Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1893 — Page 4

Uw democrat If. MAOKBVJUT, Proprietor- . 9IDAY, OCTOBER 13,1893. Bote, of gubteription. ye Year, tn advance .... 11 50 IX Months 75 our Months &*' All subscriptions not paid during the year dll be charged at the rate of 12.00. Iffloein Democrat Building, east Hide of Second Street—ground floor NEWSPAPER SPACE. For the information ami guidance of those who are unfamiliar with the “Space” of a well regulated printing office we will say that: The space in its columns is so much capital. From this Space the machinery of the office is kept oiled and free from rust. From this Space the employes of the office receive their weekly allowances which gives support to themselves and family. From .this Space everything pertaining to the wear and tare of the office is supplied and kept in motion. In .this Space everything of a newsy nature that takes place from day to day in the neighborhood is put on exhibition and transmitted to its readers. In this Space all matter of a private nature such as Obituary Notices, Card of Thanks, Marriages, &c., <fcc., that exceed ten lines, are charged for, unless written up by the office as news. Sknator Dan Voorhees made a creditable siege against the obstructionists last Wednesday. The hearts of all citizens who loye their Country are in sympathy \j-ith Our Dan in his doings. Ordinarily you can’t defeat a Briton for lack of wind, and theren he differs from the average American. That’s what makes the yacht race between the Valkyrie and Vig•lant all the more notable.

The Decatur Post-Office is the last one in the County held by Republican appointment. If nothing is done m the way of a change before Spring, Mr. Quinn will be ready to enter himself as one of the “permanents.” Thb chief difference between a Goldbug press and the Anarchists seems to be that whereas the former demand the abolition of the Senate alone and the latter would abolish both the House and the Senate. Congressman Holman’s friends won’t allow the “Watch Dog of the Treasury” to be handicapped in the race for re-nomination, and propose starting a new paper in his district to take the place of the Lawrenceburg Register, which is making a strong fight against him. ——————— . A youth who stole 85 cents was given a three years’ sentence, in the Elkhart Circuit Court this week, while a man who stole a horse was given two years in prison, and another who took a watch was sentenced to three months in jail. Justice seems not only blind but also demented. Now that Court Street has been set aside as “the place” for all fakirs to do their trafficking, we would respectfully intimate to the City Fathers that some degree of courtesy should be shown the fakirs by compelling owners of horses and vehicles to cease using this street street as a public Feed Yard. Why is it that the Civil Service Commission at Washington only gets into a sweat when a Republican is removed? Why does it never take any note of the removal of Democrats? Why is it a howling fraud? Are these things bo because a majority of the Board is Republican? Why should a majority of the Board be Republican under a Democratic administration?

Hebe’s an opportunity for the County Commissioners to distinguish themselves, an<J also an act the that) people! of Adams County will approve of Mr. Eli Zimmerman is anxious to make a deal with the County Commissioners whereby her will exchange a forty-acre tract of land almost opposite the old Fair 1 Grounds, for the grounds belonging to the County. We hope that an early coming together of the Commissioners and Mr. Zimmerman may take place, whereby the people Ot the County “may”become pbssesaon of a place to hold a County Fair in 1894.

THE WOODS ARE FULL OF ’EM. Dcctitur Now Mun u City Directory. Decatur and Decatur people a few weeks ago were nudb acquainted with a span (male and female) of itinerant advertising sharks. Their business in Decatur was to “get up” a City Directory. This Directory was to contain the names of all persons living within the confines of the corporation line; who were engaged in mercantile, mechanical or common labor occupations; or on the retired list. In order to ascertain the above information, each and every private residence and hotels and boarding houses in the city were visited and the information desired obtained. This was the material most necessary to “get up” the aforesaid City Directory. There were ninety mercantile establishments in our City that contributed all-the way from fifty cents to three dollars and fifty cents to have their business card “appear” in this City Directory. There is nothing that pays so well as printer’s ink, if judiciously distributed, (unless it is more printer’s ink) but for business people to advertise in a Hotel Register or a City Directory in anticipation of being benefited thereby, is all “bosh,” and money thrown away. Fifteen cents expended in any newspaper in the city, in the way of locals—would be of more benefit to the advertiser than one hundred dollars expended in either Hotel Register or City Directory. The merchant who advertises for the simple purpose of seeing his name and place of business in print, makes a failure of his calling. To advertise is to reach the people. The people who patronize our merchants are not reached through a Hotel Register or City Directory; because the aforesaid Hotel Register doesn’t circulate outside of the hotel for which it was “gotten up” to serve; and for our business men to expect patronage from our “traveling men” who stop at our hotels, would be out of the question. The City Di rectory is a side-partsej to the Hotel Register, only that the former serves to reach the merchant who has his or her advertisement therein. There is one consolation, however, for the publishers of newspapers tn our City, namely:—that the City Directory was the means of creating a “thaw out” among some of our “business” people, who heretofore couldn't be reached under any circumstance, by home enterprise. In order that the advertiser who believes in printer’s ink may not be mislead and that the money he invests in that way may not fall by the road-side we will say that the Democrat has a larger circulation than all other newspapers in Adams County, and is read by and has among its subscribers more different people in the County than all other papers combined.

