Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-10

RAILROAD - SUICIDAL POLICY - THE HANLON
TRIAL--THE NEW COMEDY BY THE EDITOR OF
THE "PosT miss GLYN's "MAcBETH, WITH
SOME REFLEcTIoNs UPON READINGS.
Special Correspondence Of The Commercial.
PHILADELPHIA Nov. 4th.
1t may be startling news to your readers to
learn that Philadelphia runs q serious risk Of
losing her enormous coal trade. The idea is
startling. But it is none the less true. The
condition Of our coal interest is matter Of facts
and figures, and long headed people who deal in
those hard matters, ignoring all enthusiasm or
extravaganza are found to declare that il the
present condition Of things continues many
months more we had as well give up any preten-
sions of being coal Port, and may make up our
minds to allow Richmond to lapse into ahowling
wilderness.
I" Brave words!" some may say with the Welsh
Doctor in the Merry Wives" ALI right, pro-
vided they do not aggravate the offence by adding
the Doctors contemptuous corrollary, "Prave
Wurtz,-Prave Cabbage strike,-but hear.
II do not make my wurtz good, may never
sit before CRATE of blazing Anthracite again.
Rather-for that is pretty steep-.may the gas
thereof choke me, and the heat thereof nncom-
fortably toast me. That is more reasonable But
at all events, hear.
Everybody knows that it costs more to get coal
to market than it does to get it out of the mines.
II seems strange that an article that the consum-
| er pays $7 to 81 80 for, should cost but s2,6
where it is taken from the earth, but such is tho
fact. The difference is not all absorbed by
transportation, for the coal COOS through numer-
GUS hands each Of which must have its profit,
Still, the greater part Of the difference is b
absorbed. The fact remains that the carriers
make more than the owners .r the workers.
I have been speaking generally it will do no
hurt to be more specific. Philadelphia has been
and could always remain, the principal Coal Depot
in this country. This is on account Of its near,
ness to the mines. The Schuylkin County Coal
Region is inexhaustble, and coal can be shipped
| thence to Philadelphia many hours quicker than
| to any other point. The Reading Railroad is
answerable for this gloomy act,--that New York
further Off than the Schuylkll Region is from us,
can yet sell coal cheaper than Philadelphia can,
| with her altogether superior facilities.
And why Because the Reading Railroad in
sanely puts its tolls up to such figure that the
| jobber cannot sell at New York rates without
| loss. That is the whole case. The Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western r. r., the principal
| New York FEEDER secs the point more clearly
| than we do. Less on the Small Tun, bat More
| in the Long n,-that's New Yorks motto, and
| II is as good one as ever was. We on the con-
trary cut the goose that lays our golden eggs,
and as a consequence il we do not look sharp,
grass will before long be growing luxuriantly On
Richmond wharves.
| The story goes tnat tnls troupie ai afises out
of pledge given by the President of the 'Rsad-
ing" to the stockholders. 1t is said that he was
elected to office on condition, or with the under
standing, that he was to pay a 10 per cent. divl'
dend. This is the way he does it, and anything
more suicidal was never dreamed. Let him pay
his 10 per cent.-in three years under the pres
ent policy, it will be we'll ii he can pay i've This
genteman's election was mistaketo start with.
fIe was lawyer; able and active, but not
Railroad man,-and il ever road required
practice and experience in its ofiicers, tine
threading" is that road.
The officer under review occupies most re
sponsibe post in relation to the material interests
OF this city. We do not often enough think OF
the power that can be experienced by singlt
Trade is and how it may be jecpardized Of tht
manifold workings of the huge interest Of thu
thousands of people dependent upon it in THU
city alone and finally of the multitudes tt
whom the retailing price is a very serious matter
II really may--althongh de.esting slang, as ever.
one must-be termed Big Thing.
Well, the Reading raises its tolls to make VI
this promised dividend. New York road doesn
If am not mistaken lowers little. Even tn!
