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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30
nday Exhibition Q.

For some reason, no doubt satisfactory to
themselves, the police select Saturday nights
for raids on the east side saloons and dance
houses. This necessitates discreditable
excitement in the neighborhood of Essex
Market Police Court on Sunday mornings.
Yesterday long line Of young work girls,
many of whom are no doubt virtuous, al
though giddy and foolish, paraded along
Grand street, in the company Of police
squad and number of dissipated looking
half drunken men. They were on their way
to the police court charged with having
participated in the festivities of the disrepu-
table east side dance houses on the preced-
ing night.
1t is desirable that these dangerous and
immoral resorts should be rooted out Of ex-
istence if possible, and the lesson taught by
their arrest may check the downward career
of some Of the poor girls who cannot escape
ruin and misery if they continue to fire.
quent such places. Yet it does seem as if
the result aimed at might be complished
without these Saturday night raids and ar
rests The march of the prisoners through
the public streets on Sunday morning and
the scenes around the police court are GER
tainly Objectionable and can scarcely be an
absolute necessity.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

The press on the line of the Erie Canal
approves without an exception the action
of the Canal Board in referring the whole
of which David A. Wells is chairman. Mr.
Wells has accepted the position, and will
begin his labors about the LIST Of September.
It is said that the inquiry is to be an ex-
haustive one, covering the whole ground of
canal commerce, including the subjects Of
tions of the commission are certain to
be practical, and their report will come
in good time for the change in
the canal system contemplated by the last
constitutional amendment We are now on
the eve of new departure in our canal
policy. The burden of the lateral canals
is to be cast off. Concentration of the di-
recting power and consequent economy
in expenditures will bring the management
of the trunk canals down to business
basis. There will scarcely be possibility
of the reconstruction of those rings by
which the State has been robbed under
the mask of canal expenditures. With
one or two changes we may have
perfect system. The constitutional pro-
vision declaring that the expenditures
for collections, superintendent, ordi-
nary and extraordinary repairs on the
Erie, Oswego, Champlain or Cayuga and
Seneca canals shall not exceed in any year
the gross receipts for the previous year, is a
dangerous restriction, and under honest and
economical canal management is unneces-
sary. The Canal Board should have full
power to increase or decrease tolls without
the action of the Legislature. The canal
management in this respect should be as
elastic as that of the railroads. All these
matters will receive the attention of the
Wells committee, and we shall no doubt
obtain through its labors better canal sys-
tenn than the State has ever before en-
loved.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

There has seldom been so patent nm exhi-
bition as is now furnished by the Turks of
that kind of piety and Christian virtue OF
which the Prince of Darkness is said to be
possessed when his health is poor. In his
robust moments the Turk goes into Bull
garia and tears up village on principles of
altogether unrestrained barbarity; not be-
cause there is any object TO be accomplished,
but because he likes it and cannot see any
reason why he should not indulge his lofty
impulses. To murder all the old men and
women and little children. to mutilate their
corpses and to perpetrate nameless crimes
this constitutes one of the few excitements
of his dull life that wakes him up for
time to human existence. But in his
less robust moments he seems to have
other ideas. 1t is amusing to note the
solicitude with which he watches the conduct
of the Russians in order to discover some
weak points in their demeanor on the score
of humanity. If bolnbshell bursts over a
hospital the Sublime Porte Immediately
sends word to all it's diplomatic agents to
report that the Russians are acting very
badly. 1t is tremendously comic, in view of
what is known all over the world, to hear
that ''the Sublime Porte protests with all its
might against that violation Of the dictates Of
humanity"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

