New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-26

opinion of politicians and of the Gentle eid-
zens of Utah as to whether. as has been al
legged, Judge Mexican was removed for beng
too severe in his judicial dealings with the
MormOns.
Red Cloud IA fortunate In securing the kind
Offices of 80 distinguished man as Prof.
Marsh to bear the story of the wrongs OF the
Sioux TO the Great Father in Washington.
The Indians complain Of being swindled by
an agent, and foItiiy their complaint by sam
pies of the unwholesOme food with which they
are supplied by this representative OF tho Gov
eminent. Commissioner Smith, to whom Irof.
Marsh delivered bis piteOus message, seems 10
have found ready answer to every count Ill
the Indictment against tho agent, ana Is IN
clined to doubt whether the services OF an
honest man in that capacity can be secured for
ST 500. 1t is gratifying to hear that President
Grant views the matter in u more serious light.
1t demands investigation.
That abatioirs will add to the comfort OF
crowded observation-disclosures, or that they deserve
To be welcomed in the vicinity OF hospitals, IL
now pretty generally denied by persons not
directly Interested in peo,miaIy profit from these
INDISPENSABLE but unsavOry institutions. The OBJ
ections to their presence in large cities are forci-
bly, presented in an article which we PRINT
this morning, in which the dangers to health
which their proximity involves are set forth by
competent scientific authority. The statement
of what tho proper situation aud appultenances
of well regulated abattOirs would be will hardly
meet with contradiction, although it will prob
ably tie found that few OF the abattoirs yet
built in this country fulfill all Of the wholesome
conditions which are insisted upon.
On our second page in q report OF further
proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences at Washington, the points are given
of two essays that present opinions opposed to
those previously presented In communications
to that body. Mr. McSlurtrie's experiments
lead him to contrary belief from that
urged last Fall Ivy DR.. Lo Contc. concern
ing the possibility of potatoes or other
vegetables being made poisonous by the use
of Paris green in their cultivation. Dr.
| Woiekof, Russian meteOO!Ogist, advances q
different theory from that Of Prof. LOOMS to
explain our "cOld SPELLS" and attributes our
sufferings in that respect to tho incaparity OF
the Appalachan range to check the cold winds
from the northern interior. Tho weather ques-
ton is likely to remain long an occasion OF
difference, but in the interest Of humanity
there should not be continued doubt whether
men as well as beetles are to be poisoned by
the present mode OF potato culture.
The burning out of the Union League Club
is another sermon on the folly with which
most of our fine houses are built. Here is a
splendid structure on whose exterior nc
pains wero spared. Massive walls OF mar
bic, graceful architecture, ample space
and admirable Observation-Disclosures money
could buy the architect had. Inside
the building was shell, and the fire ran from
basement to garnet. 1t is perfectly easy, and
not very expensive. to make such a building
} substantially frc-proof. Let the beams be OF
iron. Let the spaces between be filled III by
fire-prOOf blocks of concrete, forming fiat
arch, as in THE TRIBUNE building and
the Post Office. Make tho partitions
of the same inco1nhustiblc material,
and stop the erection Of lumber
yards OH costly buildings in the shape of
wooden Mansard roofs, and the thing Is ac-
coIuplished. The only item Of serious expense
would bo the iron beams, and even these may
be dispensed WITH if the other precautions are
taken, without materially impairing the fire.
proof character Of the structure. OF all the
forms in which shoddy displays itself there is
none more dishonest, disgusting. and danger
ous than shoddy architecture. Yet nine tentbs
of our fine houses, no matter how fair their ex-
terror ara finished i'm shOddy.