Evening star., 1922-10-15
October
Elections.

October publican drift in that
year for a second term
cieelAoAS' for Gen. Grant as Pres
dent. This election was especially
interesting locally. for the people o.
the District yo,ed 10y a delegate IN
Congress and for members OF tie
territoria! house OF delegates, Til"
Star of the DoA day. October ..
l>72 'hUS de- -r..,S ,sr s,.lses OF r!c'-
,ion day and ig'sh
I'm the main nur local elsc;.v9
passed off quietly !eSte. day. Tn."e
was considerahlr drunk enness around
the polling places a:ld x mum ber q
arrests for This cause were made dur
ing the dav and evening BY order
of Mai Richards th. different har-
rooms wc-c c."srd--nT moro .iccur-
ately. ;he rr"nt duors were closed aud
the shutters were UP. hut gen
era: thing Tie De aud back doors
were open tor III accommodation q:
the bibulousiy inclined.
Last evening as soon as il was
dark the boys commenced their JOLT
fication and in a few minutes bon
fires were blazing in all sections of
the city. Two thirds OF the male
adults were on the streets during the
evening, impatientiy waiting for the
returns from the different legislative
districts, and the latest news from
PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio and Indiana. The
offices of the morning papers were
thronged with an eager crowd and
until 10 o'clock. when the result OF
the District election was definitely
known and the results in the states
foreshadowed. all was speculation and
excitement. Extensive preparations
had been made at the Patriot office
to display the returns and calcium
light from the upper WINDOWS was
70 light up the glorious news 10 he
set forth at intervals on the bulletin
board opposite the counting room on
ID street. Although every effort was
made TO render the dispatches ia
vorable to the democracy. the large
crowd of liberals and democrats be-
came completely disgusted before 10
o'clock and retired 20 theif homes.
Sewspaper row was also a center of
attraction during the evening ana
was thronged with seekers after po-
litical information from Pennsyl-
vania. Ohio and Indiana"
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The following printed in The Star
of October IL, 1872. shows that New
York was fifty
Philadelphia's Years Years, ago at IT'S
Dirty Streets. picking on Phil
! adelphia:
+; "Ph,ladelphia is indignant over a
| charge made by The New York T.mes
that II is now the dirtiest place IN
| the world. The Philadelphia North
! American takes up the matter In
temperate article and declares its
! inability to And this amazing Nth.
| Tn the main streets there is not more
J dirt than is unavoidable where cob
hlestone paving is adhered to; and
| this style of paving, so prevalent In
| Philadelphia, requires dirt to I'LL UP
| between the stones and il there Ia
none the riding over the rough stones
| becomes uncomfortable. As to keeping
! the alleys and back streets cleah,
where thousands are constantly
| throwing all the garbage OF their
! households, IL there be any system
| that can do II effectually the Ameri-
| can saws II has not been discovered
, there The most herculean efforts. ii
..says have been made to remedy the
! evil by universal sewerage, and for the
/ last seven years the streets OF that
| city have been in a chronic state of
eruption with the digging of trench
es and the building of sewers. At this
/ time there are twenty-five miles of
sewers ordered to be laid in Phil
| adelphia.
| Our citizens who are suffering
[. temporary inconvenience from the
| tearing UP of the streets in the work
of Improvement may take comfort
| from the fact that the Philadelp lph ms
! have been going through such expert
f; erces for seven years and are not yet
/ out of trouble. Our citizens certainly
/ ought to lie content ii they get
! through in that number of mopth2
: and We have the further satisfaction
! OF knowing that the style of pave
| ment adopted here does not. like the
] Philadelphia cobblestone, hartex d.a."