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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

Ocean. and others to be given within
a week. prove that In special-assess-
ment matters the public gets value re-
ceived for about GO per cent. Of the
money it pays for improvements. The
other 40 per cent. Is wastage and plum
der. In other branches of the public
works department the percentage is
about the same. With the opportuni-
ties offered by a sum as large as S23.-
100000 to spend. the stealing and swim
ding would be so great as to raise the
percentage of loss materially. About
S13.oOO,OOO. of the proposed appropra.
tons, therefore. might give adequate
returns to the taxpayers. but the other
S1O.00O,OO0 would be spent to advance
Carter Harrlson's political interests.
1t is fortunate for the city of Chi
cago that there are restrictions In the
State and city charters which Were
provided to check just such wholesale
onslaughts on the public funds. The
project to spend S1,OOO.OOO of the water
fund for sewer building by day labor
Is possible only by vote of twO-thirds
of the City Council, and 1t is incredible
that forty.six Aldermen will vote to
create iobbery fund for Carter Har-
rison's Governorship campaign. More
| over. the audacious plan of devoting
ST.. 100000. to be raised by bond issue.
to work that has been made necessary
by previous dishonesty and incompe.
tencc at the City Hall. will require a
change in the state constitution.
| The constitution of the State of ILL
nois fixed the limit of municipal in
debtedness at per cent. of the assess
cd valuation of all taxable property
| within the city. Chicago has been for
some years bonded up to this limit.
The new revenue law, however. placed
the limit at 2ia per cent The forth.
coming valuation for 1890. to be set by
the Board of Review and the State
Board of Equalization. Is likely to show
that the city Is overloaded already.
Commissioner Mccain and the Panel
House party advocate going back to
the constitutional provision of per
cent. in order to allow h bond issue.
This. under the probable valuation of
this year. would he likely to give the
city an opportunity to borrow some $5,-
100000 or S6OOO.OOO more. An act of
the Legislature. however, Is needed to
make even this possible. But II the
whole S22,OOO,OOO wanted is to be OBJ
tanned. the state charter must he
changed. ana such change Is too i'm.
probable to he worthy of serious con!
| sldcratOn. Inter Ocean.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
WHAT GAME Law REALLY IS.

Owing to n lack Of Information on the
part Of the public In the matter Of the
seasons for various kinds of game,
State Game Warden LOveday desires
that these phases of the game law be
made known.
"Prairlc chickens and quail of the
State of Illinois are not for sale ut any
time," said Mr.. Lovctlay recently. but
the law allows Illinois dealers to re-
ceive game from other States and sell
It In our markets from Oct. l until
Feb. .. The open season for shooting
prairie chicken In Illinois is September
only. The season for shooting quail Is
from Nov. to Dec. 20.
"Water fowl may be killed ana sold
In our markets from Sept. ! to April Il
of the following year. This includes
snipe ana plover. Some complaint has
been made over the present game law,
hut l am merely enforcing It as 1t
stands on the books. Throughout the
State the game law has been better
lived up To this year than ever before"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
NEWELL ANSWERS THE MAYOR.

Alexander II. Revell has returned
from the East where he went as Il
member Of the Army and Navy Com.
mittee to invite Admiral Dewey to visit
the city on Chicago Day. Mr.. Revell
thinks Mayor Harrison IL guilty Of
making Measurements In his reported
interviews. In which he charges Mr.
Reve.l and his committee with attempt
ing to force themselves In ahead Of the
Chicago committee. Mr.. Revell saw
Admiral Dewey on board the Olympia,
and there made an engagement with
him to meet the committee In Wash.
ingtOn.
New York." said Mr.. Kevell. twas sim
ply to make an engagement for our
committee to see him In Washington
We did not extend our invitation Ia
him in New York. and I cannot under.
stand why the Mayor should assume
that any invitation had been extended
by anyone In New York except by him.
self.
II regret exceedingly that the Mayor
has brought politics into the late fcs-
tival. 10 think that all the represent
tative men who spoke ut the banquets
and dinners given during the festlvl.
ties could fail to refer to the war
would he insanity. The war ana It's re-
suits did not belong to party, but to
the country, and Democrats as well as
Republicans did the fighting and par.
ticlpated with considerable enjoyment
in all the proceedings Of the past few
weeks. both here and In New York dur.
ing the Dewey reception"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
the CITY ROBBEO.

