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Offlct at Chicago, Illinois, undor Act
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR,
COUNCIL GIVES 0
Our Two by Four Aldermen Did Not
Appropriate One Cent for Belief
of Eastland Victims.
The Same Council Would Gladly Appropriate
$100,000 for Civil Service Sinecures
for Relatives or Pals.
.Foreign Cities Gave Very Freely to Relieve Chicago
Sufferers After the Great Fire of 1871
and American Cities More.
If Aldermen Had Acted
About Eastland
Tho City Council voted the sum of
$20,000 to Investigate the Eastland
disaster Monday .night and as an
emergency fund, for rescue, work. . .
Not a cent for the poor distressed
families or Individuals. r
If It was a gang of relatives or pals
of theirs planning a raid on tho treas
ury for more coin for life civil serv
ice sinecureB, theso same alderman
would have voted them $100,000
gladly.
It the Chicago aldermen had even
voted $20,000 to rellovo the distressed
It would have been little enough.
Twenty thousand dollars for tho re
lief of families ruined by the greatest
calamity in the history of tho cltyl
It would not have been much.
Dut the aldermen gave them noth
ing. This shows tho caliber of the City
Council.
After tho Great Fire of 1871 several
foreign cities contributed almost as
much as this for tho Chicago sufferers
and several American cities contrib
uted more than the City Council ap
propriated to put more men at work
on the wreck.
This is the City Council that appro
priated $10,000,000 for a boulevard
link for Joy riding, automobile-owning
deadbeats and non-taxpayers.
The neglect of the City Council of
Chicago to appropriate one cent for
tho relief of sufferers through the
Eastland disaster, puts Chicago in a
contemptible light, when the action of
other City Councils in other cities at
the time of tho great Chicago fire of
1871 is recalled. The City Council of
the city of St. Louis appropriated
$50,000 for tho relief of Chicago tiro
sufferers at a special meeting held
Octobor 9, 1871, whllo tho flro was
still raging. Tho following telegram
was received on that date by Mayor
R, IS, Mason, of Chicago:
"Mayor of Chicago Trains will
leave by Chicago & Alton R. It. this
evening with a quantity of cooked and
other provisions. City Council voted
$50,000 to tho Chicago sufferers and
mass meeting culled for tonight to
add to citizens' contribution of today
of $70,000.
"JOSEPH DROWN,
"Mayor."
Louisville, Kentucky, sent over
$200,000 in money nnd supplies.
The Common Council of Cincinnati
appropriated $100,000 for Chicago flro
sufferers at a special meeting held on
October 9, 1871.
New York City sent $250,000 and
train loads of supplies.
Boston sent $100,000 in the follow
ing telegram:
"R. B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago:
"You are authorized to draw on this
city for $100,000, for the relief of suf
ferers by the late fire,
"WILLIAM GASTON,
"Mayor."
The city of Erie, Pa., sent In $15,
000 through Its Mayor.
Troy, N. Y., sent $10,000.
Montreal, Canada, sent $10,000.
Albany, N. Y., sent $10,000.
Brooklyn, N, Y sent $100,000,
Philadelphia, Pa., sent $100,000.
Pittsburgh, Pa., sent $100,000.
11. 1M9, at (h Pott
of March 3, 1879.
NO. 44.
on What So Many of Them Say They Knew
No Disaster Could Have Occurred.
Fifty other cities appropriated small
er amounts.
Chicago's City Council will make Its
own Investigation of the Eastland
catastrophe.
Alderman Rodriguez proposed the
Council investigation. He said it was
less than a year ago that the officials
of the Chicago Federation of Labor
had called tho attention of the offi
cials to the fact that the Eastland
was unsafe and that a serious acci
dent was likely to happen to it at
any time.
Tho Investigation will be conducted
by tho Council's committee on har
bors, wharves and bridges.
