One (lent. Absolutely Independent. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1891. MORE CARS. Fifty passenger cars for the Consoli- dated road are being built at Bradley’s shop at Worcester. They will be de- livered June 1. These cars are to be fitted with the Pintsch system of gas lighting, and this will__111akc 75 cars owned by the company which use gas lights.‘ Twenty cars are being built at the \Vason shops at Springfield, to be used by the Consolidated road on the Subur- ban branch between New Rochelle and the Harlem river. They are exact du- plicates of the elevated road and will run into the city, connecting with the Second and Third Avenue roads. They will be heated by the Gold system of heating. The contract calls for their completion by May 15, together with the double-ender locomotives to be used on the same branch. These loco- motives are being built in Rhode Is- land and weigh 35 tons apiece. They have four drivers and four wheels un- der the tender. There are no pilot wheels. Each end will be fitted with a head light and pilot, and the engin- eer’s cab is arranged so that the engin- eer can see in either direction. \Vhat is the matter with the State Legislatures of this country, anyway? ~—Co11necticut refuses to “acquiree,” as the venerable Uncle Aaron Olmstead of Olmstead Hill, Wilton, used to ex- press it; New Hampshire refuses to re- peal her “nuisance” law; while Gover- nor Hill of New York, and State Sen- ator Robinson of Pennsylvania, both elected to Congress, refuse to give up their previously attained oiiicial hold— mgs. 44>- The Philadelphia co Ll. deale1s met veste1day and fixed the prices. Now if the weather bureau will but put up some respectable spring weather the people will bepablc to fix the coal dealers. » <9»- A majority Of the Baltimore Metho- dist Conference and alSo a majmity of the ‘Vashington members thereof have recorded themselves in opposition to the representation of women in the General Conference of the denomina— tion. The majority was large, the vote having stood 40 in favor, 145 against the proposition: The question is not, however, by any means finally disposed of, and the women who desire repre- sentation will work all the harder to achieve what they have so much at heart. The General conference of 1892 will finally decide the matter, so far as the present movement is concerned. —— «0+»— —~ - I'ime only reveals 111010 eleaily S11 John Macdonald s Pyiihic victory The t-ories lost eleven seats in Ontario and seven in Quebec. These two great provinces, the bulwark of the Domin- ion, gave liberal majorities. One more such victory and Sir J ohu is undone and unlimited reciprocity with the United States secured. .__._...._..____ ‘he New York Sun in an editorial on true and false money says if you melt your gold dollar you still have a dollar, but if you melt your silver dollar you have only eighty cents. Reasoning to a finish on this line, if you melt your paper dollar where are you ‘3 . Polls of the legislatures of Indiana, Minnesota and South Dakota are favor- able to the nominees of 1884 of both the great parties as nominees in 1892. BRIEF BIENTION. The steamer Buckeye, which was re- ported to have been wrecked with twenty- five passengers during a gale on Puget sound, arrived safely at Seattle. The Nicely brothers were refused a re- hearing by the board of pardons, and they will be hanged at Somerset, Pa., on April 2. Lord Salisbury has agreed to arbitrate the Behring sea question on the basis proposed by Secretary Blaine, except that he declines to submit the point as to What fights Great Britain acquired by the treaty of b182: 1, and the point that the rights of the United States could have grown out of the ownership of the breeding islands and the habits of the seals in resorting there. He also ' suggests that the arbitrator should decide what damages are due to persons who have been injured by the seizure 01 British vessels by the revenue cutters oi the United States. The President of Brazil has issued a. de- cree declaring the ports of that country open to imports from the United States in- cluded in the recent reciprocity treaty. At Lincoln, Neb., Governor Boyd filed an answer in the quo warranto procedings instituted in the supreme court by ex- Governor Thayer. The answer holds Boyd is a citizen to all intents and purposes, even though