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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
RLSKS ON THE Jersey COAST

The accident at Long Branch Sunday shows
how shamefully inadequate the protection for bath
ers Is at that place. Three men were struggling
for their lives the surf for nearly twenty minutes
within sight of hundreds If spectators near enough
To the shore to be easily reached by a strong SWIM
mcr with lifeline or By boat if any boat had
been at band. Although they went into the water
at the regular hour and from the public bathing
grouad, neither life-boat nor line to be found.
The only means of rescue appears to have been
plank. pushed out by man. who waded out up to
his armpiis. There is every excuse to be made for
inaction at such time. on tho part of spectators
who are paralvzed with fright, but there Is none
for the lack OF the APP iances and men for saving
life a beach which is one of the most frcquentcd
on the coast. Along the whole Jersey shore there
is disgraceful carslessness IN this matter on the
part of hotel-kecpcrs and municipal authorities.
The statistics of accidents from drowning each
son from Sandy Hook to Cape May CHASTITY
reading.
Another instance neglect OF the safety of the pub
hc, to which The TRIBUNE called attention last
mer, Is the want # sufficient gatemen on the rail-
ways running along tho coast. The track of these
roads lies close along the beach, and from forty TO
sixty trains pass daily. As rule, all coaches and
wagons which convey the inhabitants of the summer
cities to the beach have to cross these tracks at
their own imminent risk-a risk which resulted In
several fatal accidents last summer Considering
the golden harvest which these roads reap from the
summer resorts, they should afford as a mere mat
ter of policy putting the question of human life
aside the ordinary means OF prccaution which in
n city they are forced to give What with railway
aud drowning accidents the Ncw-Yorker or Phil
adelphian who goes TO the Jersey coast to recruit
his health docs it at some risk of life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
PERSONAL.

Mr. George Simonds Of Lon don. is at work a
| marble bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Grace Greenwood" is IN London, writing
biography OF Queen Victoria for young readers.
Senator Edmunds will stay at his Vermont homo
until bis pubic duties recall him TO Washington.
Miss Margaret Thomas will make a number of re-
duced copies of her bust OF Fielding which Mr. Low
eli is TO unveil At Taunton England.
There has just been brought out in Paris a
Commonplace Book kept by Yoltaire. which on his
death passed INTO the hands of the Empress
Catherine III.
Mile Alphonsinc, the once famous opera bouffe
singer of Paris, is dead. She weighed more than
$50 poun S, yet was esteemed the lghtest-footed
and most graceful woman on the stage.
DR.. McCosh President of Princeton College, is
the social lion of Mt. Desert where he is spending
the summer. He Is devoted worshipper of nature
and often arrives at the hotel late for his meals but
with his hands full of wild flowers which he has
gathered.
Mr. Hubert Herkomer is busy completing arrange
mens for his art school. which Is to be opened
at Bushey in October The institution will be
opened to both sexes. Hard work is expected of
them all but ample time will be allowed for recre
atioa and exercise. Mr.. Herkomer is an enthusi-
astIc believer Ia gymnastics and viii encourage his
pupils III sucn exercises
"Mr Serrell. of York." says The Philadelphia
Press "has Just received the gold medal of the
Lyons Academy for his invention for the automatic
reeling of silk by electricity. Mr.. Serrell went to
Lyons some years ago and won the confidence of
the great capitalists there getting them to accept
his labor-saying machinery, which will work much
the same revolution that was accomplished by the
cotton-gin The fortunate inventor is still young
man. and his friends believe that he has
traordInary career before him. The Keeling of silk
from cocoOns WILL by means of this new machine
now become possible IN the United slater where
hitherto the Costumes of labor was an insuperable
barrier"
QUEBEC, Aug. Leicester A. Arthur jr., arrived
here to-day from Metapedia.
MADRID, Aug. king Alfonso and Queen
Christina arrived at tho Royal Palace OF San
udefonso La Grania, at GAO p. m. yesterday. The
King went to tue frontier To meet his royal spouse
HALIFAX N s.. Aug. Her Majesty's war-shp
Canada, with Prince George of Wales on board, has
arrived In this harbor. prince George Frederick
Ernest Albert is the second of the Prince of
Wales and Is nineteen years old.
KINGSTON n. Y. Aug. 1.-General Grant arrived
here from Long Branch this afternoon his way to
the Catskills He came by the West Shore road.
The General stood in the waiting room shaking
hands with those in the crowd for about thirty
mi nutes and then he took the train for the Hotel
Kaaterskll in company with General Sharpe and
his wife and daughter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02

