New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-14

of the affair. Thus it happens that the ceie
bration will scarcely commence in earnest until
Tuesday next when the National Government
takes charge and the cornerstone OF tne mon
ument will be laid. Wednesday Is the Gay
for the addresses, poems and music; thursday
for the military review, and Friday for the
naval review. Some of the troops are alreauy
in camp. The regiment which will represent
New-York, the Thirteenth, leaves here on
Saturday night
The collateral descendants of Baron Steuben
who arrived from Germany yesterday, anu
were received as the guests OF the Uhlteu
States Government, will be heartily welcomeu
wherever they may 60, in their double capac-
ity of representatives of the German haIlon
and heirs of the name and honors Oh one Oh
the most conspicuous characters in the Amen-
can Revolution. If they take the pans TO
make inquiries as to the ways IN when ther
ancestors memory has been kept green IN the
land for whose liberties he fought, they VIII
find that two counties one in NeW-lo rk ana
one in Indiana, bear his name, and SIX towns,
chief of which is the thriving little city OF
Steubenville, Ohio. They will also find that
the name is universally anglicized i'll Its pro-
nunciation, the en- being pronounced like the
English u. In German en- form diphthong
having the sound of OF in the English word
boil.
Governor Fosters majority is now expected
to reach 10000. Two years ago 1t was
1900. A significant fact concerning the
Ohio election is that this is the first time the
Republicans have carried the State III the year
following a Presidential campaign since loo9'
In 1878 the Democrats elected William Allen
Governor, beating Governor NOyes for reelec-
ton. and in 1877 they were successful WIN
Bishop, against whom the Republicans ran the
blind orator West fair inference from the
result of both the Ohio and Iowa elections is
that the Republican party is in better condi-
ton than it has found itself in a year succeed
ing Presidential battle since the year after
Grants first election, when the great questions
ofreconstruction and manhood suffrage absorbed
the public mind. The necessary reaction from
the high tension of Presidential struggle has
not worked at all to its detrimcnt. The same
Influences which made the two Western States
strongly Republican last Tuesday will elect
the Republican State ticket in New-lork II 1t
is heartily supported by all the elements OF the
party.
The frightful disaster which New-GOrk mar
rowly escaped in the burning OF cigar lac
tory on Monday, occurred in Philadelphia
Wednesday night. A cotton mill caught IRE
and many OF the unfortunate operatives,
penned up in the upper stories with all means
of escape cut off by the flames were burned
alive or horribly mangled by leaping from the
windows upon the stone pavement OF the
street There was no fire ladder of any sort
upon the building and the two wooden STAR
ways, which were the only means of reaching
| the lower stories and the ground, took fire be-
! fore the alarm reached the upper floors. The
owners of the factory ought to be indicted and
punished for their criminal negligence in fail
ing to provide fire escapes, and If there Is any
| official in Philadelphia whose business 1t Is to
see that factories are not traps for imprlson-
| ing human beings and roasting them alive he
| should suffer with the owners. Experience
with fires has made nothing palmer than that
wooden stairways in a high building are rap
idly seized upon by the flames, which make a
| chimney of the stairway shaft and create a
draught that speedily carries the fire to the
upper floors. Every factory without iron fire
| ladders on the outer walls is an invitation to
death in one of It's most horrible forms.