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fCiTV $90,000 Ycevrly for upkeep of this and Geta PICRACBFUIj Employes of the four city departments which were installed the new Hall of Records, in Chambers street, about a year ago, are in open revolt against the filthy condition of the marble hsilla end sumptuous offloes of New York's greal municipal palace. From the Imposing vestibule 8t the mail: entrance to the top floor, the whole baUdbsj Is so thick with dust "that one can write his name almost anywhere, even upon the mahogany furniture In most luxurious offices. Lawyers ethers who use the public record rooms Id the Surrogates' and Register's offices have made written complaints to the beads of tstese depmrtments about tbe dirty condition of fcoth the records and tbe rooms. These complaints have been senl on to the Borough Prealdent, nii. though months have nothing has been done to improve matters.

it is costing the taxpayers no lees a sum thaa a. year In alone to have this single public taken care of. though an expert appointed by the Board of Aldermen reported some months ago that under the moat liberal private management the work could be well done for $30,030 lees than it is costing. In one of the magnificent courtrooms of the department Irresponsible visitors liave ii.l initials upon one of the massive cak tables used by counsel, and several finely carved oak panrln that form part of the mural decorations in the rear of the Judge's bench have been sadly mutilated by having pieces l.rcken off. probably by souvenir collecting vandata.

In consequence, both courtrooms have been ordered closed to visitors by Judge Thomas until porr.c better means can be found of preventing further damage. The buildinK is also unarming with rats that have been driven out of their accustomed haunts by the tearing down of the buildings to make way for the city's new terminal structurf. all the departments are more, or less troubled by these unwelcome visitors, they a decided preference for the record rooms in the offices of the Corporation Counsel and of the Surrogates' department, where priceless documents and court records are stored. THIEVES AND VANDALS. in a number of workmen have used the highly polished mahogany desk topi, as a fitting place to deposit heavy tools, with tlie result that the thin veneer lias been barked.

shewing the white pine oiling underneath. In another instance an employe the city was Beverely rebuked for having driven common Iron utaptes into a pieoe of mahogany furnituie bo thai be might be able to atta' a padloctc to it. In several of the departments, it Is asserted. property belonging to the city, as well as the personal effects of the employes, has a habit of mysteriously disappearing over night. In Bplte of complaints, this sort of thing has been allowed to go on for months unchecked.

But -what is most troubling the officials and the public that is in the habit of using the building extensively is its disgracefully condition, and the fact that rats are allowed to grow fat upon the bindings of the records. The officials of the Surrogates' office, especially, are much concerned over this destructive work. It is pointed out that many of the documents are originals of wills, deeds, executors" and administrators' bonds, as well as decisions regarding large estates, none of which ould be replaced if destroyed. Under the Criminal Code responsibility for their care rests the Surrogates, one of whom has personally complained to the Borough President, but as nothing has been done either to keep the place clean or to exterminate the destructive roueuts. An inspection of the Hall of Records made by a Tribune reporter revealed a condition of affairs that is little short of criminal.

Though this magnificent pranite pile cost city about J8.000.000 to erect. It would be hard to find a ONE TREE TO COST TAXPAYERS 5i 8,250. Life of a Park Birch Saved. but at What Expense It has cost the city $5,000 to save the life of a single white birch tree in Central Park. The amount has not been paid ln cash; the city Is not done 1n that way.

Corporate stork will be issued for the $5,000. and upon a fifty-year bond, bearing Interest at the rate of cent "per annum, the money wtH be borrowed. Every for half a century the taxpayers will be called upon to pay an Interest charge of $225 for the saving of this Half a century hence, the bond matures, a future peneration of taxpayers will haw to go down Into their pockets and pay the original JS.OW. Altogether, with principal and intprrst, the saving of this tree's precious life will cost the city The 6tory r.f how the life of the tree was endangered and how It was nobly rescued ought to be a lasting tribute- to the devotion to his artistic duty of Central Park's landscape ar arehttect. fiamuel Parsons, Jr.

Tt also reflects the greatest possible credit upon the officials of Water Department for the part they played in what might have been a tragedy, ending in the ultimate death of the tree. To other city departnvents that have the reputation of continually quarrelling with one another which can squander most of the taxpayers' the etory will conclusively prove that there are ways In which the municipal revenues can be artistically wasted ln perfect peace and harmony. The Good Book admonishes the sluggard to go to the ant In order to learn the waye of Industry; after this It will be in order for city to go to a certain white birch In Ontral to learn methods of artistic travganee. The Incident is the more noteworthy because there were a number of ways in which tree have been naved for ever co much less money than It cost, but each of these ways was to the serious objection of being disgustingly cheap and ridiculously practical. The essentially hard headed and practical individual who was compelled, much against his own inclination, to play a prominent part In the rescue has now the hardihood to suggest that the whole thing could have been done, and better done, for a paltry $150.

