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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19

utterances as gospel, but are in the habit OF
reading between the lines something he does
not say. that that statesman's refusal to be
"boomedn for 1884 is due not so much to bis
positive purpose to remain in private life as 10
his knowledge of the fact that the " Doom
lust now is "boomerang," and his unwilling
ness to get far enough in front to draw
the fire of personal rivals and poltlcai
opponents. Governor Cleveland is generally
believed to have the Presidential bee
in his bonnet but he Is wise enough
to avoid "boom" and to put himself
in good position by disclaiming any ambition
except to be good Governor, which disclaimer
was very carefully put into newspaper lmme-
diately. Another New-York candidate is MIR.
Roswell p Flower, and this statesman so well
understands the new relation of things that IL
the truth is told by an Albany correspondent
of The Boston Herald, he and his friends are
taking special pains to have the attention of the
nublic occupied with "booms" for other people
while he remains in the background distributing
his money whereit will do most good. This cor
respondent says 1t is intimated that The World
newspaper is Mr.. Flowers organ. and that the
effort of that journal to drag Governor Cleye-
land into n0t0rlety as u TresiuohOiil oahuiuaoo
with premature and spurious "boom" was
part of the Flower strategy. The same writer
attributes to The World and to the same mo-
tive the recent report that Mr.. Abram s.
Hewitt would be a prominent Presidential
candidate. These things are done, it is said,
simply to distract public attention from the
quiet canvass which Mr.. Flowers friends are
making to secure control Of the State Com
mittee and the delegation to the National
Convention.
No one can foretell the Democratic nominal
ton but one thing seems reasonably certain,
and that Is that it will not go to any candi-
date who has a boom started five or six months
before the Convention meets. All the candi-
dates appear to be aware of this, and all are
accordingly shy of being made conspicuous.
Mr.. Tiden's maidenly coyness furnishes an
example which they are all initiating. Even
MIR. Holman, whose boom" is just now being
fashioned into a boomerang" Is shrewd
enough to understand the situation and to pro-
test that he is not candidate. The principal
Democratic industry for the next six months
bids far to be the working up of booms" to
kill off candidates with And candidates who
are wise will dodge them. The still hunt is the
game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
POLITICAL NEWS.

| Thora have been some hints from Democra'iO
quarters that the coming session OF Congress "o"
short ono The statement was doubtless PUT
feeler the possibility OF It's coming true oee - aud
deed The Macon Telegraph pronounces aVs .. ,bs
saws that the session will doubtless run un' ,,a
summer The earliest possible time II nfes w
ment is the meeting OF the next Nat'onai das
Convention and expects TO see that Tor worry
later thnn usual SO there Is no occasion .o ho wose
The part OF the rural Democratic STATE d discovered
mn on Ihe morning after the last election anu ma WHO
No., ,v,se maj he was Congressman an s,rce
has been preparing speeches ana Nv and
TIo will have ample time TO exhibit MS e'os
his stupidity. .d in
The Ohio Democrats are busuy engas, ,hs
trying 10 mil the political wool over the an,
wool-growers In that State They arc ere"i"'' sbs
ments stating that the Republicans arc rr,nuur
for the reduction In the duty on Dol ANU a." .ov,ss
interviews with some OF the largo wool-gro" .roue
that they are all gong vote against forSSe, rriu
the latter David Harpster the largest "oo' denies
ths stair has been included. He emphaticas + know
the Statement however and says; 80 ia ool-erowefe
and know tho situation pretty We'll sit and 50 wDas
viii vote their respective tickets ana "at no fools
VIZ Congress taxes next winter. we're sho en-
We know how the reduction was nAae. sonsress wS
deavor to capital out OF the TACT ina votes be-
RenolIcan and keep hidden the prelinnSyc deceive peo
lore bill pnt on Its passage w1 sS don't any
pie. No. sir. false shoNings nha yePo'''
body nowadays People all read .h.
An attempt to get at tho sentmen. " n,her.