How Or National Creo1t II Anecteo.
1t is supposed in England that the effect
of the great railroad strike will be calami-
tous to American credit abroad, seven IL the
government should succeed in suppressing
the insurrection." We do not share in this
apprehension. The strike was one OF mag
nitude and covered an extensive area, but
it is now practically at an end. Its most
deplorable consequence is the use made
of it at populous centres like Chicago,
st. Louis Pittsburg and San Francisco to
promote riotous demonstrations which have
nothing to do with the strike. and in which
probably but few, if any, railroad employees
take part. The object of these lawless
outbreaks is plumber, and they are
promoted by thieves and the very
worst of the criminal classes. One or
two of such riots have found the authorities
at the moment of their outbreak unprepared,
but their prompt suppression is positive
certainty, The strike itself has been settled
on several roads without any yielding to
violence and with the preservation OF self
respect both on the part of the companies
and the employees Where it cannot be thus
honorably arranged the railroads will en-
ploy new hands, the trains will be properly
protected, the embargo will be removed, and,
after few of tho ringleaders in any attempt
at the lawless interruption of traffic have
been arrested and sent to Jail, nothing more
will be heard Of the strikers, who will in the
end be the principal sufferers.
The strength and stability of our govern
ment are proved by the prompt suppression
for there is little reason to doubt that the
trouble will be over in few days. The
conservative and law-abiding character Of
our people is strikingly shown in the fact
that in New York, the metropolis of the
United States, where the worst of an i'm
ported foreign element is gathered and
where much suffering exists among the
poorer classes, Communist meeting is suf-
fered to be held, the utmost license Of free
speech is allowed and not single disturb
ance of the pence occurs. This, too, while
the public mind is naturally excited and in
famed by the railroad strike and it's
consequences If the news of the strike was
calculated to shake our credit abroad these
results must have the effect to permanently
strengthen 1t. In no city in Europe under
the same circumstances, would Communist
meeting have been permitted, nor could one
have been held without disastrous conse-
quences. II a strike equal to that on our
railroads had occurred in England the
British army would have been called into
service and the land would have been
deluged in blood. Here we confidently an
ticipate the restoration of law and order
without anything more serious than col
lision here and there between the authorities
and mobs of thieves, in which the latter will
be speedily crushed out. No country is to-
day stronger or more secure than our own,
and no city in the world is more conserve
tive, law-abiding and peaceful than New
York.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30
Making No Sign.

1t has been subject of remark that ex-
Police Commissioner Matsell died and was
buried without any official expression of
regret for his death and sympathy for his
family on the part of the city authori-
ties. The old chief, who is entitled to
the credit Of having served the city
ut all times honestly and in his
best days with efficiency and usefulness,
has been suffered to pass away with
out even so much notice as would be
bestowed OH one of the Tammany Alder
men if Providence should think proper to
make a vacancy in their number. Not q
word was heard from the Mayor, the Com
mon Council or the heads of departments
to show that any of them were aware that
George Washington Matsell ever held O
prominent position in the city government
or was in any manner entitled to be con-
sidered public character.
Perhaps, after all, this may be regarded as
complimentary to the old chief 1t is at
NIL events a conclusive proof that he was not
of the usual order of Tammany officials. If
during his public career he had been the
.boss" of the organization, or prominent
member of municipal ring or ON official
who stood ready to make his public duties
subservient to the interests of party
leaders, we should have had special meet
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

At quarter to six on Sunday afternoon o
great shout was raised in Broadway, and the
persons who ran out to see what was the
matter saw light, high blaze, of threaten
ing proportions, 6ercely roaring ont of one Of
the elevated windows of the great telegraphic
temple at the corner Of Dey street In
two minutes precisely the first fire appara-
tus was on the ground, and every subsequent
minute brought another apparatus till the
street was encountered with them, all with
fires in full blast and steam up. But
quickly as the machines arrived the
fire had been conquered before they
came, by means of appliances within the
building. Although the fire was COM
pletely extinguished in less than ten
minutes that short period had suficed to
cripple very greatly the telegraphic service.
The arrangement to the transmission of
messages was out of all proportion to the
pecuniary damage done. The fire serves to
show how easily our highly organized news
machinery may be deranged, though only
for short time; how rapidly our fire en-
gines can be turned out under present
arrangements, and how all important it is
to have great edifces supplied with means
to extinguish fires
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

