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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
A BETTER WAITER SUPPLY

HOW TO SATISFY THE NEEDS OF THE CITY
THE CRoTON WATERSHED AMPLE TO SUPPLY
POPULATION OF TWO AND oNE-HALF MILLIONS
THE COST or A NEW AQUEDUCT AND TIE RI
oUIsITE STORAGE RESERVOIRS
The bill introduced in the Legislature to preyid,
for supplying this and other cities with water
from Lake George has caused good deal
of discussion among engineers as to the fead-
bility of bringing an adequate supply of water from
so great distance, and whether there Is any neces.
sty for mourning 80 great an expense. Lake George
l. 200 miles from this city IN direct line. Alloy
ing tor the inequalities of surface, and the necessity
of taking advantage OF as much Jewel ground
as possible, in order to reduce the expense Of
construction to the minimum, certain eng
neers who have given the project cuIsory exami-
nation are of the opinion that the route to be
covered by the proposed work would be from 230 70
$50 miles in length. As this proposed work u 10 be
constructed at private expense, the cost OF 1t does
not especially interest the public. The fact remains.
however, that the city demands an Increased supply
at once.
III resent acqueduct Is now used TO its utmost
capa, ", and it delivers daily $4,000, 900 gallons.
During the recent cold period. notwithstanding tho
Department of Public Works to prevent it
from 100 100000 10 105,0OOO00 gallons were
used daIiy, and even then there was scarcity
ing an additional supply of water is already under
way by the engineers of the Department OF Public
Works. This Is by drawing on me Bronx and
liz TRIBUSE. IL Will take two years longer,
and When finished the water supply o
the city will be Increased 20,000.OO0
gallons daily. The average increased yearly demand
OWING to the growth of the city In population and
mamfactories "a 1900, 900 gallons daily. 80 that
mt the end of years the city would be in the
strait as now. The proposed increase, there.
fore. can only be considered as affording O
temporary relief. Bnt careful examination
by competent engineers has shown that If the
supply afforded by the entire CrotOn watershed ID
carefully husbanded It will furnish the metropolis
with sufficient water for the next thirty or forty
wears even II the population Is doubled In hat
time The total drainage area OF the Cr0ton water
shed Is 1913 square miles. The am unit
of water now running over the Groom
dam is about 1900 100000 gallons daily and the
amount passing through the Croton Aqueduct daily
amount gong to waste over the dam. therefore. 10
enormous. 49,, ,
The reservoirs and lakes within the Croton basin
now available for storage purposes are as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
paCCSsLNG C4LSAs or IAS1NIrY.

Boston, Feb. 13-At Il wcll-attended meet
ing Of c Am ricau Ndona Association Tor tho lIotec-
ton the Insane ana Prevention O Insanity. held IN ths
city last evening" speeches made by General n. b.
Banks ana Governor Long. ID. Hassuil read pauer
from Dr. Joseph Parish bupcru endrnt of the asylum at
burlington, n. J. Remarks were also mado ny ID.
Fisher. superntondeI ul tuA Boston Asylum, who pre-
scented interesting euii upon marriages Ot PERSONS
were ln>an, tuu, IudKIng Insanity hCrBIl-
ary. ID. Fisher iurthur AZ tedI A1u1 luDlo oi sui
cidts IN me past year BI tuniIg. Dr.. X uStOu OF
CambrdgepHt; Dr. Russo, Dr. Gle, superintendent
OF the Mexican AsJ Lam, and oLrrt, Inad0 HdlrcSaes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
I,.pEovEMENIs ON LONG ISLAND.

The Long Island Railroad Company is enlarg-
ing It's passenger depot Hunters Point to twice Its
present SIZE. and will build sued the depot yard
so that will be under third rail is t.
be the Montauk Road from Furmans Crossing 10
the POut. or the Manhattan Beach Road narrow
gaugel Al the passenger coaches being repaired
aId pnIitrd rs well the engines, and preparations
ARE making by the company Tor unusually busy sea
with the opening OF spring. Pans have been pre-
pared Or tue erection OF round house with capacity
fi rtorIng sxteen engines the meadows DutcL
nh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
DESTROYING PROOFS or GUILT.

GALVESTON, Tex, Feb. ia dispatch from
Marshall lex, to The NcrS says on Friday night the
County Clerks ofice entered through window and
The votes Of nine Of the twentyhree polling precincts
made away with II supposed have boen the WORK OF
ne one connected vita tue Federal Court. before whic
large of citizens 10 be tried next week on II
chatgc violation OF the election laws.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
DANGERS OF THE SEA.

