons Just now is that relat-
ing to insurance, the compilation OF
insurance laws passed during the ses-
sion of 1895 numbering no less than
seventeen acts. OF these there are
two which now 60 into OPP
Grafton, the first of which re-
quires that there shall he filed
with the insurance commissioner
the names and residences Of all per-
sons acting as insurance agents in this
state. A law touching election mat.
tiers, which now goes into effect, is
that providing that a notary public, a
justice of the peace or other magis-
trate, when taking the oath of sign
er to nomination paper, shall satisfy
himself that the person to whom the
oath is administered is the same as the
one signing said nomination. "ln re-
gard to this" said an official at the
office of the secretary of the common
wealth, ''we have printed on the blanks
sufficient matter to call attention to
the requirement, and the person re-
ceiying such attestatiOn is TO acknowl-
edge over his own signature that he
knows the person to be the one repre-
sented. The nominations go to the bal
lot law commissioners. For the city
Of Boston the newly created board of
election law commissioners attends to
the portion of those duties within their
province. OF the new laws relating
to prisons, one is in its nature tran
silent and of simple utility, and the
other permanent and progressive.
The former, which arises out of GER
tain experiences of the warden of the
state prison and the head of the Con-
cord retormatory, is to give power to
them and those in charge of other in
stitutions to remove persons or prop
erty that may occupy the grounds
without authority after relations with
them have been terminated. The
latter is designed to see that provision
shall be made for teaching reading
and writing to such persons as need
the instruction, who may be sentenced
to Jail or house of correction for six
months or more.
OF kindred interest is the act which
provided for the abolition of the state
primary school in Monson, and the
transfer of many of the children to
the care OF the Lyman and industrial
schools. 1--WE have had in Monson," )"
said Secretary Wells, II number of chill
dren, ranging from 100 to 300, some
ms neglected and some delinquents.
OF late the number has been compare
lively reduced. They are all out now,
and the cause has ceased to exist for
its former purpose. As many of the
children as can be provided for i'll
proper homes will be sent out, but the
state officials will reserve the right to
recall or transfer them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12
The New Woman.

The new woman has appeared in
New York streets in her rain costume.
1t is immense. Here is what she
wore, wisely, though not too well, ac-
cording TO her critics. This particu-
larly new woman was not bold, but
entirely self-possessed, and she took
step in front of her companions of the
wheel, independent as many of them
are. She wore pair of bloomers of
checked cloth and leggins that reached
the knee, and from her shoulders hung
Il full cloak that just reached the top
of the leggin, while on her head was
crushed Fedora cap, with rather
rakish bend forward over the left eye
brow. An umbrella sheltered this
new woman, but when the wind
playfully lifted the cloak aside
there WAS an exclamation of dismay by
other women who were not SO new as
they thought they were. qhe wesrer
of this costume is an English woman
who said she was an enthusiastic
wheelwoman and always wore it on a
rainy day at 'ome. No drabbled petit
coats, no swishing of besoaked skirts,
for her, but infinite utility, ease and
independence. no matter how hard it
storms. This is getting the better of
lordly man, who is obliged to turn up
his trousers when it rains in London.
Pray let this newest woman alight on
Boston, where muddy streets and
slosh galore follows the mildest show
ers. We should like to see her in a
pelting northeaster.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