The Council also adopted a resolu
tion introduced by Alderman Mer
rlam which called upon the federal
government to appoint n special com
mittee to conduct an Inquiry. This
sought to have tho federal investiga
tion mado by persons other than
steamboat Inspectors.
Alderman Pretzel told the Council
that he had reported to It a year ago
that the vessel was being overcrowd
ed. He said the owners of the lake
boats had threatened him with dam
age suits at the time.
A resolution waa adopted praising
the police and Are departments for
their aid In the rescue work.
Chairman Turnbaugh, did Otto
Rice tho laundryman entertain any
members of your committee during tho
last session, when that woman's 9
hour law was before It?
There was great walling and
gnashing of teeth when Governor
Dunne vetoed tho insurance bill passed
by tho last General Assembly. What
a sad bunch they were! Wo con
gratulate Governor Dunne on his veto
of this unfair measure.
Vice-President Turnor of tho Penn
sylvania has been elected president
of tho Chicago Union Station com
pany, Vice-President Sewoll of tho
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul was
mad0 vice-presldout of tho station
corporation nnd W. G. White has been
selected secretary. The executlvo
committee consists of Messrs. How
ard ,of the Burlington, Shoyer of tho
Pennsylvania nnd Sewoll of tho St.
Paul. This commttea will havo gen
eral charge of everything pertaining
to tho now passonger station project.
Young Representative John C. Mc
0 loon of tho Nineteenth Senatorial dis
trict of Chicago, who Introduced tho
50-cnr limit bill, will have a hard tlmo
squaring himself with eithor the rail
road employes or tho railroad officials,
It Is said. By trying to please both,
he pleased none. It is said that his
ducking of tho voto pn tho woman's
9-hour law, was the great Joke of the
session with some legislators.
Efforts are being made by the Chi
cago plan commission to obtain bet
ter beach facilities for the people of
tho city. The Ave drownings at Cor
nelia beach recently have aroused
the members of the commission, ac
cording to a statement made today
by Chairman Charles H. Wacker, who
insists that Chicago should have at
least ten beaches like the one at
Jackson park, where the bathers are
safeguarded and have dressing room
accommodations.
lay or 'Thompson -will probably
drop ult of the seven retiring mem
bers of the School Board. The seven
men about to retire, , aro John J.
Sonsteby, William Rothmann, Robert
Editor
J. Roulston, Charles S. Peterson,
John A. Metz, Dr. Stephen R. Pie
trowlcz and William Schlake.
Edward H, Morris, a colored at
torney and former state representa
tive, may be appointed a member of
the board by Mayor Thompson, ac
cording to city hall rumor, The
mayor has already appointed several
negroes to city Jobs, among them be
ing Edward H. Wright and L. B.
INDEPENDENT IN ALL THIHOt, MUTUAL
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, JULY
Anderson ns assistant to the corpor
ation counsel, and the Rev. Archi
bald .Tames Carey, chief law claim
investigator In the law department.
Coroner Hoffman and State's Attor
ney Hoyne deserve credit for their
prompt and efficient work In the
Kastland calamity.
School graft appears to havo been
pretty good judging from thn testi
mony before tho 8enato Committee.
A prediction: The investigation
Into the Kastland catastrophe by the
payroll cadets will amount to nothing.
A whitewash Is tho most likely result.
Tho only beneficiaries of tho awful
calamity will bo tho fellows who al
ways benefit by theso events, to wit:
the high salaried professional organ
ized charity people. The. dead will
go unavenged and the living will soon
be forgotten.
Secretary Redlleld Is quoted as say
ing that all government steamboat In
spectors "aro chosen from tho eligible
list of the Civil Service Commission."
We thought so. Before tho Civil Serv
ice humbug was borrowed from China,
big catastrophes to boats and theaters
wero unknown in this country, it is
since the Civil Service law went Into
effect that 1000 people wero burned
on the General Slocum; COO wero
killed In tho Chicago Iroquois (Ire, and
1,400 destroyed on the Eastland.