But be must be devoid of even the Bllgbtest trace of the artistic in nis make-up. HOW THE PEEIL AROSE. It was months ago that the Department of Water Supply. Gas and Electricity awarded contract, totalling over $800,000 for the laying of ncge water main, five tmt ln diameter up STS 1 to the -trmace to the park. The ultimate destination of the lhC lies Just nine one of the many evidence, of growing requirement.

of the great city, for that was second or third rate office building In a condition, it is not necessary to even enter the place to find evidences of wanton neglect that would cost the superintendent of any reputable office building his job. Hall a dozen windows the Chambers street front and as many more overlooking Centre street are Innocent of shades. In their place the inmates of some of the have pasted newspapers against the gl ast, to protect themselves from the rays of the sun shining upon their desks through the shadeless windows. the main entrance on Chambers street a lone cleaner with stepladder, a pail of water and .1 cleaning swat) waa leisurely washing the grime from the faces and the draperies of the groups of statuary that flank either side of tho 1. rti to the municipal palace.

He evidently not yet found time even sweep down the doors with their ornamental bronze grilling or the 'l steps leading to the entrance. Half an Inch of dust made them look like the gateways to a deserted warehouse. A COAT OF DUST. Immediately inside is- the vestibule and foyer fashioned after thnt of the Grand Opera in Paris, all done In Siena marble. The broad staircases leading to the great colonnade on the second are executed In the same material.

The picture ought to be Impressive, but, alas, it looks Lawdry. Over all this tii material there is a heavy i 1 1 1 of dust, smeared here and there with Btreaks ol polished brightness, where ireless ones have dirtied their fingers or coat sleeves by rubbing against it. The groups of statuary in the vestibule, one representing the purchase of Manhattan Island and the other tile consolidation of the greater city, look as they were much In need of a The have heavy crowns of accumulated dust, anil the condition of their white draperies suggests the laundry. The floor is of mosaic done in flgun but no one would be sure about it unless he was told, for it is covered with tilth and does not look as ii It had even a speaking acquaintance with woman and a mop' Marble door ledges, the broad banisters, the columns and bases of the colonnade and every conceivable place where dust could find a lodgement are filthy beyond description, and even the perpendicular walls have a film. The chandeliers and light brackets have doubtless intended to shed rich mellow glow over the scene of soulptored marble.

Now thej are a dirty blai k. because theii tilled with accuraulaof dust, and they afford little light. Be- Bidep, there Is no polished marble to yen If there was the mellow light, for Its brightness has disappeared. The words "shameful neglect" traced bj the reporter's angers upon one of the marble walls out plainly. If the same amount of cleanins Is done in the future as has been done In the past the words will be legible six month-; hence.

'J he secret refused to hide itself; this pan of the building has not been thoroughly cleaned since it was opened a y.ir ago. A double flight of marble steps lead to the basement. Going down them gives one the sensation of descending a ladder; a man with feet would be tempted ti. tio down sidewise. The treads are not more thai, eight or ties wide.

Tiie explanation of the cynical critii t.s that tbe more treads the more costly material used. The two or three 1 occupied by the Armory Board were fairly but the secretary, Mr. Davis, explained thai after a long fight be had succeeded In having the vacuum cleaning apparatus with which tbe building was equipped a cost of (46,000 put to work. Ills staff complained that the quarters were both cold and damp. Jt was Impossible to open the windows because they looked Into narrow area below the level of the sidewalk that had not been cleaned since the building was completed.

A string of carpet the full of a long office disappeared after hours sony time ago, and could not afterward be found or accounted for. There ip upon this floor a storeroom used by tin finance department to books and records that is directly over thchlnery In the sub-cellar. The temperature In this room is co high thnt the book covers curl up and the binding 'jtiv to i ieces in one's hands. DIRT AND DISORDER The main floor in occupied tl public and private offices of the Tax Department. In one line.