beaver hats. After the new owners Of the
land had looked about z little, they
associated themselves with 10 other
men. aud the 20, with their families,
settled there. At the date Of this settlement
there were about /, 500 Indians on Nantucket.
In 1921 the last full-bloOded Nantucket died,
aud 33 years later the last hali-breed passed
rway. In 1865 the Indian chieltain. King
Philip, left his chair ON Mt Hope and yOy-
aged TO Nantucket. One year later the first
mill for grinding corn was put in operation.
In 1871 the first town was Incorporated,
and in 1913 il was renamed Sherburne. Ii was
then "a part of New York, aud il was not
until lIs5, after It had been decided back to
Massachusetts, that the name SherDurne was
changed 10 Nantucket. IL Is this event in the
history Of the island that was celebrated.
The whaling industry got its first iOothold in
Nantucket in 1878. and the natives sought and
captured the right whale with great sue
cess. The first sperm whale was taken in
l7l2. The sperm whale of l7l2 reVOlu.
tionized the methods previously in vogue.
In l1l5 there were six slOOps engaged in the
business. In 1880 there were owned In Nan
tucket 25 whalers. In 1926 the shore boats
captured SO whales, and then it seemed as ii
all hands went away to foreign seas. Davis
strait was visited by a Nantucket whaler in
lI32, and l3 years later shipload of oil was
sent direct to England
foreign trade soon grew with France,
Spain Russia. ports on the shores of the Med
iterranean, and with China. Cargoes Of oil
and bone were the sole articles Of export, and
the ships brought home valuable miscela-
neous cargoes. shaping to some extent, the
commerce o! the nation.
When the British assailed the farmers in
Lexington, at the outbreak of the revolution,
Nantucket whalers numbered $50. They
were manned by 1000 men, and the yearly
production was 30 900 barrels sperm oil and
1000 barrels Of whale oil. The ships had
pushed their ke.ls into every sea in every
corner of the world their officers had navi-
gated unchartered oceans and visited strange
lands; their sailors were famous for their
courage and endurance and their captains
noted because of their pluck, skill and
brains.
Those were busy days in Nantucket.
Along the water front were cooper shops,
rOpewalks, oilhouses warehouses; ship chan
dleries. spar yards. in fact every accessory
necessary to carry on the volume of business.
Buildings that have gone to ruin, yet still
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Some of the features of the new
Astor Hotel in New York City are SO
novel as to be noteworthy, observes
the San Francisco Chronicle. 1t would
have made any hotel man twenty years
ago gasp to be told of a. tifteen'story
house, each floor of which formed a
complete hotel in itself, and of q
ground floor spacious enough to fur
nish room for three large bathrooms.
Perhaps the most original part of the
plan Of this house is the reservation
of the upper story for clubs. Ger
tsinly these rooms will surpass any
other clubrooms in the world for lofty
elevation, and, perhaps, for theiI
adornment.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Fire Commissioner Russell has sent
out a circular to the members of his
department in which he intimates that
efficiency is the only thing which will
commend man to his favorable con-
sideration. He makes it very plainly
understood that members of the de-
partment keep their positions for the
ability which they display as tiremen.
He has no use for politics or
political tiremen in the depart
ment. He feels 1t is for the
good of the service for all firemen to
refrain from being connected with
political clubs. 1t is for their inter-
ests to either give up their political
club membership or their positions in
the fire department. He has no OBJ
lection to politician outside the de-
partment, but he does not see where
he comes in on the inside. The COM
missioner further intimates that polit-
ical pull will cut no figure in promo
tions. 1t will be merit and nothing
but merit. He asks for suggestions
from members of the departments as
to improvements in the service. On
the whole, it is very comprehensive
circular, which is apt to be pretty ex-
tensively read where fremen congre-
gate.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Under section 277 of the Penal
Code everybody connected with music
halls, roof gardens, and the like is a
lawbreaker if acrobatic performances,
rope-walking, exhibitions of strength,
Juggling or anything of the kind is
permitted there Why do not the
police enforce this law?
If Mr.. Roosevelt will read page
1929 of the revised Statutes he will
learn that every time he or any other
citizen uses "big, big D" he incurs
a penalty of 81, which he must pay or
go to jail. If Mr.. Roosevelt's police
rigidly enforce this law the revenues
of New York will overflow.
These are examples merely. They
show that our statute books are full
of dead letter laws which the police do
not enforce or attempt to enforce
Yet the same plea that justifies "dry
Sunday" renders it imperative that
every statute and every city ordinance
shall be rigidly enforced.
Mr.. Roosevelt is just now protest
ing that he intends no discrimination
between classes, and that the rich mans
drinking-place shall be as tightly
closed as the poor mans beer hall.
Mr.. Roosevelt knows that nothing OF
the kind can be. The rich man has an
ice-chest and club, and with these
the police cannot interfere. The poor
man cannot afford either. The en-
forcement of our intolerable, country
made and Puritanical Sunday laws
must always involve an abominable
discrimination.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

The United States Board on Geo.
graphic Names has adjourned, an.
nounces Walter Wellman in the Chi.
cago Times Herald, after settling such
an important question as the name OF
certain postoffice in Texas should be
spelled Desdemona instead of Desdi.
monia, as the Texans would have it.
Though a Tennessee postmaster,
backed up by the County Clerk, de-
clared a postoffice in that State was
properly donominated FEBRUARY,
the board insisted upon putting in
an another "r." The board, after
long and prayerful consideration, has
reversed its former decision and
changed Woods Holl, Mass. back to
Woods Hole. 1t has also declared
that Korea must be spelled with a
tx" or it won't go at the State De-
Dartment.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

