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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-09
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER o, 1883

It ought not to be difficult matter for body
of competent experts to determine whether the
water supply In this dairy farm is or Is not
tainted. If the water be contaminated, the sick
ness in the farmers household and the infection
of the milk will be accounted for at once. In
England wooden pals are ordinarily used for
milking and storage, and these if washed with
unwholesome water and allowed to dry would
easily become infected with germs of disease
when filed with milk. In American dairy farms
the vessels used for holding milk are usually of
tin, and the effect of washing them in impure
water would not be equally dangerous. Dairy
men here are apt, however, to be less scrupulous
than they are in England, and the consumer too
often has reason to suspect that the milk which
is supplied to him has been watered. 1t is OBJ
viOus that milk adulterated with impure water
would be more dangerous to health than milk
stored or carried in pals, pans or cans which
had been washed with contaminated water.
The water supply in the present instance, how
ever, may prove to be absolutely pure and the
experts be forced to form some other hypothesis
to explain the infection. That milk absorbs
OdOrs and carnations from substances with
which 1t is brought in contact and also various
elements of the atmosphere, it is not difficult to
prove. 1t is not unreasonable to conclude that
it will directly absorb the germs of disease.
recent investigation in Dundee has conclu-
siyely shown that scarlet fever has been COM
municated from milkman's family to various
households by means of milk stored for a few
hours in the house where the sickness orig
mated. The st. Pancras and the Port Jervis
epidemics may have been caused in this way,
without reference to the water supply. A thor
ough investigation of such outbreaks, if con-
Quoted by experts of high reputation, will pro-
mote the ends of sanitary science.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-09
THE TRIBUNE FRESH AIR FUND.


THE TRIBUNE Fresh Air Fund makes ON
another page final report for the season
closing early in the autumn. The results
are highly satisfactory. The receipts from
OF contributors amounted to $16,745 81
a handsome sum that bears witness to the
generosity of THE TRIBUNE's circle of readers.
The expenditures have reached $14,9OS 81,
leaving large balance of 81 1877 Ii for the
F, operations of the ensuing season. The cool
weather prevailing during the greater part of
the summer kept us from making as frequent
calls upon the public for financial support as
were necessary during the previous season.
The receipts consequently fell little below the
level of the more incemrnt summer, but we
did not need all we got, the autumn being cx-
ccptiOnally cool and the whole season healthier
than usual. The large amount that was eX-
pended was put to a most excellent use. The
two weeks vacation was given to 4,2JO chill
dren, and, i'll addition, 800 children were
sent to Coney Island for the day--a new feature
of the work provided for by special cOntribu-
tions. The average cost of fortnight vacation
was 50 81 for a child. The rate has boon
chcapcned in spite of the fact that the children
were taken in many cases much longer dis
tances this year than they were last season, the
average journey from the city being 260 miles. =
One of the pleasantcst features of the seasons
work has been the hearty cooperation of the
friends of the enterprise in the country. The
operations of the Fund were opened in June
under disheartening circumstances. The Man
ager was slowly cOnvalescing from q prOtracted
illness, and the preliminary arrangements or
dinarily made early in the spring for the rccep-
IL. IN L.
A highly competent member of The TRIBUNE
staff Mr.. s. G. Caldwell, was temporarily put
in charge of the work, and an appeal was made
to clcrgymen and families in the country to in
tercst themselves in the enterprise and to find
homes for the children. So promptly was this
appeal answered that the lack of preliminary
organization was scarcely felt as the summer
went on, Arrangements were rapidly COM
pleted for the entertainment of the tenement
travellers, certain sections of New York and
New England evincing remarkable zeal in be-
frending them. This experience has given us
a lveler faith in the Open-handed hospitality
and generous impulses of American farmers.
The success of the Fund during the year un-
der adverse conditions has been unequiyOcal.
Next year we shall hope to make earlier ar
rangements, and if the season be at all Opprcs-
sive the public may confidently expect even
larger results and greater degree of success.
The TRIBUNE Fresh Air Fund is permanent
institution without endowment, advertising
agents or salary list 1t appeals to the sym
pathies of rich and poor, town and country, and
invariably receives generous support and
hearty aid. Acknowledged on every side to be
a beautiful and useful charity, it deserves sue
cess and always secures it,
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duties had gone into effect orders were given
which caused large imports In July and August.
But, the expected advantages for importers not
having been realized, the markets became
clogged-fairly overloaded with goods. Orders
then sharply diminished, and thus was pro-
duced the remarkable decrease In imports In
September. Within the last two weeks, how
ever, the arrivals of foreign goods have been
quite large again, and the markets have appar-
emily been much relieved.
1t is interesting to note how the increasing re-
lance upon telegraphic communication has
tended to equalize imports throughout the year.
Ten or twelve years ago, it was usual to see
wide range of variation in the amount of I'M
ports in different months of the same year; at
times, the maximum exceeded the minimum I'M
ports for month as much as $20,000,OOO in
year. Of late, the variations have been smaller,
and prior to September, the lowest month for
more than a year had been only about
100000 behind the highest month. Doubt
less an increasing proportion Of purchases is
made upon Geographic orders, sent when the
condition of the market clearly warrants them,
and the risks Of commerce are thus perceptibly
reduced. Thus the movement of goods to this
country keeps pace more evenly with the con-
sumption, which goes on with comparatively
little variation throughout the year.
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CH1NGES ~ COMNERCE.

