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sary that some explanation should accompany a
statement of money expended so soon upon perfectly
new and well.constructed appliances. The gas and
water supplies are necessitated, but the repairs of
the gas and water fixtures are not. The glass used
as the material to retain as little traces as possible
of the use to which it is put, and in the lamps, where
no other material can usefully be employed, has been
most disgracefully destroyed time after time; and
from experience I am compelled to come to the conclusion
that the mischief in question, is not the
work of what are generally termed "roughs," inasmnch
as the use of a diamond in the destruction of
the glass is apparent; now it might happen that a
glazier for the good of trade might adopt such a
course, but it is not probable that he would select
the hour of about Two a.m. for such a purpose, while
on some occasions such injuries have been found as
the sequel to the visits of certain "gentlemen" at
about the hour named. It is naturally disheartening
to find that such appliances as are intended to meet
a public want, or real necessity, and which the constituted
authorities, put themselves out of the way
to contrive so as not to offend the senses, or offend
as little as possible consistently with utility, should
be wantonly injured in a manner difficult to repair,