Therefore if the advertiser can reach all the people in his neighborhood by advertising in one paper, at a reasonable expenditure of money, it would be money thrown away to invest a like amount in several other papers in the same neighborhood that circulate or reach only one-half or less the above number of people. This is the comparison ot the Democrat to all other papers published in Decatur. Governor McKinley has no stomach for joint discussion with his Democratic opponent. He knows that he cannot successfully cope with a man like Lawrence Neal upon the issue which divides the two parties in Ohio. Governor McKinley cannot discuss t|ie bill which bears his name without a sense of shame at the. great wrongs which it contains, and therefore he prefers the small crowds which bis single name calls together to the enormous' audiences that would assemble to hear join, discussions. He can arrange me- ings with Larry Neal whenexer he wants to and the people note the iiu-.l that he docs not Want to as o. egf great significance.

The fastiqm “quiet weddings” will be followed by quiet funerals. The custom of hplding strictly private funerals is gaining ground in many places. Persons who possibly did not know the deceased while living „crowd around the casket, impel curiosity, thus making a secreKexhibitiou of that which ones hold dear. The time seems to be coming when public exhibition of remains will be a thing ol the past, as public sentiment is tending that way.

THE FAIR’S WHITE ELEPHANT! In lump figures 119,000,000 went into the construction of the World’s Fair buildings and the preparation of the grounds for the exposition. The point that now interests the stockholders, and incidentally the whole city and country, is how much can be realized from that fit),000,000 worth of time and material. It is safe to assume that the time is dead waste. It is safe to say also that a large—a frightfully large—proportion of the material will have to go by the board. In the rosy days of promotion it was figured that 1:1,000,000 could be realized from the sale of the buildings and the materials. Since then there has been a slump in the expectations, and today it is a toss up whether there will be enough salvage to pay tor the tearing down of the buildings, the removal of the materials and the restoration of the park to the condition in which it was befere it was turned over to the Exposition Company.

The South Park Commissioners fear that the Fair corporation will forfeit its 8100,000 bond and abandon the buildings rather than attempt to tear them down and restore the grouhds to their original condition. John C. Flemming, Chicago representative of the Carnegie companies, which furnished about twothirds of the iron entering into the buildings, says that “a very large part of the iron at Jackson Park will have to go into the scrap pile.” That means that it will have to b’e sold for old iron and at a price which may not pay half or quarter of the price making it available even for that disposition. There are 7,000 tons in the manufacturers’ building, costing about S7O a ton to put in place, or nearly $500,000 in allThere are nearly 30,000 tons m the several buildings, representing a cost of 81,500,000 in all. illustrative of the cost of taking down iron work, it may be stated that the architect of Steele Mackaye’s skeleton Spectatorium estimates thar.it will cost $43,000 and every dollar that can be realized from the sale of material to pull down and remove that unsightly monument of yet other blissful promotion moments. The owners of the Ferris wheel expect to pay $83,000 to responsible contractors to take down, transport and set up that wonderful piece of work to another site. Emil Phillipson says it will cost SIOO,OOO over and above the salvage to tear down and remove the manufacturers’ building. Diligent inquiry among wrecking firms and contractors failed to uncover any that would confess having any intention of bidding on the destruction of the White City, or that wouM admit they knew of anbody who had a defin.te purpose in that direction. No matter who has the work to do, there is going to be great trouble and expense in disposing of the waste and rubbish. Where to put it will be a tough problem to solve. It cannot be dumped haphazard into the lake, as much of it .yould be washed back upon the shore by the action of the water. The authorities would not allow that disposition to be made of it. There will be between ten and twelve thousand carloads of waste material to be ’hauled away from Jackson Park, according to the calculation of a prominent contractor—that is to say, between one million, live hundred thousand and two million cubic yards of rubbish. There will be some thousands of carloads of stuff alone to be carted away. There is no hive or swamp to fill up within transportable distance of Jacksun Park. A suggestion has been offered that the material be used for the creation of an artificial ■ mouHt.du at tne southeast corner l o’ the Park. In the loose form it j will be in when carried from the grounds the waste material will I make a pile I,QOO feet square and i between filteen and twenty feet ’ high. The surface area of such a ! creation would be about twentythree acres. It was said while the buildings were being erected Lifat the iron frame work of them would be sold to railroad companies to be used as stations. All the railroads running irjto Chicago haye fip.e stations and there seems to be no chance to dispose of the . iron frames here. The question the officials want answered is: What shall be done with the buildings and the rubbish?

