CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4510 - 4514 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) not force other street traffic into the gutter. I enclose a petition asking these changes of the city council. (9) says: Will 4510 L Feb. 4:7/4 In a letter to the editor, "Citizens, a street commissioner have the drifts of snow cleaned off the crosswalks on the corner of Scovill ave. and Kennard st. The children are unable to get to school because of them. (2) 4511 L Feb. 4:8/2 - Nature sent a welcome fall of snow on Feb. 1, which evened the ruts in the pavement and built a soft road on which burnished runners could beat time to the music of bells. The usual resort of the steppers, Euclid Ave. from Erie to Sterling, was the objective point of many yesterday afternoon. Slowly trotting up the avenue, the point of turning was reached by the long line of nags, and the word go was given. Away went the impatient steeds like the wind, and instantly the whole road seemed covered with a flying line of black and brown. The crowd stood on the pavement and watched the race with as much interest as though they were also among the competitors, and it was well into evening before they shook the snow from their feet and the numbness from their fingers and wended their way homeward, and then only because the flyers bad folded their wings and hushed their bells and the race was ended. 4512 L Feb. 4:8/3 A meeting of prominent graduates of Hiram college was held at the Forest City House last night for the purpose of arranging for the erection of a memorial building to the late Miss Almeda A. Booth, formerly an instructress at that college. A. S. Hayden was chairman. President Hinsdale appointed V. P. Kline, W. T. Hudson, and J. M. Hurlbut as a committee to confer with the students about raising the $10,000 needed for the memorial hall. 4513 L Feb. 4:8/3 Mayor Payne sent the following order to Superin- 4514 L Feb. 4:8/4 A meeting of societies and military organizations was held at the Frankfort st. armory last night to take action relative to the celebration of Washington's birthday. The meeting was called by the Cleveland Grays. Councilman William M. Bayne presided and 0. B. Purdue was chosen secretary. The Emmet guards, the Barnett guards, the Cleveland Light artillery, and the Loyal Orangemen all agreed to take part in the parade. (13) (12) (4) (9) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4515 - 4520 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) 4515 L Feb. 5; ed: 4/1 - The PLAIN DEALER'S Washington correspondent writes that "Kate King," the LEADER'S correspondent, is unknown in the Washington reporting corps and may possibly be the colored woman he saw in the reporters' gallery. "'Kate King' is unknown among the swarm of wandering Bohemians who descend upon Washington each winter and shove themselves into places where they are not wanted. She is unknown to this crowd because she is a lady in her own right, the daughter of one of the foremost lawyers in Washington, and as such has a recognized position in society there." 4516 L Feb. 5; ed: 4/3 Attorney General Little points out a way by which dogs may be taxed by special assessment. Every year dogs in Ohio destroy a large number of sheep, and if their number were diminished, as it would be if they were taxed, it would certainly promote the wool growing interests of the state. Some persistent friend of the canine race has always prevented action in this matter. "Mr. Little has shown a way to do it, and the Legislature cannot do better than to act in accordance with his suggestions and discourage the production of dogs." · 4517 L Feb. 5; ed: 4/3,4 "If the Legislature keeps on at its present pace until Spring, Ohio will have about the most crude and absurd code of game laws ever seen on a statute book." One bill passed by both houses extends the period during which wild ducks may be killed until the first of April. The result will be that thousands of ducks on their way to their breeding grounds will be slaughtered each spring. This is precisely what the sportsmen of the state have been for years laboring to prevent. 4518 L Feb. 5:7/1 Ingham, Sommerville & Co. publish the following card: The order published by the mayor in reference to the West Side street railway seems to make it proper that we should, as we do, publicly disclaim any intent to discommode the west side public or to threaten any such thing. 4519 - Feb. 5:7/2 - A union meeting of the auxiliaries of the Women's Foreign Missionary society of the M. E. church was held yesterday in the First M. E. church. Mrs. W. A. Ingham presided. Seven women reported favorably for the seven branches of the society, whose total membership is about 415. Mrs. H. Ingham gave an account of the medical work being done by women in India. 