INTO single jail capable OF accsuisoosrrng only ono
fourth Of the number The result was frightful
outbreak of disease great mortality and ndescribabs
suffering. The only compensation for all thisis fond
in tho fact that new weekly Journal called The Oriental
Revie,o which for some reason has strong moral sup
port from the Russian Government, although not an
official organ permitted TO make faithul exposure
OF all the dreadful details Several high funct0naresv
rad already owed tx cir dismissai 70 the acv-
ity and rankness of this Siberian Journal hope
full sign that the Government willing to nave the truth
appear, II through only q single medium.
The American Bible Society has received
from It's agent in Japan interesting account Of the
conversion to Christianity of Corean noblemsn named
Rjutei During the rebellion In Corea year ago he
saved the Queens life and the King offered to reward
him with any rank or honor which he might aspire to.
His reply was. 81 only ask to be permitted to to
Japan in order that may and study the civilization
of other lands" While IN Japan he called upon .
Christian Japanese, to whom former Corean smbassa
dor had recommended him. for the purpose Of acquant
ing himself with the claims and objects of Christianity
He was deeply impressed his interest rpened into con-
yicon and before long he baptized into the Chris.
tan faith Rutes great desire s now to give the Bible
to his people, and he has zeaously begun the work Of
preparing Chino Corean version Having been urged
to return home he replied have "a very importane
WORK nerei have found something that Is better
for people than railroads. or teegraphs, or
steamboats,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
New'Uork Daily Gribm,1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE CIR EEL Ely
NEW YORK, THURSDAY. AUGUST 2.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIG N.-There were 665 deaths from cholera
in Egypt on Tuesday. exclusive of those in Cairo
twelve British soldiers also died. - There
vas q slight earthquake In the island
of Ischia few days before the
one of Saturday. - Three fremen were killed
mt fire in Berlin yesterday. 80 Senior Juan
Valera is talked of as the successor of Senior
Barca as Spanish Minister at Washington. -
Irish landlords complain of the effects of the Land
act 80 Sweetbread and Wild Thyme races
Mt GoOdwood yesterday.
DoMEsTIC.-The Democratic State Convention as
sembled at Harrisburg, Penn. Yesterday and nomi-
nations were made. 60 President Arthur opened
the Louisville Exposition. - A collision
occurred between two freight trains the
Troy and Boston road some ofthe cars took fire and
six men were killed - ImOgene, Capias, Ella
Warfeld and Disturbance were the winners
ut Saratoga. - Charles H. Ward 81 Co.,
Of Boston, made assignment == The
Secretary of tho Treasury has cHnditOnally
suspended the law preventing the importation Of
neat cattle. - George William Curtis delivered
an address before the National Civil Service Reform
League at Newport. - Assistant Army Surgeon
Sernig was found dead in bed in San Francisco.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-There was no change yes
terday in the position of the telegraph companies
ana the striking operators. 80 meeting of
sailors denounced the blood-money system. -
Two men were sufocated by foul gases in a cess
pool at Passaic. - Inspector Byrnes's detectives
made descent upon anumber of policy shops
Justice Cullen rendered decision in regard to claims
on the Police Pension Fund 60 Samuel Parsons,
jr, sent a letter to the Park Commissioners IN
regard to the cutting of trees in Central Park 80
Forty-ive children sent into the country under
The auspices of THE TRIBUNE Fresh-AirF Fund. -
The Metropolitan baseball nine won another victory
over the Baltimore nine. 60 Gold value of the
legaltender silver dollar 4122 grains, 500 cents
- Stocks generally were dull at lower figures
and closed unsettled 1T partial recoveries.
THE WEATHER.-IRIBUNE local observations in
dictate fair and partly cloudy weather, with slight
changes in temperature, and chances of occasional
showers Temperature yesterday: Highest, 900;
lowest. 66o; average. 1852.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
avail themselves of the services of the society's