What an amazing thing, exclaims
the New York Tribune, that hun
dred and thirty-seven members of the
British House of Commons could be
found willing to put themselves on
record as opposed to giving Oliver
Cromwell a memorial among those of
the other rulers Of England OF the
whole line of them, from Egbert to
Victoria, there are not half dozen
more worthy of the Kingdoms highest
honors than sturdy old Noll.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12
NEW YORK LETTER.
[ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. |

A new volume iu the history of iu-
dicial administration of this city has
opened, when the lately appointed
city magistrates UnI justices of the
Court OF SPECIAL Sessions take the
places of the police iusiic IS. whose re-
moyal was ordered nj the polls last
November by the people, and recently
decrced by the law-making power of
the state. This reform measure is
"A most important one in the plan for
the better government for the metrop.
oils. The new city IN Igistrate is IN
vested with all the authority of the old
police Justice, and will perform pre-
cisely the same duties in the admins
tratiOn of the law. But the methods
of that administration will be entirely
different; at least that is what the
supporters OF fair, square impartial
government demand and expect.
Under the rule of Tummanv, these
minor courts We're so many cogs and
wheels in Il great political machine.
A Tammany ''justice" was on the
bench, and behind him, when Tam
many "heeler' was placed at the bar,
stood the Tammany district leader, the
Tammany Alderman, the Tammany
State Senator and Assemblyman, the
Tammany Congressman, and, If the Of
fense was serious one and if the ac-
cused was of sufficient importance, the
Tammany Boss. As part of this in
iquitous system, the Tammany lawyer
made mock appeal for Justice" and
produced the Tammany straw bonds
man to give bail for his client. This
travesty of justice has come to an end.
Notorious criminals with pull will
not be able to walk ont of court snap
ping their fingers ut the law, while
poor creatures without the 'intioo-
ence" OF the 'deestrick leader" are
raiIroaded to the Island. deprived of
the right to say even word in their
own defense.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

England holds in subiection in In
dia between ITO, 900, 900 and 225, OOO,. .
900 people. The exact number is not
known, but it is known with accuracy,
maintains the New York World, that
they are held as revenue producers
under the same economic principle
which obtained in chattel slavery.
The form of subsection only has
changed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

The Bank of England is still in
creasing its holdings of gold. 1t now
has Sl9, 10000 more than it had
twelve months ago. The Bank OF
France has added S57, 900, 900 to its
hoard of gold in the same time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Bicycling has. it has been found by
careful inquiry by Tribune re-
porter, injured the sale and hiring
business of horses in New York City,
at conservative estimate, forty per
cent. at least.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Siberia is becoming civilized. A
German flute player named Terschak
has just ended tour of concerts in
which he played at Omsk, Irkutsk,
Tobolsk. Tomsk, and many other
towns, and pianist has been en-
gagged for next year to begin tour at
vladivostock on the Pacific and to
travel through Siberia back to Europe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Since England declined to join Rus.
sia, France and Germany in interfer-
ing with Japan the New Orleans Plea
yune notes that the Russisn press has
been pitching into the tight little isle
in furious fashion and threatening
all sorts of evils in the Pamirs.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

at is an old maxim of trade" de.
clares the New York Post, that the
condition of the iron industry is the
most faithful index to general trade
conditions. The trade is always,
therefore, worth especial study"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Japan has one of the best engineer
ing schools in the world, and is begin.
ming to manufacture creditable cleo
trical machinery.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

If the retired police justices hon.
estly believe themselves entitled to
continue to work and to draw their
salaries, common sense suggests that
they should avail themselves of every
legal means to prove their right-an
opportunity in other words, which en-
ables their opponents to show to the
contrary, assuming that they are right.
It's very pretty quarrel as it stands,
and eminent lawyers are quoted on
each side of the line.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Rumor has it that European florist
has succeeded in growing black roses.
Whereat a paper remarks that "there
should be society for the prevention
of cruelty to flowers"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

Postmaster Hesing, of Chicago, says
that the new street.car postal delivery
service in that city is great success.
There is saving of at least eight
hours in the delivery.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

There is really nothing to be said
concerning the astounding position
taken by Street Cleaner Waring. In
one breath he exclaims: There never
was deficiency, nor any expectation
of over expenditure, while in the very
next he claims that the issuing of 5000,
900 in bonds, with the proceeds OF
which these over expenditures are to
be met, is a vindication of his extra
ordinary extravaganza! Warnings a
dandy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

A London paper that las nothing
better to do has started discussion
OF the question why women write post
scripts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