4520 L Feb. 5:7/3 Street commissioner Vetter was asked by a member of the tramp brigade to write a letter to the vagrant's mother. A mere youth, the tramp revealed that he was the son of respectable parents who owned a farm in New York state and that he had run away four years ago in quest of adventure. (4) (5) (5) (2) (12) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4521 - 4526 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) Vetter wrote the letter. In four days an answer came, containing $40. The young man immediately left for home. "Who can say that Poverty Barn is without its fruits?" 4521 L Feb. 5:7/3 It was expected that there would be some lively developments at the police court yesterday during the hearing of the cases of the state versus Morely and the state versus Von Tagen. However, when Foran called the cases a youth stepped up and whispered something in his ear. Foran then told the court that it had been decided to dismiss further proceedings. The judge thereupon decided that the cases be dismissed on the payment of costs by the prosecution in each case. Dr. Von Tagen desires to have it stated that he used no violence, but that he simply held his hand on the shoulder of Judson, meanwhile counseling peace and good will. 4522 L Feb. 5:7/3 William Connors and John Thompson were arrested yesterday and charged with stealing a load of coal from the docks. They pleaded guilty and were fined $25 each. They stand committed until the fine is paid. This coal stealing has been going on for some time and there are others beside the captured two who are engaged in it. A close watch will hereafter be kept on the coal docks in the hope of trapping others. 4523 L Feb. 5:7/4 In a letter to the editor, "West Sider" says: The card published by Ingham, Sommerville & Co. says that if the council will be just with us, we shall much prefer to grant former privileges. This is an open, deliberate proposal to bribe the city council. It is more. It is a frank confession that all passes heretofore granted to councilmen were intended by the lessees as bribes. We congratulate Cleveland on having a council that cannot be bribed with railway passes. The west side citizens would gladly pay eight cents fare if they could be accommodated. It is not the six cent fare they complain of, it is the irregular, weak and almost imbecile management of the care. 4524 L Feb. 5:8/1 - There will be no session of the common pleas court on Feb. 7, the judges being desirous of conferring together on matters relating to a large number of petitions before the court for injunctions to restrain the city from collecting certain tapes. 4525 L Feb. 5:8/2 - The match game of billiards, for $100 a side, played at Hart's academy last evening between Tony Honing of this city and Eugene Carter of Toledo, was witnessed by a large number of spectators, and was won by Carter on the 42nd inning. 4526 L Feb. 7; ed: 4/1 The CATHOLIC UNIVERSE says that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been stolen by state school educated scoundrels in St. Louis alone. "Joyce, the first of the convicted whiskey-thieves, is a Roman (4) (6) (4) (10) (1) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4527 - 4530 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) Catholic.... A majority of the inmates of our penal institutions are Catholics who have never seen the inside of any but Catholic parochial schools, or no school at all." 4527 L Feb. 7; ed: 4/2,3 George S. Bangs, retiring as superintendent of the railroad department of the postal service, has submitted a detailed report to postmaster General Jewell. The service gives to 25,000,000 people their mail matter from six to 26 hours earlier than before, and the increase in expenase is only $18,000 annually. (3) "The line is certainly conducted with credit to the government and it is a great public accomodation. It is also a very natural outgrowth of this age of steam and harmonizes with the rapid manner in which everything is transacted in a country believing in the axiom that 'time is money. 