avail themselves or the services Oh INC sociely
agents. Unhsppily there Is an intermediate
stage between detection and prevention In
which the evil effects of foul drains are often
aggravated. Private vigilance OF official In
spection may lyv bare glazing defects In the
system of house drainage, hut the plumbers IN
making the repairs may largely increase the
danger. The sanitary engineer proposes, but
the jack plumber disposes; and the last state OF
the prudent householder, after paying the fees
of the one and the bills of the other, is worse
than the first. foul odor in basement, which
for months has baf1ed the distended nostril
of the official inspector and the peppermint
douches of investigating plumbers, is finally
traced to long rent in kitchen drain pipe.
The spongy section of lead pipe is removed
and an iron pipe is ordered in its place. The
householder is assured that the source of
active trouble has been discovered and that
his premises will be free from tainted air and
danger of disease. A few months elapse, and
the foul Odor, which has never ceased, has be-
come an intolerable stencil. The floor comes
up again, and what is revealed to the startled
householder's eyes There is great assure in
the earthen drain pipe where the connection Is
made with the iron pipe recently introduced as
a substitute for the section of WORKOUT lead
pipe. The plumber in making the repairs has
found the iron pipe unmanageabe and has
broken Of fragment of the earthen neck To
mend the break would have been an awkward
job, so he has set the iron pipe in the broken
mouth and given the drainage system Of the
house ample vent directly under the kitchen
floor. This is not an incident described for
the benefit of the London society at it's recent
meeting. Nor is it an ideal case. 1t occurred
in Brooklyn a few weeks ago, and In cited
here as an illustration of the facility with which
preventive measures and sanitary precautions
can be brought to nanght.
The sanitary engineer may indicate the pres
ence of this deadly foe of the household and
devise scientific methods for providing against
its entrance, but the plumbers who carry out
the practical details are largely responsible for
the security of the inmates. The sanitary au
tborites have decided that iron drain pipes
must be used in place of earthen ones in
new buildings. That is wise precaution,
but if the plumbers are careless or in haste
they will leave the joints in n leaking condi-
ton, mperfectly fitting the vertical TO the
horizontal pipe, or caulking with oaknm and
lead in so bungling a way that distractions
are created within and stenches let out a
great deal of the worst plumbing that has ever
been done in cur great cities accompanies the
use of the best materials and the application of
the scientific methods recommended by SAM.
tary engineers and enforced by health authori-
ties. The best work must 60 with the best
materials and the best system, or the foe of the
household will be left master Of the stu alton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
THE T4RIFF IN THE NEXT HOUSE.

| THE TARIFF IN THE NEXT HOUSE.
| Mr. Townshend, one of nlinois's Democratic
Congressman, Is reported as expressing the
opinion that q the Democrats propose to begin
"a campaign against the tariff early In the next
Congress and keep II up late" The World, on
the contrary, asserts that there is no possible
achance of any action on the tariff by the next
House of Representatives" Evidently there
is mistake somewhere Who has made 1.-THE
Democratic Congressman or the Democratic
newspaper
If Democracy possessed the courage OF It's
con sictions then the Congressman should be
correct. Ostensibly it is nothing If not free
trade party If "a tariff for revenue only" is
not declaration in favor of free trade, 1t is
delusiOn aud snare. Nevertheless. the fact
remains that current Democracy, taking good
heed of Hancock's defeat in 1880, Is making
desperate effort to convince the country that
instead of being a free-trade party it Occupies
goden-or ut least oroids- plated-mean be-
tween free trade and protection. Hence the
edfying spectacle is presented of professional
Democratic hair-splitters arguing that there is
a distinction with di ference between tweedle-
dee free trade and tweedle- dun tariff for rev.
enue only hence the Democratic platforms of
the year contain tariff planks that mean moth
ing in particular; hence the swelling volume of
Democratic talk about " incidental protection.
Taking the Democratic party at its VOID, as its
word appeurs in its record it Is free-trade
party and so is logically committed to doing
what the Congressman says it Is going to do in
the next Congress. 1t is committed to agita-
ton for free trade But taking the party at its
word, as it's word appears in current discussion,
it is a tariff -dodger, and 80 is logically COM
mittcd to doing what The World says it is going
to do in the next Congress. 1t is committed to
mastery inactivity for free trace. To be
sure, for the next Congress to decline to take
any interest in the tariff question will be prac-
tically to confess that Democracy has changed
front on that issue. But the fact of the
change has already been generally recognized.
And really there is no reason why tie Dem
ocratic party should he ashamed to make this
change Of front and move toward the Repub-
lican ground. 1t has done the same thing in
regard TO slavery, emancipation, the greenback,
and the other great issues of the last quarter of
a century.
Why. then, should it he bashful about letting
free trade slIdeP or course there is such
thing AS standing by fixed principles. But
then it must be remembered the Democratic
party has gone far TO convince the American
people that II regards fixed principles as so
many possible embarrassments, which sensible
political organization will not tolerate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
COUNTRY AIR FOR CHILDREN.
A PARTY OFF FOR VERMONT.