The singular decline in imports in September,
which ut first attracted much attention as an in
dcaton of possibly lasting change i'll foreign
trade, can now be more reasonably interpreted.
In October, the value Of imports at New-GOrk
has been greater this year than it was in DC
tober, 1882, though the comparison for Septem-
Der showed e. loss of about SO, 600, 900 for New
York alone, and $40, 600, 600 for all ports. In
that month, the imports were smaller than in
any other month for over two years and half.
This phenomenal decline must be attributed to
the workings Of tho new tariff. In expectation
of the change of duties, large shipments were
made to this country. so that the imports in June
were larger than In any other month since Au-
gust, 1882. And, again, as soon as the new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-09
PRESIDENTTAL POINTS.

The bearing of the elections upon the Presi-
dental contest of next year is important, of
course. They not only foreshadow the general
drift of the canvass, but affect the personal
prospects of candidates in both parties.
One of the most striking results, the defeat Of
Malone, seems to indicate that the Presidcn tial
battle of next year will be fought as that of
1880 was-almOst entirely in the Northern
States with NewYOrk as the one most holly
disputed The Republicans must enter the
campaign prepared to cOncede the 153 cleo
toral votes of the Solid South, including Della
ware, to the Democrats. MahOne's defeat is so
disastrous as to make it improbable that he can
recover himself in a single year sufficiently to
carry the State against the Bourbon Democrats
next year. His power seems to be broken, and
he is likely to grow weaker rather than
stronger. His downfall will tend greatly to
discourage anti-Bourbon movements in other
Southern States, of which there was little sign
enough before Tuesdays vote. While the
better elements of the Republican party in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-09
Il SUGGESTIVE INCIDENT.

An incident in the career of the late Ex-Governor
Randolph illustrates the ease with which the worst
elements of the Democracy control the party, even
when its best men imagine they leading il.
Governor Randolph was one of the Democratic
statesmen who visited the doubtful Southern States
during the electoral count Of 1876 to see fair play
in behalf OF Mr. Tilden. lie was assigned to South
Carolina and there is no dOabt that he confined HIM
self there TO legitimate measures, such scrutnZ-
ing the returns and arguing an application for a
mandamus from Chief Justice Moses upon the Can
yassng Board. Ho had no suspicion that Mr.. Til
dcns agents had sent trO sets of representatives to
South Carolina and that, while he was appealing to
the law, a smarter operator, Mr.. Smith NJ Weed,
with the cooperation of Mr. Tildens nephew, was
negotiating to buy the Canyassing Board out and
out So innocent, indeed was Mr. Randolph that
in the height of the cipher correspondence between
Weed and Gramercy Park, he teegraphed a COM
plant to Colonel PeltOn that South Carolina was
overlooked" at which Colonel PeltOn, who had
Just agreed to buy it, must have smiled There is a
CHASTITY sort of humor also in the fact that while
Mr Randolph was arguing the application for
mandamus to prevent the Board from going behind
the returns, Mr. Weed, having discovered that the
returns "a they stood were hOpclesSly against Til
den, and that "Rothng but Copenhagen would
avail" was tclcgraph;ng to Pcton that if he sue
ceedcd in buying the Board it would be necessary
TO change front in court as to power of Can
wasting Board over electors and State Officers
otherwise the vena bargain could not be carried out
And this is just what was done. AS soon as
the purchase was arranged, Governor Randolph, to
the surprise of the uninitiated suddenly changed
front in court" and asked that the Board might be
compelled to exercise powers which only the day
before he had asked the court to deny them. How
Mr. Weed satisfied this excellent honest gentleman of
the propricty of change of front we do not know;
but quite certain that he did not tell what le
had been doing and that the Governor never knew
until the cipher dispatches came out that he had
been made an agent in n corrupt conspiracy. But
the case was not singular. Hundreds of gcnteel and
cOniding Democrats are made the tools of the rum
sellers and dancohOuso keepers of this city at every
election and they do not dream of it.
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CAV yOT FORGIVF HER,