,.,nar,nce Republicans In Massachusetts, on 'ns ,,<,
material question has been made by me 0o'0" ,hen
The result shows "a surprising Willingness , bsa.
to set aside all minor questions this fall and un replies
iy In tho contest against Butler Some % 90. pierce
express preference for Talbot or Robinson at,ern
but there are no threats of boiling In case Wv 20 NJ
nominated The Traveller is known to DO rbe re-
Pierce's candidacy ard probably suppo'sN ,raiast him
Mic, TO ,ts circular would prove big csiu T1e
IF that was tho expectation 1t will be Ibe
following Is fair sample Of the repne sr 40 far ca
learn IA 10 beat Butler. Those VINO ht viii dera@
temperance lssue In Franklin County will get ELI
Sro,, tha aforementioned o. 4. b. f. ,sft out OK ~
The word and thought Temperance
political conversational
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
DIVORCES IN SRITZERLAN Nd.

The statistics of marriages, births and divorces In
Switzerland which have just been published bring
out soma interesting aud suggestive facts Com
p,red with other countries in Europe the proper
ton of marriages to the population is very low. The
average aye of marriage Is thirty years for mon
and twenty-soven years for women. In 1881 the
last year for which statistics are furnished the
number OF divorces greater than during any
wear on record. In some of the older cantons. no
divorces were asked for or granted This makes the
proportion for the remaining cantons much larger
In the Protestant clntons the number of divorces
granted was many times greater than in tho Roman
Catholic cantons Taking into consideration, there
fore only the Protestant cantons which divorces
we're asked for and granted, they present an omi-
nous picture of marital nfelcIty. In only city
in Europe namely Berlin. divorces relatively so
frequent.
It's also noticeable that few people in tho upper
ranks of life in Switzerland ara divorced In good
society divorces giving rise 10 scandal are, If posi-
BILE. avoided. But in the humber walks of life such
scruples iarei unknown. and it Is n common thing
for young people to got married With the distinct
understanding that they will separate If they grow
tired of each other The process Is delightfully."-
simple. IT, at the end of year.
they shall mutually declare before a
court that rhoy do not wish to remain married
any longer because of incomDatiblity OF tempera-
ment they get divorce.
1t is needless to point out tho danger that menaces
the State from such criminal laxity. Protestant
ism can Justly clam that it has done much 10 on
noble and emancipate the human race; but so long
as the liberty which 1t proclaims is so abused, 1t
mnst ackno Wedge that there is some grave defect
in its system Perhaps If its clergy preached more
on such homely themes as marriage ard less on
sucb themes "a how to know the unknowable, 1t
would DO better all around for the Church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRFIGN-O'Donnell the murderer OF Carey, was
arraigned yesterday and remandcd until Tuesday.
- James MeDermott was released from custody
- Mr. Gladstone entertained the Danish royal
family at lunch. - A boz OF dynamite has been
discovered near the Sultan's palace. - In bat
tie at Ashantee the Kings forces were defeated
with great slaughter. - John Payne Collier
died in London 80 Thirteen lives were lost by
the wreck of the Britannia on August D.
DoMEsTc.-Senator Lapham will be temporary
chairman of the New-York Republican Con-
yention. 60 Henry L. Pierce yesterday de-
rliped TO be a candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts,. - Judge Jonathan Dixon was
nominated for Governor by the New-Jersey Repub-
licans - 1t has been decided at Washs
ington not TO send relief expedition TO Smiths
Sound this year. - POstmaster-General
Gresham will visit New-York and Boston
TO inspect the post Offices. - propo-
siton to lease the Marine Central
Railroad to the Boston and Maine is under consld-
Grafton. - The Connecticut State Far opened
Mt Merden Yesterday - Rufus w. Peckham
was nominated by the Albany Democrats for Su-
preme Court Judge.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-'The Rev. James Kemio. OF
Newark cut his wife's throat in Brooklyn yesterday
and then cut his own; aftorward he dung himself
from fosrth-story window. - fire In Broad
Va
81 600. O00 a g. L. Waach, importers OF no.
tons and manufacturers ofleather goods failed with
liabilities of 1925, 900. - Princess, Breeze. Ref
cree, Aela, Edwin A. and Abraham won the Sleeps
head Bay races. 60 The Corean Ambassadors
were presented to the President. - Mr. Conk-
ling continued his argument IN the Missouri PSciho
suit. - The Rev. R. Heber Newton was before the
Blair committee. - forsaken wife complained
to the police that her husband was about TO marry
in Boston. - A Brooklyn man shot himself
through the heart for dread of consumption -
The Inquest on the victims OF the hunters font
collision was continued. 60 Gold value Of the
legal tender silver dollar l412l2 grainsl, 1928
cents. - Stocks were dull and Irregular but
generally closed steady with some advances
The WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate cooler and clear OF fair weather. Tempera-
ture yesterday Highest, 10; lowest, So; av-
erage, 63lso
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
PERSONAL.