When officials of the Water Department to the last laj' In the the trench for the. new five-foot main through this short stretch of park surveys carefully made over the direct line of. the old As luck wouid have a fine young white birch, fully thirty high, with outspreading stood directly in the centre between the two for the new trench walls. When th Lpe architect for the park. Samuel Pa came to examine the course oi excavation, prior to granting the i ry required by department before any one is allowed to turn over any in the park, he stood aghast the ruthless precision with which ofl of the Water Department had Included within the lines of devastating trench one of the noble youner giants of the artificial foresi he Is sworn to protect Then his lighten is Indignation found vent.

nnd be swore by all the dryads that such a trench would nevei run. lr: vain did the engineers of Water explain much practical logic that old main had been laid In straight line and that it would cost no end of money for specially cast pipes and much additional expense for laying them to have this large main zigzag around every tree that happened to stand in the way. Such arguments, however, bad little weight with the landscape architect wint mattered the taxpayers' money, anyway, where the natural beauties of the park v.err concerned. Then it was suggested that the could moved, without touching the roots at all for a Bmall fraction of what it would cost to lay a crooked line of pipe around It. Ah an alternative it was pointed out that the contractor could even tunnel under the roots al a depth of fourteen feet, and thus lay a Btralfcht line without injuring the roots of Mr.

Parson.s's forest beauty. PARSONS TO THE RESCUE. It was plainly evident to the irate landscape architect that these prosaic, engineers had lost all the appreciation they ever might have had of the artistic in nature, such suggestions would never have emanated from them. He refused to to the proposals of such vandals, and betook himrelf in high rage to the higher powers in the department. There were several heated conferences.

It is said, in the hlg building in Park but in tho end Parsons emerged from struggle triumphant and the Park Department granted a permit to lay the line of water main that probably ever has been put beneath ground. True, it ls ehort but It In at least artistic In the complexity of its tortuous course and simply splendid in the enormity of Its cost. Belsdea, and most Important of all, the noble birch and a couple of stunted pines that BtAnd timidly in the background have been saved from any possibility of Injury. -v the hope of beln able to find some wno could tell the prosaic story of how the huge water main was successfully laid in its zigzag trench, and Incidentally to see and photograph the famous white birch tree that cost no much to cave. a Tribune reporter last week wandered around the scene of Mr.

Parsons's triumph. New laid sod covered the devioua lines of the trench. cep for a stance of about forty where the wide ditch was utill open close to the reservoir wall. Sections of the enormous cast iron Pipe were lying about. Walking with his head down, the reporter had no difficulty in passing lr om one end to the other through these monsters.

Finally, high up on the reservoir wall, a man was discovered who looked as if he had something to do with the work. In answer to a hall he clambered down a rickety ladder. ro you In cnar of this Job?" he was asked. Burllo Worse luck! he responded with a a hard tlme ot ll from the appearance of things," ventured the reporter. Tho man looked his disgust, bnt didn't answer a worfl.

Finslly. a short silence, he opened up. "Bad time!" he said. "Why. it's simply been Eheol.

(A eUght misquotation.) These park Ceoplft-are- tho limit. They bavo epent enougU NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1007. NEGLECT IN ONE OF THE RECORD ROOMS OF THE SURROGATES' DEPARTMENT. The condition of the bound volumes shows the destructive work of rats.

of the corridors off the grand foyer, directly In front of the offices of the Tax Commissioners, tucked away in full view of every passerby, was a collection of pails, cleaning rags, mops and waste baskets. The dirty cleaning rags were Inartistlcally distributed ornamental marhle work. The cleaning implements were In evidence all right, ljut there wan nothing to indicate that they had been used. At the other end of the same corridor, close to the entrance to tho public reference rooms, there is an unused passage to a. doorway that is repularly occupied us a sstne room bj the alleged cleaning stair.

It is only necessary to turn uj early enough in the morning to find the bronze handUs hunt; with a motley collection of fruwsj skirln and the mai walls of thi recess piled up with other wearing apparel. The long series public reference a.r<\ by archways, and down the centra of these rooms runs long mahoganj i nt Behind this counter are the ut the office BtajT. The condition of the offices is simply shameful. Not only tlie wincretc on both sides of the counter dirty, bul it is tipdirt of months, ami smears white pi istei here and theri show that the place not lieen washed out since the workmen left it .1 yeal ugo; A numbei of the windows have been without shades all ummer In spite of repeated complaints. The slipshod manner in uhnii the metal holders were fastened the marhle walls of Ihe recess has been the their collapse.