The following real estate transfers
were filed for record last week:
Elston avenue, 176 feet south of
Blackhawk street, west front, $50 feet
to north branch, and other property
adjoining, Walter Oakley Company to
American Hide and Leather Company,
S42S,537.
Dix street. northeast corner Sanga-
mon, So feet to north branch, and 9TH
or property adjoining, W. n. Eisend-
rath 4 Co. to American Hide and
Leather Company, $179,111.
Two city streets and one city alley
are included in these transfers.
Who Is getting the graft" for this
sort of thing at the City Hall?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
LARGEST
WEEKLY CIRCULATION
IN CHICAGO.
our GOOD TELEPHONE SERVICE.

Year by year and month by month
the rate Of use of telephones in Chi
cngo increases. II seems that the more
telephones there are the more each one
Is used. and the rate per call which Is
paid by the users Is probably less than
IL paid for telephone service In any
foreign country. Every now and then
accounts are published showing how
low the price of the telephone Is In
Germany, or some European country
1t IL found, In looking into this matter.
that these telephones are only used
once or twice day. and that they are
used for the transmission of unlmpor-
tant messages. The class of the service
IL, therefore, very inferior TO American
practice. and Is by no means rs cX-
pensive to maintain. II II still true of
the city of London that one man calls
another by telephone and makes an
appointment so that he can go and talk
10 him. He does not do the talking or
transact the business by telephone. In
London, Paris, Berlin and Hamburg.
the largest European exchanges, the
entire system Is In the next five years
to be rebuilt and reorganize,l to bring II
up to the modern American practice.
The operating appliances which are
being installed in all Of the new eX.
changes In Chicago have been ordered
for these cities and will he largely
manufactured In Chicago and installed
during the next few years.
The telephone user who deals at
short range with the instrument on the
wall or on his desk knows very little
Of the elaborate and intricate system Of
cOnduits, cables, wires, switchboards,
trunk lines or other technical appli-
anccs which are necessary for tele-
phone service and make 1t possible for
him in making a call to speak with an
other subscriber in the same exchange
or In any part of the country. II Is
the general testimony of the users In
foreign cities that Il poor working tele-
phone Is about one of the worst things
a man can get hold of, and the high
class of service furnished by the Chi
cago Company Is unknown 10 them.
When the public realize that either in a
place of business or a residence this
service may be had, affordng COM
munication with over 10000 patrons,
at an expense a. low as IL cents n day,
there Is very little to complain of in
the rate. II Is we'll known by the Chi
caeo public that the company leaves
nothing undone in continued effort To
give good service ana treat It's patrons
well
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
BRE WERS SUE COLLECTOR COYNE.

Nine suits filed In the United States
Circuit Court against Collector of In
ternal Revenue COyne by brewers are
to be united and made the basis for a
test of the construction to be placed
upon the Dingley act with reference
to the discount heretofore allowed upon
the sale Of beer stamps to brewers
Eight suits were begun by the Best
Brewing Company, TOsettl Brewing
Company, Star Brewery. Conrad Seipp
Brewing Company, Independent Brew
ing Association, +. J. Dewes Brewing
Company, Chicago Brewing Company
and Birk brothers Brewing Company,
their claims for discount aggregating
almost $4,000. A similar suit was be-
gun some weeks ago by the Manhattan
Brewing Company, which claims
$1,000.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
JACOB REHM BUYS REAL ESTATE.

