stantial promises of progress and pros 'ening every legitimate channel of in- :W'lll mark the high tide in greater .. equipped for steadily increasing pros- says the Hartford Times. (fourth into the city streets and found 1 of. the citizens. lneeded work, and must certainly have it be- ‘ , . r h 5 di abili ies are n fore it can fulfill even moderate idea, 1 mosh, and W 0 e b v 111 0 | betme the Public of the enlarged ”3599‘“ attributable ‘30 ”311ml"! ser- in THE. GAZE’MI '. will be rca I WEEELY ~Nonw‘ALK= - GAZETTE. N ORWAIKmGAZETTE ‘Truth above all things.’ Enteied in the Post Office as 8- NBWSWI 61‘ ’4’!” ___._._.:_______________._._———-— --—— FRIDAY. JANUARY 1. 1898. Welcome the New Year. The year 1897‘ belongs to the past, and a new year is upon us. It comes full of ’promise. Let us be fully equip— ped to reach the richest fruits from its offerings. The coming Of the 11er year for sev- eral years past brought little hopeful- ness to the struggling and depressed commerce and trade of the tonnti v Public and private credit mere assailed with a fie1ceness and powe1 that seriouslV affected the na- tional 1101101 and greatly disturbed all a business conditions. The result was industry, growing stringency in every channel etc aterprise, enforced idleness of lab- 1' the contraction of capital from the ma: ses into money centres, and dis- tuws felt in all the varied pursuits tl: :oughout the land. Business conditions changed and business mustadjust itst if is no people in the have- largely to them, but there world so adaptable to new conditions as the Americans, and there is every rea- son to ~believe that within the next tVV'clV‘e months our whole people will be adjusted to the new and irrevocable. changes which have come by the gen- eral cheapness of products in every channel, and the economies which must be mastered to make any industri- al or commercial pursuit profitable. Let us close up the books of the old year with thankfulness for the bright ray of hope that it brings to us, and let all be prepared to profit by the sub- perity which comes with the advent of 1898. There has been substantial and grow- ing improvement in all business and industrial circles since the 1st of Sep- tember last. It has not been in specu- lative booms, but by a. gradual diffusion of money amongst the- people, by the increased employment of laboriand by the enhanced prices for farm producs,a thereby greatly enlarging the number and capacity of consumers and quick- dustry and trade. We do not assume that the year 1898 prosperity that is usually expected in the reaction from depression [that de- velops into speculative movements. We do assume, however, that every legitimate industrial and commercial pursuit will enter the new year better perity than at at any time since 1892, and that the close of the new year will witness a .gradual and substantial growth of prosperity from one end of the country to the other. The City of New York. The new city of New Yorkiwas born full grown at midnight Friday night, The birth was celebrated with music and march- ing, and fireworks, with much crowd- ing of men in the streets, and much jovial excitement. It would be interest- ing to know how much of all this dem- onstration was really a celebration of . e return of Tammany tot: power. Much of it certainly was. The New, York Tribune in its account of the cel- ebration says: “It was a night of revel- ing and of license. for was not Tam: many about to aesume the_reins of gov- ernment over the second largest city of the world? Were not things to be run "wide open” again as in the “good old days” of Tammany's former rule‘.J For this. the spirits of disorder poured their noisy and tumultuous way to City Hall Park.” The consolidation of cities and village 3 which makes up the present city of New York was objected to by a large part Brooklyn, in fact, vot- ed against it, but a small majority of all concerned took the other view. The new charter was hastily drawn, is con- Ncw York- should be. The administra- tion which is now in power promises a good government and declares that fit-- ness forioffice shall be the first condi- tion of appointment. If the promise is will remember it and if it is kept, the city stand by the men who give it; not, will the people remember effective- 1y enough to throw it out four years from now ? Not unless times have changed, or abuses have become very bad indeed. The modern plan of having each party controlled by a boss, and these bosses standing by each other if a popular movement threatens to swamp either, improvement harder Yet it will come out at other Whether this is by a revolt against un- bearable oppressions, as in the Tweed days. or by development of an inde- pendent vote large enough to carry measures that make the boss system unprofitable or impossible, remains to makes radical than it was before. last in some way or be seen. The city of1\ cw Y ork is now the sec- ond largest in the world. It has a pop- ulation of 3,338,000, an 320 square miles, 1,200 miles of streets, 65 miles of elevated railways and 460 miles area of of surface railways,and353milcs of water front. of the world, and at least as likely as It is one of the richest capitals any to realize in the next hundred years (.‘olonel V’Varing‘s dream of a great municipality of the Illtlll'L. 4“ ‘v7 The Fearful Pension Scandals. It will 1equi1 '13 $160. 000, 000 to paV the pensions during the present year. and unless there shall be prompt and vigor- ous measures to revise our pension list and make it a 1'10‘l of honor, as its hould be, the cost of pensions must increase for some years to come, as there are hundreds of thousands of applications now pending for new pensions or for an increase of present pensions. There is almost entire unanimity of ex- pression from the leading Republican journals of the country [demanding a careful, exhaustive revision of our 'pen- sion list. It is known to embrace many whose pensions are wholly fraudulent and others who are not meritorious, while many honest veterans are entire- ly without pensions. ;This pension re- vision must Come, and it is idle to dis- cuss it unless it be to, propose some method for a- thorough revision to eliminate the fraudulent and unworthy pensioners offthecountry. How is pension reform to come asks the Philadelphia Times. It must come