al left home because they made me practise
four hours day. The speaker was young lady
of the Northwest She made the remark. q few
days SINCE response to question put to her con-
corning her mysterious disappearance from the
family circle. 1t goes without saying that she
ought not to have run away Her conduct
III doing so was to tho last degree repre-
hcnsible. The distress it caused her immediate
relatives and friends it wonld be difficult to over
estimate All right-mnded people who read of her
escapade are at one in pronouucng her Az extreme
ly naughtygir and in earnestly hoping that she
will never do 50 again.
Nevertheless. there il something 10 he said on this
matter from another point of view-thc girls point.
That this young person was compelled to
offer violence to an inoflensiye piano four
hours out of every twenty-fOur Is an extern
uating circumstance in the first degree.
We say offer violence, because the girls testimony
is that she was made to practise. Evidently she
had no ear for music, no instructive or acquired
liking for the instrument to which she was daily
summoned. She was pianist not by natural
selection but by parental cOnstraint The natural
consequence was that the many hours which she
was forced to spend in communion with her piano
grew to be so much torture time to her. Aud no
doubt if the piano could speak it would
state that it felt bad about the practising us the
girl herself did; that the aversion was mutual and
cordial on both sides AS to the anguish which the
soulless and perfnctory practising caused to house
holders living within hearing distance of the piano.
little need be sad since it all can better be mag
ined. Four hours day of Exercises" or even of
"The Maidens Prayer" tend to weary the
average tympanum, even when the performer
is a born musician in tho direct line from
Orpheus. Perhaps the girl ran away as
much for the pianos and the neighbors sake as for
her own. Indeed, remembering woman's sensitive
nature it is but fair to that VIII lie she might
have endured the consecutive four hours a day
practising without inching Il was the realization
Of the fact that she was cause of offence TO Others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-09
T1uU4NY IN 4 TEMPER.

1t is not surprising considering all things
that Tammany comes out of the contest bold
and saucy In the general wreck il has held IL
own pretty well it has shown itself stronger
than its rival factions it has taught the party
administration a lesson and it has the dear
privilege of saying b" | told you So" which is
the savc for many n wound So Mr. John
Kelly's paper uses some plain language Ia
Manning and the Albany regime 1t declares
that the management of the campaign has been
ridiculous; that last years advantages have
been wholly lost and the State left more than
doubtful; that if the Democratic party has
- no ideas, no principles, no policy nothing but
" the idiotic yell of The rascalS must co. the
sooner il disbands the better for the country =;
that the Democracy need not think of getting
the Presidency without New York, and need
not think of getting Ncw-York next year if
" the organized Democracy of the State is to
persist in ignoring imposing upon and insult
ing New-YOrk City"
The Tammany organ continues in this strain
at some length and with great vchcmcnce, in
sstng that Ncw-YOrk City is the pivot of the
Presidential election, that 1ammany is the
Democracy of New-York City and the only
force which can elect the State ticket, and that
Tammany will not be abused any longer with
impunity Union for next year is of absolute
necessity, and Tammany will assent TO no
union except upon the basis of the destruction
of the Albany clique, and the withdrawal of all
recognition and encouragement from factions
organized solely for mischief and kept alive for
mcrcenary ends" irhere is no misunderstood
ing this proclamation. Tammany means war TO
the knife, and the knife to the hilt and in it,
present temper ii is ready to blow up the ship
if it is not allowed to take the command
But while the election has shown the voting
strength of Tammany to be substantially UNI
affected by the long course of insult and i'm
position to which it has been exposed the fort.
unc of the ballot has left so much power TO the
other factions that they are certain not to retire
without hard fight. With Commissioner of
Public Works to be chosen, the aqucduct Job
looming huge i'll the near future and the votes
in the Board of Aldermen almost equally di-
vidcd, we may count upon Democratic faction
row of the most stirring kind. 1t is quite true,
as Mr.. Kelly's organ says, that the Democracy
need not hope for the Presidency unless they
can harmonic IN New York but in considering
the chances of harmony we must remember that
the Presidency is not their principal object.
The City Hall statesman does not care a fig who
is President so long as he can take care of the
municipal money.
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WHIT THE DOCTORS CALL Il TEMPORARY
CTTrI-