POINT PLEASANT. n. j., Feb. 13. - The
Span sn brigahue Velox which ashore yesterday
n mile below Squan Inlet to-day became badly hoggod,
and Is breaking amdships. The wind Is blowing hard
of shore The vessel will undoubtedly prove total loss.
W.crkcls are TO strip her.
SANDY HOOK, N. j., Feb ia number OF buOys have
been drven OF position by the late storm aud Ice
fin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
COLLISION H. I,l SOUTH PASS

PoRT EADs, Feb. 13.-The British steamer
AtOIOwcr, Cup'am Mu;ry, from NcwOrieanS with
grain aud cotton for Antwcr9, wnle coming down tho
South PJss yesterday INTO collision with the Brit
ish UaIK OuarO, Captain Mo4uer. from Aspluwall, IN
tow bound Tor Nrw-Orlc aus. A survey was held ana
the steamer ordered o. return 10 city FOR rcpdTs
The tario Is also damaged l. Is stated that HE col
so "as calsed b. tho steamers steering gear getting
out Of order
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

Master Ten (whOSe gOdpapa has come to
take lin or Il gre.l4 10 tie Winter EXhiDtOl, at
tie * va Academy: "BOthcrth Cd Masers! jus
as n Dadir enough ~ them at achOOl Ugh i-pfecIOus
slgh Jus when there's such lot q jolly leo
about too. ~ Puuch
DoN'T ALL SPEAK AT 0NCE.-Mature siren
Catcu.y I'd uE up ucr "icAle tOOisirunIw: An! now
When ii you ~ gOlug put ON my sKa"s for me { -"
lA,tue at.SS hesitagiou the gentlemen-due no
doubt ~ bashfulness.l-lPun rf.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

j. n. Tyncr, First Assistant Postmaster
Geu. ra. ia ely Saturday. In conversation
With a TRIBUNE reporter Ls said that the subject of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
A CHAT With SECRETARY RAMSEY.

CONDITION. OF HE ARMY-MR. GARFIELD'S CABINET.
Secretary of War RImsey WAS at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday. In response TO an Inquiry by
a TRIBUNE reporter concerning the operations OF the
United states Army 10 saIl: 60 The depl0raOo thing
about Amy that 1t very much detached To be
effective should be concentrated In these days OF rail-
road fac.liu,s there IL good reason Tor maintaining
these many scattered ary posts The present force Is SUI
ncicuty large for all practical purposes. provided we
could have good effective force centred at one point
MIR. Secretary" said the reporter, " what do you
think are lik,ly TO be- General Garfe,dS Cabinet ap
pontments r.
"senator Blame ~ Secretary OF State will be the
premier OF the incoming Administration. Naturally he
Will have some voice IN forming tne next Cabinet"
II has been sald that wOnd throw his influence
against the w!shes Of senator COnklng."
ION! no. Mr Blaine Is 100 much OF "A statesman to
allow his PRIV at gr yanccs affect the welfare OF the
Republican party, and General Giried cnterans too
Urpud views t. permit such action
How about the future OF the members 81 President
Hayes Cabuetf
They VIII al retire. and II the record jnshcs their
friends Iresynting them for furtnr" Uicai tenure
IO.sby some Ot 'hIn may be CONNECTED wl the ue1i
4 iulul- GdtlUn.
VIII say right here" sad Secretary Ran cy, thai
no man ever entered the White House with sca cOtttl
uuus know l.e OF pubic Ifr GcneII Carl ii has.
From ths The COuntry feel assured VI aIsO, liberal
statcsman5nip IN the conduct OF anlirs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
WHAT CONGRESS Is LIKELY TO DO.
VIEWS OF SENATOR PLUMB-THE APPoRIloNNENA

