The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-02-03


aire president of the fnCst exclusive city ciu
serves on one of the hardest working commit
y tees of the charity org anzatiCn; while the Mul
= berry Bend ;'ociaIst Chlb passes resolution
regarding the p:ndiGg rapid transit deals ant
Father So and So of some little cast s!tle mission
I points moral with the est bulge: Of society
| happenings.
| Politics. sports, ainu;emCnts-thCse draw the
, / people together and keep social antipodes il
touch. As to the first, almost every item of the
| senatorial bulletin is of moment to New York
4 ers, many of the NEST importaGt bills presented
1 oeIDg in TIE inferCst of this city alone. Cover
nor Roosevelt WAS here SATURDAY to meet Mr.
Platt, OTeii aud Root to talk over police litiga.
ton. This is much discussed subject in good
government and ty Clubs. The Governor be-
lievcs complete separation of tie Bureau Of
Injections from the Police Department with :Ec
establishment OF Il State Board of Police Surer-
vision, will work wonders in the way or reform.
| He srgues largely from the results of the act
authorizing State superintendent of Elections.
| AS Il matter of fact no ore denies the fact that
| SUPERINTENDENT McCulIough's eXcrtion5 have
| prevented the polling OF thousands CT fraudu-
lent votes in this city. Hut there are those
| who believe that all diseases can not be cured
| by the same medicine, and DR.. Parkhurst, who
l has done so much i'll the cause of political
| housekeeping, and who is u pei onal friend
| OF the Governor, though not Republican, has
written him protesting against any legislati IN
| in the matter. He admits that the evils OF the
\ police situation, especially since Devery was
put at the head of the force are most deplorabe,
but he agrees with Frank Moss, the former Po-
| lice Commissioner, that any legislation that is
possible at present will tend to increase rather
| than mitigate these evils. In his characteristic
| way the doughty little doctor writes: "Of
course every reputable citizen would like to see
/ our dcmoraliZed condition righted. Dirty
streets we should like to see swept; dirty police
| morals we should love to see cleaned, but if
citizen is either too listiess or two partisan to
| serve his city Loyalty at the polls, he will be
made laz!er and q meauer citizen, still ty be-
ing encouraged TO EXPECT that what he lacks in
Individual action will be made up for him by
the Gcverner and Legislature MeacwEi.e
corruption continues.
Tax reform is another subject over which
local politicians as well rs utopians hay shout
al themselves hoarse. There is bill now be-
Gore the body at Albany providing for the tax
alton of franchises held BY street railway and
gas oIupanics, and corporations holding iar2c
wharf CT water frontage rights exc. This tar
:sibe property covered by the terms personal
or real" as commonly used, is com paratively
small, but their franchises worth millions.
The passage of this bill would incnn III, i'm
meu5ey increased city lCvenue, ARA would
prove an opening wedge fer other much need
I'D legislation along this line. Tie New York
state tax laws as they now stand, Are iuQGit "us
where hey are not tarcicAl. Ia many town,
assessors make no iretense Of taxing bonds
mortgages and graiE STOCKS held by prosperous
farmers, but are most conscientious in ascer-
tanning the exact income of some poor woman
ar strugg ing clerk. New appointments bring
no relief. Unreliability seems to be disease
shat invariably attacks an Ciilceholder in this
department. As L matter of fact, while the bill
now pending will, Fer Sc, do little TO right the
evils already rife, lis sponsors hope to make ii
he first of II series aiming at radical reform,
Tor our whole system of tax ition is SO chaotic
and open to abuse that no solid reformation
IAN be hoped for without Il wholesale dealing
Elth the subject on scientific principles. Ire
niarchants and Manuf .cturer5 Association is
| bitterly fighting Assemblyman Henry's bill
ROW before the Senate, to raise tie telephone
rates This is essentially the same bill that SEN
utor Bush introduced last year. 1hc Investi-
| eating Committee, of which E. n. Faiiows is
| the chairman, is now in executive session at
| the State Capitol. TIE committee has data to
! prove that Surrogate Arnold hasscrved the i'll
Ter, SITS OF his relatives and men employed in
| his own private Jaw Office TO an extent that is
simply appalling to the public. Complaintsre-
i Rarding the methods of this official alc not by
| any means new. Many of the charges run
over period of several years. MIR. Arnold
went On the bench i'll January Of 1894, and
things have bean growing gradually worse
since that date. Ill health has been given as
! an excuse for delay in disposing of estates, but
even this has been found no longer feasible
and the public Is clamoring for facts.
