New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-03


commerce and industry of the city revive, for the
space which these tenements now occupy. In view
of these advantages, objections which have been
raised seem puny and whimsical. The elevated
roads have been built because they were needed.
That necessity is their defence.
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The Cabinet of Mr. Hayes is expanding 50 large
fraction of It5 vital energies in publishing
commentaries, critical and explanatory of the
immortal Civil Service order that there may
be a commanding necessity for more con-
stitutiona advisers. At any rate Mr. Cutters COM
mittee have convinced themselves Of the fact, and
il is quite natural under the circumstances that lie
Due should have lobbied himself into the line OF
promotion. This is very well, as far as it goes,
but the country will never he happy while education
lags behind agriculture, and some committee ought
TO bestr itself and get the Cabinet purple
ready for Mr. John Eaton. Hitherto we have been
contentcd with secretaries who acted as
executive heads of some organized system
under direct control of Government We
have a Treasury, an Army, a Navy Postal
Service and public lands, all of which seem
TO need an administrative chief but 1t has
been urged against the creation of Depart
ments of Education and Agriculture that the
General Government had no occasion to
worry itself about filling the soil or nstructing
the Young. But the idea of beneticent paternallsm
Is rapidly striking root in the minds of our leading
Statesmen. There is loud popular demand for
forestry and hOllyhOck seeds, and tea plants and
prize packages of guanO. Then there is the great
National University the Grand Central Hail
Columbia textbook concern, and the Federal
license factory for grinding ont certificates to Dis
trict Schoo-mistresses Only give LeDuc and
Eaton seats in the Cabinet, with increased pay and
perQuisltcs and ample appropriations, and they
will discover fresh channels for doing good" every
day. and proyetwin harbmgcrs of that mIllennia era
wnen fostering Government will make our shoe
pegs brew our beer, and preach the Gospel for us.
The Courier des Flats Uns completed its fiftieth
BIRTHDAY on the LIST of May. In making this graft
fying announcement to its readers yesterday,
# stated that the second haf-century OF
its life would date from the opening Of the
International Exhibition of 1873. 1t is certainly
remarkable that an0hg the hundred daily news
papers that have been published in New-YOrk, one
80 ong-liyed should De printed in foreign tongue.
1t was founded a few years after Laiayettes
visit TO America at the invitation Of Congress- and
was published in response to the demand
which then existed for journal which
should represent growing and important
element of the American people. 1t will.
be almost as gratifying to Americans who speak the
language of England rs 10 Americans who came to
this country from France, to know that SO good
n newspaper has prOSpercd well. Its survival
in that most uncertain of spheres, the newspaper
world shows that 1T is one of the tittest and that
it has deserved to live. May it round out its full
century!
TRIBUNE EXTRA, No. 40, which we shall publish
tomorrow, is as remarkable an issue of tins popu-
lar series as have over printed. Ii
is entitled --latest Gifts of Science" and it
contains Professor Arnods lecture on the
Phonograph with illustrations the pop
ular articles on fast printing and the
late remarkable inventions of the Messrs.
Hoe by John r. G. IIassard an account
of tho treasures of the new Museum
of Natural History full report of
the proceedings at the late meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences in Washington; Professor
Twchclps very striking lecture recently printed
in THE TRIBUNE, entitled "The Hope of China !"
strong paper OH Professor Hartts Explorations
in Brazil the Boston letter about AcOtt
and his friends, ETC., etc. This mass of valu-
able matter is contained in a single six
teen page sheet of the size of THE WEEKLY TRIB-
UNE with pages one half the size Of
The DArLY) and will be sent to any address,
postpaid, ON receipt of the price, 10 cents.
There Is curious trouble in the Office of that
amlable newspaper The EOeRiR9 Mail. Mr. Clark
Bell who ID one of its owners figures
not quite perhaps in the role of bull in its china
shop, but at least in the role of q very bumpuous
juvenile Of that species. Mr.. Bell has
had the temerty to complain of the
discharge him on the ground of incompetency.
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