In the recent hot months was impossible to raise a number of the uncleaned windows becau.se the weak chain jiulN had parted and put the suspending weights out of business. Expensive bronze railings and gateways are insecurely set up that most are i kety condition. One of the gateways broke down Rome months ag and has stood against the marble walls even since. Another has been wrenched loose and refused to close. The mahogany counters.

tables and desks are habitually filthy, and the office f-tafY is compelled to clean them beginning work in the morning. From these rooms three fountain pon and of opera disappeared Borne time ngo and have not yet turned up. Down in the basement tho Tax I tias a storeroom In which tho office Bupplfes ol stationery are kept. or seven large bun II of i tc forms have dlKappeared from this room various times after office hours, and the officials havu been com- A WHITE BIRCH TREE IN CENTRAL PARK THAT WILL COST THE TAXPAYERS $18,250. It is shown in the foreground and is situated close to the 81st street entrance from Central Park West, about sixty feet from the West Drive.

money here, to lay half mile of pipe. The blue, print I've had to work from looks more like a streak of forked lightning than anything else. And all this to a measly white birch and a couple of half dead old pines. The only In the bunch that Is any good could have been moved, with half an acre of land about Its roots all wrapped up In new canvas to keep the wind off, for a third of what this silly game has coat. DID THE STANDARD DODGE TREES? "Just think of It, twenty-one eastings of a five-foot pipe, five sharp turns, all the very old Harry to fit, and backed with concrete, to take a water main of this size around this cursed tree.

But that wiis not enough even, for they made me build a circular wall of dry masonry around their Infernal tree, for what do you think? Simply because they were afraid that the loose earth thrown up from the crooked trench might fall ugainst tho trunk and take the bark off. "I am supposed to be big and Rood natured: that's why the boss put me on this job, but all my good nature la gone. The silly uselessness of the whole thing gets on my nerves, and I pimply can't stay around the place for loriij at time If I do 1 like taking it out of the workmen, poor devils! so I walk around and look at the hanged tree and hpec.ula.te on how ranch it mubt have cost the Standard- Oil Com- I to alter the locks bo that the pass of the janitor and his assistants will not open the door. DEFECTIVE PLUMBING. The 1 eilln privatea te offices of the Tn Commissioners is badly blistered and stained from water which has baked through from defective plumbing on the above.

times In the i-ust twelve months this their 1 several In ABUSE OF A MASSIVE OAK TABLE One used by counsel in the term courtroom, Surrogates' Department, showing where some vandal Has scratched his initials deeply upon the polished top. i are malning npai il-toi Ito ono I ourl ii to run their pipe line clean through the park. They have done the. at night bo wouldn't havi- to dodge trees, or It wouldn't bo linished yet, even If it whs begun a doxen years ago. "And now lam up against it again.

You see where that pipe, goes under the reservoir wall? Well, for eighty feet Inside that old pipe Is laid in concrete eight feet thick, top, bottom and siden. Why it was so done heaven only knows. They must have had a job lot of concrete they wanted to get rid of when It was put In. But you can Imagine what 1 am up against trying to get through that Holld. ina.ss.

be glad when this job is finished, I've had a deal of experience In my day, but another Job like this would drive me the crasy Deputy Water Commissioner Goodwin, when the reporter called upon him to llnd out what the Having ot the birch had cost the city, started right In to explain that the Water Department had nothing to do with saving the tree. The Department of was responsible for that. Brought hack to the point about the cost, he was surly and beat about the bush. Kimllly. when he found the story was out and could not bo kept back, ho reluctantly admitted that the difference in cost between running the line of pipe as it had been run and It in a straight was five thousand and dollar i "That amount." he added, "was not considered an unreasonable sun for preserving the natural beauty-of the park." THICK DUST IN ONE OF THE PUBLIC RECORD ROOMS IN THE SURROGATES' DEPARTMENT.

The tops of these mahogany cases are used by the public as reference tables. The word "Tribune" was traced by the reporter's fingers in the dust which covered the polished top. This is a fair sample of the condition of hundreds of these reference tables. the light fixtures, the marble walla und the columns of the colonnade in the same dirty condition as thone on the floor below. In the anteroom to office of the there Is an elaborate electrolier, the shades of which are simply black with dirt.

A partition of ground glass separates this antero i i from a large apartment used by the secretary of register simply overed with black dirt. The floors of both rooms are dirty ln tlie extreme, ninl an expensive run that covers Ihe floor of inner room ai borne airtj footprints for days. An official in this office admitted that the whole place was very dirty, unil that complaints had been made by the public using the record rooms. He did not. blame the cleaning they worked keep things in good hape.

