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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-31
A TALK WITH J. s. T. STRANAHAN.

A TRIBUNE reporter saw j. S. I. 'Stranahan at his
house. No 900 Union-st Brooklyn, last evening"
Mr.. Stranahan has been for many years member
of the executive committee of the Bridge trustees
and has had more influence III the Board than any
other man except William C. Kingsley.
81 first heard of the accident at about o
o'clock said he. Il have not any definite
particulars. but | hope the loss OF lie mas
been exaggerated in the extras. AS l understand
il was a panic that caused the accident IL SO, IL
WAS what is liable tn occur anywhere crown
congregates be it i'll street. building, or on d
bridge. For ordinary demands the promenade Is
amply wide enough. But the travel lor
while now is heavier than was
ever expectcd. and it will never
be so heavy again With two enormous cities iuii
of peopIe who are curious about the structure the
first few weeks of travel must necessarily DO great
until peoples curiosity is gratitied. In twenty OF
thirty DAYS when we get our q"
running they will draw off much of the present
pressure on the promenade The accident
apparently was pyecipitated 50 quickly
that if was impossible to prevent It, We have over
twenty policemen, eight or ten OF whoni mro On u'S
at once. If necessary, additional walks ca" y.
hnjlt on brackets outside of the carriage ways p'
/ do not think il will be necessary. AsfOr using ohe
carrape-way exclusively for loot passenger pcsiuc
the centre promenade that would distribute nv
weight unequally AS 1t IS the "nd be better te
mi any additional walks the outside rather toa
to extend the present promenade over 'he
track do not wa Snt. shp of course 11ps'b b.
still more watchful of the traffic, and do every
that can be done to make 1t safe fartltioh raiug
will probably be put up at the sta!rweys anu PoGo
,oen NE stationed there TO make people take tne
right side in passing The railing will also DO
supDOrt in q crowd"
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al notices Of mar
name and address.
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Congress is going to make conspicuous 1901 vi
;tself And what renders his fear the more
noticeable is the peculiar reason upon when IL
rests He is not afraid that his friends the
Democratic Congressman are going to sur
rondor tbe norty's well settled and often formu-
lated aconvictions" in regard to the tarii.
Oh no He is merely afraid that they are nor
going to do So "a tariff for revenue only
remarks Mr.. Eaton, "lost us the Presidency
ain 1880. A like platform or even doubt as 10
@the disturbance of the tariff policy OF the
@country would defeat us again. we
"cannot afford to adopta policy that Is offensive
@to Indiana Ohio, Pennsylvania, New OK,
GNew Jersey, and my own State, Connecticut.
Mr.. Eaton. Judging from these expressions Is
not a statesman who would rather be rlght
than President. Democracy is free trade parry
or it is nothing. He knows TINS as wen us any
body and nevertheless does not hesltate I'd
counsel Congress to ignore principle Tor eHpeui-
encv II is rs if he said Party convictions
20 are all well enough in their proper place. Dut
q their proper place is platform. They never
sbould be allowed to stand in the way OF
Marty success. Our representatives in Con
q Gross have no business to think of the tariff
" from the business pOlul VI Wv" -
aindustry. They owe it to the party to thlnk
q of it simply from tho political point OF view
q Of the Democratic Presidential campa ign
q Conyictions are good but sentimental things
. If it is found that they do not win votes tney
should be not exactly abandoned but carelulS
"laid on the table"
II remains to be seen whether or not Mr.. Ea-
TOMS advice is TO be taken. There is reason 10
expect that it will be. The Democratic STATE
conventions of the year have been so many
shining monuments of cOwardice and evasion
so far rs their utterances on the tariff were CON
cerped. The New-York Convention toucheo
fine ton notch of weak demagogism by adopt
ing platform in which there was not so mucn
os an ollusion to the great issue. Remembering
these things Mr.. Randall may well be confident
that Congress will be mindful OF ms aunon,-
lions. But he would do well to rejoice WIN
trembling. Democracy has n positive genius
for laundering and generally manages TO Dea'
the record where there is the most at stake
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
PERSONAL.