Mr. NordhofFs Herald is in its serious
departments an amusing paper. Some time
ago it printed some gratuitous and I'M
founded assertions about The TRIBUNE's
circulation. We had been making no boasts on
the subject, but, in answer to this I'M
called-fOr attack, we quietly suggested that,
while Mr.. Nordhof7s Herald was Dragging about its
triumph over the newsmen and its tremendous
boom, we would be glad to have an examination
made by an impartial committee. and thought it
would show that since the reduction in rates The
TRIBUNE had gained at least two copies for
every one Mr.. NordhofFs Herald had gained. I his
invitation was not accepted Mr.. Nordhoff7s Herald
waited, with whatever patience it could till
election day, when it and all the other cheap pa
pers expect to double their ordinary circulation
through the universal interest in election returns.
Then it comes out with aflidayits of its pressmen
claiming circulation for that day of 13S, 500 copies
This Is enough to bring a broad grin to the face
of every man in the business. Everybody knows
that all papers increase in circulation on the
ing after election and that the cheap papers Of the
class of Mr. Nordhoff's Herald are not more than
satisfied with double sale for that day. This
would make the regular circulation
of Mr.. NordhOff7s Herald 6025O, which
is little more than the experts have
been disposed TO award it, and is fully one-half the
circulation claimed by The Sun, the principal
2-cent paper of the city ordinary days 1t is a
very good showing for Mr. NOrdhOff's Herald, and
we are glad to congratulate it.
But we are forced to admit that the Choice of the
day after election for stating circulation is a
transparent attempt to deceive the public, and pro-
ceeds upon the assumption that the public is an
ass-which Mr.. Nordhof's Herald will find to be
mi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-09
Nesppprk daily Gribnne
FOUNDED By HORACE GREELEY.
NETWORK. FRIDAY, NOV. 8.
TIE NEVIS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The chief position of the insurgents in
Seryia has been captured by General Nicoc.
- The Liverpool Autumn Cup was won by
Boswell. - building in Russia was set on fire
by Nihiists in order to destroy reasonable docu-
ments. - The Schaefer-Vignaux match will
begin on November 26 in Paris. - A French
merchant was killed in duel at Chapultepec,
Hex.
DoMEsrIC.-Carr's plurality over Maynard is
nearly 1900. - 1t was reported yesterday that
eleven persons had died from the effects Of the
tornado near Springfield, No. - Butler Malone,
son of Senator Malone, was fined SIS
yesterday for displaying pistol in Petersburg,
Vs., on election day. - Further testimony was
taken at Trenton yesterday In the Dinsmore suit,
President Little, of the New-Jersey Central was
witness - The roof of the Capitol of Wis
consin at Madison fell yesterday, and four persons
were killed and twenty persons were injured. -
A threshing machine exploded at Canal Dover,
Ohio, and three persons were severely injured. ==
In the suit against ex-senator Sharon, of Nevada,
in San Francisco, Miss Hill produced an alleged
certificate of her marriage with Mr.. Sharon.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-There was a rather lively
discussion in the Board of Estimate yesterday over
unexpended balances. - Further testimony was
given in the Feuardent-Di Cesnola suit. - The
trunk line railway presidents held a meet
ing - The committee on Republican
reorganization adopted rules for the re-
enrolment of the party and its action
was approved by the Union League Chb.
- General Sherman made some remarks
on the Army. 80 The New-YOrk Jewellers
Association held its annual dinner. == The Rev.
George Alexander was called to the University
Place Presbyterian Church. -- The COroners
Jury returned verdict in the Keenan, inquest.
- Gold value of the legal tender silver dollar
t412l2 grains), S5.6S cents. -= Stocks dull but
strong, closing at moderate advance
THE Manufacturers local observations in
dIcate cloudy weather and probably light rain, fol-
lowed by warmer, fair clear weather. Temper
allure yesterday: Highest, $50 lowest $50; aver
age 4S12e.
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amusemsnts Co. Might.

