The herald., 1896-05-10
THE INDECENT SCAVENGERS
Who Ply Their Trade Near
WestIake Park
SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED
Newsboys, Good, Bad and Indifferent.
Have Some Attention
Hutchlson Then Shows Up Very Stupid
BIunder on the Part OF the nonarch
of San Francisco

The keenest note of inharmonious
| condemnation should cut deep into the
| auditory nerves of whoever is response
| BILE for the vile odors that are waited
| on almost all breeZes that blow over the
| erstwhile delightful region round about
| Westlake park.
| Some ghoulish chaps haul tons Of VILE
smelling compounds of garbage and
manure and spread it out over the tract
of land a few rods west of the said park.
AS soon as the heap is large enough for
their demoniacal purposes the torch is
applied, and the sublimated essence of
fifty or a hundred tons of reeking filth is
waited on the innocent breezes that are
becoming pestilential because of the
evil deeds of the indecent scavengers.
This plague occurs two or three times a
month, and the baleful odors come from
the smoldering filth for week or more
after the application of the torch of his
Foulness, the cause of it all.
Perhaps the unusual breezes OF these
Wyoming-like days are too strong for
the men with the watering CARTS AT
any rate, little water to lay the rest
less spirit of the omnipresent dust
would be gratefully received by the
Snuffering public.
II 1t would not be too much like trou-
pie Tor the police, the decent portion of
the public would like to see a slight de-
crease in the number of street fights and
bloody noses and indecent langua ee
caused by certain unhanged villains
VINO have sneaked in among the news
boys of this city, and whose only busi-
ness seems to be to steal papers from
honest boys and brutally beat those
who object for the edifica ton of the
passing public.
II might be we'll for those who have
charge of the Newsboys' home 70 see
that they use the home" for newsboys
VINO nave no other home. I know of
several vicious young brutes who fire.
quently run awak from merited punish
inent az thelr own homes and seek shell
ter in the Newsboys home, a few blocks
away.
If the home" is to be turned into a
shelter for rascals and toughs, it should
De abolished. Several of the neighbors
OF tne nome section" have complained
Oh this matter repeatedly.
The handful of people who greeted the
gifted author of Curfew Must Not Ring
Ionlght on her appearance at Simpson
tabernacle last Monday night while the
vaudeville theaters were crowded illus
trates some very dry sermons that we
nave long neglected to our discredt
These alleged oratorical college con-
tests. in which brave man stands on his
feet and repeats an essay with verbal ac-
curacy, might be improved upon slightly.
The San Francisco Examiner is out
WIN a nuge illustration which claims to
represent the comparative size of
greater" New York and its bicycles,
copied from the Now York World.
The bicycles are rolled into one huge
afair, which overrides the city to the
height of two or three miles, and is far
higher than the city is wide.
a rough calculation will show any one
that the material required to build BIZ
cycle three miles high with the propor-
t1onS of those in vogue would be enough
to make about four hundred billions of
bicycles-or about 300 bicycles for each
man, woman and child on the globe.
If there are one million bicycles in
greater New York, they would make
one great bicycle only little over 215
feet high. with a rubber tire about 20
feet thick.
Even the Examiner will admit that
there is some difference between two BIZ
cycles, one of whose wheels is three
miles high while the other has wheels
but 215 feet high.
AS there are but small fraction of
100000 wheels in greater" New York,
the absurdity of the artist-calculator's
work is very apparent to the simplest
and wisest.
A little thinking and little knowledge
of geometry and cube root would be a
good thing for some of the alleged scien-
tific-pictorial sensationalists of the il
lustrated papers. Remember the fact
that similar solids are to each other as
the cubes of their like dimensions.
Yours truly,
EDWARD T, HJTTCHJSON