New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-27

now sent to each creditor check for the othe
so per cent of the debt, with interest. Ihls
is a novel and pleasant experience which does
not often thrill business men.
The annoyances which the residents of this
city endure from snowfalls which are ex-
pected and paid for in advance are severe
but our trials are not so great as those which
people bear who live in places where the
winters are generally free from snow. Inc
helpless condition of Constantinopie uhoer
such circumstances is wildly described III u
letter from our regular correspondent III thaC
city, which we print elsewhere. Here we SUI
fer despite all our precautions, but there Is no
mitigation for the Turks woe when he is snow
bound for his house is built with frivolous
disregard of cold.
The keen bright sunlight of publicity is be-
ginning to beat upon the Brooklyn Park Com
mission, and this is not to be wondered at,
especially as this Board is about the
only one that sits back and smiles as
the heads of other Commissioners have
rolled off under the operation OF the One-Head
bill 1t is the sudden stopping OF the sale OF
the east-side lands that causes comment now.
Whether certain rumors about peculiar real
estate transactions are true or not,
those persons who are in possession of the
Bottom facts will not tell. The delay in fin
ishing the Brooklyn Bridge, the completion of
which would affect the property about Pros
pect Park favoIably, and the delay in selling
these lands, are connected in the minds OF
many persons in an unpleasant manner.
Those alumni of Cornell University who
gather mt Ithaca at the next Commencement will
probably see much to crafty and encourage
them i'll the growth of the institution. In talk
with one of our reporters, to be found on an
other page, President White gives details OF
part of the quiet work that has been gong
on within the last few months. Some of the
experiments have been of novel character.
One man builds a chapel for the University on
condition that attendance upon its exercises
shall not he compulsory (this must have par
alyzed the students when they heard about it),
and another has established IA fund to pay for
preaching by a different man every Sunday.
The students have rallied to show their appre-
citation of such liberality in pocket and re-
ligion, and the chapel has been crowded at all
the services.
The managers and owners of hotels at C0ney
Island are bestirrng themselves already, max
ing preparations for the coming summer sea-
son. which will not open for two months yet.
There are to be few changes, if any, at these
beaches. There will be the same crowds on
the pazzas, the same difficulties of getting a
seat for dinner the same clatter Of dishes, the
same banging of brass bands and the same
cor,o+ enInS Manhattan GREAT QfflrtS have
been put forth to preserve the beach from de-
struction and to induce the waves by a series
of ietties, to wash back the sand which they
washed away a year ago. 1t is too early yet
to tell whether anything has been accom-
plished in the way OF restoration. 1t seemsa pity
that the west end of the island, about which liti
cation in the courts is still going on, must re-
main for another season without improvement.
Two bills recently introduced in the Assem-
bly, at Albany seem to cover jobs of tho worst
kind. One appoints a commission to superin-
tend the rebuilding of jefferson and Washing
ton Markets the other is for a commission to
construct new court house in the Twenty
first Ward; together they provide for an ex-
pendture of about 100000. The markets
need many repairs or should be rebuilt; but
the work can be done, as in~the case OF
Fulton Market, under the supervision of the
present city authorities at much less expense
than the Assemblymen so lavishly propose.
And as 10 the new court house, that scheme
seems to be a case of spontaneous generation.
Nobody connected with the City Government
has asked for it, and the project has never
come before the Board of Estimate and APP
portionment. Here are more reasons why this
city should no longer be governed from
Albany.