New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
TOPICS IN CHICAGO.
OK GRAIN MAY BE REMOyED-MANY
MAY0Rs-RELIEF FOR THE POOR

so seriously before the board Of review when Is
trying to get Chicago out Of its financial tangie'
end the cue was taken UP by thousand handlers
Of grain who now insist that the inspector is right
The results that the elevators probably VIII not
taxed for the grain they contain, the wheat VIII
go its way without assessment and the gram
men and brokers viii be 51bant.
II this prediction which comes from the secretary
the board. is wrong and what the inspector said
s. right then Chicago viii cease TO exist in year
or TWO. The man who looks after all the grain
which here every year says that If II were
not for the grain market here there would be no
stock yards. shipping Of consequence ana no
factories In telling the board Of review this ne
behind closed doors. so that the public has not
been able to learn his arguments. but they must
have been good. it is said that the body which
IS supposed to approve dsapprove the tax lists
VIII not tax grain in The elevators this year
Just why this decision made is a question
many people are trying without success TO answer
a loss of revenue to the city OF slVVo'V0o'
but the excuse which the board has handed out
in typewritten form, is that the grain Is withou,
an owner while in transit. and therefore may ROT
lie taxed while here. In other words 1t changes
hands any minute. and thus has no owner at
stipulated time
While the board of review busy this week
fl managed to find little property which Mrs
TIetty Green owns and had not scheduled. and the
amount owes the city for raised $780,
the first time that the board has raised
the assessment of a New-Yorker.
.dagOr HarriSon'S desertiOn OF the heIrn AT the
present time has caused much adverse criticism
After recommending cut OF 20 per cent in the
wages OF city employees he left the city 1t was
suggested that crisis might arise in which
his presence would be necessary, but he decllneo
TO give his Wisconsin address.
That is the reason that Chicago has had more
acting mayors this last week than any other city
had in month or more before when the
Mayor goes away he leaves his Corporation Counsei
in charge. a rule. This time. however, it hap
peued that MIR. Walker. the Counsel was not
Ia the city when the Mayor departed. so the rens
of Chicago's government were turned over 10 Mr
McCann. Commissioner of Public Works He fell
sick immediately and his condition is such now
that his recovery is doubtful. His Illness made |
Commissioner Blocki head of the city. but he was
able for few days only. as he had river
trip planned. and he turned the office over to the
City Electrician. Mr. Eincott who found ne had 10
go fishing few hours later He asked the Health |
Commissioner, Mr. Reynolds, to take charge OF
Chicagos helm. but before he found out the meth |
DDS the Corporation Counsel came back and took /
up the government
In the mean time the Mayor writes that he is |
having a good time a lake in Michigan which |
has a name which the telegraph instruments re-
fuse record. A day or two ago he sent TO Mr..
Walker a photograph which showed the city's ex- |
ecutive up his neck in water. the top of his |
bathing suit being the only clothing visible, with q
basket Of luncheon and a dog in the background. |
From the overhanging limb of a tree was suspend |
ed Jug which in the picture. was nearly hidden |
by the current
While Mayor Harrison's enemies taking him |
to task tIy-hg to do so, for leaving the city in
lurch after ordering a cut in each department.
he is without friends. Only day two ago |
Professor Triggs, the who said John d. |
Rockefeller greater than Shakespeare because |
the former put his deeds in sandstone out at the |
University of Chicago, and who insists Sunday |
school hymns doggerei and Sunday school books !
degenerating. announced in lecture that Mayor |
Harrison another Cesar.
Every Fastener who has been in the city this
week has been surprised at the general lack of in
terest manifested in the trials for the interna-
tional cup 10 be held off Chicago Au- |
gust TO- Outside of the yachtsmen of the city few |
have down to the lake front the races |
Notwithstanding this contest IS considered here
be second in Importance only that in which the
Americas Cup is the trophy. Sent against the |
challenger Were coatreboards. fin keels and
one Sidewalk" but il not until the last |
sailed that the cup committee decided the |
boat which will meet the invader
While New-York has having her troubles |
with the pay seats in the parks. enter /
prisng persons here has found some rules and reg
ulations goyerning-or supposed to govern-the pub
lie parks. and these causing the com |
missoners trouble. Il has been discovered. by ref
erence TO the rules. that baby carriages may |
be taken into the parks, that the people may not
Of course step upon the grass, that the plebeans
may take their dogs public ground un- |
less the dogs muzzled that nobody may put his
feet or foot into the lakes in the park that no.
body may sleep on the benches and may feed
the animals. Luckily Lincoln Park has a new
board OF commissioners 50 many Of these rules
may be changed within few days.
1t looks this city were 20 establish a record
for damage suits. In the last few months less
were hled than there in the same time last
year, and the result of the Der case, in which il
was shown that the plaintiff had perjured himself
IN order TO make showing. seemingly has fright
been sent to the renitentiary-
DR.. Dexter's Cant and canteen' promises to
better that the soldier have beer than that he 20
his book will show that nearly all the members of
ahe committee To which he appointed and
canteen was the best and simplest solution of the
drink problem in army posts, gave little study to
the matter and depended upon his reports In his
The trouble with the preachers who claim to
taken what others have had to say about the can
were closed Only those Who have been with tbs
soldiers-who are human. as We all are. but who
rice-can understand what the canteen
DR.: Dexter already has been threatened with ex-
pulsion from the Baptist Church because he has
insisted the canteen was right
Although efforts TO build hotels similar to those
founded by D. o. Mills here have failed, OF
the richer residents Of the city have become inter
conducted by Mr.. Mills WIN be opened for women
walking distance OF the business district and there
who work in the downtown stores Their rooms.
breakfast and supper viii cost them 25 cents each
the house committee can supply have been re-
ceived. Three wealthy men are interested in the
in-iaw of John D. Rockefeller and head of the big
reaper manufacturing company here: Robert w.
papers. and Henry j. Willing, who is studying
cial problems.
Another scheme which promises TO benefit the
poor is that which originated with the Health De-
NO1np snafri