Senator Plumb, of Kansas, while at the
Firth Avenue Hotel on Saturday, told Tribune ~
porter thar his State was in very prOsDer0us cOndtOn
He said that the herds OF cattle were being rapidly ell
arged and the number OF under the plough was III
creasng al a tremendous rae Immigrants were arrV-
ing fast as they could NC properly located when ac-
counted for great population during the
last decade Schools were literally maintained. ana lie
saw no reysjn why Kansas should not advance greatly
The reIorter inquired what he thought would be dcne
before the close OF the session at Washington MI Pluo
said:
81 think that all the important bills under con-
sdCratiOu will pass, with the exception ol the APo'
tonmeu. bill. This do not think Will, because the
time ia so short and the interests conflicting that
more time for it, consideration Is desired o. the three
propos lions that Is 10 say for sol, 318 and 81 men-
pers OF the House. favor the frat ard last because
Kansas wOuld then have seven members OF Congress
instead Of SIX II then the 322 representatives is hot
considered favor the 301 because our relative power
would be greater than If tho number were 3ls' DO
not think the question SouCh has been sufficiently
discussed 80 that with all the different interests do not
seeh pass. The Appropriation Dill VIII Go
Though all right, lave no doubt
WHAT do you think Of the present session go far
1t seems tJ me that 1t has been very remarkable ~
one way The Democrats have failed 10 carry through
any measure opposed Oy the Republicans II certainty
has very inactive One II not unpr0naDeto the
country. think II VIII BE- Inherent Whel the IcJlDlnE
Admnst alton has the ren3 Of the Government Ia
nand. believe, and our people believe, that General
Garlrd's administration Will % vigorous one, ald one
that Will do this country Immense anOunt OF good
sound careful Judgment will be br0ngh to bear upon
the great questions or tue day Wncn VIII DC cOSuerc9
thor0nsly and subcrly for the good Of the country
surprise. which surprise Will change To admiration at
his excellent selections"
No not exactly that because Mr. Blaine Is the only
one thiuK Is perfectly sure OF Cabinet position
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14

which until these evil days has been not less power
mi and not less implicitly and honorably oDeyed
than the written law. The House has always had
Speaker, and has paid him kind OF Obedience
VARYING at various times, but undoubtedly more
complete during the last century than before And
his authority is likely soon to be OF much greater
extent than heretofore.
Not long after this episode Mr.. Bradlaugh unex-
pectedly interviewed, rising from the middle of the
third bench below the Liberal gangway. 1t was
30 much of q surprise that anybody from that
quarter should take part IN the debate that the
House again woke up from its listlessness. Mr.
Parnell stopped taking notes and looked across the
House TO see what coming. Mr. Gladstone
turned half round and fixed an attentive gaze on
the beloved of the Northampton shoemakers. Mr.
Bradlaueh's manner, Also was very quiet his voice
30 low that we IN the gallery heard him with dim
entity. l confess l almost hoped he was
going to make a speech had never heard this
darling of the mob speak excepting TO the moD ana
one may be excused for being curious to Know how
man who Is above an things s'uinp o,Oi "oT ma
acQuIt himself elsewhere than on the stump. INC
House of Commons is the most irving OF all assem-
blies for au orator of this sort. But Mr. Brlangh
among his other gifts Is pretty shrewd judge Oh
orcu nast ances and of his own individual vaiue AT
given moment He knew very well that the best
speech would fail of Its efe Ct at time when speak
ing had become q nusance-in other words, that me
shortest speech was the best. And
s he made. | suppose, the shortest and per
In NAV all be summed up in a sentence. g and those
represen mt are. 50 far understand their views.
against coercion; but we are stii more strongly
against obstruction We consider obstruction IN the
forIn now practised deroRatory TO The dignity OF
that House to which we all look as the House 0f
our own choices and We mean TO preserve
the usefulness and authority Of that House,
aud its capacity for doing business: and
to MAINTAIN 1t against all comers.' And down
he sat. There was not much applause. The dec
laration against coercion chilled The Liberals; The
declaration against obstruction sIlen:ed the bone
Rulers Iut Mr. Gladstone drew a long br"ath oil
inward satisfaction. The tense muscles ol bus race
relaxed aud as he fell back INTO ms usual attitude
Of patient WEAKNESS. 1t was plll mat he look
certain comfort from hearing that the nun,beT OF
mischief-makers was not to DC swollen DV Tue h'-
heson of man so formidable for nilSchicl as MI
Bradlaugb.
o'CoNNoR POWER SPEAKS.
One word on another speaker aud am done. Mr..
OConnor Power is neof the exceptions mentioned
above. He, at least, cannot he claSsed amon1 the
nonentities wbosnake mp the JOINTS of MI Parnrl's
tail. be IS, they say, a little too pdepepdent ana
abls for Dir. Parnelps taste, and isaisked by his
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-23
Some Points About the Shad.