4528 L Feb. 7; ed: 4/4 For some months the editorial gush in the Toledo newspapers about the "Future Great City of the World" has been nearly suspended. Only occasionally the BLADE and the COMMERCIAL carry a stray hint that the city on the Maumee still is aware of its destiny. The panic has pinched down the present realization of the Toledoans in a most cruel manner. ་ ་་ The Toledo BLADE says the city has the certain condition of climate essential to the production of the highest types of manhood and the largest business results. "Toledo has got them all, the malaria, the tawny water of the Maumee, the lyric chirp of the frog, the leatherback turtle and the Maumee catfish with which to nourish the brain of the future 'highest type' and as a matter of course, all the rest follows. "One thing, however, our Toledo friends should endeavor to get deep down into their minds. The Future Great City of the World, wherever it is, will be built upon hard money, not upon the unlimited and irredeemable paper currency to which the Toledo of the present so unanimously aspires." (21) (10) 4529 L Feb. 7:4/6 Recently it has become impossible for an unaccompanied women to walk on the Main street after dark without being insulted by obscene slang and infamous proposals by bummers lounging about the streets. These men escape arrest because they are sharp enough to keep quiet when policemen are around. Let Mayor Payne guarantee protection to women while on the streets and give law-abiding lessees of street railways a rest for awhile. "Put the boys (policemen) in citizen's clothes for a couple of weeks and let them have a good square chance at these bummers." (15) 4530 L Feb. 7:5/1 - Mr. and Mrs. Wau Lee arrived in town on the night of Feb 5, and all the Chinese citizens of the city were down to the Union depot to meet them. Mr. Wau was "topside gloly" to see his dear friends once more, and nearly shook the arms from Hop Sing, Wau Fou, and CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4531 - 4533 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) Rooth Roff, three of his dearest companions. A procession was formed and it moved to the residence of the new couple, where rice was served in seven different courses. The festivities were kept up to a late hour, and the policeman who assisted Sing and Fou to the central station declares that the affair broke up so pleasantly and with so few broken heads that he would have thought it a Democratic mass meeting had it not been for the fact that there is no active campaign in progress. 4531 L Feb. 7:7/1 A LEADER reporter attended the Bethel services yesterday to see how the former tramps of poverty barn, who recently applied for permission to attend the services, conducted themselves. Thirteen men attended; all were neat, clean, and were very quiet and attentive during Rev. Samuel Gregg's sermon on "The Prodigal Son." The thirteen men left the services in a quiet manner, not one of them showing even by a smile, that he had any feeling unworthy of the place or good advice to which he had listened. 4532 L Feb. 7:8/4 Another meeting of those interested in the celebration of Washington's birthday was held on Feb. 5 at the Grays armory. W. M. Bayne occupied the chair. The question of finances for the celebration was disposed of. 4533 L Feb. 8:4/6:5/1 - Andrew Freese has been appointed by the board of education to compile a history of the schools of Cleveland, to be published for the centennial exposition. The first school was built in 1817 and the trustees took control of it by refunding to the builders the cost of erection. The town donated the use of the school house, but the teacher had to collect his pay from the pupils. The Cleveland academy was built in 1821 when the population of Cleveland was 350. In 1836 the first school tax was levied, and a school teacher and an assistant were engaged. John W. Willey, Anson Haydon and Daniel Worley, the first board of school managers, were appointed in 1836. In 1839 the city purchased the academy for $6,000 and in 1840 purchased two lots, one on Rockwell st. and one on Prospect; school building costing $3,500 each were constructed on these. Central High school was begun in 1846 and Andrew Freese, the present historian, was the first principal; 34 pupils attended. By order of the council, in 1847, a department for girls was opened and 14 attended. The Central High school building now standing was built in 1856. Mrs. John Lowman, Mrs. E. Staats, Rev. D. Prosser, Mrs. Abby Fitch Babbett, Mrs. Wm. Mitchell R. Watterton and Samuel Foljambe, organized a Sabbath school which finally resulted in the Industrial school. R. S. Gazlay and Luther Hunt were the first teachers employed in Cleveland public schools. The salaries for the first ten years were ten dollars a week for males and five dollars for females; there being about 44 weeks in the school year. John Eaton, Jr. at present U. S. commissioner of education, was principal of Brownell st. school for some time. (9) (6) (5) (37) |