Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1904-06-25
II IS The CHILDREN WHO DIE.

II Is THE CHILDREN WHO DIE.
II Is TIE CHILDREN WHO DIE. Years ago in the Cathedral at
Lima, Peru, during a procession, a little girl, carelessly, possibly
for a moment, allowed the candle she was carrying to fall on the
veil of a companion. and sixteen hundred children were burned to
death. a fash on the stage OF the lroquo1s Theatre and more
than five hundred children were burned, or choked, or crushed to
death. A flame in the hold of the General Slocum, and more than
one thousand children were burned to death or drowned. In each
of the three great and shocking disasters there were adults who
lost their lives, but they were few in number, comparatively, and
of the number Of adults present the greater portion escaped-for
it ist the children who die when a panic comes.
The fact ought to bring more closely to the management of
excursion boats and railway trains and to managers of theatres,
to he clergy, and above all, to the officials charged with the in
speetion of buildings and of vessels, the great responsibilities
attached to them, for in the time of panic it is the children who
die by the hundreds and die i'll agony.
Signs are appearing OF quarrels and of charges and counter
charges OF negligence between the Harder Master of New York,
the inspectors of Stea'n Vessels and the knickerbocker Steamboat
Company, owning the General Slocum. The dead bodies of one
thousand children who died by fire or by drowning, on the vessel
or in the friehtlul current of hell gate, are witnesses to the care
lessness, or the greed or the incompetency of some one, and
whether Harbor Master, Inspector or owner it is not of the
slightest moment.
The disaster has appalled, the world, and grows in horror with
each day. The bodies Of the dead do not cry out for vengeance,
but they cry out for ~punishment-they and their mourning fam
lies and the whole people-and for assurances of future safety, so
far as human means can make any thing safe-Carson News.
S.Ax
IT SEEMS TO BE A HOBBY of The White Pine News to editorially
comment on the rank typographical appearance of some of its
exchanges and to poke fun O at their makeup. Among the
number, The News has attacked papers whose bent forms and
decreDt appearance have been conceived in honor and the mem
cries of whose brighter days still lnger sweetly i'll the minds of
many OF he greatest journalists the world, let alone Nevada, has
ever known. 1.-THE News be enjoying prosperity, that is well. 1t
should he satisfied at that. 1t cannot hope to make friends or
money bv the course it has pursued, for it i'll becomes the strong
to strike the weak. However as that may be, the papers that
have been ridiculed by The News will be occupying an honored
position in the hall Of JOURNALISTIC fame long after The News shall
have ceased to he and the name Crosette shall be numbered with
the Il never heard OF hims. y Meanwhile the STANDARD welcomes
to its exchange table the papers that are now bent by the weight
ofage and on whose wrinkled forms still linger the glories of what
they once have been.
THE STANDARD wishes to again call the attention of the towns
people to tie unsauitary condition of the town. Summer is upon
US and unless some steps are Immediately taken to improve the
situation much sickness will ensue. A little labor spent each day
will work a wonderful Improvement and be the means of prevent
ing much contagion.