Tn» 700,000 who ehtered the World’s Fair gates last Monday— Chicago Day—was the largest crowd of people that ever assembled to gether in such a small space on any one occasion in one day, and of which we were one of the number. We aie creditably informed that if the Trustee of Root township will lead the procession, that the fanners in the neighborhood of Ahpba church—east and north—will do their part in constructing gravel roads. Stand no bluff of this kind, Mr. Trusted, but lead the way. The stern Georgia judge who fined himself ten dollars the other day for being late at court rather spoiled his chance tor acquiring a reputation for perfect impartiality by remitting the fine on the ground that it was his first offense. Tennessee has seven living exGovernors. In the list of official succession they coinp as follows: Isham G. Harris, I). W..C. Senter, Janies D. Porter, Alvin .G. Hawkins, William B. Bate, Robert L. Taylor and John P. Buchanan. The announcement that the repeal bill is to be pushed to a vote in the Senate will be heard with gladness by the majority of the people of the United States, without regard to party. It is unquestionable that the delay has had a depressing effect on business all over the country, and the obstructionist minority should not be allowed to control the situation any longer. The Sale Day project which the Democrat made mention of last week, as being a good day for farmers and others to exchange and sell stock and produce, has been favorably considered by several of our farmers, who express the belief that “it is a good way to have a County Fair on a small scale.” We are impressed with the same opinion, and would like to see a start made therein at once, but will await the decision of people who attend the Farmer’s Institute with the hope that they will give it the proper send-off.

Are You Ready for the Question? The improvement of Second Street has been a question that has been on the boards these many days, and which should have been disposed of in advance of other questions on street improvements of lesser importance that are already on the improved list. Simply because Second Street is stoned with a lot of boulders that were answerable for road making in eur grand-fathers days, is no reason why a continuation of the same should be made compulsory on a people who demand something more in keeping with this progressive age. The Democrat has been agitating the propriety of putting down brick or Nickolson Blocks, on this street as a change from the crushed stone that is now being used. That the City of Decatur will not use crushed stone for street making purposes for all time to come, will not be agitated by the most back-num-bered individual in the city. Therefore, in order that we may surmount all unnecessary cavel in this matter, and do the proper caper at once and completly, we would respectfully suggest to our City Council that they exercise their greatest endeavor to have Second Street improved with material superior to crushed stone. c

Cost of National Education. The United States of America leadfc the world in the expenditure of money for the maintenance of schools. An interesting compilation has just been published which makes public some facts not generally known'. Italy expends every year $96,000 for her soldiers, and less than $4,000,000 for her schools. In Spain it costs $100,000,000 to maintain the army and only $1,500,000 to educate ihe children, but then it is the exception to find a Spanish farmer who is able to read or write. Germany boasts of being in the foremost rank among the nations in the kulturkampt of the world, yet she expends $185,000,000 on her army, while $10,000,000 is deemed sufficient for the education of her children. France maintains an army* at an expense of $151,000,000 and supports her schools with $21,000,000. The United States expends $115,000,000 for public schools, while the Army and Navy cost only $54,000,000.

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