Jacob Rehm has bought from George
IL. O'Brien sixteen and a half acres
at the southeast corner of Armitage
avenue and 4sth street for $4,000.
The property is in Cragin and the st.
Paul road bounds 1t on the south. Mr..
Rehm has sold five acres of this tract,
located at the southeast corner of Ar
mitage and OBrien avenues, to a syn
dictate for $4,000. The purchasers will
at once subdlvlde this into fOrty-siX
lots and sell " out. Mr.. Rehm gave
Mr.. OBrlen in part payment three
houses at the northeast corner of Cen
ter street and Lane place ut valua-
tiOn OF $780, 900. These houses are two
stories and basement. Two are of
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

stone construction and one Of brick.
The transaction was negotiated by Carl
Lott. Mr.. Rehm has also bought from
Jacob BirkhOlx tract of twelve and a
half acres lying on both sides of Clark
street. beginning GOO feet north Of De-
Won street, at $4,000. Mr.. Rehm gave
Mr.. Birkholx in payment the property
at 222 and 224 North Clark street and
$4,000 In cash. The property IL AK
100 feet. improved with three.story
store and fiat building.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
WHAr'S THE MEANING Of rms ?

We clip the following from the Rec.
ord of Thursday:
Fifty horses that cannot win races
at Harlem are wanted by the British
government for army service, accord
ing to a notice posted at the track. At
every race track there are horses well
bred but Outclassed and comparatively
valucless as gallopers. These are
bought by the British army for Its Of.
ficcrs."
What Is the meaning Of this2
Is the United states ut war with the
Beers. too. that II permits Britain to
buy contraband of war here?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
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STEALING our STREETS.


ston avenue, covers public alley. for
which the city Of Chicago gets no com.
pensatiOn whatever.
Some one at the City Hall was set.
fled with for this, as 1t is rumored that
the sum of $1,000 was put up at one
time to quiet an investigation into It.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail.
way has cut piece Of the Chicago
River or by constructing a new docl;
outside of the dock at the ruins of the
old Air Line elevator. Two pile driv.
ers began work late on Saturday night,
and by O o'clock Sunday the dock had
been completed. Filling in Is all that
remains to be done.
The section of the river taken Is tri.
angular, having face on the river
front Of over one hundred feet. At the
west end 1t Is thirty-flve feet wide, and
Its value will be several hundred thou.
sand dollars.
West Of Wells street bridge the
dock runs In straight line along the
Northwestern yards to the east end of
the old elevator. The elevator was
burned last summer, and the site was
acquired by the road. Just here the
dock line slants northward, ending mt
the docks Of the Durham Towing Com.
pany In n little slip. The elevator dock
was IN bad condition, and when the
pile drivers were lined up In the dark.
hess. Ostensibly to repair It, they took
line continuing the river front of the
railroad yards.
Many old rivermen maintain that the
river bottom there never belonged to
the road, and that there is no shadow
Of Justification for appropriating 1t.
The Union Hide and Leather Com.
pany, or its successor, the Lake Tan.
ming Company, occupy thirty-flve feet
Of the river for a distance OF 800 feet
south Of Division street.
The Gas Trust occupies the river for
thirty.five feet for 1000 feet south Of
Division street.
Elsendrath's tannery Is out thirty
feet on Dix street, and thirty-iive feet
on Sangamon street.
The Philip Rim Company, Mt Crosby
and Division streets, occupy the side
walks with their lumber and do not pay
the city for the room.
The ArtesIan Stone and Lime Com.
pany Is said to have fenced In Ohio
street at Campbell avenue, ana also
most Of Campbell avenue. 1t advertises
In the Champion Of Graft.
The Mayor has vetoed an order OF
the Council granting permission to a
manufacturing industry to trespass
upon an alley. The Mayor vetoed the
order upon the ground that property
owners AUDITING had not consented,
and that no compensation to the mu.
nlclpality had been provided.
The Mayors veto Is proper. The rea-
sons assigned are not proper. The
Mayor should have told the Common
Council bluntly that In recent deci-
sion Of the Supreme Court 1t was pro-
vided that the Council has no author.
ity to permit trespass upon the city's
highways. The decision Is clean-cut
and unequlvocal. No compromise Ia
suggested. Compensation or no com.
pensatlon, consent Of property owners
or no such consent, the Council Ia
without authority to give grant of
the kind.
The Supreme Court said: "There Ia
nothing In any portion Of the general
incorporation acts which cOnfers pow
err on the municipality to devoting a
street or any part Of 1t to a mere pri.
vate use."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

