New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-14

Monmouth Park the originating OF Iaise ru-
mors ought to result in expcling some OF the
worst turfmen from the Saratoga course.
Few of our citizens whose business has not
called them to that neghborhood are aware
of the extent of the work that has been car
ried on for more than year past under the
name of the Fourth Avenue Improvement,
being the sinking of the tracks of the Harlem
and Hudson River Railways, from Forty-sec-
ond- st. to and above Harlem. below the grade
of the city streets. The amount of labor and
of money that has been expended in this i'm
provemcnt surpasses the ordinary conception
of what this work was intended to be, and
has been the daily wonder of passengers over
all the roads going out of the city in that
! direction. The full description of the work
! gwen elsewhere will be read with interest.
That seems to have been a very practicable
proposition on the part of the Philadelphia
capitalists who sat down in front of the
problem how to revive American commerce
when they said, parodying a well-knOwn and
well-wOrn phrase, 1.-THE way to revive our
commerce is to revive it," The manner in
which the sturdy Phladelphians put their
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without fuss or furry, feet of sea-going
steamers, is well told in the letter of our Phila-
delphia correspondent There is, for those
who can see and read and profit by it, q
short, sharp lesson for the capitalists of other
cities in this little story. Has New-York any
thing to learn from it 2
Mr.. TiltOn publishes another letter. Without
| approaching the merits of the controversy
which Mr.. TtOn seems by some strange
| faulty to rejoice in, we may say that TINS
gentleman is as much too public and con-
spicuOus as Mr. Boecher has by some
been thought too reticent and self-con-
tanned in all this matter. Mr.. Beecher once
illustrated a political situation by story
which became classic, concerning DOG
=" Noble" 1t was reflection upon the tribe
which seems never to have been forgiven.
Perhaps it was right he should be worried.
And yet-and yet-isn't barking under his
window small revenge2 Mr.. Tilton is too
vocal. He dIsturbs the public and furnishes
no facts
One of the causes which have led to the re-
cent Indian outbreaks is said to be not far
different from that which sets on foot most OF
the more civilized murders which take place
in the streets and tenement-houSes of the
metropolis to Wt drugged liquor sold to
savages. The only difference is that in most
cases in the metropolis they forget to lift the
scalps. But the cause and proyOcation and all
the other elements are pretty much the same.
The Border settlers we observe are making
disturbance about 1t, and they go so far as to
say that the sale of liquor ought to be
stopped. We have had tentative steps in that
direction here. But then, mercy on us, there
are more of us here and we can better afford
to lose once in while one.
Brooklyn still hesitates to sign bonds for the
completion of the East River Bridge until
New-York gives some guarantee that it will
assume at least One-thrd the cost. NewYork
must help to build the bridge and the bill
passed at Albany is probably the best com
| promise we shall get, for it rids the enter
prise of the men who have almost wrecked
it. But while Brooklyn is insisting on
guarantees New York should demand that none
! of the former active managers OF the Bridge
Ring in Brooklyn should be renOminated TO
represent the city. Unfortunately, Mayor
Hunter is largely influenced personally by the
interests which favor these very reappOint-
ments, and some of his best friends fear that
this influence may be exercised to the disad-
vantage of the two cities and the detriment
of the enterprise. Mr.. Vance and Mr. Green,
who have this matter virtually in charge,
need to be very careful that the old Ring
does not capture the work in spite of them.
Hard upon the heels of the terrible Mill
| River disaster comes intelligence of the break
ing away of another dam in Massachusetts, on
the line of the Boston and Albany Railroad,
| thirty miles northwest of Springfield. This
time there was prOvidentlally no loss of life,
the hero of the hour having given the threat
ened inhabitants ample warning of the coming
flood; but property was destroyed to the value
of about half million dollars. Four manu-
factories, twelve bridges, and two or three
houses have been destroyed, and the country
over which the flood poured has been stripped
of vegetation in much the same manner as
Mill River Vafcy was devastated a few weeks
ago. The reservoirs which gave way seem to
have been constructed in most simple and
primitive fashion, with no attempt at engi-
neering or anything but a mere boys play
of throwing down dirt to block up the water.
The excuse for it is that it was done IS or 40
wears ago, when people knew little of hy
draulcs and supposed water was as innocent
in reservoirs as in rain drops. 1t would seem
as though enough had been learned Of the
danger of these mud and clay structures to
forbid the owners of such reservoirs from
risking their lives and property on the
strength of mere mud walls, but it appears
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