Mr.. W. IT. Hurlbert lato Editor of The Uorld
newspaper of this city, is passing MS time pleas
antly III Scotland.
Since Minister Sargent has learned to speak
German 6uently, he is said to DO more contented
with his position.
Mrs. Roxana Strong the widow of the late Judge
Strong. and the mother of Mrs. Roswell p. Flower.
who has inst died at Waterfowl n j.. at the ago Of
eighty-six years. was noted for her great and gen.
erous charities.
Mr. Samuel ID. Stafford. of Maryland. kinsnan
of Paul Jones has placed on exhibition at the New
England Fair In Boston the flag carried and the
cutlass worn by that famous captain in his many
voyages and battles on the Bon Homme Richard.
At Conway, in Wales. there is a monument
erected In the church 10 the memory of a dead
worthy, Alderman Hopes. His epitaph consists
of tho following sentence: "He was the father of
twenty seven children, and was the fortyiirst child
OF his father"
The death has been announced of DIR. Hermann
Muller OF Lippstadt, at Prad, in the TyroI lie was
probably the foremost authority in the world on the
subject of the relation of insects to the fertilization
of flowers lie had also devoted much time 10 the
study of the genesis OF the coors OF flowers a
translati of his Die Befruchtung der Blumen mas
Just been published by Macmillan " Co.
The late Cromwell Fleetwood Variey was lineai
descendant of Oliver Cromwell. through the mar
rage of the Protectors daughter to General fleet-
wood He devised the first successful Atlantic Gable
and foreod that 1t could be used at the rate of ff-
teen words a minuta as the result of experiments
ma Q by him with an ingeniously constructed arti-
fetal line whereby he could obtain resistances ana
induction equal to those on long cables. by means
of vo Kitchen su,lcepans and little carrier he
ceeed IN raising tho feeble charge OF electricity pro-
duced by rubbing bit Oh sealing wax 70 ono tns'
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spept IN such O way. The United States Gov
eminent, however, which Is probably the great
est builder-in the amount of money it expends
in the world, has continued until now system
of directing such works which must foster
fayoritism and extravaganza even II 1t
does not tend to absolute corruption.
The Supervising Architect has almost
complete power over tho expenditures
upon public building-fxes the details OF
proposals, makes the plans and specifications,
chooses the materials, decides upon rates OF
wages, and has absolute control as to repairs,
even to designating the person who shall make
them. As the committee say, he can change
plan after contract has been made so as
virtually to abolish competition; and he alone
decides allowances outside Of contract. The
system grew to its present proportions under
Mulett, who probably expended more money
upon buildings than any other architect IN the
world In the same number OF years. MIR. Hill
himself has disbursed. since he became Super
vising Architect over $23,0OO,OOO, and has
now under his care 1852 public buildings. lie
supervises everything; but nobody supervlses
him. That such an officer should be really
irresponsible shows how much we have yet to
learn in the business Of administration.
The committee propose that Board of Pub
lie Buildings shall be created like the Light
House Board, Of which the Secretary OF the
Treasury shall be the head and the Supervising
Architect the secretary. The Board Is to
award contracts and exercise general admins
trative power in all important matters. ms
would undoubtedly be help by increasing the
publicity Of all such transactions, and 10y bring
Ing several minds to bear upon them. But II
the supervision is to be exercised by officials,
like the Secretary of tho Treasury, who are
already staggering under load of multiiarious
duties, there will be danger that the control OF
the Supervising Architect may become almost
as complete as DOW.