scApEMY OF MUsro-9-"La Gazza Ladra-'
AMyRJCAN NsTITUTE-Exhbition.
BILLY BIRCH's OPERA H0U6E-6-MInstreB.
CIsIso-S-" The Beggar Student"
nIIY's THE ATKF-ef5-"D Dollars and Sense"
G1IsD OPERA HOUSES" The Silver King"
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-9:3O-"Th The Ratah'
EATIOSAL ACADEMY or DEsIGN-Art Exhibition.
NinIo's q ARDFN-S-" Excelsior
STIR TuFATRE-s-" Merchant Of Venice"
STaSnaRD TIIEATRE-8-" In the Ranks"
Tar aTRE CoMIoUE-2 and g." Cordela's Aspirations"
SIaIIIa THE ATRE-S-" Bettelstudent"
IJSIoN SQUARE THEATRE-8-"The Cricket on the
Hearth"
WAIIACK's THEATRE-s-"M Moths"
brH AVENUE THEATRES" The Dukes Motto
I4TH STREET THEATRES" Fedora"
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THREE CENTS F0R A GOLDEN.HAIRED BOY.

To the Editor or The Tribune.
SIR: Enclosed please find 3 cents TO start q
fund for that little Golden Haired orphau) Boy whose
Papa slain yesterday the plains Of Brooklyn in thu
first great battle of the Presidential campaign OF 1884,
one he has told us so much about lately.
Brooklyn, Nov. :, 1888. MERCY AND CHARITY.
The above contribution can be had by Mr.
Hendrix on calling at THE TRIBUNE office and be-
ing properly idcntifcd.-Edl
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MIX rs 4 DLSEASE-CIRRLER.

A remarkable outbreak of typhoid fever in
one of the most pOpulOus districts of London
was recently described in these columns. The
sanitary inspector who investigated the matter
succeeded in tracing the epidemic to a single
dairy farm, where the water with which the
cans and pals were washed had apparently
become contaminated by leakage from "a cess
pool. There bad also been several cases of the
same disease in the houses occupied by those
who were in charge of the farm and the
theory was not untenable that the milk had
been directly infected with typhoid germs An
analogous outbreak of the same epidemic is
now reported from Port Jervis, in this State,
and the rapid spread of the disease is attributed
in like manner to the milk supply. Fifty -six
out of seventy-fve persons who have been at
tackled have been supplied with milk from one
farm and there have been several cases of the
disease in the dairyman's family. The physI-
clans of the village are, therefore, justified In
assuming that the germs of the epidemic have
been conveyed by the milk. How the milk
became infected is a question which requires
the critical study of chemists and saIitarians.
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THE BAR1H0LDI STATUE LIrHoGRlpHs
OWNERSHIP OF THE COPYRIGHT.

OWNERSHIP OF the COPYRIGHT.
To the Editor OF TIE Tribune
SIR: Will you kindly permit us to supple
ment your valuable notice concerning tho official Bar
hod statue Autographs by adding caution to those whs
may be tempted TO issue similar platest
Tho first clause OF contract with the COMMITTEES
reads: the said committee is the exclusive owner at
oil rights titles and interest in the patent for tho Omitted
States Of design for bust No. 10s93 granted to August
Barhold the 9th OF November 1875 and Is also the
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SETH Low FOR GOVERNOR.

A CORRESPONDENTS SUGGESTS THE PLATFORM
To the EditOr OF The Tribune.
SIR: The Brooklyn experiment. is sue.
Seth Low must be nominated for Governor on tho
following platform:
nonpartisan home rule for every city In the State
q EQUALIZATION OF convict labor
3. Industrial compulsory education.
4. Protection to home industry,
5. The Republican platform
Brooklyn, Nov. z, 1888 RespectfulIy w.