The Zouave Jacob, who at the age of fifty-four is
still performing his marvellous cures, was lately
arrested in Paris for the illegal practice of medicine
and surgery.
Count LOwcnhaupt the Minister to this country
from Sweden and Norway, who arrived yesterday
by the St German, is staying at the Hotel Bruins,
wick with his wife and two children. Ihey VIII
soon go to Washington
Professor Charles s. Hastings, of Johns Hopkins,
who has Just been called to n chair in the Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale, is n native of Hartford,
Conn, thirty-ive years old, and has gained high
reputation by his observations of the solar eclipse
of last May, he having been a member OF the Caro-
line Island expedition.
Eugene Field, the Western poet, paragraph
writer and humorst, is a medium-sized man, with
a smooth face blue eyes, and yellow hair. lie Is
about thlrty-three years old, Is married, and has
four children. In Kansas City he used to put
biz sign smallpox on his editorial sanctum
door to keep out inqusitve visitors, and In hot
weather would sit at his desk-a broken-egScd
table-arrayed IN rather less clothing than social
canOns demand.
The Rev. DR.. Clement NJ Butler will lecture be-
fore tho studente of the General Theological Sem
mary on "Tho Reformation in France and the
Massacre of st. BaItholOmew's Day." on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday evenings of next week and
the week following L he lectures Will be dellNeIeu
in the Church of the Holy Communi0n, at Slxth-
ave. and lwentletn-St, anu VIII oo oPOH w 'NN
general public.
Mr. Matthew Arnold will deliver his lecture on
Emerson" at tho Little Chickering Hall, Boston,
nj 3 o'clock this afternoon. 1t will be subsequently,
repeated at fremont Temple. The lecture will not
no wholly Mandatory but will contain honest.
opinions of EmersOn's faults cautiously expressed
In a letter to u friend Mr.. Arnold says: " l am
doubtful whether a New-York audience would care
to hear my opinions on Emerson, or care sufficiently
about the subject for me to deliver the lecture there
A New-York audience would probably be as APP
precative as a Boston one. AS one of Her Majestys
principal inspectors Of schools, Mr.. Arnolds duties
will recommence after tho Christmas vacation, so
that the number of his lectures here is limited lie
IL at present the guest Of the Somerset Club Inc
Rev. Phillips Brooks who was prevented by IN
DISPOSITION from presiding ut the former lecture,
will, it is expected, preside to-day.
OF the late Robert b. Toles tho maker Of micro
scopes and the founder Of the Boston Optical Works
ihe Boston Transcript says, His greatest achieve
ment was his demonstratiohOf the praohcability Of
the homogeneous immersion objective and its SUI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01

the fourth quarter Of the year. the smallest number
in March and in the first quarter" OF course this
statement does not necessarily convict the laureate
of error For with great propriety he can argue
that although it Is In spring" that young man is
taken that way, yet it commonly is not until No
vember or still later in the year that girl who was
spoken for in March has her trousseau quite ready
The report throws some light on the vexed ques-
ton Of the comparative constancy Of the two sexes
and the comparative fascination Of maids and wild
ows. 1t is recorded that 1872 bachelors married
maids, and 795 married widows; LIZA widowers
married maids and s45 married widows There
were 1850 widowers married and Ito widows"
No comment could add to the forcefu significance
of these figures. And so, too, the report demon
strates that the sweet soft ncongruity of January
and June is not unknown to the Bay State. For
one male at twenty married female at fifty
three, and one widOwer at seyenty-two married
maid at twenty-six." The report also demonstrates
that some of the maids who married must have done
so purely by accident, mistaling what is known in
the West as an "hymenial altar" for a kinder
garten. Every heart that is alike sensible and SYM
pathetic will bleed at the thought that female
married at the age of thirteen; eight at four
teen; thirty eight at fifteen" And speaking of ages
the report, while not actually asserting the rather
amazing fact leaves the inference to be drawn
that twenty of the females that married were
each over eighty years Of age. Are we mis-
takeni Let the reader judge for himself: I" Six
hundred and seventy-nine men and 206 women"
we are informed, "were married over fifty years
old nineteen men and woman over seventy
five, and three men over eighty; there were twenty
nine females married whose ages were not re-
corded"
1t is rather ungraciOus to attack report from
which so much fresh instructive data in regard to
Of the most interesting of subjects is to be
drawn. But the duty we owe to absolute truth
compels us to point out that it contains serious
ambiguity. A fOOt-note page AZ states that
" three males each married five times" Is the
public to conclude that each of these males was
such monster of INCONSISTENCY as to form peren-
NAL attachment no less than five times in 1882 Or
is the meaning that the three have been married five
times their whole lives throughf fOot-nOte in the
next report ought to be devoted to setting this mat
fer right,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01