abandonment Of Western Turkey With
all the important positions in that ter
ritory. The main army at Shumia
is not yet seriously menaced, and will not
be for some time, unless the Russian army
OF the Dobrudscha is heavily reinforced.
General Zimmerman may find himself in
position to make dash on Pravadi and cut
the Varna Railroad at that point II this
occurs the inaction of the Turks at Shumla
must cease, for their communications with
the chief port of supply will be endangered,
and their only other line of retreat would
be across the Balkans and through.a country
already partly occupied by the Russians.
The Investments of Rustchuk and Silistria
must soon become only uniinportant mol
dents of the cam paign.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30
As Usual.

The ice companies, as usual, take advan-
tage of the hot weather, when people most
need and can least do without ice to raise
the price to consumers This sharp prac-
tice is resorted to every year, and our citi-
zens, although they grumble and demand
some sort of protection from the imposition,
are compelled to submit. The plea on
which the companies endeavor to excuse
their avarice is that the supply is getting
short. Of course this is only an excuse,
and a very poor one at that. If the supply
is short it is because the companies have
sold greater quantity than they calculated
to sell up to the present time, and they
ought to be contented. Charging higher
price for what remains will not make it any
more in quantity. Neither will it impose
economy in the consumption, because peo-
pie will have ice, no matter what they have
to pay for it, and this is well known to the
companies. Besides, if the ice men are so
philanthropic as to wish to prevent the
people from using up the remainder of the
supply too quickly they can limit the
amount sold to each customer without rails
ing the price,
The increase is a bald imposition, without
any necessity except that found in the
greed Of the companies. 1t is worth while
considering whether the public cannot be
in some way guaranteed against this annual
conspiracy 10 make them pay an exorbitant
price for so necessary an article. Laws are
passed in the interest of the ice companies
protecting their business and giving them
special privileges. 1t is made misdemea nor,
punishable by fine of one hundred dol
lars, to injure, mar or otherwise destroy or
damage ice upon any waters within the
State from which ice is or may be taken as
an article of merchandise, and persons are
forbidden from throwing any substan CO
upon or skating on the ponds or waters il,
Wcstchester, Rockland or Putnam counties
kept or used for making or cutting ice.
These are proper laws, since ice Is an article
of necessity as well as of luxury in this
country. But why should the protection
be all on one side? Why should not the
people be protected from these annual COM
binations to force them to pay nm exorbitant
price for 80 necessary an article ut the very
moment when it is most needed2
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30
The Strike I'm the Anthracite Reg ion.

The Strike I'm the Anthracite Reg ion.
The prompt exhibition Of force by the
authorities of New Jersey has virtually ex-
tinguished the fires Of insurrection among
the railroad employees of that State, and it
is probable that the strike has ended.
But in Pennsylvania the elements Of dis
order are more numerous and not SO easily
controlled. The miners in the anthracite
region appear to be resolved to profit
by the general commotion and create
further trouble. Several mining districts are
at present producing no coal. The men are
gathering in threatening mobs, and appear
to be organizing general strike against the
coal companies The effect on all kinds Of
manufacturing and other business depend
ent on a regular supply Of fuel must necessa-
rily prove very disastrous, and widespread
suffering must result. It is not difficult to
compel the movement of trains, but it is quite
another thing to keep the mines in opera
ton. Perhaps the simplest plan under the
circumstances will be to localize the trouble
by q military Gordon and force the rioters
to submit from sheer necessity.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30
LITERARY CHAT.