The police authorities do not contend
that the law which forbids the poor
man to buy pitcher of beer for his
Sunday dinner is right or just They
say merely that it is law and therefore
that the police must enforce it. in
vite the attention of the police authori-
ties to some other laws which they do
not enforce.
They permit street hawkers to shout
and bray hideously in the streets,
though that is expressly forbidden by
law and is often very serious and
even dangerous invasion of the
rights of sick persons and others.
They permit beggars to throng the
streets and collect tribute sometimes
with threats. Yet all begging in the
streets or from door to door is eX-
pressly forbidden by law.
Many persons fish off the docks and
elsewhere within the city limits on
Sunday. Yet all fishing on Sunday is
a misdemeanor under the Penal Code.
Most of the delicatessen shops open
at ) o'clock on Sunday afternoon for
the accommodation of the comfortable
classes. They ought to be permitted
by law to do so, but they are not.
Why do not the police enforce that
law?
Anybody who plays game of any
kind within two miles of any religious
meeting is guilty of misdemeanor
under section 275 of our extraordina-
ry Penal Code. Why do not the
police shut up all billiard rooms,
chess clubs and the like during the
Friday evening prayer meeting time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

The Agricultural Department places
the annual loss caused by weeds at
10000, 900.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12
VOL. XXIII.
Essex County Herald.

In France there are far more female
han male bicyclists.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

The most unmistakable lesson of
the Buchanan case is that the Legis-
lature should radically revise our sys-
TEN of criminal procedure.
The man who died in the electric
chair deliberately poisoned his wife
to death between three and four years
ago. 1t has taken all that time to
bring him to punishment, not because
there was any doubt about the fact of
his crime or about its Nervousness.
The delay has been wrought solely by
the ingenuity of lawyers in taking ad-
vantage of our extraordinary system.
This system operates to defeat justice.
1t makes the punishment of crime
difficult and uncertain. 1t robs pun
ishment, when at last it is admins
tered, of its influence in deterring
others of evil mind from the commits
sion of crime. The system should be
changed. There should be some leg
islation now for the enforcement of
law and the protection of the people,
where all legislation in this depart
ment has been for years in the inter
est of criminals and their lawyers. The
problem of reform is not a difficult
one if the Legislature really wants to
solve it. A simple comparison of our
procedure with that of other civilized
states will show clearly where all the
evil lies.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12
ISLAND POND. VT. FRIDAY. JULY u. 1895.

The promoters OF the Long Island
Chautauqua which is about to open
Tor the season promise 'an interesting
and instructive program which
covers almost every field of thought"
This is a conservative statement. The
almost is pleonasm. The program
extends from the science OF nursing
babies to Greek, from photography to
psychology. II covers everything.
There are some who have accused the
the promoters of the Chautauqua sys-
TEN of encouraging smattering. They
aliege that it does not promote such
sound learning as prevails on Manhat-
tan Island, but is rather device
for acquiring the Beacon Hill, hand
me-down culture of Boston.
The charge is slanderous. The
Chautauqua is the result of an inspir-
alton. The American schoollna' am
has made up her mind to know every
thing and also to spend her vacation
at the seaside. Being woman gener-
ally under thirty and good looking,
she is altogether capable of achieving
the impossible. The Chautauqua is
one of the ways she has of doing it,
As a result of it she will bathe, hirt
little in decorous and commendable
way and learn all there is to be known
of everything anybody else knows.
That is as it should be. 1t means as
piration, and the aspiration of our
schoolma ans is the star to which We
have hitched our wagon in America.
1t is our main chance of getting pulled
skyward.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-07-12

The plain and emphatic order issued
by Col. Waring that the men In the
employ of The city Street Cleaning
Department have got to earn their
pay or quit is just and timely dec
laration of policy. The city of New
York pays its street cleaners higher
rate of wages than is paid by any con-
tractor. 1t has right to exact from
every man on the payroll full days
work under penalty of discharge for
failure. In any case in which, as Col.
Waring charges, the city is not getting
more than wo-thirds of the work out
of its men that private contractor
would get, the city is doubly cheated
it pays more and gets less.
There is 10 reason why the Depart
ment of Street Cleaning should be en-
numbered by the retention of any men
who from "age, weakness, laziness or
indifference are rendering less than
Il full days service for full days
pay. If the city of New York is I'M
der any obligation to pension anybody
it does not want to pension him on the
Street Cleaning Department. That is
a service in which nothing less than
vigorous and efficient work can entitle
a man to place on the payroll.
| may add that the same rule may
very properly apply to the other de-
partments in which day labor is en-.
ployed at the city's expense The
Park Department and the Dock De-
partment have no authority to pay
any man days wages unless he has
earned it by days work, and day s
work means full, willing and efficient
service such as is exacted and rem
dered in corresponding private EN-.
ployment KN1oKERBocKER.