Hut the windows were opened in the dust raised by the lemolitlon of the opposite made things as bad as ever ndii lon of the electrolier In the and small piles of tn the corners of his room were pointed out to thi oflictal, but insisted that the staff whs not to The fact he said, It waa Impossible to keep offices and record rooms any i aner as long as the dust from building operations opposite continued. in these offices also some of the windows were shadeless. A walk through the half-mile or more of rooms in this department disclosed the Fame criminal neglect. Thousands of volumes of record-: are contained in open mahogany cases with tops just enough from the tionr to be utilized as reference tallies. Occasionally one could find patches of surface in looking these rooms full of where some unfortunate had wiped up dust with coat sleeves while referring to a bulky volume, but for the rest there Is a covering of din over everything.

hooks in the open i ases being particularly filthy. They do not look as if they had ever dusted, for the dirt ls thick upon their Iges. except In cases where they have been recently taken out and used for referent RATS CHEW BECOHDS. The iv. ord rooms of the Surrogates' office, on the fourth, fifth and sixth mezzanine are in the s.iint- neglected condition.

In a large room "ii I lie latter floors the depredations of the among the bound volumes of records are most In evidence. A number of volumes in-, ii chewed along the and In some cases the binding li.is been entirely gnawed away. The general offices of the Surrogates, the private chambers of the judges and the two large Kxtra June payroll, priva-ii- Excels ot payroll. No. Annual So.

Annual No. Amount. In rhargc 1 I 7 i. 7 I. fl.S»jn Wire man I l.e-42 5u 1 i.

Sleanrttter 1 1 i- Stokers in MUttOu 7 MftflO foreman 1 1.1V5 1 MWS 0U air.Ti.iant.l. I.Otrt 73 9 T2WOO Machtnbt'a helper I 7-. 1 3rt Jjibnrrrs It 10 7WHHJ 7 V-1L Laborer 1 1 912W I.Hb..r-rs 14 TSMiO Cleaner I 1 Watchman oii I Atlendunti 1 11 I 77 23 "SM.O.»M courtrooms occupy greater part of the fifth floor. Both courtrooms are kepi fairly clean us high as tho uners can reach standing upon the but the crystal electroliers and tho hi.L'li-up woodwork are covered with Tho globes of the light brackets are in the same condition. In what Is known as thi term courtroom two carved oak panels, one on the right -i" Ihe judge's bench, representing Truth, and the othei on the left, symbolic of Wisdom.

have, been iiuitii.it. d. Port of the carving have ti en either cut knocked off. Immediately below tlie judge's bench there Is a long and elabor carved table for use of counsel, with a highly polished top. In one rner of this top some vandal deeply scratched the Initials with a iharp instrument.

When these wanton depredations were reported to Judge Thomas he ordered both courtrooms closed to the public until sony arrangement was made to prevent further damage being done. A handsome mahogany in the office of the Surrogate has evidently been made use of as workman's table, for the thin neer of the polished top his been barked in several places. One of the shades in this room has been out or place for months. In tho adjoining filer, occupied by the chief dork and his assistant, there are no shades at anil tho window glass la pasted over with old newspapers. Under the law.

when will is admitted to probate the executors are bound to hand over the custody of the Surrogate original documents, which are retained for twelvi months! bo that they maj be copied into the books of record In the After thai time, if asked for. they are returned to the administrators. the time these original documents ni In his custody the Surrogate Is responsible under tho Criminal Code for their safekeeping. In addition, all letters of administration, guardianship decrees, and all bondi deposited by executors and administrators of estates kept in tho offices of the Surrogate. In all there aro about forty thousand of these decrees in the record rooms of the department, which for months have been Infested with rats.

Though a personal complaint was made some time ago to the Horough President by Judge Thomas, pointing out the danger of documents hems: destroyed that could not be and for Which he was responsible, nothing has yet been done. BIG WHISKERED RATS. The city's enormous legal department occupies the entire space on the sixth and seventh tloors. Until a few months ago they had also the eighth but that Is now cleaned out to receive the of the county court. On these floors the corridors and aro cleaner, doubtless because the are higher up and in a measure out of reach of the dust from the streets.

Corporation Counsel Sterling intimated that, compared with the condition of the rest of building, they had little to complain of. so far as the cleaning was concerned. They were, however, greatly troubled with rats. And they were not ordinary sized ruta, either, but great, big, gray whiskered fellows. The women employes, who had occasionally to remain after hours when the building was quint to finish, up work, were afrnid of the Even for a man it was not eomt'oitable Lave these big fellows scurrying across the ofllce floor when be happened to be aloue In the office.