The statement that Jefferson Davis to recsve The
aid OF Mra Dorsey, author of "Panoa," in the prop
arason OF his forthcoming memoirs is denied.
Mr.. Gladstone, who IL nothing If not classical said
at the late Caxton celebration, that Caxtons pub
lications, among which were no classics, seemed
to belong to low stage Of civilization. They were
books of devotion, books Of chivary books OF sport
and the like.
most interesting book is Dr. Edwin Abbovs
sBacon and Essex" half biography half historical
criticism, which throws new light the early years
OF Lord Bacon.
Mr.. james Greenwood, the "Amateur Casual, !" who
knows more of the everyday life Of criminals than any
man in London, has produced a novel entitled "Dick
Temple" which contains q very graphic account OF
thieves. black guards and ru0ians.
''Untl the Day Brcsk,"by Mrs. J. NJ D. Bartlett
birch Arnoldl, is announced by Porter Coates, Of
Philadelphia Tor publication carly in August Ths:ia
a novel of American lite and society and tho twent
eth number of tho international Series OF Novels"
Rev. DR.. Deems, pastor OF the church Of the Stran.
gcrs, engaged In writing the biography OF Com
modoro Vanderbilt and he expects shortly TO place
tho manuscript in the hands Of the publisher The
Doctor was the lifelong friend Of tho Commodore.
and knew more perhaps Of his private life and charities
than any man living. The Doctor complains OF y
dcar,h OF material for his BOOK and ascribes to Mr.
vanderb,ts habit OF keeping strictly private anything
appcrtainng TO business Mr. Vanderbilt LOFT letters
or memoranda and Information whcn he does not
already possess himself tho Doctor finds Ia the mem-
DRY Of Mr. William II. Vanderbilt
Harpers' for August has unusually festive APP
pearance II is full Of bright pictures and hr,ghter
reading matter There is short article on tho poet
Keats whereby hangs tale. IL Is said that tho mat
ter relative TO Keats recently printed IN the World
which attracted much attention from and
Of letters had been previously sold 10 Haypsr,
that at the time Of It's publication The World
the material IN type at tho Harpsrs' eatab-
lishmcnt Mr. William &. Primo, who Is an expert in
such matters writes Of the 'olden Treasures Of Ku-
rum" Helen s. Conant, Lucy Larcom. Harriet Pres
colt Spoford, Margaret Preston, Anna G. Brackott
Edward Everett Hale and Sidney Lanisr contribute
poems Of various lengths, besides which the usual
number OF stories and heavy sps,cleS
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ing Of the Board Of Aldermen passing UNI
grammatical resolutions over his remains
and the whole Tammany city government
honoring his funeral with its presence. Yet
Matsell's name is part Of our municipal
history, and, whatever may be thought
of his notions and police prof.
ects in these days, everybody who
is familiar with the events OF the
past thirty years knows that he did good
service in the time of the old watch and in
the police when first organized, and that he
was at all times an honest man. Tammany
city government may not sympathize with
such a character, but this need not have
prevented some show of respect for his
memory
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The Military Situation in Turks

The Military Situation i'm Turkey.
The advance of the Russian army into
Roumelia has the same physical effect on
the Turkish defence as wedge driven by
powerful pressure through the mass it is
intended to rend. 1t seems as if the Rus
slams discovered the true line of cleavage,
for the movement OF their army has as
yet met with no serious check, although
apparently opposed by adequate forces. We
may safely assume that the Turkish
troops occupying the positions west
of the Russian line Of advance are
permanently cut off from those within
the quadrilateral by the movement
on the railroad between Adrianople and
Philippopols. II is the only available line
along which troops can be rapidly moved
eastward for the defence of Constantinople,
and, being practically dominated by the Rus
slams, is closed to the Turks. With the popula-
ton hostile, the fortified positions scattered
and the sources of supply almost exhausted,
the Turks in the west have no means of pro-
longing the defence of the territory they
occupy beyond the time limited by the total
exhaustion of their supplies. We may,
therefore, look for rapid concentration of
their forces Tor the purpose Of Anal effort
at breaking through the military barrier that
separates them from the army of the east.
Such a concentration will probably take place
at Sophia, because that point gives the Turks
choice of two lines of operation, one to the
northward and the other to the southwark
of the Balkans, and both parallel with that
mountain range The first named line
would bring them into collision with tho
Russian army of the Jantra, and could
scarcely be attempted without vigorous
cooperation from Shumla. The southern
line will bring them nearer to Constantine
pie with an equal amount of marching and
the probability of much less opposition.
But either line Of attack involves the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

