El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-27

new congressman for that district.
Rupert did not know but said he
would call up the democratic club and
find out. So he went to the telephone
and, calling up the club, asked for
some one in authority. Mr.. Carroll
answered the phone, but said be would
have to see Mr.. Croker before he could
tell who was going to run in Rupperts
district. Carroll went up stairs and
returned in few minutes with the in
formation that RUPERT himself had
been selected to run and by some over
sight had not been notified. Mr.. Rup-
pert, who is a wealthy young brewer,
takes his election as huge joke. and
says be never thought anything about
the nomination until he cav in the pa
pers that he had been elected.
A remarkable scene occurred at the
church of the Messiah Sunday. The
Rev. Minot J. Savage preached
upon Great B-itain's course in South
Africa, and he had just declared that
in the event of Great Britain being at
tackled by any other power in her pres
ent predicament, "the United States
would owe it as the highest duty to
God to place every ship, every gun,
every dollar she possesses at the back
of and beside England'-he had hard
| ly pronounced the last of these words
when the congregation as body loud
ly applsuded the preach err, many stand
| ing to emphasize their approval OF DR..
Savaee's statement.
Such demonstration in church
was most unusual even for New York
where some of the ministers seem bent
| upon working up excitement in their
churches at whatever cost to their
dignity. A week or two ago the bill
boards all over the city were covered
with immense posters advertising a
series of adventist meetings and sign
boards announcing sensational SER
mons are coming to be common.
There is lively fight now going on
between the comptroller, Bird S.
Coler, and the mayor in regard to the
building of bridges and tunnels to
cross East River. The comptroller
charges that his party, Tammany,
prefers bridges because they would
give opportunities for jobbery and
cost vsstly more than tunnels, the ratio
being $1,000 900 for tunnels to 1000,
600 for bridges. The comptroller also
charges that spectators In Long Is
land and Queens county real state
have exerted undue influence on the
mayor. The comptroller claims that
while the expense of the bridges would
always be very heavy the tunnels
would more than pay for themselves
by revenue derived from the railway
that would rent them from the city.
Commissioner OF Public Buildings
Kearney seems to be back of the fight
for the bridges and it is not unlikely
that scandal similar to the Ramapo
water steal will be uncovered in
time.
The eleven branches of the New
York Free Circulating library were
closed Sunday for the fret time in
years because the city government, by
quitting down the library's allowance
has made it impossible to keep the
branches open. This is one of the re-
suits of the petty economy practised by
in order that the city shall
have more money to squander on sal- |
aries TO politicians. The patrons of |
the Free Circulating library number |
10000 and they are mostly of the |
poorer classes who cannot take advau-
age of the library except on Sunday.
It rem aims to be seen how these people
will view Tammany's action in this and
Iimilar cases.
LIST November Miss Julia Arthur
created some excitement by stopping
n the midst of her performance of
More Than Queen" at the Broadway
heater and demanding that a woman
iad two men who occupied one of the
'oxes should leave the house at once.
Kiss Arthur claimed that the occupants
# the box were annoying her by loud
alking and laughter. The fact of the
natter fs that they were "guying"
Hiss Arthur's acting. AS the result of
Hiss Arthur's action she has now been
ued for $50, 900 damages by Miss Flor I
nee Crosby, the woman who was ex-
luded from the theater, and unless the
latter is settled out of court, there
Ill be very Interesting trial. Ben
amin P. Cheney, ''Miss Arthur's" \
usband, is the real defendant in the
lit.
Street railway accidents are becom-