Language was not strong enough for
the little old man in his denunciation of those
people who imagined they had all that was to be
desired in the way of q genuine fresh shad when
they bought it in the Philadelphia market: "Why,
there's no comparison said he, with a deeply
corrugated brow, indicative of the extentto which
this erroneous idea worked upon his feelings.
" The shad when it comes cut O. water is allus q
hundred times better'n when it lays an hour.
Here we get em as soon as they are caught an
plank 'em. As we place 'em on the plank an
place the plank afore the fire the shadn presently
rise up like nly potato an all the fatI run out
OF it like the fat out of piece of pork An when
you come to eat it you'll find it has such flavor
about it as you've never found before in shad as
you get in market We charge here from seventy
five cents to a dollar for shad that's fresh from
the water, and they're crazy to get 'em for that.
Up in market they sell 'em for quarter apiece,
an there's the biggest difference in them in the
world. A shad you get in market after it's been
out O. water day or so is so dried up that you
wouldn't know it was the same fish. There's as
much difference between the fresh shad an the
shad that has been out O. water day Or so as
there is between a mealy potato and a water
soaked one PHILADELPHIA Times.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-23
sena,or mepu,,. Apuolntment.

10 the Eltt0r Of Inc hepucttcuH.
The appointment of Hon. ]. w. Nc
Dill, United States Senator from Iowa, the sue
eessor of Senator Kfrkwood is probably the only
case in the history of the country in which sena-
torial honors were conferred on any one wholly
unsolicited and without the slightest expectation
of such preferInent. Other distinguished Repub-
licans were being pre- ssed for the appointment,
when Judge MeDill, while sitting in his office at
his home in the beautiful little city of Alton, q
hundred miles distant from Des Moines, was
handed telegram from Governor Gear, request
ing him to come Immediately to the capital
of the State. Responding to the summons he
took the first train, and while On his way thither,
in thinking of the probable reason for the Gov
ernors wish TO see him, concluded it was for con-
sultaon in reference to which of the three four
gentlemen who had been urged upon the Governor
should have the appointment On his arrival at
Des Moines Senator McDill at once called upon
Governor Gear, when he received the gratifying
and astounding information that he had been sum-
moned to the capital to receive a commission of
United States Senator. and that he might start at
once to Washington, where he was urgently needed
to aid in the reorganization OF the Senate. The ap-
pOintment of Senator McDill Is justly regarded by
Iowa Republicans as recognition OF solid worth,
sterling integrity, pre- eminent abilities, and IN
swerving fealty to the great Republican party.
Iowans in Washington say that no appointment
from the many distinguished Republicans and
statesmen of Iowa would have been more univer-
sally approved than is that Of Senator McDin.
\ STALWART.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-23
A Reply from DIR. LanaI,nn.

To the Editor Of The Republican:
In your issue of to-day you copy an
item written by" H. ]. r. in the Philadelphia
Times controverting my statement in regard to the
habits of temperance of ex-President Hayes, and
proceeding to give sundry reported" instances
in which Mr.. H. has been said 10 have departed
from the total abstinence habitsto which referred
1 have no time to hunt after the lady whose
name is to be given me privately, and not to be
used," nor the gentleman who is said by H. J. r. y
to have been capable of offering Mrs. Hayes " a
case Of whisky" shortly before she left the White
House. nor is it at all necessary. The public are
too well satisfied on this subject to
require any hunting up of secret witnesses.
The following paragraph appeared in my Origi-
nal communication on this matter:
"The good people throughout the country would
be amazed if they knew how much of the slang
and slander poured forth against Presidents and
Cabinet officers and their families have originated
pointed in their hunt for Office Torejeet their ap
pIicatiOn for place is the objectionable sim"
Perhaps olgh { to express my sympathy for those
who have been struck by the little dart issuing
from that paragraph. 1t is well understood that
"H R." is the author of the numerous filings in the
public prints which called forth my original letter.
Personally he is unknown 10 me: but in II. j.
Ramsdell, rejected applicant for the position of
Recorder of Deeds i'll the District of Columbia NAV
nOta charitable public recognize H. J. R. the au-
thor of the paragraph you quote from the Phila-
delphia Times? ]. LANAHAN.
FOUNDRY PARSONAGE
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-23
PERSONALITIES.

CARL ScHURz is in Boston, stopping at
the Hotel Vendome.
SENATOR SEwELL, of New Jersey, is
quartercd at Willard's.
HoN. GEORGE w. BREWER, of Pennsyl-
vania, is guest at Willard's
An Indiana paper mentions Joseph E.
Mcdonald for the Presidency in 1854.
Hon. SALEM III. WALES, member of the
Park Commission, New York, is visiting tnis city.
COLONEL FITZGERALD, of the Philadel-
phia Daily sun and Sunday Item, is at the Riggs
House.
Mr.. WASHINGTON MCLEAN, of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer will build an elegant residence
in Washington.
PROFESSOR SIMON NEwCoMB, of the Naval
Observatory, has just edited an elementary work
on algebra and another on geometry.
Ex-Governor JEWELL has returned to
his Hartford home not much the better for his
Southern journey. His health is far from good.
"GDIPUs URANUS" Sophocles' great
tragedy, is to be played b. Harvard students in
May. \ New York critic thinks it might be made
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-23