WATERING PLACE LANDLORDS are not making
fortunes this season. Long Branch bcwails the
absence of General Grant and the failure OF the
million dollars year to us" they plaintively
say "but PRECEDENT Hayes and his Southern
policy have ruined the Branch" Saratoga and
Nantasket Beach, the favoritc summer retreats
Of New York and Massachusetts, are not rs gay
as in other years, but for that reason per-
haps all the more enjoyable for quiet people.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

NEW YOnK is justly proud of her citizen sol
diers, and the reception to the Eighth regi-
ment on its return to the city is only slight
expression Of the feeling in which all good
citizens hold them. In the late trying times of
peril and danger their conduct has been beyond
all praise
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

Can England do less, and is IL conceivable
that the Powers will permit her to gain, in
the name of assistance to the Turk, larger
control of important points in the Mediter-
ranean than she now possesses?
But o fact that may control England's
conduct more than all others is the threat
ened repetition of the famine in India. This
is regarded very gravely by the Marquis of
Salisbury, as shown in his remarks on Fri
day last. 1t is not a fact that will SO cripple
England directly as to prevent the move
ment OF her thirty thousand men to any
part of Europe; but if she gives blows she
must expect to take them, and it hardly re-
quires to be pointed out that an atrociously
misgoverned country, scourged with famine
due to that misgovernment, is fertile field
for the Vaccinations of an enemy.
The Pulpit and the Strikes.
The clergy as conservative order, teach
ing peace and obedience to the laws and
generally opposed to violent changes. could
not be expected to have much sympathy
with the railroad strikers. The opinions
advanced yesterday in the metropolitan
pulpits were, therefore, nearly unani-
nous upon the main subject Of the
strikes, and emphatically so in respect to
the disgraceful and fatal riots which re-
suited from the attempts Of the men to die
tate to the companies and the public. Dis
order never can find any defenders among
the clergy, who believe in render
ing unto Caesar the things which
are Caesars, and who, while they
differ on many points of doctrine, are always
agreed upon the necessities of upholding
the fabric of society. The pulpit thus
stands as a bulwark of the State when it is
threatened by violence, and it has been in
no place frmer than in this city. The SER
mons yesterday, elsewhere reported, deal
largely with the exciting topic Of the day and
deserve thoughtful consideration. The at
tention of Mr. Beecher was devoted princi-
pally to political economy, and one OF his
conclusions was that combination Of work
ingmen formed to compel their COM
rades to remain idle is as bad as
centralized tyranny. He also used the
opportunity to explain remarks previously
made which seemed to have been unjust to
the laborer The Rev. DR.. Mccarthy re-
ferred to the Communistic side of
the subject, and the moral points
of interest were treated by the Rev.
Messrs. Herr, Holme and Deems. 1t is
plain that tyrannical strike intended to
coerce men who wish no part in it, and to
gain certain ends by paralyzing tradeand in
timidating the community, can never be sup
ported by the Church, which, while it advo-
Gates the rights of the humblest citizen,
must by its very nature be the opponent Of
useless and bloody strife.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-30

MORMON ELDER PRATTs defence of the Lat
ter Day Saints and of polygamy, elsewhere
printed, would be ridiculous if it were not for
its blasphemy. What he says in reference to
marriage is only tho old threadbare argument
which has been often made to give color of
Justification to the bcastlness Of Mormonsm.
The assertion that the Mormons are oppressed is
absurd. Young and his associates have been, to
say the least, aiding and abettng murder for
years, and if they had their deserts they would
long ago have been with their prophet, Joe
Smith, wherever he is.
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