The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-08-04
OUR NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL En-
1MINER.

Worthing ton, as Executive officer of
the School Commissioners Board of
Hartford county, took effect on August
LIST. He is succeeded by Mr.. Thomas
G. Galoreath, who was elected Secre-
tary. Treasurer and Examiner Oh June
9th.
Mr. Galbreath is % years Of age and
was born near Jarrettsviile. lie is a
son of Mr.. j. Wilson Galbreath, Cf
Dublin district. Mr.. Galbreath's
early education was obtained in the
public schools of Hartford COUNTY
After passing through the course in
them be was appointed a teacher and
taught successfully in the county
until he entered the Western Mar :
land College. After gra luating in
that institution he was appointed
to a Professorship in his Alma
Mater, which position he held
when he was chosen as Mr.. Worth
ington's successor. The newly. elected
Exec utive officer is a gentleman of
pleasant address, a fine scholar, with
thorough knowledge of the public
school system of the State, and
possessing, as well, much practical
experience as teacher. We have 10
doubt he will measure up fully to the
requirements of the position, and he
is fully deserving of the respect and
confidence of the teachers over whom
he will preside, and of the public gen
orally.
The retiring Examiner, Mr.. Worth
ington, has proved most efficient
officer. He has labored, during the
twelve years he has been the County
Examiner, to elevate the standard Of
teaching in the county, and the man
ner in which he has succeeded is at
tested by the gratifying fact that the
public schools of Hartford county low
stand in the front rank among the
schools OF the State. His financial ad-
ministration of our public school af-
fairs, especially, has been highly
creditable to himself and Of advantage
to taxpayers. 1t is pleasure to COM
piiment public official who has SO
faithfully discharged his duty.
ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF TIN.
Our Gamers will not be pleased to
learn That tin is rapidly advancing in
price. This means smaller profits for
the Gamer and in many Instances
contracts may have to be filled at
loss. Tin-plate bars, which last year
cost SIG ton, now bring $33 for the
same quality; pig tin, costing last ear
IA cents pound, now costs 81! cents
a pound, and tin-plate, costing last
year $500 box, this year costs 81 So
box. AS a consequence, tin cans,
which could have been bought last
year for $l.25 hundred, now cost
90 % hundred.
The advance is sought to be explain
ed by the fact that those engaged in
tin-plate manufacture are the best
paid workingmen in the United
States. a roller man has been known
to make So in one week, his average
wages being $50 week. The prices
paid these workmen are two and a. half
times greater than those paid the same
class in Wales. The actual reason
for the advance, lit is believed, is found
in the feet thst the tin-plate manu-
facture is gross monopoly. When
the tariff W IS un Ter discussion it was
asserted that tariff on tin would
build up great industry in the United
States, provide labor for our own PEG
pie and cheaper the price of tin-ware
Of ali kinds. Our Gamers know to
their sorrow that the result, however
beneficial to the trust that controls
the market for tin, has been detrirnen.
tai 10 the packing interests. Not sat
sfied, too, with the large profits that
the monopoly has enabled them to eX
tort from the people, they are making |
lin cans and tin ware, generally, of |
quality vastly inferior to any goods |
known before the present tariff went
INTO effect. The material of which |
cans are made is merely sheet iron |
with a coating of tin. To |
further increase their profits this coat
ng IS made as thin as possible. the re-
suit being that if can is exposed to
lampness for little while the iron
rusts and discolors the
IAN.
This unjust tax on the country il
merely one of the ways in which the
Dingley tariff enables a trust to rob
he people. There will be no change
Until the Democratic party is restored
o power.
Mrs. Perot, the divorced wife of
William Yates Perot, who on July Is
appeared in Baltimore and abducted
Ter little daughter Gladys, who was
n charge of her grandfather, and
allied from Montreal, Canada, for
liverpool, with the little girl, was ar
ested upon the arrival of the steamer
t the latter port. Her lawyer thinks
he can not be extradited and brought
Jack to this country for trial. !,