Austen q. Fox ana Wallace McTar aue both
Democrats OF high reputation for ability and
integrity, have just beea selected to conduct
! the canal prosecutions. Their appointments
/ gives the best assurance that the cases will be
conducted without regard for the interests Of
| the Republican party. If under the supervis-
len of these two men it il decided that there is
| nothing for which Mr.. Al,ilidge or Mr.. Adams
! can be prosecuted, the, { will be no excuse for
any talk of ''whitewash." On this subsequent
decision hundr> DIS Of rrsonal interests hang ut
this moment, among which is the case of the
young evil engineer who was dismissed with
out explanation the day ,ft .r lie refused to
reports.
Eae,suwhi!e the mil! grinds on, and i: is dis
tlnct relief ut times to get beyond the sound Of
| its tIreless wheels. Whees but OF quite an
other character, however, have occupied the
attention Of large part of the population late
| ly. The SIX days Cycle Saow, which closed
| Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, was
| an immense success. Over fifteen hundred
| people were admitted the first Night between
| the hours OF and 10 p. NJ. A ve.cran sale IS
! man remarked that there was noticeable i'm
! provement in the character and intelligence of
| the average oulooker, THE bicycle" he said,
| had proved itself to be an educator us well as
| d recreation. People who neither knew nor
cared any more for Inc chanics before they OWE
| ed a wheel than tho average plumber does
about classical music, now follows our techrc Il
| descriptions of Il new make as intelligrn!iy as
| one of our own machinists," Every conceivable
| sty lie oil wheel was Of course in evidence and
| interest was keen among the spectators ne
| millionaire maker of automobiles ruboed
! shoulders and sometimes exchanged views with
| the every day rider. the scorcher, and the rae
] ing man. The automobiles attracted universal
/ attention Wheelmen think they have come to
stay, aud that ten years will see til M ~ neral
| use. On the whole, the show has proved such
| q success that second one IS talaed of fer
| March next.
| Despite the immense crowds day and night ut
the great Garden Amph Theatre, there YVES
not the slightest dimuntion in the attendance
at other places of amusement. About thirty
| good theatres are open every night and are
| we'll filed, besides the numerous vaudeville
and continuous performance" attractions,
not to mention Grand Opera and many minor
attractions in the musical world.
| Ada Rehan is still Interpreting Shakes pearc's
| woman for us, and charmingly, too. Nat Good
| win and Maxine Elliott are giving Clyde Fitch's
great play, Nathan Hale" and Olga Neither
sole coquets as the Second Mrs. Tanguery.'
| Mrs. Lester Carter, vino took certain set of
| theatre-goers by storm in THE Heart of Mary
land" some time since, is now playing in 'Zaza''
to crowded houses, ut the Garrick theatre, and
Viola Allen is still starring here in that much
discussed play, THE Christian" These are all
successes in their way, as are the remainder of
the two dozen or more plays on every night.
The tendency of the average play is distinctly
wholesome, even when the plot and setting al c
deplorably commonplace. Rave as the critics
may, and as they did, about 1.-The Christian, -
the ordinary theatre-goer likes best liberal
. share of the sentimental with no small supply
of moral sprinkled through, and they get it.
tSuch plays as 1.-THE Village Postmaster" lathe
Old Homestead" "The Christian, ""Catherne''
and dozens like them that draw good houses
for months in succession. prove no small factor
| in the peoples education. Several Of the down
| town theatres have prices ranging from % up
and whole families spend their evenings there
Of course the best actors are never there, but
| it is the minority who care for the artist the