New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-16

| of the home, filling their columns full OF of1en-
sive personalities, ETC., and Some OF them are not
without sin in the matter. But do the PUBLIC
ever think OF the striving and labor on the part
| of large class in the community to get them
selves into the newspapers-yes, and even
their home affairsf This hunger for nOtoriety
is seen in all classes-rich and poor, learned
and ignorant, business men, professional men,
writers, soldiers, and poets. This tendency,
too. has to he held in check. IL the growth OF
the newspaper has developed the vice OF pub
licity. it has itself been developed and impelled
| by kindred vice-the love OF publicity
Now Judge Hoady denies Woodlands $4,000
| abatement or socks to convey the impression that
he denies it, The Judge Is truly an eccentric per-
| son. Ii is more than two weeks since Governor
| Foster in response to Judge Hoadly's demands
produced Woodland {" Jayhawker y as his authority
for the statement that Hoadly himself had adj
| mitted that his nomination had cost $685. 900. AT
! Woodlands appearance Judge Hoadly firmly closed
| his No. 20 mouth" simply saying that ne had
| nothing to add" and that his o0Iect mad Deeh
| accomplished by the disclosure of tho name OF ooV-
| ernor Fosters informant. Now after silence OF
| more than fortnight he says that mot one worn
| was said by him" to Woodland or in his hearing
| ." or any other SUM-" This raises issue OF We
| racity between the Judge and the correspondent,
| which those " no know the two men VIII be most
| competent to decide But it would be interesting
TO know why the Judge did not say this when he
was approached before.
After all the professed jackals and anonymous
iackasses have finished dspu ting as to GarfelPs
character and purposes is not unlikely that decent
people will conclude that it is only another version
| of the dead lion and his assailants.
Now it is the Chadwicks who have come to the
front with claim to enormous estate in Eng
| land No American who owns an estate OF fortune
in the mother country is satisfied with less than
million or two pounds The New-Jersey Chadwicks
have formed an association 1925 per share to push
| their claim through Chancbry. They claim To DO
heirs of Sir John Chadwick, who died in 1851. SIX
attempts have been made by different heirs to GUST
the present defendant out of his title estate and IN
come but to no effect. Now it Is supposed BY our
Jersey friends (well known 10 all NewYork sports
men as the Shattucks of Barnegat) that by long
pull and a strong pull and pull all together they
can place themselves among English peers and
millionnarcs The old salts Will find crabs ana
plaiee -urer prey than coats OF arms and titles. The
agent" for American claimants, who pockets the
s25 per share aud leaves the plaintiffs to pay tho
a. any banco-steerer.
nh, usmphis Aralanchs takes an altogether new
view of il when il suggests that If 1t can only be
demonstrated that Tilden did help defeat Hancock,
| II will furnish to good many Democrats very
strong argument for his renomlnation 1t IL an III
timation that the old man knows blessing even
| when disguised.
Welearn from Mondays issue of The World news
paper that ex-senator Dorsey Isa J" frank, fearless
pluoky man." aud that his recent efforts are an ex-
| posure of treachery, falsehood. can't hypocrisy
and inQratituden We try hard to keep track of the
| Democratic view of Dorsey but 1t undergoes such
| sudden and unsupported changes that we must con-
fess II fsiry battles comprehension. We under
| sood n few months ago from the Democratic press
| that Dorsey was Star Route robber, conspratoI,
swndler and thief. and that the chief reason why
L" the Republican party must 90" was because 1t
did not punish his rascalities but defended and up
held MIN. But we cannot quite make out why
| Dorsey should expose all this treachery, false
hood. cant, hypocrisy and ingratitude" on the part
Of the party that defends and upholds him. And If he
| ia such bad and dishonest man that " the Rrpub-
lican party must 20" because Of HIM. We don't un-
| derstand how he at the same time be frank,
fearless. plucky man." whose charges of dishonesty
against reputable men should DO believed without
| ,nestion. What do these people really think of
| Dorsey anyway
| Tho most recent interesting discoveries reported
ara those of Noal's Ark on Mount Ararat, the orIg
| nal hthographlc stone containing the Ten Com
| mandments tho man who derded and sold out
| General Hancock, and the individual who bought
| the Republican victory of 1890 We need not now
despair OF the success Of the French Able Moignot.
who 10 about to explore the Red Sea in search of
| Pharaoh's lost army.
| The American Library Association at its annual
meeting in Buffalo is discussing the two main func-
| tions of the librarians classification aud cata-
| loguing Great advances have been made during
| the last twenty years in the management or pubhc
libraries and there Is not librarian possessing any
ambition or standing who has not made special
( ,ndv NJ the art of classification. In cataOguing
tbore has been marked Improvement, bat only the
| ,no.t enerQetic and progressive librarians are
| willing to undertake tho immense labor which a
| thorough and comprehensive system OF indexlng
involves In Boston. Brooklyn and Baltimore the
art of catalOgung has been carried to the highest
stage Of development. but in Ncw-York and many
other cities the old.fashoned system of arranging
tb. authors names aud the titles of books In alpha
| betica order is followed. The value Of public
| library depends largely upon the facility with
which the books on its shelves are made available
| for the workaday world. TheHDrarlans are dong
excellent service for the public In meeting once a
year and finding out whether or not they are behind
the times in their catalogues systems of cIassiica-
| ton, and general methods
There is one trade that is favored with immediate
returns from the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge
| This Is the shoe trade. Pedestrians crossing the
Bridge, being unaccustomed to the ascending grade
uuconsciously shuttle along with q dragging step IN
stead of lifting their feet from the floor The wood
snIntsrs mn the s ehtos and let there be