New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-08

without delay; such, for instance, as the en-
actment of laws to prevent the wholesale
transfer of cOmpany's assets by the process
of reinsurance or amalgamatiOn. In these cases
delays arc dangerous.
Mr.. Donald G.. Mitchell's Yale lectures on the
aesthetics of Everyday Life" the first OF
which is reported elsewhere, will embody the
suggestions of a man of taste upon the themes
which find too little recognition from money
seeking community. 1t is the old story over
| again of the Partisan agitator who could over
| throw the Government but couldn't get his
b,ceches mended 1t is about time that peO-
pie which put down the biggest rebellion on
record made up its mind to have picturesque
towns and pretty doOlyards.
The report of Superintendent Riddle on the
| condition of the public schools OF this city
makes strong showing against the efficiency
of the Compulsory Education act. Only 743
| children have been brought into schools by It's
| operation, and of these only 17o went into
| the public schools, the remainder going into
| the corporate schools. This is a small number
| surely i'll comparison with the total number OF
| children taught in the public schools during
| the past year-157, 423. This figure can hardly
| be increased without great expense, because or
| the necessity of employing great numbers OF
/ agents to reach children kept ont OF schools
| in defiance of the law, OF to mold them In
! schools when they have been placed there Ill
conformity with it. These are the laws SINS
of omission its great sin of commission Mr..
| Riddle finds in the enforced cOmpanionship
n1, L.
| recommendation for the repeal of the act may
not meet with immediate approval, he has
certainly demonstrated that, i'll its operation
| thus far, the Jaw is failure.
The traditional Democrat. whose room would
be worth far more to his party than bis COM
pany can ever be, has broken out IN Albany.
This time it is Mr.. Grady. who, by the grace
of Tammany Hall, aids in representing the
| City of Ncw-Yoik III the Assembly. Beng
| confronted with simple proposition to pre-
| vent the Superintendent of Public Works from
putting his Office to partisan uses, he opposes
it, substantially on the ground that as long as
| there are corruption and partisanShlp III other
! branches of the public service, just so long
| shall there be corruption and partisanS)np III
this He made other profound remarks, such
as that politicians held allegiance to party only
second to allegiance to God though perhaps
| his chief mistake here was in not putting
| party high enough in the scale. 1t is really
great waste of money to pay fifteen hundred
| q year for cattle of this description. If Tam
many Hall has its grip on Mr.. Gradys coat
| tails-and we never knew Iammany Assem-
blyman whose coat-tails were his Own-it
ought to pull him down in short order.
The contention in the Direct Cable Com
| pany has done good by the information it has
| elected respecting Transatlantic biography.
| The rivals represent a large amount OF capital,
S35, 100000 being nOminaly invested iii the
| Anglo American and S6,000,O00 in the Di-
rect Company. The latter with only one cable
has now acquired 81 per cent of the ocean
telcgraphng,. Thereby reducing considerably the
| traffic receipts of the older corporation. This
| inroad upon dangerous monopoly OF course
chiefly benefited this country, since Canada
Yields only three per cent of the total traffic.
The Direct Company is essentially a foreign
corporation, only 172 of its $4,000 shares being
| held i'll this country. The support it receives
here and from the London press is therefore
! clearly due TO the public interest in the NAM
tcnance of healthy rivalry in the Geographic
| business Of the two continents. As many as
! $500 shares were represented at the recent
voting. Although it was attended with great
| cOmplcxity, the mOnOpOlists met signal de-
| feat The attempt will doubtless be renewed
to ouench the greed for large dividends at the
public expense.
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