FORTY-FIYE CHILDREN SAIL ON THE CITY OF BOB
TON FOR NEw-LoNDON.
party of forty-ive benefciarles of The TRIBUNE
Fresh-Ar Fund left the city last night shortly after
o'clock on the steamer City of Boston. of the Nor
wich Line. They went to the boat In small
SQUADS Of from two TO ten children 10
charge of parents, missionaries or nurses,
and they came from unwholesome tenement-houses
in different parts of New-York and Brooklyn. The
party will reach New-LondOn about daybreak THIS
morning aud will be given good breakfast there
by the Rev. Edward Bacon, of the First Congrega-
tional Church. Then the youthful travellers will
push on toward the cool north, over the
Central Vermont Railroad up the Connecti-
cut River Valley through Bratteboro, to White
River Junction, and on to Danville, VT.
There they will be welcomed on the arrival of their
train at p. m. by number of kind-hearted
country people, VINO will entertain them for two
weeks among the picturesque foothills of the
Green Mountains. The hosts of the children at
Danville are the Rev. T.W. Darling, James Stevens,
j. +. Shipmau. F. A. Morse L. A. Dole, w. NJ. Dole
j. NJ Dole, b. f. Havland, f. j. Preston, A. ellis.
F. d. Stocker, NJ. J. Morse, J. r. Hill, Miss
Z. Aver, B. N. Davis, ID. ID. Hall,
NJ. Esterbrook, DR.. Durant, J. NJ. Weeks, Lyman
Stevens and j. c.. Fuller.
The party was made up of children that were collect
ed here ard there in many parts of the two cities oy
missionaries and nurses who knew that they were
specially in need of pure air and wholesome country
food. Nearly all of the children were clothed with
unusual neatness through the efforts of those VINO
had found them out in their dismal and miserable
homes But IN spite of the cheerful effect of the
new dresses coats and hats the marks Of the life
from which the small people were escaping Tor q
short time were visible in every young face. The
party was asfonishingly quiet. and the children
simply sat around looking at nothing or hung over
tho rail of the steamer silently watching
the 'ongshoremen at work on tue next
pier. They seemed subdued by the weight
of some tremendous responsibility. There
were boys and girls who lived in families of six aud
eight in two or three rooms to which sunlight and
fresh air are almost total strangers. The mothers
do washing scrubbing to Earn their scsnty Inv ng
the fathers do odd JOBS of poorly work and
the children either work themselvesor stay at nome
to tend baby " or help me MOTHER Unlike most
of the parties which leave thu city by boat tis one
gave no joyful hurrah as the steamer swung OUT
into the river The children all crowded TO the rail-
and looked at everything III silence that was all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
GENERAL NOTES.
are sixty manu-