FoREIGN-The trial of O'Donnell was begun yes
terdav in London and the case for the prosecution
was closed. - King Alfonso unveiled a statue
of Queen Isabella, the Catholic. 80 Monsgnor
Colet Archbishop of Tours, is dead. 80 SVEN
Nilsson the Swedish naturalist, died in Stockholm.
- Eighteen passengers were killed in a railway
collision in France 60 The conference of the
American bishops i'll Rome has closed.
DoMEsTIC.-The correspondence between the
Hon. w. w. Phelps and ex-Speaker Keller has been
made public. 60 The Pennsylvania Legislature
has resolved to adjourn on December II. -- The
coal operators of Pennsylvania yesterday deter
mined to maintain the present prices of coal during
December ~ Mrs. John X. Rail- of Baltimore,
killed her two children and cut her own throat
Yesterday - E. X. Marshall, Of New-York,
stage machinist of the Rajah" company, fell into
a hotel court at Selma Ala, yesterday and was
killed. -I 1t is reported that the Sault Ste
Marie is frozen over blocking navigation into Lake
Superior.
CITY AND SuBURBAN.-CovernOr Cleveland yes
terday appointed Wheeler IL. Peckham District
Attorney to succeed Mr.. McKeon. - Thomas
Enos who was arrested for completely with Will
lam b. Carroll, was discharged 80 The losses by
the Windsor Theatre lire were estimated at $751;
900. - One Italian killed another in Brooklyn.
THE st. Andrews Society ate its annual
dinner - Byrnes, who was with Jay
Humphreys when he died, was examined by
the Coroner. - The inquest in the case OF
Phoebe Paulin was begun at Orange. -= dele
CATION of French workingmen arrived by the st.
GERMAN. - The conduct of the prosecution OF
liquor dealers was criticised - There was al
accident on the Elevated Railroad. -= A YER
dict was found by the COrOners Jury in the Brook
vile murders. - Gold value OF the legai-tender
silver dollar (41212 grains), $3.50 cents. 60
Stocks opened dull and barely steady, later were
active at advancing prices, and closed at top hg-
ures.
THE WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate warmer and clear or fair weather. Tenn
perature Yesterday Highest 45o; lowest, 36' ;
average, 1852.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01

periority over other lenses. This he demonstrated
In 1871. but, owing to the fact that at that time
Canada balSam was the only fluid known to possess
tho same retroactive index as crown glass, his dis
covery remained useless until 1877, when Professor
Abbe discovered fluid which was practical for
such purpose. He was among the first to produce
what are known as wide-angle detectives and TO
the scientific world at large he will live the man
who dared attempt what the accepted authorities
ceeded in turning the 1900 corner He was a
quiet, unassuming gentleman, who devoted his
whole life to his work. He had not been in health
for long time, having been a sufferer from a
chronic lung disease to which most men would
have succumbed years ago."
SAN Francisco, Nov. 30.-General Pope arrived
here last evening. He will assume command of the
Military Division of the Pacific tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
NOR. EAroNS ADHIcE TO CONGRESS


An Indian cheftain from whom the country
used occasionally to hear answered to the not
altogether promising name of Young Man
Afraid OF His Horses. 1t was never known
that he had relatives in Connecticut, but there
is ground for conjccturing that ex-senator Eaton
of that State answers to the name OF Old Man
Afraid OF His Party. Such an impression Of
Mr.. Eaton is certainly induced by reading the
report which has just found its way into print
of the feelings that arise in his breast as he
thinks of the coming Democratic Congress. He
clearly is afraid of the majority of that body,
afraid that it will pursue course on tho lead
ing issue now before the country that will prove
q serious embarrassment to the Democratic can
vass for the Presidency. The issue is the tariff,
and Mr.. Eaton is dreadfully afraid that it will
turn out to be the rock on which the Democracy
is doomed to go to pieces, in 1884.
The existence of such fear in such a quarter
does not speak well for the party that inspires
it. If the Congressional majority fails to COM
mand confidence in the house Of its friends, its
intimate friends little wonder that the general
public distrusts 1t.
Mr.. Eaton knows the Democratic party thor
oughly-knows the influences that control it,
knows what it has learned in the school of ex-
perience during the last quarter OF century,
knows its tendency, knows the comparative
respect it is accustomed to accord to its prin-
ciples and to its appetite. This expert, its own
witness, declares in select that no Is afraid
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
an inquiry into the causes Of commercial de-