One Of the most important recommendations
of the committee is that architects outside OF
the Government service shall be allowed to
compete in the preparation of plans for public
buildings. Under the present system, they are
shut out from competition, and tho plans are
prepared In the Supervising Architects Office
The result has been a succession OF machine
made buildings, usually without any pretension
TO beauty, and often unsuited to the uses for
which they we're intended, and satisfactory to
no one but Mullett and his misguided imitators.
The Government pays price for Its buildings
which certainly entities it to handsome returns,
and il ought to have the benefit of the best skill
and intelligence of the architects of the coun-
try. The erection OF appropriate and beautiful
buildings would crafty both local and patriotic
pride, and would cause the taxpayer to feel
that there was at least one rrdeemins feature in
the extravaganza policy of building stone pal
ace in every town that has an energetic Con-
gresham.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
CRFvATTOV AND DISEASE.

The suggestion of tho Grand Jury Of New
Orleans the other day, that on sanitary grounds
n crematory should be established for burning
the bodies of those who die of contagious dis
eases, will serve to bring the subject of crema-
ton before the public in n practical form.
Hitherto too much prominence has been given
to the religious and sentimental aspects of the
question. These should have weight, indeed,
but after all the really important question
about cremation il, Are there in some cases
weghty sanitary reasons in its fayJrf III 1t
can be proved that there are, then, In those
cases, IL should DO adopted. And 1t VIII be
found that after time both religion and sem
timent will invest the new method with az
sociations not unlike those that cluster around
the old.
An article in tho current number Of The
Princeton Reriep by the Rev. John d. Bcug-
less certainly presents in forcibe way facts
which if Trustworthy go far to prove crema-
ton to he In some cases necessary lie lays
il down as scientific fact that the soil
can become saturated not only with the emana-
tions of tho decomposing dead, but with the
microbian organisms of disease. DR.. Domingo
Freire of Rio de Janeiro, recently, in investl-
eating the causes of yellow fever, found that
the soil of the GENE tcries in which number of
victims Of yellow fever were buried was posi-
lively alive with the minute parasites by which
the yellow fever is supposed to be propagated.
These foul carnations and seeds OF disease
remain in tho earth many years; and Mr..
Beugless gives il as his opinion that in great
number of cases people carry from cemeteries
death germs which soon result fatally.
Now these statements ought to be submitted
if possible to some decisive test. If all ceme-
terios are moro or less dangerous to the living,
If cemeteries in which the victims Of contagious
diseases are buried are swarming with death
germs, the public ought to know 1t. The
New-York Cremation Society could not do
better work than to give the hard, cold, scen-
tifc facts bearing on this matter. And If it be
once proved that the cremation of tho dead is,
in some cases, necessary to the health of the
living, objections to the new process will
gradually disappear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
SUPERVISION thai NEEDS SUPERVISING.

SUPERVISION thai NEEDS SUPERVISING.
The plan for supervising the construction of
public buildings proposed by the committee
who have been investigating Mr. Hills Office
would certainly he somewhat of an improve
ment upon the present system, if tnat can be
called one which CONSISTS chiefly of the lack of
system. The present one man method would
probably not be tolerated under any govern
ment but ours, where the work of making esti-
mates and appropriations has been carried on
with extraordinary loOseness, and is now only
beginning to approach the careful exactness of
governments where administration has been re-
duced to II science. Ii need not be said that no
private employer would allow his money to be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19
"BoOuSD AND "B0OMERANGSn

The impression generally prevails that who
ever carries off the Democratic nomination for
President next year will get it through still
HINT and by grand strategy. Blooms" have
gone out of fashion, except as they are used
as "boomerangs" They are only used now
as weapops to kill off candidates. There is
probably no surer way to destroy the chances
of a candidate for the nomination than to
give him "boom " any time before say next
March or April. This appears to be well UNI
dersood by all the prominent candidates and
their friends, and we have accordingly the re-
markable spectacle of race in which the
chief anxiety OF the contestants is to remain
ipcopspicuous in the background while the
strength of their opponents is being exhausted
in useless blooms" There are "booms" now
in progress of course, and some OF them are
being worked up with great diligeace and
persistency, but it is more than suspected that
they bodc harm rather than good TO the can
didatei in whose apparent interest they are.