his father cannot produce his second naturalization papers. deernm Thayer’s counsel at once filed a demurrei to the answer, which will be argued Thurs- day. Lee Springsteel, a bridge builder fron: Cincinnati, fell from the new California avenue bridge in Allegheny, and was s< badly injured that he died while being re moved to the hospital. Mr. David H. Poston, a prominent law yer of Memphis, Tenn, was shot and mor tally wounded by H. Clay King, a wel: known citizen, and also a member of the Memphis bar. The tragedy took place in the main street, and grew out of a. suit ir which Poston defended Mrs. Pillow, whosr former relations with King had causec considerable scandal. ' Two members of the Arkansas .legisla. ture hada. fight in which inkstands anc’ cuspidors were used as weapons. No on. was hurt, but several of the lawmaker: were bespattered with ink arr. d tobacc< juice. DAILY - NORWALK— GAZETTE. WASHINGTON WHISPERS A General Revision of Departmental Salaries Hinted At. THE CABINET.L FAVORS IT. So Also Do a. Large Number of Congress- men—How the \Vomcn Are Being Crowded Out—Heads of Bureaus Prefer Curses to Tears. WASHINGTON, March 12.—The. idea of a general revision of salaries in the depart- mental service in this city meets with th( approval of almost every member of th( cabinet, as well as of a large number 0: congressmen, and it is likely to be a sub ject of legislation during the next con gress. It is a well known fact that depart ment employes receive more money foo less time and labor than any class of em ployes doing clerical work in private enter prises. The increasing business of the govern- ment, the outgrowth of the developmenl of the country, will cause a continued in» crease in the amounts annually required for conducting national transactions, bul it is desirable to have a rearrangement 0: salaries that will give higher c0111 pensa tion to those bureaus where the work is or the increase. \Vhere Salaries Are Too Low. While the majority of employes are over paid, there is a discrimination in certair divisions against officers, when it would be economy to employ higher salaried men. In the land office the decisions it important cases are frequently prepared by law clerks who receive not more that $1,200 or 531,400 per annum. A good law yer, one competent to handle these ques tions, would make from three to five time: that amount in private practice, and tin consequence is that the government an nually loses some of its most efficient ser vants, while the sinecures hang on. The land office, for instance, passes an nually upon cases the amounts involvec’ in which are greater in the aggregate that those in the cases which come before the supreme court of the United States. Only law officers of experience are competent t1 do the work, yet there is a constant changi in the force,owing to the small salaries paid These inequalities are well understood by the heads of departments, but it is dif ficult to correct them unless congress take: cognizance of the matter, and by an in- vestigation discover just where an equal. ization is necessary. A Reformation Schenle. This has been proposed by Representa. tive Sayers, who is in favor of a standing committee that will secure the views 0: cabinet officers and the heads of bureaus and which shall formulate a general re vision of salaries in the minor positions ii the public service. It would result in ar immense annual saving, and at the saint time secure a more rapid transaction 0: business. From time to time new places have beer created, presumably for temporary pur poses, but they have been continued front year to year after the necessity for their ceased to exist. All this has hindered rather than promoted the efficiency of tho service, and any one who has had corre spondence with a department knows that it takes a week to get replies to correspond ence that would receive immediate atten' tion at the hands of a private establish- ment conducted on business principles. Red tape is the life of all this cumbrous service. Every letter written goes througl the hands of at least a half dozen persons, no matter how unimportant it may be The cmployes in the postal service are about the only ones who seem to have any idea of the value of time. Crowding the \Vomen Out. Notwithstanding the widening field foo women in occupations generally, the