an inquiry into the causes OF commercial de-
preston.
The most unequivocal argument against the
sophistries of free trade was offered by the pre-
siding officer, Lord Dunraven. lie maintained
that the existing commercial system was injuri-
Gus to England and advocated n revision of the
customs schedules in the interest OF the working
classes at home and also of the colonies las to
the enormous strides which England was said
to have made under free trade, he affirmed that
other nations had made equally enormous strides
under an entirely opposite system, so that rs
much could be said on one side as on the other.
"The fact isl he remarked, that the Golden
"ites have been so long looking at e-sided free
atrade and trying to persuade themselves that it
dis a two-sded object, that q moral sQuint has
"come over them.' Accordingly, since absolute
free trade was q myth and the whole world,
England alone excepted, seemed in favor of
protection, he recommended judicious imposts
upon the manufactures of other countries.
Such Outspoken speeches as these disclose
remarkable change of sentiment on the part OF
leading men in England A crOss-current in
economic discussion seems to have set in, and
the political veterans, accustomed to the steady
flow of free trade ideas, are at a loss to account
for it. Two years ago an English audience
would not have listened respectfully to an
American advocate of protection. Mr.. Porter
met with few Interruptions, was cordially re-
ceived and loudly applauded; and at the close
of the meeting dozens of working men crowded
about the platform to shake hands with him and
to assure him that he had only told the half of
their sufferings and privatiOns under free trade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
SOME TYTERESTJEG STITTSTTcS.

The forty-frst annual report relating to the regis
try and return of births, marriages and deaths in
Massachusetts, for 1882 which has just been issued
in pamphlet form, marshals array of figures
which cannot fail to prove instructive to the stu
dent of social science. In 1852 there were recorded
IN that state 1850 births, 1864 marriages and
36,7S5 deaths, an increase of $50 births, 0l6 mar
riages and 327 deaths rs compared with 1851. 1t Is
worth while to analyzc all three of these groups of
figures. but at present conine ourselves to the
one relating to marriages.
The approximate marriage rate was o.2O mar
riages to 900 of the estimated population, indl-
eating one person married in each 81. This is not
discouragIng outlook for the future of Massachu-
sets. and yet, considering that "eyery Jack must
have his jill" it does seem If this record ought TO
have been beaten. Whose fault was i'll Was Jack
backward in coming forward, or did Jill possess OBJ
durate parcntsf The report throws no light on the
causes it merely states results-ono person married
In each 81.
Mr.. Tennyson will like TO hear when the majority
of these 1854 marriages were sOlemnized. Ito
himself has expressed the opinion that
In the spring young mans fancy lightly turns to
thoughts OF love-"
but the report informs us that the largest number
Of marriages in 1852 took place in November and in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
nrR CANDIDATE rs SLY

We grieve to hear that candidate for the
Speakership, Mr.. Samuel s. Cox does not seem to be
thought at Washington to have much chance of
election. We shall be distressed if this should
prove true and perhaps Mr.. Cox will be.
Still. Mr. Cox has sometimes had way of talk
ing for one thing and working for another. Take
that fine eulogy upon him to be found in one of
Secretary Stewards latest speeches, delivered at
Auburn in 1865. Said Mr.. Seward: How could
| dstrst the loyalty or the virtue of Andrew John
son, of General Hancock. General Mcclellan, Sen
atOr Buckalcw of Pennsylvania; of Senator Hen
bricks of Indiana or his associate Mr. Niblacb, or
Of Mr. =. $. Cox, of Ohio, TO whom personally more
than any other member is due the passage Of the
Constitutional Amendment, in Congress, abolishng
African slavcryi" Mr. Cox" adds the Secretary
in a note to his published speech, "yoted against
the Amendment, but is understood to have per
suadcd others of his own party TO vote for It,"
Perhaps Mr. Cox is opposed to one of the other
candidates in the same way that he was opposed to
the Constitutional Amendment. Nevertheless we
will never desert hm-nOt even IL he deserts him.
self We urge our Democratic friends to TaIly-as
one mau-tO the support of Mr. Cox.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
GENERAL NOTES.

