Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1908-03-14
Work of Reformers Has Not Been
Conducive to Safety i'm
Schools.
Police Department Needs Special
Airing For Benefit of
Public.
BULLITT'S FRIEND IN The TOLLS

Louisville people have reason to
be thankful that this city was not
visited by a holocaust as fearful as
| that of the recent one in Cleveland.
| Only a few of the people in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the George
Tinsley school, where the accident
occurred, and the members of the
Louisville School Board are in on the
secret. The daily newspapers, of
course, heard of the affair, but made
no comment. The city printing con
tract for tire current year has NOT
been awarded, but after that tha
daily press will make the fur fly.
y committee from the Louisville
School Board is now investigating
the burning of the boiler in the
George Tinsley school, at Preston
and Ormsby avenue, on Friday, Feb
ruary %, and the necessary closing
of the school for a week. The School
Boards committee is now engaged in
an endeayor TO find out why this
happened
His Political Accidency, p. G.
Coker, and the other reformers in
the board insisted on changing Jan
itors at that school about January 1.
AS result the Tinsley school got
a new janitor. The former janitor
was dismissed, and the new one en-
tered upon his duties. Six days after
the celebration of Washington's
birthday the boiler blew up, the 400
children were dismissed for a week,
and an additional tax of S1,1OO was
placed on the taxpayers of Louisville.
No attempt to place the blame will
be made until the investigating COM
mittee gets ready to report. 1t may
not reflect on the janitor, but the
fact that the lives of 400 children
were endangered by a reform School
Board does not rebound to the credit
of the alleged reformers. That the
school was closed, that 400 lives were
endangered, that the boiler way
ruined, can not be denied The peo-
pie are anxious for that investigating
committee TO report
Poor, patient Louisville people are
waiting for pure water. Look at the
product furnished now Many
charges of graft and corruption were
made against the old Louisville
Water Company. Reformers changed
the whole thing. but a little light
shOne into the office on Third street
will show that conditions have not
I'M Ill bNNAls Aib llSAlt van ~ Ahl Aihh
on if the public wants it, despite the
silence of the daily papers.
Silence has been maintained re-
garding the men who have been re-
Gently placed on the pay rolls of the
police and fire departments. 1t IS.
rumOred, and the rumor bears the
stamp Of authenticity, that one of
the new policemen has been lodging
the police for several years. 1t is
said that a warrant charging him
with an offense that calls for hang
ing in Kentucky is out against him.
When will it be served
w. Marshall Bulitt's friend. Rob
ert Turner. is i'm the tolls once more.
Turner was an adherent and spy for
the Fusionists, but before he fin
ished his work was summoned to the
Juvenile Court on the charge OF
neglecting his family. In a contrOv-
ersy in the Court House Marshall
Bullitt contended that Turner was
perfect gentleman. Turner disap-
peared before he was brought to trial
for contempt of court Now he comes
from Winchester, guarded by Deputy
Sheriffs, and on warrant that
charges him with grand larceny.
IL might be said right now shat the
Democrats who had fallen into a
Estate of innocuous desuetude," as
Grover Cleveland would say. are be-
ginning TO organize for the welfare
Of their homes, their city. State and
nation. and when the next election
day rolls around they will have the
support of all people who have good
government at heart, and who hold
civic veal above party affiliation.