Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-09
Mazet Committee Will Recommend
Changes in New York's Charter.
PREPARATIONS TO RECEIVE DEWEY
How Many College Students Earn
Money During Summer.
CITY'S CAPACITY FOR FRUIT



1t is asserted that members of the Mazet
committee have begun to prepare their
| recommendations for remedial legislation
| which will accompany the committees re-
4 port to the state assembly. Indications are
| that Frank Moss, the counsel to the Ma
| letters, has been instructed to conduct his
| examination of witnesses from now on
| looking principally to what can be sug-
| gested to change and improve the present
| system of government in this city. There
no longer is doubt that republican party
leaders have decided that the city charter
must be amended, and there is a POSSIBLE
ity that some of the amendments to be
recommended will be radical in the ex-
| IRENE as q departure from the original
1 work of the charter commission. The
| knowing ones are figuring on the possible
changes, which at present appear to be as
| follows:
The adjustment of the municipal council
| of New York city.
The perpetuation of the board of alder
| men, composed of sixty members, repre-
senting the sixty assembly districts in the
city. with enlargement of their powers,
| especially in regard to financial matters,
| and to. make the aldermen really a local
| legislative body.
| An increase of salary for the aldermen
| and a identifying of their position; the
granting of permits for peanut and boot
| black stands, etc, to be transferred to the
| bureau of licenses.
Either the doing away entirely with the
| borough presidents or an enlargement of
| their powers to make useful officials of
| them.
The adjustment of the board of public
| improvements or a restriction of its powers
Possibly the grouping of various allied
departments and bureaus into larger gov
| ernmentai divisions, as the department of
public safety, including the fire. police and
! health departments, with single head,
| and the department of public improve
| ments, to include the present separate d.
| visions of highways. sewers, water supply,
| bridges and lighting.
| The curtailment of fees in certain Offices
| such as those received by the clerk of gen.
| eral sessions.
The adjustment of many sinecures and
| useless offices which go now to swell ram
| manys fat salary list.
| To Relieve Congestion i'm Post Office.
Tomorrow a new plan which Postmaster
| Van Colt believes will tend largely to re-
| lieve the congestion of mail matter at the
! general post office will be adopted. All
mail matter of the second, third and fourth
| classes, for points in the west, to be dis
| patched over the New York Central and
| West Shore roads, and for points in the
| New England states and Long Island. will
| be transferred in mail vans from the gen.
| eral post office to station II, in the Grand
| Central Palace. There these mails will be
| handled by force of fifteen clerks, trans
| ferred from the force now at work in ham
ding this class of mail matter in the gen.
| eral post office The postmaster is giving
close attention to other plans for overcom-
| ing the congestion of mail matter at the
| general post office. The pneumatic mail
| tubes have been of great benefit in the dis
/ patching of first-class mail matter, but the
| accumulation of mail matter of the second
third and fourth classes, newspapers, other
| publications and merchandise, is serious
| question. The suggestion was made some
1 iraa 400 hat in hlIil Inns No. ~
| the post office be rented where this class
| of mail matter could be handled. Mr. Van
| Colt has been in correspondence with the
department at Washington, and this plan
| was approved He says that for the proper
| handling of such mail matter 10000 square
| feet of floor space will be necessary, and it
| is almost impossible to secure such accom-
modatons in the vicinity. All of this class
| of mail matter is now handled and dis
| tributed in the basement of the general post
| office, dark, hot and poorly ventilated
| space.
Preparations to Receive Dewey.
Preparations for the welcome home and
reception of Admiral Dewey are assuming
| a business-like aspect. The plan and scope
| committee has received and approved the
| action taken by the various subcommittee.
| Numerous contracts have already been
| awarded, and almost one-half of the appro-
priation of S150.00O set aside by the munich
| pal assembly for the Dewey reception has
| been provided for 1t is more than likely
| that at the next meeting of the plan and
| scope committee, of which Gen. Daniel But
| terrified Is chairman contracts will be
| awarded for one of the chief features of the
celebration, and that is for electric illumi-
| nations. The Examinations will continue for
| three nights, and at different points along
Broadway and 9Th avenue there will be sus-
pended and moving electric devices, wherein
various colored lights will shine like con-
stellations. But it is in City Hall Park
! where the electric display will give the
| greatest effect. From every point of the
| city hall clusters of beautiful lamps Will
| give out their brillia ncy The tower Of The
hall will be veritable ball of fire. while in
front of the main entrance will be placed
revolving electric wheel of fortune Thirty
trees in the park, especially selected for the
purpose, will be resplendent with nnyriads
| of colored incandescent lamps and will pre-
sent spectacle never before seen here
| The park fountain will be turned into an
electric fountain, the water being made to
appear as liquid rainbow. Nearly Is 900
electric lamps will be needed for these iIlu-
limitations, and it is said they will be the
most complete ever attempted. Along the
river front there will also be MANY electric
displays, the various railroad and steam
ship companies having signified their inten-
.lon 70 JON IN the celebration Across the
mammoth hood of the Pennsylvania rail-
road depot in Jersey and facing the river
In huge electric letters will shine out these
| words welcome Home to Dewey
Summer Jobs for Students.
College students who must themselves
provide for all or a part of their expenses
look upon the long summer vacation as a
period especially devised by Providence to
enable them TO recuperate their waning for
tunes. New fields have been opened for
their exertions within the last year or two
The summer resorts have always been a
source of revenue for college boys. There
they wait upon dining tables, serve as por-
tiers, or sometimes even get to be clerks at
the big hotels. or they find employment in
similar capacities on the steamers which
cater to the summer resort trade. In the
ticket offices of the transportation compa-
MES there are frequently summer Chances
for college men. But these positions are
now also sought by college women, and the
men are being crowded in their search for
summer work. Musical students find or
chestra positions at the summer places ex-
tremeiy profitable, and the glee club men
often hire out for the season to sing on
summer resort steamers or at hotels This
is especially popular in the Catskills and
Adirondacks. These latter occupations are
looked upon as snaps. Hundreds of stu
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