Besides, they were destroying the records and documents in the hlinir rooms. serious damage had yet been done, but there was always the danger that important might be damaged. At first no could understand how the rats able to find their way all over a building constructed entirely of stone, concrete ar.d marble, but employes had found out that they came up through holes made for the heating pipes. Another sen cause for complaint. ifr.

Sterlinp paid, was tho wretched telephone service. The switchboard for the waa down in basement, and the inefflrie; off this switchboard made the service little better than useless Complaints have been niadv time and again, but without securing the slightest Improvemi This Ls the condition of the building which it is cosi the taxpayer's in annual salaries alone to maintain The fact becaraa known to the Board of Aldermen a short ago in the following manner: The Borough President application to the board for an addition $50,000 to hia repu'ar appropriation for the care of pubiie buildings, lntimating that the estimate for the cost of caring for the new Hall of Records had been exceeded by that amount. BIG SALARY LIST. ThLs upi-cared to a lartre sum in Itself for takir rare of a single public llllllillllM. even If It was the Hall of Kecords.

so the Board of A.l iermen ordered an investigation. It was discovered that the following salary was responsible for the very large Ependttnre: Tor diem. Per annum. 1 i in 300 4 1 Wireriiari 4 t.t>4^s«» 1 SteamtUter 4 10 3 on insert Mi 3 HITS 3.355 1 Foreman 3 l.flfG«"> 12 Eltvator attendants IS.M3M 1 7 17 1 Laborer 14 10.23>«i0 1 flcanfr ''1- 1 Wiiti-hman 3 Attendant. 3 oix-rator-.

at $ym a year 83 Frtnala cleaners, ai I.WO a 11.52D10 IWTott Evi the Board of Aldermen balked this schedule, and an expert was appointed to fin.i out what it ouKht to cost look after the building und. the most liberal rrivate management. The following is his report: When Mr. Ahearn was with reports he explained that the increase of $59,089 was not all required for the Hall of Records, The estimated cost of looking after other builu' iris's hail been exceeded also. The request had mentioned the Records only because was Id a largo responsible for the estj' mate of the at being exceeded.

result of this explanation was that the request: i was granted. EVIDENCES OF GRAFT. it is Interesting to note, especially in view the prescnr filthy condition of th- building; that the expert employed by the Hoard of Aldermen proposed to save by dispensing with the servii of twelve out of thirty-two women cleaners, twelve out of thirty-two laborers and three attendants. The number of elevator attendants for the six passenger elevators In building is twelve. rhe export proposed to Tts duci the number which is a faWT eral allowance considering that the Hall ords is closed after 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Three lephone are getting a year, though the rate paid by tho telephone company for skill erators is only Still tho Corporation Counsel Insist that tna rvii given by these highly paid operators llttJe better than useless. The evidence given at the Inquiry into charge: against the Borough President Governor Hughes at Albany reveals further sting detail to the cos! of maintaining the Hall of Records. It wa? brought out In evidenrc the other day that Metropolitan bw meat and Supplj Company, which is the firm name used by Max K. Cramer, one of Anearn'a favored contractors, supplied t6 tna Hall of Rerordti among other things last year forty-five dosen feather dusters it a eest or M- also supplied fifty-two pounds or sponges that cost for $138, or a profn 94 per cent. these two items are any criterton close of the accounts tor supplies would show more Misllsj Statistics of graft and in the mean time the interior of the magnificent municipal palace Is suffering nmen unneeessarj deterioration throu lack of proper and adequate cleaning in spite of the a year which bj being paid out for that purpose.

TO MANAGE THE WENTWORTH HOTEL Of interest to friends and former patrons of tho "Wentworth Hotel, at Newcastle, N. H-. i 3 the announcement made that w. K. Hnl eighteen years its manager, is again to conduct that known prvpertj during the comias, season.

Mr. Hill has been identified with several prominent hotels, among others the Hotel a In this city, and the Hotel Ampersand, ti tno Adirondacks. but because of his long connet; tlon with the Weatworth he is best with the fine New Hampshire property or late Frank Jones. SUPERLATIVELY PARLIAMENTARY. ts a motion before the house." Mme.

rresldent. holding the gavel ao that rings come into the foreground. "What is wish regarding it?" rtHsa? "Mmc. Pre vent." tiegms the new mem Per. with 'flutter.

"Mrs. Justine." recognizes the rPsi ff "I move that the motion be cnicw Evenlns Post..