department Of special assessments. Mr..
Nourse Is sending out notices to his pa.
irons that there is no need of the col.
lection being placed in the hands of
outside persons, ms the money awaits
the proper parties in the water Office.
How about the meter department
since honest John Maloney was driven
out Of the service?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
i0vlX0 CUP FOR "sife" NAIL.

Justice william T. (BlfD Hall was
presented with silver loving cup by
G. l.. Peyton, manager of the Daily
Law Bulletin. The cup was won in a
contest to determine who was the mag.
istrate best fitted to bear the words
competence, integrity and impartial
ity."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21
DISCOVERS WATER FRAUDS.

superintendent NOurse of the bureau
of water has discovered scheme to
defraud persons to whom water re-
bates are due Of half of the amount
due them by placing the collection Of
the rebate in the hands of a collection
agency which has been operating In the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

Charles Il. BOYD has been appointed
receiver for the property Of John. II.
Neagle, the Alderman, f. @. Neagle
Company, Agnes ]. !, Neagle, Julia
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

The board Of directors of the State
Pawners' Society have appointed Isaac
Neides, Of Milwaukee, assistant man
ager Of the pawnshOp soon to be open
ed at 50 Washington street.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

Mayor Harrison deserves credit fol
driving the loan sharks from the City
Hall. Now II he will only discharge
his heads Of departments and chief
clerks who have been receiving rake
offs from the sharks he will do the pub.
lie some good.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

The famous Chicago Stock Exchange
restaurant, ut 1OS La Sale street. has
been crowded to the guards during the
festival week. The Chicago Stock Elk
change Restaurant Ii now conceded ia
be the most popular eating resort IN
Chicago.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

The Thirteenth Ward Republican
Club has adopted resolutions ind0rsing
President McKinley's Philippine policy
ana demanding establishment Of Amer.
lean sovereignty there. A transcript Of
the clubs action has been sent to the
President over the signatures Of A. ].
Keating, James Frake and Ephralm
Banning.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-19
WILL BE A BIG YEAR.
Exports Will Exceed Those of Any
Previous One.

Washington, Oct. 1S.-Present indica-
ports of the calendar year 1899 will be
the largest in our history. The total
for the eight months ending with Au-
gust showed an excess of twelve mil
lion dollars over the corresponding
months of 1898 which was the largest
calendar year in our exporting history
and the September statement of bread
stuffs, provisions, cottons and mineral
oils, shows for those four classes alone
an excess of twelve million dollars over
September of last year. When to this
is added the fact that the exports of
manufactures are now much larger
than at this time last year and that
even in the re-eXportation of foreign
goods the figures of this year exceed
those of last, it seems probable that
the calendar year 1899 will show a
larger total of exports than that of any
preceding year.
The increase in expectations shown
by the figures of the eight completed
months is chiefly in manufactures
While the expectation of agricultural
products is heavy, it is naturally and
almost necessarily below that of the
corresponding months of 1898 when the
shortage in crops abroad gave unusual
ly high prices as we'll as an unusual
demand The average price of wheat
exported in the eight months ending
with August, 1899, has been 10 cents
per bushel, against an average of over
one dollar per bushel in the correspond
ing months of 1898. In the eight
months ending with August, 1898. the
exports of wheat amounted to S1.373, 1913
bushels, with valuation of S1,527, S31,
while in the eight months ending with
August, 1899, the expectations of wheat
were 71,51O.S43, va ued at $50, $50. S22:
ard in corn there has been a slight re-
ductien in quantity exported, though
no material change in price, while in
cotton the average. price has been
sligatlS II - that of last year.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-19
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Maricopa Canal
Company will be held Wednesday, the
18th of October, 1899, at the hour of
o'clock p. m, at the office of the Com
pany, in Phoenix, Arizona. to elect
three trustees for the ensuing year
and such other business as may law
fully come before said meeting.
THOS. w. PEMBERTON, Pres.
VIM. r. CLEARY. Sec'y.
Phoenix, Ariz.. Sept. q 1899.
First published in the Arizona Re
publican. Sept. 81. 1899.
The above meeting adjourned to
Wednesday. November l, 1899, at the
same place and hour.
WILLIAM Il. CLEARY,
Secretary.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-19
DEMOCRATS PLANNING FRAUD.
Busy Colonizing Voters in Lodging
Houses.