If the last session of the last Congress
had proceeded at once to the execution
of business, instead Of wasting its time,
the extra session would not have been
necessary or thought of Had the fund
ing bill been passed early enough to have
had a reconsideration after the veto
it would have been passed in an amended
shape and if It had been out of the way
the apportionment bill would have had
room to breathe, so to speak. As it was,
it was Smothered between the appropria
ton and funding bills; and SO neither
survived. The responsibility for the ex-
ira session lies III the stupid delays of the
last Congress.
THE sad affair by which Mrs. Jett was
allowed to lie in the ferry-house in a dy-
ing state all day Monday, receiving no
attention because of a false supposition
as to her condition, should teach the
police and the public one thing-when
persons stagger they are not always
drunk. 1t is a shocking thing to notice
how involuntarily the worst construction
possible is put upon the actions OF per-
son appearing strangely on the street
We have known instances of the arrest
and imprisonment of entirely innocent
persons through the zeal and stupidity of
police officers. We have also seen per-
sons, who afterward were shown to haze
been sick, dragged off to jail simply be-
cause they could not explain the impera-
tive question of the officer. Too much
care and consideration cannot be taken
in this respect. Police officers are not
final courts, though sometimes they act
as though they had the right to admins
ter injustice very freely. This sad in
stance, in which all Observers are discov-
cred to have been grievously mistaken,
should teach us to give mercy the first
consideration,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-23

drawn upon under such occasions as the
rifle, shotgun, revolver, bowie-knife, and
halter. A dignifed respect for the Con-
stitution, the laws, and the rights of citi-
zenship would have conserved all these
forpopular benefit. That boasted fund of
dignity sufficient to stock the world has
yet to be drawn upon by the Democratic
party to characterize its relations with
American politics since the close of the
war. We cheerfully admit that if bull
doing, intimidation, assassination, bal
lot-box stuffing, and false counting, and
if an attempt to embarrass the Govern
ment with stinted appropriations, to
prevent the use of the army in enforcing
the laws and sustaining good govern
ment for all the people of the United
States, added to a declared purpose of
wiping from the statute-books all the
measures born of the war, are typical of
dignity, then the Democratic party may
have developed that attribute; but not
otherwise.
If it is dignifed to bring into our politi-
cal campaigns the full armament of cal
umny, traduction, and forgery, with which
to smirch character and blacken fame,
then the Democratic party has perhaps
drawn upon the fund of dignity of which
it claims to have such a superabundance;
but thus far it has received no credit for
its vast wealth in that line. Its dignity
remains hidden treasure, and, like its
loyalty to the Union, the Constitution,
and the laws, it is more matter of dis
play than of practical benefit. The coun-
try would rejoice if the Democratic party
would work its mine of dignity and in
troduce its products into public use. No
matter how extensive or rich its fund "
may be, if it is perpetually to sleep be-
meath the rubbish of broken faith, out
ragged law and right, and crimes that cry
to heaven for vengeance, it will never
find respectable market for its undevel-
oped and boasted treasure. 1t will con-
tinue to be regarded in public estimation
as a mere sham and delusion.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-23
Pillows as Life-Preservers.

In the new steel steamship Partisan,
recently eompletedat at Glasgow for the Allan Line,
and now nearly ready to make her maiden voyage
across the Atlantic, the pillows with which the
statetoOm beds Sse supplied constitute in ease of
danger, an effective life-saving apparatus. These
pillows, which have been invented and patented
by Mr.. Woods, superintendent of the yictualing
department of the Partisan, are made of the hair
of the moose, and are so constructed that in the
hour of danger the passengers can Immediately
fasten them around their bodies in q way
that will make their sinking impossible. The
pillows consist of two parts, one to cover
the chest and the other the back, and the two por
tons can be readily fastened by the passengers
themselves. Once secured to the bodies they can
not be removed by the pressure of the water. The
end of a pillow supports the chin, and therefore
keeps persons head above water, while the whole
eontriyance will serve q protection against in
jury from floating wreck. The steerage passen-
gers of the Partisan will all be supplied with them
at very moderate cost and thus fortified against
danger there would, in the event of anything seri-
oas happening, be no tendency on their part to in
dulge in the panic which so often breaks out on
such occasions.