"Civil Servlco eliglblcs" forsooth!
A Civil Servico "eligible" is a fel
low who enn read, write and flguro
smartly. He Is not appointed on ac
count of his practical ability. Tho
Civil Servlco eligible Is appointed to
his Job for II fo and to blazes with the
public after he gets on tho pay roll.
For several years the Dally News
has conducted a beautiful philan
thropy in the form of a summer camp
for tenement-dwelling mothers and
their babies. Tho camp for this year
was opened in June and will be kept
open until September. Tho Dally
News physicians In'attendanco usu
ally determine the time any one of
tho visitors may stay. Tho regular
term is one week, but if a child or
Its mother needs more, It is granted.
VICTOR F. LAW80N,
and Publisher of the Chicago Dally
This enterprise, the leaBt obtrusive
and most effective of Its kind, is con
ducted at the expense of The Dally
News, strictly for tho beneflt of the
city poor, who need Just what It gives.
It has saved the lives of hundreds of
infants since It was Instituted, and
In doing that has benefited future
Industrial citizenry In a degreo that
could not well be estimated in terms
of money. Press Club Scoop.
IN NONE
31, 1015.
REMEMBER
If the Big Belief Fund Baised for the
Eastland Sufferers Is to Do
Them Any Good
It Must Be Kept
Salaried
Old Chicagoans Remember What Became of the Relief
and Aid Funds Donated in 1871 to the
Great Fire Victims.
They Also Remember
Money from
The Civilized World was horror
stricken over the great Chicago Firo
of 1871. With over 100,000 people
homeless and destitute, the charity
of the world was poured in upon the
suffering community.
Organized charity was equal to the
occasion.
Most of tho money was turned over
News.
to It, and for years it throve upon
tho offerings of the world to tho flro
sufferers.
High salaried officers were created
and continued In well paid Jobs for
decades after the fire.
This outrageous wolffshness caused
a great uprising In Chicago In the
summer of 1875 nearly four years
nftai ilia flraaf Plra
1 Mobs of impoverished people In-
Entered at Second Clatt Matter October 11. 1889, at the Pott
Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. '
Mn&c?rt WHOLE NUMBER 1,345
Out of the Hands of the High
Wolves in "Organized
Charity."
the Great Mobs Which Tried to Pry this
the " Society " Holding It in 1875.
vaded La Sallo street, whero tho
principal offices of tho "Society"
which throve upon money donated by
a generous world to the poor of Chi
cago wero located.
The militia and the polico wero
called out In force to keep the Or
ganized Charity wolves from being
mobbed.
The successors of this "Society"
are now at work In Chicago, with big
payrolls for themselves nnd, it Is
currently alleged, with "small
amounts" for tho needy poor.
They would like to get hold of tho
money raised for the Eastland vic
tims. If they do get It, the suffering and
needy survivors of that awful catas
trophe will recolvo tho same treat
ment that tho Chicago Firo sufferers
received.
They will get very little.
Tho professional charity organizers
will get most of It, ns usual.
If tho Mayor's fund Is to do tho
good Its donors Intended it to do, It
must bo kept out of the clutches of
Organized Charity.
Judging from Its past record, Chi
cago's. Publicity Brigade aro great on
Investigations but might shy on re
sults. Witness:
Cold storage flro at World's Fair
whole companies of firemen wiped out.
Nothing done.
Iroquois Fire No ono punished.
Flub dub memorial, thut's all. COO
killed.
Stock yards ammonia explosion,
flro marshnl and number of ffremen
killed. Nothing done.
Eastland disaster? 1,400 killed.
Initiative in an effort on tho part of
unions to prevent tho possibility of
"whitewash for offenders" was tnkon
by Chicago Typographical Union No.