The example of the sort of practices which
charity organization societies hope TO abolish was re-
ported at the annual meeting of the Baltimore Society
last Monday This was the case OF woman VINO be-
loned to AK churches of different denominations solely
for the advantage she derived thereby Wien aims were
distributed.
The American Anti-Slavcry Society was or
ganizod at convention held in Philadelphia on Decen-
Der L. and g. 1888. meeting TO celebrate the hitl'th
anniversary OF this event will he held in horticultural
Hall philadelphia on Tuesday next, at which II Is hoped
that few surviving members OF the convention VIII 10
present.
The first legislative act authorizing the con-
sruction OF railroad In Penusy lyania was passed Oh
March 81 1893 and on April lG 1884, the first traa ian
through from philadelphia Columbia. From that be-
ginning the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad has grown to ls pres
ent proportions. Tho approaching semi ehtehai n nm,
versary will be appropriately celebrated pS uie s''''
corporation.
The clock and watch trade of Berlin has
grown TO enormous proportions IN recent years anu III
some OF is departments the German caPh puS i'i !"
lead tine world very large business Is done In curious
tmepieces designed crafty capricouS ana whimsical
watches set i'm coins ivory gutta-percha. etc.
aud I'm clock eases carved IN fantastic Shapes EOf IN
stance, can buy clock III Sn ~ o ,Si Iii
appearing among tho ribs 0i the animal . WHO'S IN
serves as the pendulum, while his red tongue SLIDE" III
and out at every uc-tac'
toucbing display of sentiment may be seen
anv day nj Philadelphia museum by whoever chooseso
ponse for moment before the cage in which female
orancoutang has prolonged melancholy existence since
the death Of her mate In the hope OF cOnsoins her
wdowhood the manager recently introduced to herA
small but aristOcratic dog which had long enjoyed tho
reputation of "masher" among the denizens OF tho
museum The dog made himself SO agreeable that in an
incredibly short time he had completely won the he' oh
the lonely outang, and they are now
The success OF this experiment induced the lalaod ~
place attractive and well hammered cat III uo hsnnv
young Master 0rang Outangi but this was nor p n
Inspiration, for tho ungrateiul aye seized hi'
ion and swung her around his donicic Win suen W
lence that Immediate rescue was necessary W s"'0S
from humiliation .
An ancient and curious ceremony, douOH
less a relic of feudal government, though It's origin - va
known, Is still observed annually on Maruhma' 10y
stretton- on Dunsmore near the English Rugby IL
field at the northern extremity OF the village snds
stone which belongs to Duke Of Beucouoh anu
is all that remains of the ancient Knghtlow cross
an hour before sunrise tho morning Oh Ms''''i"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-01
4 cROsS-CURREAT IN ENGLAND.

The Fair Trade Conference recently held at
bennington, England, was most remarkable
demonstration. Only one of the London jour
nails, The Morning Post, has the courage to
print an ineligible report Of the proceedings
and to emphasize the Importance of the gather
ing. 1t is apparent however from this single
report that the meeting was we'll attended, that
great interest was manifested in the speech de-
livcred by Mr. Robert p. Porter, and that large
number of representative Englishmen have
openly revolted against Mr.. CObden's system OF
economies. Among those who took part in the
conference Wero Lord Dunraven, Lord Var
mouth, Lord Ernest Seymour, Sir Charles Nor
daunt and three members of Parliament Mr..
MacIver, Mr. Hill and Sir John Eardley-Wil-
mot The speakers united in declaring that
system of one sided free trade was running Eng
land and that the British Colonies and the
United States were thriving under protection.
Mr.. Staveley Hill, who had recently returned
from prOtracted tour in Canada and the
United States, asserted most emphatically that
he had found no evidence of desire on the
part of those great commercial communities to
abandon protection. Resolutions were adopted
at the close of the proceedings deploring the
lack of employment in England and attlibuting
it in great degree to the enormous quantities
of manufactured goods imported duty-free
The Government was also requested to institute