Arizona republican., 1913-12-13

tenceS and the effect Ot thlS method is noticeable already in the smaller | number of arrests made for speeding. | Evil minded persons have no confi- | dence in the efficacy of this new | method of dealing with speed law i offenders. They are of the opinion !
 that the only effect will be, not to di- 1 minish the number of violations of the law. but to increase the oppor- i tunity for police grating. They ar que that the offenders who hereto fore were willing to pay five or ten dollars to d policeman rather than go to court and pay q fine of $25 or more, would surely be willing to pay $1O0 to q policeman than go to jail for five or ten days.
 John Fenlon, chef of the New York fire department. issued statement the other day in which he severely criticized the methods of the civil service commission of the city. One of the charges he made against the commission was that it had passed men with cork legs and even men without arms as available for the fire department, while good and able men had been refused owing to some trivial defect that would not have interefered in the least with their efficiency as members of the fire de partment.
 Plans have been accepted for a new East Side Court House and Pri- son to take the place of the old Essex Market Court and jail, the old Municipal Court in Madison street, and the Ludlow street jail. The building which is to be erected upon plot 100 feet square, on the corner of
 
 of the peculiar features of the new building will be that the lower floors will be used by offices and court l rooms, while the seventh, eighth. l ninth and tenth floors vii be reserv-
 ed for the district prison and county 1 jail, including cells and administra- 1 ton offices.
 The National Housewives league
 is still continuing it's warfare against l the naughty dealers who refuse to | reduce the price of eggs, although l the league has been maintaining q strict boycott against eggs of every l description for several weeks Now 1 the league has sent out an appeal 1 urging those who habitually take their meals in hotels and restaurants to 1 stop eating eggs altogether until the i dealers see fit to reduce the price | The hotelnIen and restaurant keepers 1 have not yet felt any diminution in the demand for eggs by their pa ] irons.
 4 characteristic illustration of the methods of many Of our consular l offices is furnished by the fact that 1 few days ago d man in New York 1 City received through the mail d 1 letter which he had written to a sea 1 captain in care of the Swedish con
 suI at Marseilles France. There the l letter had evidently lain for thirty | years. In a general housekeeping it | Was probably found in a pigeonnote 1 and returned to the original sender. as l ed had never called Ut the consulate.
 The latest fad of New Works SO | ciety women is 10 be accompanied by one Of those German shepherd 1 dogs which the police department
 uses for catching criminals These 1 dogs. which are said to have little l Of the wolf in them are naturally | rather gentle. but they are trained to | attack men upon a given command and hold them prisoners. The trainer
 of the police dogs is making quite d little money on the side by training
 a number of these dogs for promi-
 nent society women. who plan to take
 these animals with them whereX CT
 they go. either walking or driving, believing them to he sufficient pro-
 tection against tramps or other dan
 gerous individuals.