Ill, which adopted a resolution invit
ing other trade unions to co-oporato
with it in watching tho investigation
into tho Kastland disaster through a
special legal representative. Tho reso
lution de.scrlbod the disaster ns ono
which would go down In history as
another "chnrgo against carelessness
or incompetency."
United States Senator James Ham
Ilton Lowls Impressed tho Importance
of a thorough investigation on tho
department of commorco and labor
In tho following telegram:
"Tho public press prints that our
government refuses to countenance
any federal Investigation of tho sink
ing of the Eastland, Tho chargo is
that wo are shielding guilty inspec
tors. Here, openly, Is being mndo tho
charge by city and state officials that
our federal inspectors wero corrupted
by steamboat oporators to violate tho
law. Federal Judgo Landis Is calling
a special grand Jury and snys if our
United States attorney declines to
participate ho will name a special at
torney. "This will put us in a position of
trying to shield officials who must
be guilty of something causing us to
take such action. Such position would
injure us greatly beforo the public.
"I am sure there Is a misunder
standing and that tho rumor through
tho public press is doing us a great
Injustice I beg to recommond that
the department of Justlco here be
authorized by your office to partlcl-
THIS
pate In any federal Inquiry ordered
by Judgo Landis to tho full extent
of obtaining the truth as to charges
of corruption on tho part of federal
inspectors. Please communicate with
United States Attorney Clyno at earli
est moment to avoid embarrassment
of special counsel being named by
Judgo Landis on tho ground that our
government refuses official aid in tho
Investigation. I can not press upon
you too strongly tho danger of Inac
tion in this mutter."
Speaker Shnnnhan represents be
sides n wet district, an absoluto labor
population. What did ho do for them?
Wo refer for reply to John Walker,
president of tho State Federation of
Labor; Victor Orlnndor, secretary of
the State Federation of Labor and
to officials of other labor bodies.
Tho Young Men's Frank O. Low
den club of Illinois hns been organ
ized In Chicago In furtherance of
the Oglo county leader's candidacy
for governor. Headquarters aro in
tho Hotel Sherman. E. A. .Hurdling
is president and Ernest Jnunushou,
secretary. A vice-president will bo
elected from each ward.
Tho city Is now engaged In killing
tho few trees thnt wero not killed
by tho city forester act. Work on
an electric conduit along North La
Sallo street from Chicago avonuo to
North avenue has been temporarily
abandoned by Deputy Commissioner
of Public Works Burkhnrd, at tho
protest of property owners thnt 250
or !!00 beautiful elm trees will bo
destroyed It tho work contlnuer.
This part of Lu Sallo street was at
ono tlmo tho most cxcluslvo rcsldeuco
district on tho north side. Tho trees
wore planted tho year following tho
great flro.
Tho Govornor acted wisely In ve
toing tho picture Dim legislation.
Speaker Sliannlian's friends woro much
disappointed hecnuso of tho Gover
nor's action.
How In thundor did Speaker Davo
Shanahan, with nil of his legislative,
oxperieuco, allow appropriation bills
to pass that wero so full of alleged
Illegal holes? Talk of a special ses
sion of tho legislature camo from
Sprlngllold In tho wnko of an an
nouncement thnt all stato funds aro
tied up pending u decision on thu in
junction suits brought by F.iyotto S.
Munro of Highland park as attornoy
for John B. Forgtis. Stato Treasurer
Hussel and Stato Auditor Brady havo
announced that they will not ubsuiuq
responsibility for paying out any moro
of tho stato funds until tho court has
had an opportunity to docldo. Judge
Crolghton hns lixod next Wednesday,
Aug. 4, to start hearing argumouts In
tho cases, In tho meantime, banks
where tho etnto funds aro dope-sited
aro refusing to honor vouchors pre
sented by employes or othors having
claims against tho stato and aro re
turning them with a chargo for a pro
test fea attached.
Addison street, tho only wldo east
and west street running clear across
tho city from tho lake to tho limits,
between Dlversey street and Evanston,
should be made a boulevard at onco.