New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-28
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The patience OF long sudering public is bons
rapidly exhausted by the mismanagement OF the
Brooklyn Bridge cars. The intervals between trips
are lengthcning rather than shortening; the cars
rarely cross in less time than nine minutes and oc
casonally there is full STOP passengers being kept
standing on the platform for three-quarters Of an
hour before the passage Of the Bridge can be made
Yesterday there was trouble at both ends, and the
locomotives had to be sent backward and forward
in order to keep the roa In operation This mis-
management Is discreditable to the engineers and
the directors After many NOR tbs OF inexplica-
BILE delay the public ha right to expect that the
cars would run with precision and regularity and
that there would not be u complete breakdown
every few hours. San Francisco has run cars Oh
this system under conditions hundred fold more
difcult with perfect success for many years. III
the engineers here had simply adopted the San
Francisco plans cars might have been running, In
as great numbers as the public travel demanded,
within n month after the Bridge was first opened.
The failure to do this now after 40 many months OF
experiment. and after thu work had been 80 thor
oughly done elsewhere, is an exhibition OF I'm
becllity.
The prize fight between Slade and Nit that is
the Democratic State Convention, was fought or
rather held, al Buffalo yesterday. The harmony pre-
vang was so intense that Lake Erie is said TO
have tasted sngary nine miles FIR IN shore
The impression that Mr.. Stanley has been losing
ground in his African enterprise proves to be en-
tIrely erroneous. Lieutenant Van de Vede. whose
health has compelled him to abandon the European
expedition in the Congo country and to take refuge
IN the island of MADEIRA gives most favorable ac
count of the work that has been accomplished and
the prospects of the International Association. lie
informs a correspondent of The Herald that the
leader of the party was at Stanley Pool toward
the close OF August, preparing to ascend the Congo
far the falls. He then in excellent health
and spirits and was expecting to return to Europe
in January. His relations with the natives were
most cordial; political complications had been
avoided, twelve trading stations had been estab-
lished, and everything which he had set out to do
had been accomplished. His rival, NJ. dc Brazza
had left the coast and reached a lonely spot which
had been digniied by the name of Franceville He
bad done nothing to impair Mr.. Stanley's prestige,
and would he compelled to return to Paris without
accomplishing anything. This intelligence Is re-
assuring. Mr.. Stanley deserves the success which
has attended his enterprise. HIS rivals attempt to
vie with hum in opening this great river to the COM
meTce of the world is simply grotesQue.
1t is announced that all that prevents Sitting Bull
from embracing the Christian religion is tie
romantic and weighty fact that he possesses two
wives, to each of whom he is passonately attached
Given to understand by the good Bishop who is in
terested in his spiritual condition that he must
either abandon one of them or abandon his idea of
becoming converted, he first looks longingly at
Christianity and then longingly at his two wives,
and then proceeds to halt between his conflicting
emotions. If the great chief finally concludes to
retain his wives and turn deaf ear to the Bishop
it will simply be another of loving not wisely
but too well.