Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-11
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in town arc grocers and delicatessen
dealers who are well stocked mp with
canned meats and sausages. Nobody
will buy these comestibles since the Chi
cago pacSinghouse exposures were made
and people are eating fish instead to such
an extent that 10000 pounds Of sea
food have been sold in one day. The
sausage-makers OF Brooklyn, who say
that their product is made of the very
hest ingredients, savagely abuse the Beef
Trust for spelling their business and are
soon to issue a statement. Meanwhile
eight additional meat inspectors have
been appointed and will at once begin
work. In some WAYS this alarm is fully
justified. while in others IL appears eN-
cossive. A physician on the staff OF the
POST Graduate Medical School and Hos
pital of this city says that embalmed beef
II dangerous. not so much on account Of
the chemicals employed rs because not
enough of them are used to prevent putrc-
faction A quantity of iornaldchyde,
for instance. sufficient ITO COM
pletely steralize piece of meat would
taste so strongly Of the chemical that mo-
body could eat IT, The physician further
saws that tainted meat contains ptomaincs
trichinn and bacteria. which set up various
diseases one OF which. called hotalism,
is OF a type so much like typhoid as To
be readily mistaken for it So-callcd
malaria is also often caused by bad
meat
More than 10000 persons arc employed
by tho city government, according TO a
message from Mayor Mcclellan Just laid
before the Board Of Aldermen There
are 81 ] 46 Of them, to be exact, and they
receive annually S64 ,26l ,5i762 in sala-
ries Last year the payroll was only
about $50. 100000, and in 1903 some
thing less than S57 100000, showing a
percentage of increase which speaks well
Tor the activity and ingenuity of the
politicians who spend so much time in
gettisnN their constituents "on de job.
The city debt amounts to S457 S32, ,74503
and S9l $40 ,706 must be raised by taxa
ton Nevertheless the borrowing ca
pacity of the city for the year will be
Sl32 96s ,36S and SS3 600 600 will prob
ably be expended for new works. These
figures are certainly large enough to suit
the most enthusiastic financial megalo-
maniac and sufficiently significant to
shock the rciorneB; but New York City
is a big city and everything about IL, or
in Il good or bad. is big, also, except the
affection ior Tim sullivan.
Tariff revision was the subject which
engaged the atteption of all the speakers
at the Reform Club dinner at the Hotel
Astor. Congressman John Sharp Williams.
Prof. W. o. Sumner OF Yale, Congressman
II. IT, Rainey and Ex-Governor W. L.
Douglas of Massachusetts, addressing the
club along that line 10 seems evident
that this dinner was intended as the FIRST
gun Of the national campaign of 1908, SO
far as tariff revision is concerned. Governor
Douglas declared that the people have TO
pay $50 600 900 a year Ia duties on hides
more than is necessary, and that II hides
were free and tho tanning industry were
open 10 competition the results would be
seen in an increase of 500 O00,0 600 in the
amount OF business done by American
shoe manufacturers. lic said also that
with free Canadian coal and free iron ore
the manufacturing industries Of New
England would reap much benefit and
that iron and steel plants would once
moc be seen there, without any damage
being done to Pennsylvania coal interests.
immigration to the South is expected
10 be largely stimulated by the new
Southern States Immigration Commission
just organized in this city. Delegates
appointed by the governors of the
Southern States Representatives of various
Southern commercial organizations and
transportation men met here for the pur-
pose of establishing n permanent organi
zation. with headquarters In New York
Tho commission will consist Of three dele.
gates appointed by the governors of tho
IA Southern States, together with an
executive board of 10 members. and IL.
duty will be TO obtain immigrants for IN,
South. by selecting the best of thos,
arriving IN this port. Southern agri
cultural. commercial and transportation
interests will be eligible for membership
Branches OF the commission will bo estab
lished az such other points as may seen
desirable II was announced at the frs
meeting that ~ distinct Southern Interest,"
were represented.
Good and bad boys went fishing ii
Harlem last Sunday They didn't eve
20 Go the river. but ished in a roarinl
torrent OF water pouring down Manhattan
avenue from two hydrants which ha,
been opened for flushing purposes Hardl,
hsd the stream begun flowing before
was seen 10 be full Of fish. from an incl
to ten inches in length. and "all alive or
The news of this piscatorial prodie
rapidly spread and scores Of hovs an,
girls came running from an directions \
share the spoil. They cared not stra,
for their Sunday clothes, but plunge
into the rushing water aud scooped IN,
fish by the dozen. Both the open hvdrant
kept belching out fish and older peopl
began TO join in the sport One ma
caught IL. which he afterward ate "a
supper, and little boy got a. The fis
were mostly bass, with some sun6s
among them, and their appearance n,
counted Tor the unpleasant taste the waite
has had for some time past. People er
loyod the fun more than they did the r,
heciions to which il gave rise. for ON IN
whole one prefers his Croton withot
hshy additions. Il seems to be up TO M
Water Department 10 explain wheth,
II Is running an acqueduct or an aquarium
The real cost Of dental work. as reveale
at hearing before the State Board ,
Charities, IS calculated TO make peop
think that their legs as well as their teet
are pulled when they sit in the chai
The Manhattan Chronological Soeiet
was asking for authority 10 start "A di.
pensary which should charge an avdrae
oi only 20 cents a treatment, includir