The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-10-19
NEW YORK LETTER.
A Notable Reception Will be Ten
dered Bryan.
The Thirty Immortals Cleaning a
Great City-other Interesting
Items.
Especial Correspondence to the HERALD. ]

Especial Correspondence to the HERALD
NEW YORK, Oct. IL.
A most notable reception will be
rendered Mr.. Bryan by the New
York Democracy Tuesday evening,
the 10Th inst. His fist speech of the
coming will be at Madison Square
Garde n-then he will speak on
Madison Square, and later at Cooper
Union Probably no candi late for
tne Presidency has ever received a
more cordial or enthusiastic well
come than that which awaits Mr..
Bry an.
Thirty-one Immortals.
The list of American immortal S
has been announced by the ninety
seven men chosen as judges, and
thirty-one tablets will stand in the
Hall of Fame of New York Univer-
sity. First in The list is George
Washington, then follows Abraham
Lincoln, Daniel Webster, Benjamin
Franklin. u. s. Grant, John Mar
shall, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Henry w Long
fellow, Washington Irving, Jonothan
Edwards, David G Farrogut,
Samuel B. Morse, Henry Clay,
George Peabody, Nathaniel Haw-
thorn, Robert E. Lee, Peter Cooper,
Horace Mann, Henry Ward Beecher,
Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, James
Kent, Joseph Stoner, John Adams,
Ellery Charming, John j. Audubon,
Elias Howe, Gilbert stuart, William
Morris Hunt and Ara Gray.
For Galveston Orphans.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, is here
to open the Orphans Bazaar, which
Is to be conducted at the Waldorf
Astoria, co nm 9nciug on the even.
ing of the 18th. Many thousands of
dollars worth Of articles Of various
kinds have been donated and will be
sold for the relief of the orphans at
Galveston, Texas.
Cleaning a Great City.
About 100000 cart loads of dirt and
trash are gathered up by the Street
Cleaning Department of New York
IN year, and at a cost to the city of
81, 100000. This enormous amount
of street and house cleanings of
every description is taken up in
small quantities from all parts of the
city by an army of 1000 mel, all
dressed In white duck suits.
The ashes and dirt are taken by
boats to the low ground and dumped
SO as to reclaim the land. The
garbage is delivered to private par
ties, who soon convert it, by means
of furnaces, into an ingredient used
by soap manufacturers. the paper,
bottles, tin cans, ETC., are gathered
out by an Italian, who pays the city
$50 900 a year for the privilege.
The city Is at this time conducting
experiments which iG is believed
will prove so satisfactory that in
stead of the street cleaning being an
expense it will really become
source of revenue. A majority of
the 1000 men engaged are sweepers;
every sweeper has specified nun
Der Of yards to keen clean. He is
provided with broom, scoop and
canvas bags. After sweeping
bags and deposits them on the curb.
stone to be taken up later by another
man, who is provided with horse
and dump cart. The number of
empty whisky bottles gathered up is
enormous. but much greater is the
number of tin cans. An inspector
estimates that it would require the
capacity of freight car to mold the
tin cans thrown away by the house
holders every single hour in the day.
Wickedness on the East Side.
A determined fight is about to be
begun against what is called "Wide-
Open East Side" Bishop Potter,
who is head of the Episcopal church
in New York, is to lead a moveme MT
against the shameful disregard for
law which is so evident in many
parts of New York, but more es-
pecIally on the EasC Side. Many of
the leading ministers and other citi-
zens are backing Bishop Potter in
the fight. Several newspapers are
advocating the movement. Even
Richard Croker, the Tamany Hall
leader, says he is ready to lend his
aid in an endeavor to purify the city.
But none who are at all familiar
with the facts put any faith in this
statement of Croker. Tamany
yields a powerful political influence
in the city. 1t really runs the city,
and is at the bottom of much of
this immoral trouble which is to
be combatted by decent people.
Croker and lot of others
VINO are in the boat with him, get
their revenue by the way public af-
fairs are run in this city through the
agency of Tammany Hall. Ii one
wishes to engage in any kind of bust
ness, no matter how evil that bust
ness may De, he can do so by paying
the price. The police collect this
unlawful revenue and the black
mailers who control the police get
what they demand-money. 1t l. a
fearful comment on the government
of great city, but these statements
are true.
1t will now be in order for these
side doors of hell to close up, and no
doubt they will for a while.
1t is understood that some of the
reform societies have for long
while been collecting evidence which
will be used when needed. 1t is
stated in some quarters that an eff
fort will be made at the city election
next year TO take the management
of TamAny out of the hands of
Croker and his lieutenaDts. Tamanv