The "boom" is not by any means
genuine expression of friendly enthusiasm,
but rat o. the shrewd device of cunning
opponents. Nothing is more evident than that
in field where there are SO many contestants
with equal chances. nothing is To be gained by
pushing a candidate in the earlier stages of
the contest. 1t is on the contrary the greatest
possible mistake. For if success attend the
effort in any degree, the only effect will be to
combine the field against the leading candi-
date. and that cannot fail to prove fatal.
1t has been surmsed by that large class of
political sceptics who do not accept Mr. Tildcn's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-19

Mr. James McDermott has made great
mistake He ought to have got himself SEN
fenced to a years penal servitude at least.
As il is we fear it will prove in vain that he
has languished some weary weeks in British
dungeon, only to be discharged at length on
the ground that the English Government
have failed to find sufficient evidence TO con-
yict him of plot to destroy hated OppressOrs
of Ireland by dynamite His enemies in this
country will undoubtedly say that his release,
like his arrest, is only part of cunning
plan TO convince the foes of England that he
Is one of them. When, they will ask bitterly.
when did England ever set man free whom
she wished to convict, merely because SUI
fcient evidence to make clear case against
him was not forthcoming9 Mr.. McDermott
cannot set himself up as an Irish martyr yet.
Happily, tragedies so shocking as that which
occurred yesterday in Brooklyn, which COM
hined the crimes of wife murder and suicide,
nre rare. But it would hardly bc matter OF
much wonder if they were comparatively ire
ouent. The conditions which leal to en- exist
only too commonly all through the country.
Plenty of people can be found IN all grades OF
society who have become slightly unbalanced
through illness which their friends hope is
only temporary. The hesitation to put them
under restraint, either at home or in an
asylum, is natural enough, and possibly proper
enough; but there is less excuse for not
having such patients under cautious and careful
watch. 1t is absolutely impossible to tell what
fearful freak may suddenly seize the sufferers.
A man in the condition of the Rev. MIR.
Kemlo should hardly be left in the charge OF
q delicate woman.
The great fire of last evening at Nos. 537,
$50 and Sal Broadway is not without its
reassurng features. 1t was in that part of
the city known as the dry-goods district,
concerning which much fear has been ex-
pressed lately that the water supply would
prove utterly insufficient to stay conflagra-
ton if it obtained any Roadway. The flames
last night certainly had great Roadway at one
time, but finally the brave and intelligent
6remen brought them within control. IL the
supply of water had been at all insufficient,
however. the probability is that the losses
would have reached many millions = But the
precise point Is that the water supply did not
prove to be insufficient. 1t Is true that the
buildings burned were not in the heart of the
dry-goods district, and it is also true that the
water supply throughout the entire city ought
y b 70 ample that tn .aost timid lire in
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considerably overrated.
The Convention at Trenton yesterday pre-.
sented such striking contrast to the one heiu
in that city week ago that the delegates
seemed to belong to different order OF CIVIL
ization. AS spectacle Of rough-and-tumoie
craftsmanship the Republican gathering was
not so entertaining as its predecessor. Inc
proceedings were not enlivened by single
clinch, nor did they break up in chaste ana
elegant general riot. But the business WHO"
the Republicans met to transact was trans
acted in a business-like way, and they holni-
mated a candidate for Governor VINO con-
mands the respect of every Respectable hiah
In the State The contrast between the OPP
posing candidates is as striking as that De-
tween the conventions The people of New
Jersey will not do themselves credit II they
fail to elect Judge Dixon by majority 30
large that be cannot be counted out, as Mr.
Potts was, even by the accomplished pailot
box suffers who are managing MIR. AooetVs
canvass.
THE TRIBUNE will hereafter be sold at three
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entitled to share In such good fortune as the
reduced price of paper.
If we were striving to stimulate failing cir
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startling reduction. AS 1t is, our general pros
perity counsels us to maintain the policy, SO
long approved, of expending literally upon our
columns Ito keep them worthy of the largest
circulation among the best peopie,) ana Oh
charging price sure to be consistent with such
an expenditure.
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The Democratic party, according TO The Atodny
Argus "has long been distinguished for the eK-
emplary character of its nominations for great
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surance company could feel tolerably COM
Portable Yet after all, this last great Broad
way fire proves that the danger in the Dry
goods district from lack OF water mas oeeh
considerably overrated.