After seven years of bitter struggle, Tom L.
Johnson, the big mayor of Cleveland, has
won his fight for three cent street car fares
for the people of that city. .The difference
between three and five cent car fare does not
appear big when a single fare is considered.
But the average city family, paying five cent
fare, will spend one hundred dollars a year
in car fares. A reduction to three cents
means a saving of forty dollars a year to each
family. There are eighty thousand families
in Cleveland, therefore, Tom Johnson’s vic
tory means a saving to the people of Cleve
land of three millions of dollars yearly. That
is something big, and it is Tom Johnson’s
victory, and his alone.
CAPTAIN MILLEDGE.
Capt. R. H. Milledge dropped in to town a
day of two ago looking as genial as he al
ways does and not appearing at all to wear
the cares of office hunting. He, it is true, is
a candidate for prison commissioner, but his
friends are taking the matter in hand, and if
they all vote for him, he is safely landed.
We are always reminded when we see one of
the old boys like him of the days that are
more than forty years gone by when the long
marches were had from Centerville to
Yorktown and back up the endless Peninsula
and Seven Pines and Malvern Hill the
weary, dusty roads to Maryland, where the
pike goes down from Hagerstown to Antie
tam Bridge, and after holding Burnsides
down for nine hours with only 600 men right
at the bridge, back across the Potomac and;
CAPT. R. H. MILLEDGE.
