New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-01

checking the efforts of minority to creep
out Of the bargain now, simply because the
possible mill owner shrewdly got the better OF
them by talking loudly about the noise MS
machinery would make. One of the Commis-
soners, having obtained o reconsideration OF
the resolution of purchase yesterday on the plea
that there was an inch of LAND less in the plot
than had been represented, tried to persuade
the Board to take an ell and throw up the
contract entirely; but the other Commissioners
very properly would not 90 to such length.
1t il near the close of the nineteenth GEN.
tury, but for all that considerable savagery
still survives to make mock of what is pop
ularly known as 1.-the refining influences OF
our modern civilization" Think of the fact
that thousands of people yesterday crowded
about the outside of the Jail within which the
unspeakable assassin was executed. These alb
normally curious men and women were per-
fectly well aware that they would not be per-
mitted to witness the terrible closing scene
but they would seem to have found certain
satisfaction in gazing at the grim walls which
hid it from their view. Declared from the
sight of the scaffold and its embrace of its
victim for which their souls evidently longed,
they took no small delight in being as close
as possible to the spot where the instrument
of death was set up. We are afraid, no mat
ter how perfect our civilization may become,
that a certain ortion of the race will always
find the attraction of repulson absolutely IRE
sstible.
Yale oarsmen will not be likely to try any
more experiments in boats and strokes LOT
some time at least not if the Disguised alumni
can bring any influence to bear on brash under
graduates. Their defeat by Harvard when
they had the heavier and older crew, and
when a substitute sat i'll Cabots seat VIII
naturally be attributed to the new boat
and the new stroke and rig. Z" told you
so.n is the cry that rises from the men who
coached the New-Haven crews in bygone
DAYS. The innovations did not please them.
They foretold defeat for Yale. Harvard,
no wever, will hardly be willing to admit that
the victory is due to her rivals indulgence
in experiments, rather than her own positive and
surpassing excellence. And it must be acknOw-
lodged that the wearers of the crimson rowed
a pretty lace. If Yale had taken only one
more precautiOn against defeat Her boat
was ten feet longer than llarvards; IL
it had been fifty or sixty feet longer, the bows
might have been even at the end of the race,
and the contest could have been called q
draw"
IT certainly was not for lack Of being tried
that the three persons accused of the death OF
Jennie Cramer were not convicted of murder.
The case was investigated by the Cor
oner then by Justice and finally, it was
tried before a Judge and jury. The weak
point in the prosecution from the first has
been that it has never established be-
yopd doubt that murder was COM
m;tted 1t has seemed very probable all
along that the unfortunate young woman
took her own life. But the Malleys do not
leave the court-l Dom unstained. The guilt of
plotting and carrying out wicked conspir-
acy to ruin Jennie Cramer rests upon them.
This ought to be a burden to sober and
sadden them for the rest of their days. If
exact Justice could be measured out, they
would yet be severely punished for these things
AS for the woman who had part
in the shame and wickedness OF these young
men. and who seems to have been much sinned
against herself, it is certainly to be hoped that
some kind hand will be stretched forth to save
her from plungng downward again. Her lot
seems pitiable indeed.