In the German Empire there are sixty manu-
factories of playing cards which produced during the
fiscal year 3264340 packs OF less than thrtysx cards
each and ,o5Ss26 acks OF than thrty-si cards
each Whist is evidently not the ayorite game in Ger
many.
The MHrdakee Sentinel is authority for the
statement that eprosy has gained foohold among the
Norwegian inhabitants of Northwestern Wisconsin, that
is spreading surely rapidly and that it al
ready reached stage which will require radical and
persistent efforts Tor Its eradication.
A summons was lately taken out in London by
district surveyor against builder for covering roof
with asphalt, the official maintaining that It was COM
bustble ana dangerous Professor Attfeld y. r. s.. on
the contrary testified that although asphalt contained
small portion of bitumen which, II extracted would
burn, about 90 per of 1t earthly which
would extlnguish flame far better than water. After
testimony the magistrate decided that as
pin ait incombustibe within the meaning the build
Ing act and dismissed the summons.
No people in the world cultivate SO generally
and with much zeal the Of rihc-shootng Ms the
Swiss Thele Is hardly commune In the confederation
which does not hold annual 5chuzenfest, and there
frequent cantonal competitions besides the great
national meeting The universal interest taken In these
annual gatherings Is illustrated by the fact that Swiss
living In other European accustomed to
send home prizes for competition. "a few years ago."
says the Editor Of The London Globe when the meet
ing was held at Lausanne, went tnithsr with Eng
lish General who has much active service, and
spent very agreeable day watching the proceedings.
was struck with the excellence of the shooting
and the keenness OF the competitors aud he expresse
the opinion that, IN the event OF the Swiss being called
upon defend ther native mountains they would prove
themselves worthy OF their lighting ancestors, and give
anexceedingly warm reception to any who might
venture to attack them"
DELAYS on the way caused fthree transports
laden with 1900 Russian prisoners to arrive in Tiumen
not long ago In such close succession that
the authorities were unable 10 dispose of
the oonyiots properly and crowded them all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02
THE FOE IN THE HOUSEHOLD


Mr.. Bright recently remarked at Birmingham
that it was absCrd to suppose that England
could not defend the hole which was TO form
the entrance to the Channel Tunnel. The Duke
of Argyll, in presiding ove- meeting OF the
London Sanitary Protection Society, a fortnight
ago. quoted this saying and then added that
the truth was that Englishmen could not de-
fend a hole few inches square which let into
their houses far worse enemy than any that
could come through the Channel bore. He de-
scrbed the modern house as built upon large
gas-holder of foul air, and the inmates as en-
tirely at the mercy of the foe that was always
lurking there. He might have added that the
approach of that most insidi0us enemy WAS
often directly facilitated by the sappers and
miners employed by the garrison itself. Re-
source is had continually to the most ingenious
devices for bOttlng up the foul air which
ought to he forcibly expelled from the drain
pipes, and distributing it for general consump-
ton throughout the house. This foe of the
household cannot be barred ont by dDor or
lock. 1t has its own series of secret passages
and cul-de-sacs, and il must be fought Oh its
own ground.
The object of the London society is to en-
able householders to find out for themselves by
cheap and easy processes whether or not their
houses are in proper sanitary condition. When
ever they cannot place reliance upon their own
judgment, based upon the application Of a Sc
lies OF practical tests, they are at liberty to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02

The Democratic State Convention at Har-
risbure yesterday did its work in lifeless
and perfunctory manner, showing how little
interest the party managers take In canvass
which seems likely to end in their defeat.
The most interesting plank in the long plat
form of course relates to the tariff. 1t IS 80
worded that anybody can stand upon IT,
without slipping badly, if he is
sbilful straddler. Import duties, it de-
cares, should be so adjusted as to prevent
unequal burdens, encourage productive indus
try at home, and afford just compensation to
labor, but foster no monopOlles. This, OF
course, means just as much or as little as you
please The distribution of any surplus in the
National Treasury among the States is OPP
posed. The system of internal revenue taxa
ton is condemned, convict labor is denounced,
and an effort is made to attract the telegraph
strikers by ambiguous remarks about the
efforts of labor to better its condition. Gov
ernOr Pattison's administration is approved,
despite the opposition it has provoked, and
the work of the Democratic Legislature is
commended. The nominations are respecta-
BILE. Mr.. Robert Taggart, of Pitts
burg, was selected as Auditor General, and
Mr.. Joseph Powell, of Bradford County, as
State Treasurer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-02

The session of the Civil Service Reform
Association yesterday at Newport was of
especial interest. Mr.. George William Curtis
delivered an address, sketching the work
that the association, of which be is so ardent
a member, has laid out for itself in the future.
This is the repeal of the United States stat
ntes which limit the terms of most subordi-
mates in the Civil Service of the Government
to four years. Mr.. Curtis thinks that the ten
ure of Office should depend on ability and
good behavior; and he opposes what he calls
lawsuit removals. In his opinion, if there
are no negitimate motives for removal, a
superior may properly be allowed to say when
the dismissal of an employee is desirable.