in some way, or if our pension laws shall not be revised in the interest of integrity and the honor of our pension- ers, there is danger of a sweeping revulsion against our whole, pension system that would strike far beyond the lines of justice. ‘ One rule should be made inexorable. Every pensioner who holds an office, national, State or.local.that affords him a reasonable livelihood, should have his pension suspended and covered into the Treasury so long as he hold such a pesition. Soldiers are preferred by law in all the Northern States and by the nation in obtaining and holding ofiieial positions, and such compensa- tion should certainly be accepted in lieu of pension when a soldier receives office or employment. The necessity of such a revision of our pension laws is clearly illustrated in the Pension Office itself, where there are a number who are drawing large salaries presumably for services rendered as subordinate officials, while they are drawing the highest pensions for total disability. The fact that they draw pensions for total disability, and yet receive salaries as officials in the Pension Office, clearly proves either that they are rendering service as clerks, or that their total «disability pension is a lie and a fraud. ,‘1 Every pensioner who is furnished a living in a soldiers’ home should have his pension suspended. If the govern- ment provides a living for a soldier his pension certainly should not be added. It is a common complaint from our sol- diers‘ homes that the chief demoraliza- tion they have to contend against is caused by the expenditure of pension There is fessedly imperfect, was made to. retain as much of the old opportunities for boss rule as the bosses could get into it in spite of the demand for something different, and offei ed such a prize for money received by inmates. no“ just claim for such pensions and they should be abolished. Another'large class of pensioners who should be stricken from the rolls are well described by the North American, managing politicians as has seldom been offered for their competition. It revision before it began its of what the charter l 1118. leading article on the subject in yesterday’s issue—that is pensioners ‘whcse service was only nominal: vice.” There are scores of thousands of this class on the pension list, as is known in every community, and in the interest of the honest veterans who need, and well deserve, the generous all these 1111. worthy pensioners should be stricken if it shall not be done now by honest pension revision in the support of the nation, from the list. interest of honest veterans, revision will come in the tempest, and be most difficult to restrain from injustice to many. The nation is more than willing to deal in generous justice with every soldier who rendered honest service to the army for the preservation of the Union, and with his widow and his or Theie honest pensions, but the pension sys- pha‘ns. is no prejudice against tem has been so shamefully abused by coffee coolers, bounty-jumpers and ut- erly unworthy pensioners, that dis- grace has been brought upon the whole system. and our pension lis't must be re- vised to make it a roll of honor, of which every soldier and soldiers wid— ow may be‘ justly proud. __.__....,___._.__ FEMININE CHAT. The new all-over pleased Titania. Rose pink is being worn in great pro- fusion by this season’s dcbutantcs. laces would have The correct adornment for purses is gold of a sort of dull copper in hue. How trivial everything in life seems when we stand face to face with death. Unless one is absolutely sick in bed the world at large finds it hard to be} lieve there is anything genuinely seri- ous the matter. - There are times in our lives when the friendly grasp of a hand means more than all the words in the diction- ary. The woman with the scrawniest neck always wears the most decollete gowns. It is not strange that it takesayoung woman a very long time to learn to skate when her instructor is a hand- some young fellow on whom it is a pleasure to lean. It is noticeable that womcnare grow- ing taller, while men are decidedly 'shorter—cspccially when they have to buy clothes for Amazons rather than fairies. . 4 The masculine mischief-maker must have moments when he realizes just how mean and contemptible he is Some of the new petticoats are in colors that suggest the days of our grandmothers. 5. Judging by. the fly-away appearance of some women ’3 heads it would seem that they had no knOwled‘ge of the use of brush and comb. There 1s nothing in the whole gamut of masculine attire that Seems so utter- ly ridiculous as the short top-Coat dis- playing the tails of the dress suit underneath. It requires a wonderful amount of self- possession to take a seat in a. street car next to one with whom you were on. the best of. terms"; but to Whom now you don’t speak. The problem of the theatre hat seems to be solved in the evening, but at afternoon performances the matinee girl clings stubbornly to. the large feather-laden view obstruction. Women possess something of the nature of a plucky pugilist. With every knock-down they receive from fate they spring up to try the battle over again—until their strength gives out. ———‘0.0>—-—-———' AMUSEMENTS. Land of the Living. The pictorial embellishments of“Thc Land of the Living,” a new play by Frank Harvey, are said to be out of the cOmmon. It has been fitted out with an elaborate and novel equipment of paraphernalia andscenery. The latter is among the finest examples of scenic art, and 1n point of beauty, workman- ship and novelty of subject, will fairly overshadow anything ever seen in a similar production. This play will ap« pear at Hoyt’s Theatre, Friday and Saturday. evenings, January 7 and 8. Mr. Beane, From Boston. Mr. Beane from Boston was the at- traction at Hoyt’s Theatre last even- ing and it was greeted with a large and enthusiastic audience. The celebrated Germans were the chief amusement, and made a decided hit in their new farce comedy. The parts of John E- Gorman as Sylvester Boone and George German as Chauncey Maguinness were especially worthy of mention. The terpsichorean artists were excellent. The operatic selections by Miss Agnes Baylies were beyond reproach, her voice being exceptionally clear and well modulated. 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