. can see the result. What the faatresut Will be
no one can say. 1t does not seem possible thai
corporation would deliberately set about tf
ruin itself, yet there is at present no sgnI;
will have to build another road to the coal fields
The interest felt in the Mohrmann murder case
is very great despite the long time that ma
elapsed since the crime was committed, aho
Notwithstanding that is was talked m over 80 thor
, , oughly at the time it happened. The yagaries o
crime are apparently endless. This wretch
, Hanlon, would doubtless never have beer
brought to account for this crime but for his ow
laundering. Or was it a judgment Did tn
i Divine Power force him to speak, and forbid hin
! longer to hold the hateful secret? 1t has trans
' pired that after he killed little Mary Mohrmani
! he was convicted Of an offence somewhat simiial
/ but which did not eliminated in the taking Q
life. Whilst serving out his sentence, ne vouhta
+. riy and without questioning, related to re-
low convict all the particulars OF IN
:, Mobrmann murder. Shall we not say there is
. Providence in thisP Mothers will believe so
I any rate. Little Mary Mohrmann poor innocei
4 child! 1t makes ones heart sick and sore
i think of her. Do you observe--every one 50,
s 'sIittle" Mary? That is because OF the ineffab
= tenderness and pity that fills the public hear
:, 1t is a caress ;-something spoken as II to mai
# her fate less hard. Was it Whittier. .!-Somepoe
i il was-who wrote poem about a man vino WI
tarred and feathered by women, for some onen'
J. 40 heinous as to place him outside the pale
70 ordinary justice. And 80 should Hanlon, II co
n yicted be delivered over to women for punis
N | ment 1t is case in which women should ma
~ the sole and entire voice-as judge, jury al
IN | executioner. ,
~ ~ Turn we to livelier matters. The unqualifi'
a success of an American comedy is somethil
,d so unusual as to merit at least passing po',t
n
e. John D. Stockton's Fox and Goose" produc
o as at the Walnut St. Theatre on Monday evenin
Il Barring some of Broughams pieces, and tho
40 are not always as ori 5inal as they might pc
~ successful American comedy. Those venerai
u. affairs. HExtremes. "Fashon" and the Ill
ne e written in the old English style but without
a1v old grace and vim, do not convulse an audieh
ID. They are but mildly hilarious ana tnere ;,
oh very few that are even as good as those n!
an named. But Mr.. Stockton's comedy Is we vehi
cd cd for laughter from beginning to end. Tha'
what call the test of such piece. Hang
as comedians who are not funny, and piow
ev' comedies which do not make you laugh. Az
oss W there are a many such, but "Fox and Goose
oss not one of them.
rc. step, it is fair to suppose that the contrar
~ ~ also true. Supposing then that it is only
i0o from the ridiculous TO the sublime, let me t
ii and speak of Miss Glyn's reading. Fl
Clarke to Glyn-well that isn't so bad.
from Stockton to Shakespeare! AT least !
both begin with an $, and Stockton USED 10, 70
fine verses, too, before he turned politician
gov newspaper writer. The Macbeth reading
ver- agreed, was highly successful. The lady
was the audience was much the finest one she
~ appeared before in this country, and was m
re pratifed with her Philadelphia reception. :,
lars fthe reading of act tragedy is-well, a ]
Sith too much Of good thing, isn't ~ l wiIi
arly clude with an anecdote: An ambitious ANA
the once put up the play Of the LADY OF Lyons
the Complimentary Testimonial to himself. At
had and Of fine first act he addressed his audienc
> Of follows: Ladies' and Gentlemen, with your
well permission will conclude the evenings 81 81
the ta;nment by singing 4 Would not Die in Sr
Time as i find the part of Claude little
d In hefty for me-" ,c.,.,o
lass And that is the way with me. lind the
and ing of a tragedy rather too hefty.
ress Yours, of course, Npi
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