gentler sex does not have as large a share of the places in public service as formerly This is one of the effects of the civil serv ice act piobably not contemplated by its framers. The law gives the department officials the discretion of employing either male 01 female clerks, and nine times out of ten when a woman leaves the service the heac’ of the department will make a requisitior- on the civil service commission for 3. mar to take her place. Since the law went intt operation the number of women in the department has decreased, and if preju- dice against women on the part of the higher officers continues it is only a ques- tion of time when there will be very few petticoats in the departments. The lists of the civil service commissior are full of female eligibles who have only the remotest chances of appointment, ané the commissioners endeavor as much as possible to discourage women from enter- ing examinations. This is no lack of gal lantry on the part of the commissioners, because they cannot control the wishes ol the heads of departments as to whom they want for clerks. It may be different when the female suffragists have more influence than they have at present, but it is a fact that the appointing officers discriminati against the women on the eligible list. Prefers Curses to Tea-rs. “The only reason I can give for it,” saié the chief clerk of a. bureau, “is that wher a. woman asks for a leave of absence or 2 personal favor which it may be impossibh to grant she will go off and cry, and tho next day you will find every woman in tho same division down on you. IVheu yor displease a man he will go out of hearing and swear at you, while his fellow clerk: will laugh at his disappointment. For my part I would rather have a man swear then see a woman cry.” A Great Railway Combination. EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 12,—C. P Huntington, president of the Huntingtox system, which has lately purchased th( Mobile and Ohio road; M. E. Ingalls, pres ident of the Big Four; J. F. Barnard, pres ident and general manager of the Ohio ant Mississippi; General John Echols, of tho Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern, and 9Cr. W. Saul, of the Chicago and Easter: Illinois, have arrived here. It is said they came here to secure the entrance to Evans ville of the Mobile and Ohio road from tho south and the Big Four from the north thus forming one of the greatest railway combinations in the United States. Pa er Makers in Trouble. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 12. —"l'h¢ Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance com pany foreclosed its mortgage on the W1 nona paper mills of Holyoke yesterday having previously made a demand for th‘ payment of the $200,000 note. Insolvency proceedings are predicted, as thetreasurei ' of the company has been unable to securc an agreemnnt to settle at forty cents or the dollar. ............................................................................................................... EDWD. STREET “OFFERS—— New Dress Goods III the Leading Styles AT VERY LOW PRICES. Many of them are exclusive and are NOT To BE FOUND ELSEWHERE. them before the hue 1s b1 oken. The LADIES’ RIBBED VESTS at 12. ,cents are going fast. Remember they are w01th 19 cents apiece. In GINGHAMS, SEERSUCKERS. OUTINGS, FLANNELETTES we have the choicest line 1n town and at the LOWEST PRICES. The TOWEL STOCK is full of genuine bal gains. The 100., 12:170., 220. and 250. me the best value shown yet. HOSIERY STOCK is now ready for spling. One of the leaders this week is a Childr’en s Ribbed Fast Black Hose, sizes from 6 to 97, at 100. a pair; all sizes worth 16c. You all know that on FANCY ARTICLES, NOTIONS, Best Stock and Lowest Prices. Look at &c.. &c.. we are the headquarters. Edward Street, No. 5 Gazette Building, Norwalk. WILL HAVE THEIR 1ring D oning of loss Goo 011 Wednesday, March 4, and will offe1 a laigei stock of Fine Goods than evei bef01e to the 1esidents of Norwalk, and AT PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION fo1 good goods. “’0 don'tintend to sell tr.ash We think them 13 enough offered 1n town aheady. @PLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE Goons AVD PRICES We have our line of CARPETS complete with all the New Styles 1n market Also 131 go lines of Rugs, Door Mats, all sizes,1 \Iattings. Linoleum, Oil Cloths, &c., 810. Our Kitclien Denaltment 1s well stocked with all kinds of Wooden and Tin Ware f1om a 9c. Bioom to an 890. Wash Tub. 0111 tiade 1s 1"apidly 111c1easing and we intend to supply all the wants of 0111 custome1s to the best of 0111 ability Goods not 111 stock will be p‘uichased next day Agents for J ouvm Kid Gloves. Butteiick S Patte1 11s, Hall’ s Bazar F01ms, &c. Special Agents for Agra. Angora and Glenham Mills Carpet. SCOFIELD .9. HOYT. WILL FOR A .FEW DAYS MORE PASS OUT Unma lo Bargains FROM TH E' AMBLER STOCK. L500 cloaks can he Bought lor $5 Each. Wonderful Bargains in Rugs. DRESS GOODS at about HALE~PBICE. Laces, Corsets and (21011011 Underwear at fully, one—half under price. Ribbons, Small Wares, Buttons, Umbrellas, Fancy Goods and a full assortment of General Dry Goods at same low prices. 1.11111 .1 no. ' WILLIAM G. DAVIES, Gen. Solicitor. One Cent. THE MUTUAL Life Insnronoe Company, \ OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. McCURDY, President. Statement for Year Ending Dec. 3 0,’9 0. Assets, - - $147,154,96120. $136,668,368 00 505,339 82 9,981,233 38 34,978,778 69 16,973,200 05 160,985,985 58 638,226,865 24 Reserve on Policies at 4 per cent, - Liabilities other than Reserve, 1- - - Surplus, - - - - — Receipts from all sources, . — — - - Payments to Policy-Holders, — - - Risks assumed, - - 49,188 policies 4 - Risks in force, - - 206,055 policies - The Assets are Invested as Follows: $76,529,231 72 51,311,631 54 8,624,400 00 3, 556, 441 59 7,,133 256 35 3147, 154, 961 20 Real Estate and Bond and Mortgage Loans, - United States Bonds and other Securities, - - Loans on Collateral Securities, — - - Cash in Banks and Trust Companies at interest, ~ - Interest accrued, Premiums deferred, etc., - - I have car efully examined the foregoing statement and find the same to be coucct. A. N. WATERHOUSE, Audit01. From the Surplus above stated a dividend will be apportioned as usual. The business for l890 shows INCREASE over that of l889, as follows: In Assets, - - ~ ~ $10,753,633 18 In Reserve on Policies and Surplus, — 10,554,091 94 In Receipts, - - - - 3,859,759 07 1,772,591 67 9,383,502 21 72,276,931 32 In Payment to Policy-Holders, - — In Risks assumed, - 4,611 policies In Risks in force, — 23,745 policies — ' For: scs 1'11 ments to , . . ., Year. ' ASSIITIIISG. OutSthiiding. Polidy-Holdeis. Rebml’t‘ “New 1884 $34,081,420 $351,789,285 $13,923, 002 19 $19, 095 318 41 $103,870,178 51 1885 40,507,139 308,981,441 14,402,049 90,214,954 28 108,908,907 51 1880 50,832,719 393,809,203 13,129,103 74 21: 137,170 07 114,181,903 24 1887 09,457,408 427,028,933 14,128,423 00 23,119,922 40 ‘ 118,800,851. 88 1888 103,214,201 482,125,184 14,727,550 22 120,215,932 52 120,082,153 50 1889 151,002,483 505,949,934 15,200,008 38 31,119,019 02 130,401,328 1890 100,985,980 038,220,805 10,973,200 05 34,978,778 09 147,154,901 20 Board of Trustees: \ S. Van Rensselaer Cruger Charles R. Henderson. George Bliss. Rufus W. 'Peckham. J. Hobart Herrick. William P. Dixon. Robert A. Granniss, Henry H. Rogers, Jno. W. Auchincloss. Theodore Morford. William Babcock. Preston B. Plumb. Stuyvesant Fish. Augustus D. J uilliard. Charles E. Miller. James W Husted. Walter R. Gillette. James E. Grannies. Samuel E. Sprouls. Lucius Robinson. Samuel D. Babcock. George S. Coe. Richard A. McCuldy. James C. Holden. Hermann C. Von Post. Alexander H. Rice. Lewis May. Oliver Harriman. Henry W. Smith. Robert Olyphant. George F. Baker. J 0s. Thompson. Dudley Olcott. Frederic Cromwell. J ulien T. Davies. Robert Sewell. ROBERT A. .GRAANNISS, Vice-President. IVALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice- President. WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. FREDERICK SCHROEDER, Assistant Secietary. ARCHIBALD N. WATERHOUSE, Auditor. EMORY McCLINTOCK, LLD., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J R., Asst. Actuary. CHAS. B. PERRY, 2d Asst. Actuary. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. JOHN FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier. WM. RICHARDS, Comptroller Mme“. \DIBECTons—GUSTAVUS N. WINSTON, M. 1)., E. J. MARSH _M. D.; GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D. John W Nichols, New Haven, GENERAL AGENT FOR STATE OF CONNECTICUT. A. 11. CAMP, Agent for N orwalk and Vicinity.
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