Life — December 27, 1894 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: + OWhile there i» Life there's Hope. VOL, XXIV. DECEMBER 27, 1894. No. 626. 1g West Tuirty-First STREET, New York, Published every Thursday. $s.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign i ostal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. utions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped / A PLEASANT example of municipal bumptiousness appears in the request the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland citizens of that town not to put “O” or “Ohio” on their letter heads or after their names when they write them in hotel registers. The sentiment ws of the Chamber is that oe there is but one Cleveland that is truly great (Grover, of course, being excepted) and that to admit the need of identifying that one in is a concession which no true by telling what state it Clevelander should consent to make. No doubt the Chamber does well, but it will do better still if it can induce its citizens to forego the practice of dating their letters and themselves from “ London, England,” “Paris, France,” and * New York, N.Y." What is best known of Cleveland to persons who do not live in that town, is that it is a likely city, pleasantly poised on the shore of Lake Erie, with a beautiful street in it, called Euclid Avenue, which is lined with fine houses inhabited by care- takers. Clevelanders are famous everywhere except at home. We find them prevalent and conspicuous in New York, we hear of them—and of their daughters—in London, we learn of their existence in Paris, and we go to entertain- ments in their houses in Washington, D. C. We know of them everywhere except at home, and it is really a relief to learn that enough of them stick by their own town to afford the necessary membership for a Chamber of Commerce. . * * CCORDING to the Governor's decision, follow- ing the report of the latest committee that has investigated the Elmira Reformatory, Mr. Brockway will continue to direct the affairs of that institution until further notice. Mr. Brockway has not been very abundantly exonerated. Some of his methods of discipline have failed to make a good impression on any of his investigators. Judge Learned, the best known and most influential member of the last committee that sat on him, in his minority report that Brockway’s punishments have been “ ex- cessive in severity and number and therefore cruel.’* The two other committeemen, though they approve of him on the whole, find some details of his system of discipline to be “ improper and unjustifiable on any theory.” Nevertheless, Mr. Brockway stays where he is, and LIFE is not sure that it is sorry. For one thing, it seems doubtful whether a better man could be found to take his place, for another it seems evident that he ought to reform and possibly his Reform- atory is as good a place for him to reform in as another. Be careful, Mr. Brockway. Don’t thump your hard cases so hard or so long. When you are too zealous it makes folks begin to believe that you like to do it. Try kindness, sir, and if the toughs seem to be getting tougher, line them up in the yard and make them play football. They will get more discipline in that way and you will get less blame. OOD-BYE, Governor Flower; good-bye, sir! It is not an unmixed joy for us this parting with you, but it ought to be rather a cheerful occasion for yourself. You are ‘Governor Flower” now to the end of your days and in the ears of posterity. That is pleas- ant. In spite of ——_ your being so mixed “up with Hill and Sheehan, and all that hard gang, there are many worthy people in == New York State that feel kindly toward you and wish you well. That is pleasant also. Another time, sir—but that may be deferred until the occasion aris * OU, Governor Morton, it is a pleasure to congratulate on taking up with one of the most advantageous jobs that i open to the aspirations of a citi- zen of New York. There is a fine notoriety about being Presi- dent of the United States, but it is attended by constant worry and excessively hard work, It used to be thought a most respectable and de- sirable thing to be a Senator, but the dollar marks and sugar coating are so thick in that honor nowadays that it is not in as high esteem as it was. But to be Governor of the Empire State is still to occupy an enviable, and—in spite of everything—an honorable station. LiFE hopes you will like it, Governor Morton; and please, sir, teach Platt his place, and make him stick to his delivery business. Lire would be sorry indeed to come to Albany and find that man’s hand-cart and parcels standing outside of your front door.