Denver, Oct. 1S.-Evidence is already
accommodating that the democratic
party has started out on its campaign
OF fraud and corruption. The county
election is to be carried by repeating
and illegal voting if it can be carried
in no other way. The lodging houses
in the lower part of the city are being
filled up with illegal voters, and they
will be herded to the polls on election
day and forced to vote for the demo-
cratic ticket if election Judges do not
have sufficient courage to refuse them
the right to cast their votes.
In more than one instance republic
can canvassers have been refused adj
mission to lodging houses, the land
lord in some instances frankly admit
ting that the refusal is at the instiga-
cation of democratic leaders. These
lodging houses are the source of demo-
cratic majorities. They can be piled
high with the connivance of election
officers. The fact that the democrats
have no members of the election boards
give the hope that the frauds may be
in a great measure prevented.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-19

ment must be considered as clear.
Notwithstanding the effort to gloss
the matter over. the action of the di-
oceasan convention is one OF the signs
of the times.
"A member of the convention said,
very innocently, as there was no ill
feeling at the session. it was simply
a question of the true faith and now
that the true faith has been promul-
gated there is nothing to be done ex-
cept to acquiesce or resign This di-
Geese and the Episcopal church at
large is dominated by what the ruling
faction calls the spirit of the age
They forget to say what age. This
spirit that they talk about is simply
the belated ghost of the age of Arian-
ism. 1t recalls the words of one who
spoke of the Georgian period when
things We're shelving down into
well-written, able, moral, gentlemanly
deism. The Episcopal church has
made a new departure and 1 cannot go
along with it. Consistency requires a
of the whole scheme: and
I think I have adopted the best
method. 1 prefer the faith that I
learned at my mothers knee to the
inventors of Sciolists.''
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-19
DIR. DE COSTA QUITS MINISTRY.
Says the Bible With the Episcopalians,
Has Met Its Sedan.

New York, Oct. 1S.-The Rev DR..
Benjamin F. DeCosta. who recently
resigned as pastor of the Church OF
st. John the Evangelist, in West
Eleventh street. has left the Episco-
pal ministry. His resignation as mill
lister of that church was sent to Bishop
Potter several days ago. When asked
yesterday why he left the ministry Dr.
DeCosta said:
Now that the diocesan convention
is over. and the bible, so far as Epis-
copalians are concerned, has met its
Sedan, have concluded that it would
be quite well to drop out of the Epis-
cOpal ministry altogether. I shall al
ways hold the Episcopal church in
great respect. 1 should be glad to see
it rescued from present mismanage-
ment and placed on a true foundation
say to the brethren who are labor
ing with reference to this end what an
Irish editor sa-'s: More power to
your elbow but my own elbow. when
a bit rested, may rightfulIy be devoted
to some other cause. To my mind,
unless the unexpected comes to pass.
the poor future of the Episcopal move